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URL: From kozaki at ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp Mon Jul 2 10:33:57 2012 From: kozaki at ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp (Kouji Kozaki) Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:33:57 +0900 Subject: 2nd CFP: JIST 2012 (The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference) Message-ID: <20120702173351.944F.2D9BA297@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp> *************************************************************** * * SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS * The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2012) * * http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/jist2012/ * * * * December 2-4, 2012 * Nara, Japan * * * Submissions due: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), August 24, 2012 **************************************************************** The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST) is a regional federation of Semantic Technology related conferences. The mission of JIST is to bring together researchers in Semantic Technology research community and other areas of semantic related technologies to present their innovative research results or novel applications of semantic technologies. The JIST 2012 solicits the submission of original research papers on Semantic Web and other semantic technologies, as well as papers on applications of semantic technologies. *** NEW *** * Call for In-Use Track Papers Started. * Travel Grants for Students are Available We provide travel grants for students. The candidate is the first author of an accepted full paper of the main conference. See the following links for details. http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/jist2012/TravelGrants.html * Four Keynote Speakers are confirmed. Prof. Eero Hyvonen Prof. Junichi Tsujii Prof. Juanzi Li Dr. Tom Heath ****** * Topics of Interest for Regular Technical Sessions Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ** Ontology and Reasoning - Ontology modeling, reuse, extraction, and evolution - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Ontology evaluation - Searching and ranking ontologies - Reasoning over Semantic Web data - New formalisms (such as probabilistic approaches) - Lightweight semantics (linked data, microformats, etc.) ** Management of Semantic Web Data - Languages, tools, and methodologies for Semantic Web data - Database, IR, and AI technologies for Semantic Web data - Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web - Machine learning and information extraction on the Web - Cleaning, assurance, and provenance of Semantic Web data, services, and processes ** Linked Data - Publication of Linked Data - Consumption of Linked Data - Reasoning with Linked Data - Search, query, integration, and analysis on Linked Data - Integration and mashup of Linked Data - Mining of Linked Data - Domain specific applications (eGovernment, disaster, life science etc.) **Social Semantic Web - Semantics for social media data - Social network analysis with Semantic Web Technologies - Querying, mining and analysis of social semantic data - Social Semantic Web applications - Semantic Web technologies for collaboration and cooperation - Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security ** Applications of the Semantic Web - Semantic Web for large scale applications - Semantic Web for desktops or personal information management - Semantic Web for multimedia, sensors, and situational awareness - Semantic Web for P2P, services, agents, grids, and middleware - Semantic Web for software and systems engineering - Mobile Semantic Web - Interface for Semantic Web * Topics for In-Use Track Topics of Interest, but are not limited to - Description of an implemented application of semantic technology in a specific domain. - Description of concrete problems in specific application domains, for which semantic technology can provide a solution. - Analysis and evaluation of usability and uptake of semantic tools - Learned lessons and best practices from deploying and using an application or service based on semantic technology - Assessment of costs and benefits of implementing, deploying, using, and managing semantic technology - Analysis of risks and opportunities of using semantic technology in organizations with respect to their businesses and customers - Pragmatics of using or deploying semantic technology in real-world scenarios - Comparison of semantic technology with alternative approaches that use conventional or competing technologies - Semantic technology in new application domains, including: eGovernment, eHealth, smart cities, Life Sciences, Sensor networks, Media and entertainment, Telecommunications, Cultural heritage, Financial services, Energy and utilities, Manufacturing, Digital libraries, cloud applications, Personal Information Management, etc. * Submission Submissions to JIST 2012 should describe original, significant research on the semantic technologies. Submissions to JIST 2012 are expected to present their claimed contribution, with clear evidence to support their claims. All submissions will be critically reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. To assess submissions, reviewers will judge their relevance to semantic technologies, their originality, the technical soundness of their proposed approach and the readability of the submission. Submissions must be in PDF format, using the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions must be no longer than *16* pages for REGULAR TECHNICAL SESSIONS and *6* pages for IN-USE TRACK. Submissions that exceed this limit may be rejected without review. JIST 2012 will not accept submissions that are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. The proceedings will be published as a book in Lecture Note for Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. All submissions be submitted via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jist2012 Accepted papers will be distributed to conference attendees and also published by Springer in the printed conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. * Important Dates - Submissions due: 23:59 (Hawaii Time), August 24, 2012 - Conference: December 2-4, 2012 * Organization ** General Chair - Riichiro Mizoguchi: Osaka University, Japan ** Program Chairs - Hideaki Takeda: National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan - Yuzhong Qu: Nanjing University, China ** In-Use Track Chair: - Takahiro Kawamura: Toshiba Corp., Japan ** Special Track Chair: - Tetsuro Toyoda: RIKEN, Japan ** Poster and Demo Chairs: - Ryutaro Ichise: National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan - Seokchan Yun: Daum Communications Corp., Korea ** Workshop Chairs: - Zhiqiang Gao: Southeast University, China - Hakrae Kim: Samsung Electronics, Korea ** Tutorial Chairs: - Ikki Ohmukai: National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan - Hanmin Jung: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea ** Publicity Chair: - Kouji Kozaki: Osaka University, Japan ** Local Organizing Chair: - Yoshinobu Kitamura: Osaka University, Japan From sonntag at dfki.de Tue Jul 3 13:32:32 2012 From: sonntag at dfki.de (Daniel Sonntag) Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:32:32 +0200 Subject: KI 2012: Last Call for Poster and Demo Contributions Message-ID: <4FF2D850.3030800@dfki.de> ======================================================================== KI 2012 German Conference on Artificial Intelligence 24-27 September 2012 Saarbrücken, Germany http://www.dfki.de/KI2012/ ======================================================================== Last Call for Poster and Demo Contributions Submission deadline: July 9, 2012 ======================================================================== KI 2012 is the 35th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI. The technical programme of KI 2012 will comprise paper and poster/demo presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials. KI 2012 will take place in Saarbrücken, Germany, September 24-27, 2012, and is a premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of all aspects on AI. The conference invites significant, original, and previously unpublished research from all areas of AI, its fundamentals, its algorithms, its history, and its applications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Knowledge Acquisition, Representation, Reasoning and Ontologies * Combinatorial Search, Configuration, Design and Deduction * Natural Language Processing, Statistical NLP, Semantics * Planning and Scheduling; Spatial and Temporal Reasoning * Reasoning under Uncertainty, Probabilistic Inferences * Non-Monotonic Reasoning and Default Logics * Constraint Satisfaction, Processing and Programming * Embodied AI: Robotics, Vision and Perception * Intelligent Information Retrieval, Semantic Search, Semantic Web * Evolutionary and Neural Computation * Machine Learning, Computational Learning Theory and Data-Mining * Distributed Problem Solving and Multi-Agent Systems * Game Playing and Interactive Entertainment, AI for Graphics * Game Theory and General Game Playing, Generalized Intelligence * AI for Human-Computer-Interaction and Adaptive Communication * Mobile Solutions with Textile, Semantic and Spatial Media * Augmented Reality, Smart Cities, Smart Traffic, Smart Hardware * Assistance Systems in Living and Working Environments * Software-Engineering, Model Checking and Security in AI * Distributed Computation and Swarm Intelligence * Cognitive Modelling, AI and Psychology * History and Philosophical Foundations of AI * Applications including Logistics, Production and Health Care We especially welcome poster and demo contributions providing novel insights on the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as contributions that bring useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science into AI. Submission Guidelines --------------------------- Poster and demo contributions must be submitted in electronic form in PDF format via the EasyChair submission webpage of KI 2012 at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2012 Submitted demo/poster papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 3-4 pages in Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Suitable topics for poster contributions include, but are not limited to: novel, but not yet fully developed ideas that are of interest for a more broad AI audience; implementation techniques and novel interesting benchmark problems; experimental studies; real world applications of AI research; etc. Submissions of demo contributions should be system or tool descriptions that provide some background about the applied AI technologies. We particularly encourage demonstrations that show innovative AI techniques at work and allow for user interaction. Demo contributions may also be submitted by larger research groups as well as commercial organizations. Submitted poster and demo contributions will be subject to peer review, based on standard criteria such as relevance and significance, originality of ideas, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. The papers of accepted poster/demo contributions will be distributed in electronic form at the conference site and count as refereed, but non-archival publication. At least one author of each accepted poster or demo must register for the conference and present the work during the poster and demo session at KI 2012. The poster and demo session will take place after the welcome reception on September 24. Important Dates --------------------------- Submission deadline for poster/demo papers: July 9, 2012 Notification: August 9, 2012 Deadline for camera-ready copy: August 31, 2012 Poster Session: September 24, 2012 Contact --------------------------- Details and updates will be available on the conference web site: http://dfki.de/KI2012 For questions about this Call for Poster and Demo Contributions, please contact: Stefan Woelfl . From esslli2012 at gmail.com Tue Jul 3 17:10:15 2012 From: esslli2012 at gmail.com (A. Herzig) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:10:15 +0200 Subject: ESSLLI 2012 call for participation Message-ID: ******************************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AT ESSLLI 2012 Meeting: 24th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) Date: 06-Aug-2012 - 17-Aug-2012 Location: Opole, Poland Meeting URL: http://www.esslli2012.pl Early registration deadline: 15-06-2012 ******************************************************************************** **Meeting Description** For the past 24 years, the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) has been organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. During two weeks, 49 courses and 6 workshops are offered to the attendants, each of 1.5 hours per day during a five days week, with up to seven parallel sessions. ESSLLI also includes a student session (papers and posters by students only, 1.5 hour per day during the two weeks). There will be three evening lectures by Mel Fitting, Jonathan Ginzburg and Adam Przepiorkowski. In 2012, ESSLLI will held in Opole, Poland and will be organized by the University of Opole, Poland. Chair of the program committee is Andreas Herzig, and chairs of the organizing committee are Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska and Janusz Czelakowski. **Summer School Programme** http://www.esslli2012.pl/index.php?id=67 **Online Registration** http://www.esslli2012.pl/index.php?id=68 **Programme Committee** Chair: Andreas Herzig (Université de Toulouse and CNRS) Local co-chair: Anna Pietryga (University of Opole) Area specialists: Language and Computation: - Miriam Butt (Sprachwissenschaft, University of Konstanz) - Gosse Bouma (Groningen University) Language and Logic: - Regine Eckardt (Language and Literature, University of Göttingen) - Rick Nouwen (UiL-OTS, Utrecht University) Logic and Computation: - Natasha Alechina (CS, University of Nottingham) - Andreas Weiermann (Mathematics and Computation, Ghent University) **Organizing Committee** Chair: Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska and Janusz Czelakowski (University of Opole) From tsoumakas at gmail.com Wed Jul 4 08:57:54 2012 From: tsoumakas at gmail.com (Grigorios Tsoumakas) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 09:57:54 +0300 Subject: LSHC3: ECML/PKDD - PASCAL Discovery Challenge Workshop on Large-Scale Hierarchical Classification Message-ID: LSHC3: ECML/PKDD - PASCAL Discovery Challenge Workshop on Large-Scale Hierarchical Classification September 28, 2012, Bristol, UK http://lshtc.iit.demokritos.gr/LSHC3_workshop ********************************************************* SCOPE Hierarchies are becoming ever more popular for the organization of documents, particularly on the Web (e.g. Web directories). Along with their widespread use comes the need for automated classification of new documents to the categories in the hierarchy. Research on large-scale classification so far has focused on large numbers of documents and/or large numbers of features, with a limited number of categories. However, this is not the case in hierarchical category systems, such as DMOZ or Wikipedia. Approaching this problem, researchers have either extended existing large-scale classifiers, or have developed new models and methods. LSHC3 is the third in the series of workshops on large-scale hierarchical classification. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners of large-scale category systems and thus welcomes theoretical studies, as well as studies reporting the development of large-scale categorizers or components of such categorizers. In particular, some of the issues that we expect to cover in the workshop are: * Learning to classify against many categories * Data sparseness in the presence of large datasets * Use of the statistical dependence of hierarchically organized classes * The role of shrinkage methods in large hierarchies * Ensemble methods for hierarchical classification * Extending existing large-scale classifiers to hierarchies * Multi-task and transfer learning within and across large hierarchies * Unsupervised or semi-supervised extension of hierarchies * Computational issues in large-scale categorization * Challenging hierarchical classification tasks and datasets ********************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission - July 27 * Acceptance notification - August 10 * Camera-ready paper - August 24 ********************************************************* SUBMISSIONS We encourage submissions on all aspects of large-scale categorization, from purely theoretical work to practical developments of large-scale categorizers. Submissions must be written in English, following the LNCS guidelines and must not exceed 12 pages including references and figures. The Easychair electronic submission system will be used for the papers. Please, refer to the workshop page for details about the submission format and process. ********************************************************* ORGANISERS Ion Androutsopoulos, AUEB, Athens, Greece Thierry Artieres, LIP6, Paris, France Patrick Gallinari, LIP6, Paris, France Eric Gaussier, LIG, Grenoble, France Aris Kosmopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos" & AUEB, Athens, Greece George Paliouras, NCSR "Demokritos", Athens, Greece Ioannis Partalas, LIG, Grenoble, France -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From krzysztof.krawiec at cs.put.poznan.pl Wed Jul 4 13:09:25 2012 From: krzysztof.krawiec at cs.put.poznan.pl (Krzysztof Krawiec) Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:09:25 +0200 Subject: EuroGP 2013: Second CfP Message-ID: <4FF42465.304@cs.put.poznan.pl> (apologies for cross-posting) ***************************************************************************** EuroGP 2013, 16th European Conference on Genetic Programming 3-5 April 2013, Vienna, Austria www.evostar.org SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ***************************************************************************** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 November 2012 EuroGP is the premier annual conference on Genetic Programming, attracting participants from all over the world. High quality papers describing new original research are sought on topics strongly related to the evolution of computer programs, ranging from theoretical work to innovative applications. Topics include but are not limited to: * Theoretical developments * Empirical studies of GP performance and behavior * Algorithms, representations and operators * Applications of GP to real-world problems * Tree-based, Linear, Graph-based, Grammar-based GP * Evolutionary design * Evolutionary robotics * Evolvable hardware * Self-reproducing programs * Fast/Parallel GP * Probabilistic GP * Evolution of various classes of automata or machine * GP for evolving meta- and hyper-heuristic algorithms * Software Engineering and GP * Unconventional evolvable computation In 2012, EuroGP acceptance rate was 50% (39% for oral presentations). Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The papers which receive the best reviews will be nominated for the Best Paper Award. Authors of selected papers may be invited to submit extended versions of their work to the Springer journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (GPEM). EuroGP 2013 will be co-located within the EvoStar event with four related conferences: EvoBIO, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART, and EvoApplications. Visit http://www.evostar.org/cfpEuroGP.html or join the EVOstar group on LinkedIn for more details and updates. EuroGP programme chairs Krzysztof Krawiec, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Alberto Moraglio, University of Birmingham, UK From cfp at grid.chu.edu.tw Fri Jul 6 11:15:28 2012 From: cfp at grid.chu.edu.tw (cfp at grid.chu.edu.tw) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 17:15:28 +0800 Subject: IEEE CloudCom 2012 - One week to the deadline of abstract submission Message-ID: <201207060915.q669FS7A012691@grid.chu.edu.tw> Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From invitation at iariaprogram.org Fri Jul 6 11:42:19 2012 From: invitation at iariaprogram.org (ICSNC 2012) Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 05:42:19 -0400 Subject: 3rd CfP: ICSNC 2012 || November 18-23, 2012 - Lisbon, Portugal Message-ID: <1341567739132.1207@iariaprogram.org> INVITATION: ================= The submission deadline is July 18, 2012. Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICSNC 2012. In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== ICSNC 2012 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICSNC 2012, The Seventh International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications November 18-23, 2012 - Lisbon, Portugal General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ICSNC12.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPICSNC12.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitICSNC12.html Submission deadline: July 18, 2012 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html ICSNC 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) WINET: Wireless networks 3G/4G integration; Wireless protocols, architectural and design concepts; Design and implementation of mobile information systems; Wireless communications and mechanisms; Antenna and RF subsystems; Coding & modulation & equalization; Channel modeling and characterization; Equalization/Synchronization; Wireless technologies; Wireless applications & services; IP Multimedia subsystems (IMS); Wireless and mobility; Wireless-wireline convergence; Radio communications systems; Specialized wireless networks; Management of wireless networks; Position on standards & fora on wireless networks; Business models on wireless networks; Communications regulations, Spectrum management; Software-Defined Radio (SDR) [ architectures, hardware, software, signal processing and smart antennas, etc.] HSNET: High speed networks Technologies, protocols, and applications for high speed networks; Voice over high speed networks; Services and interconnections of high speed networks; Technologies for High speed optical networks; Optical burst switching; End-to-end applications; Optical control plan; Advanced optical technology architectures; Design of high speed systems and networks; Methodologies and development tools for high speed networks; Management and control of high speed networks; Performance in high speed networks; Security aspects in high speed networks; QoS/SLA in high speed networks; Diagnosing high speed networks; High speed networks and NGN SENET: Sensor networks Architectures and protocols for wired and wireless sensor networks; Design of sensor networks; Instrumentation and models for deployment of sensors networks; Power in sensor networks; Ad hoc and wireless sensor networks; Management and control of sensor networks; Performance in sensor networks; Security and reliability aspects in sensor networks; Information assurance in sensor networks; QoS/SLA in sensor networks; Applications, case studies and prototypes with sensor networks MHNET: Mobile and Ad hoc networks Mobile technology and fundamentals; Analytical and validation models for mobility; Architecture and routing protocols for mobile networks; Architectures, frameworks, fundamentals on ad hoc networks; Energy efficient design, cross-layer design, scalability; MAC protocols for ad-hoc and sensor networks (801.11, Bluetooth, etc.); Data, information, and signal processing in mobile networks; Complexity analysis of mobile algorithms and protocols; Software platforms and development tools supporting mobility; QoS/SLA, access control and security in mobile and ad hoc networks; Location and mobility management; Location and service discovery in ad hoc networks; Planning, provisioning, and deployment mobility features; Directional and smart antennas for mobile and ad-hoc networks; Performance and security in ad hoc and mobile networks; Self-organization, synchronization and stability in ad hoc networks; Self-management in ad hoc and mobile networks; Ad hoc and mobile networks and autonomic com puting; Mobile ad hoc platforms, systems and tools; Applications over ad hoc networks; Standards evolution on mobility and ad hoc networks VENET: Vehicular networks Communication technologies in vehicular networks; Frameworks and architectures for vehicular networks; Interoperability with Internet and other networks; Vehicle-infrastructure communications; Vehicle-to-vehicle communications; Emerging inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle wireless technologies; Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks; Middleware and service architectures for vehicular networks; Propagation issues Vehicular sensors and data collection and process; On-drive diagnostics and repair technologies and systems; Protocol features /MAC, QoS, routing, multicast, addressing, identity/; Mobility and hand-off ; Properties /security, privacy, performance, robustness, real-time, etc./; Control and management in vehicular networks; Driver-oriented support systems /assistance, active&passive safety, etc./; Case studies and fields trials on vehicular networks; Applications across vehicular networks /content distribution, alerting, etc./; Standardization /802.11p, DSRC, etc./ and standard platforms /JasPar, AUTOSTAR, etc./ RFID: Radio-frequency identification systems Fundamentals for RFID systems; Communications in RFID systems; Next generation RFID Technologies; RFID middleware design and architecture; Antenna design for RFID; System design and deployment; Circuits and architecture; RFID ans sensor networks; Bridging RFID networks in heterogeneous networks; Collision, proximity, speed; Security, privacy, trust; Monitoring and control of RFID systems; Localization and tracking; Inventory tracking; Testing and verification; Planing and executing RFID systems; RFID pilot projects; Use cases in deploying and operating /finance, manufacture, agriculture, transportation, etc./; Tools for supporting the design and deployment of RFID systems SESYS: Security systems Security analysis methodologies; Middleware and distributed systems security; Cryptography, certificates, information hiding, access control; Protection, risk, vulnerabilities, attacks, authorization/authentication; Access control, wireless access control, broadband access control; Biometrics, smart cards, identification and trust methodologies; Certification, accreditation anonymity, and audit; Security management, emergency contingency planning, identify theft, life safety; Wireless and mobile security; Fast security associations; Electronic surveillance and e-commerce protocols; Security and trust in web-services-based applications; Peer-to-peer security, denial of services; Information survivability, insider threat protection, integrity; Intellectual property rights, privacy, legal and regulatory issues; Criminal exploitation of technology; Commercial and industrial security; Viruses, hackers, worms, spam, and other malicious code MCSYS: Multimedia communications systems Technologies, protocols, and mechanisms for multimedia communications; Multimedia compression mechanisms and information representation; Multimedia encoding and compression, MPEG-1 to MPEG-4, Wavelet and fractal; Multimedia frameworks, communications, and middleware; Next generation multimedia communications; Mobile multimedia communications; Methodologies and development tools for multimedia communications systems; Wireless mobile multimedia communications; Ad hoc multimedia networks; IP-based Multimedia Subsystems (IMS); QoS/SLA in mobile multimedia services and applications; Mechanisms for interactive multimedia applications; Designing and implementing interactive applications; Multimedia authoring, publishing, and right securing; Security and performance for multimedia communications; Management, QoS, and security aspects in streaming over wireless ad hoc networks; Management and control of multimedia systems; Standards protocols for multimedia communications POSYS: Policy-based systems Policy for automation control; Trusting policy control commands; Policy-driven autonomic organizations; Policy-based control scalability; Policy sensors for feedback control; Policy conflict detection and conflict resolution; Context-aware policy-driven adaptive frameworks; Policy integrity, trust and negotiations; Policy-based software applications; Policing pervasive computing environments; Policing on-demand systems and services PESYS: Pervasive education system Learning and teaching systems; E-learning methods and e-learning scenarios; Tools and architectures for mobile/ubiquitous e-learning; Cooperative learning and working; Mobile technology and education; Distance learning and education; Computers and arts; Education in developing regions; Reflection in learning software and hardware; Social impact metrics on distance learning; Methodologies and processes for education; Curriculum projects and experiences; Intelligent support; Multimedia environment for teaching; E-market place for higher education; Embedded systems education; Wearable computers and education ================================================ To stop receiving notices about ICSNC, please reply with "DROP ICSNC event at in.tu-clausthal.de" in the subject field. 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From t.dinoia at poliba.it Tue Jul 10 12:24:35 2012 From: t.dinoia at poliba.it (Tommaso Di Noia) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:24:35 +0200 Subject: CFP: SeRSy 2012 - Semantic Technologies meet Recommender Systems & Big Data Message-ID: <4FFC02E3.2030402@poliba.it> Apologies for possible multiple posts ============================ CALL FOR PAPERS ============================ International Workshop on Semantic Technologies meet Recommender Systems & Big Data - SeRSy 2012 in conjunction with ISWC 2012, Boston, USA, November 11-15, 2012 http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sersy2012/ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission for workshop papers: Jul 31 Notification of acceptance: Aug 21 Camera-ready versions: Sep 10 MOTIVATION ---------- People generally need more and more advanced tools that go beyond those implementing the canonical search paradigm for seeking relevant information. A new search paradigm is emerging, where the user perspective is completely reversed: from finding to being found. Recommender Systems may help to support this new perspective, because they have the effect of pushing relevant objects, selected from a large space of possible options, to potentially interested users. To achieve this result, recommendation techniques generally rely on data referring to three kinds of objects: users, items and their relations. Recent developments of the Semantic Web community offer novel strategies to represent data about users, items and their relations that might improve the current state of the art of recommender systems, in order to move towards a new generation of recommender systems which fully understand the items they deal with. More and more semantic data are published following the Linked Data principles, that enable to set up links between objects in different data sources, by connecting information in a single global data space: the Web of Data. Today, Web of Data includes different types of knowledge represented in a homogeneous form: sedimentary one (encyclopedic, cultural, linguistic, common-sense) and real-time one (news, data streams, ...). This data might be useful to interlink diverse information about users, items, and their relations and implement reasoning mechanisms that can support and improve the recommendation process. The challenge is to investigate whether and how this large amount of wide-coverage and linked semantic knowledge can be automatically introduced into systems that perform tasks requiring human-level intelligence. Examples of such tasks include understanding a health problem in order to make a medical decision, or simply deciding which laptop to buy. Recommender systems support users exactly in those complex tasks. The primary goal of the workshop is to showcase cutting edge research on the intersection of Semantic Technologies and Recommender Systems, by taking the best of the two worlds. This combination may provide the Semantic Web community with important real-world scenarios where its potential can be effectively exploited into systems performing complex tasks. TOPICS ------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Recommendation approaches using Semantic technologies - Linked Data for Recommender Systems - Ontology-based recommendation algorithms - Merging and ranking recommendations - Social recommender systems - Reasoning with Big Data Data Acquisition - Discovery of relevant Linked Data sources for recommendation algorithms - Tracking provenance, evaluating reliability, quality and trustworthiness of Linked Data - Linking, aggregating, intertwining and mining Linked Data for recommender systems - Integrity and privacy issues New Reference Architectures for Recommender Systems - Linked Data in new Recommender Systems architectures - Efficiency, performance and scalability issues - Distributed architectures Innovative applications - Semantic technologies for Cross-lingual and cross-domain recommender systems - Mining user data streams - Semantic technologies for improving transparency and explanations Evaluation methodologies and approaches - Big datasets for the evaluation - Evaluation methodologies for real time personalization in big datasets - Semantic technologies for improving novelty, diversity and serendipity SUBMISSION ----------------------- We welcome work at all stages of development: papers can describe applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions. Accepted papers will be published as CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org). Based on the quality of accepted papers we are planning to schedule a special issue of a top-level journal in 2013. * Full papers (10-12 pages) * Short papers (4-6 pages) * Demos (2-4 pages for description) Papers should be formatted according to the general ISWC2012 submission guidelines. Accepted format is PDF. Please submit your paper via EasyChair at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sersy2012 You need to open a personal account upon the first login, if you do not have one. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Marco de Gemmis - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Tommaso Di Noia - Politecnico of Bari, Italy Pasquale Lops - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Fabien Abel (L3S Research Centre - Germany) Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs @ Palo Alto - USA) Marco Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano - Italy) Andrea Calì (Birkbeck, University of London - UK) Ivan Cantador (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Spain) Pablo Castells (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Spain) Federica Cena (University of Turin - Italy) Bettina Fazzinga (Università della Calabria - Italy) Tim Furche (Oxford University Computing Laboratories - UK) Nicola Henze (Leibniz Universitä Hannover - Germany) Leo Iaquinta (Univ.di Milano Bicocca - Italy) Roberto Mirizzi (Politecnico of Bari - Italy) Enrico Motta (Open University in Milton Keynes - UK) Cataldo Musto (Università di Bari "Aldo Moro" - Italy) Fedelucio Narducci (Univ.di Milano Bicocca - Italy) Vito Claudio Ostuni (Politecnico of Bari - Italy) Alexandre Passant (seevl.net - Ireland) Gerardo I. Simari (University of Oxford - UK) Markus Zanker (Alpen–Adria–Universitä Klagenfurt - Austria) CONTACT ----------------- e-mail: sersy2012 at gmail.com Web page: http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sersy2012/ twitter: @sersy2012 linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/sersy2012 From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Tue Jul 10 13:22:59 2012 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:22:59 -0300 Subject: WoLLIC 2012 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Call for Participation In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *WoLLIC 2012* *Call for Participation* *WoLLIC* * *is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The nineteenth WoLLIC will be held at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, from September 3rd to 7th, 2012. *Invited Speakers* ** *Andrea Asperti (Bologna)* *Hans van Ditmarsch(Sevilla)* *Laura Kallmeyer (Düselldorf)* *George Metcalfe (Nashville)* *Anca Muscholl (Bordeaux)* *Andre Nies (Auckland)* *Peter Selinger (Halifax)* *Nicole Schweikardt (Frankfurt)* *P**roceedings* of WoLLIC 2012, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as volume 7456 in Springer's LNCS series. The list of contributed papers can be found here: * http://www.glyc.dc.uba.ar/wollic12/call-for-papers.php* In addition, abstracts will appear in the Conference Report section of the *Logic Journal of the IGPL*, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2012 issue of the *T**heoretical Computer Science*. *Registration* Early registration deadline is July 8, see * http://www.glyc.dc.uba.ar/wollic12/registration.php* *Programme Committee* Carlos Areces (Cordoba) Marcelo Arenas (Santiago) Steve Awodey (Pittsburgh) Verónica Becher (Buenos Aires) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde) Maribel Fernandez (London) Santiago Figueira (Buenos Aires) Marcelo Finger (São Paulo) Marcelo Fiore (Cambridge) Yuxi Fu (Shanghai) Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht) Neil Immerman (Amherst) Jean-Pierre Jouannaud (Paris) Makoto Kanazawa (Tokyo) Delia Kesner (Paris) Dexter Kozen (Ithaca) Martin Lange (Kassel) Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam) Dag Normann (Oslo) Luke Ong (Oxford) (CHAIR) Erik Palmgren (Uppsala) Sylvain Salvati (Bordeaux) Philippe Schnoebelen (Cachan) Fernando Souza (Recife) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto) *Steering Committee* Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz. *Organising Committee* Carlos Areces (U Nacional Cordoba) (co-chair) (Local co-chair) Santiago Figueira (U Buenos Aires) (Local co-chair) Javier Legris (U Buenos Aires) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco) Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair) *Further information* Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. *Web page* http://wollic.org/wollic2012/ *S**ponsors* Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL). -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From Andreas.Herzig at irit.fr Tue Jul 10 17:10:17 2012 From: Andreas.Herzig at irit.fr (Andreas Herzig) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:10:17 +0200 Subject: JELIA 2012 Call for Participation Message-ID: <4FFC45D9.6080707@irit.fr> JELIA 2012 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================= 12th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence - Toulouse, France, September 26-28, 2012 http://www.irit.fr/jelia2012 Logics provide a formal basis and key descriptive notation for the study and development of applications and systems in Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the depth and maturity of formalisms, methodologies, and systems today, such logics are increasingly important. The European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (or Journees Europeennes sur la Logique en Intelligence Artificielle --- JELIA) began back in 1988, as a workshop, in response to the need for a European forum for the discussion of emerging work in this field. Since then, JELIA has been organized biennially, with English as the official language, and with proceedings published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. In 2012 the conference is organized in Toulouse, France. The increasing interest in this forum, its international level with growing participation from researchers outside Europe, and the overall technical quality, has turned JELIA into a major forum for the discussion of logic-based approaches to AI. Registration ============ Registration as well as travel and accommodation information is available on the JELIA 2012 web pages http://www.irit.fr/jelia2012 JELIA 2012 Registration Fees Early (until Aug 31) Late Regular 240 EUR 390 EUR Student 120 EUR 220 EUR including JELIA 2012 technical sessions and invited talks, coffee breaks, conference banquet on September 27, JELIA 2012 LNAI conference proceedings, and conference accessories (bag, programme, info,...) Scientific Program ================== The scientific program consists of three invited talks, 36 regular papers, and 5 system descriptions. See the list of accepted papers at http://www.irit.fr/jelia2012/acc_papers.html. Invited Speakers ================ Leila Amgoud (http://www.irit.fr/~Leila.Amgoud) and Philippe Besnard (http://www.irit.fr/~Philippe.Besnard) Ulrich Furbach (http://www.furbach.de/Uni) Wiebe van der Hoek (http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wiebe) Venue and Travel Information ============================ The conference will be held in the auditorium Jacques Herbrand of the Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), reachable from downtown via the underground. Toulouse Blagnac airport has connections to many European cities, including London, Manchester, Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh, Dublin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Oslo, Rome, Milan, Lisbon, Madrid and Athens, as well as an intercontinental connection to Montreal. Toulouse Matabiau train station has TGV connections to Paris, Lyons, Lille and Marseille; you may search for other connections on http://www.bahn.de. More information can be found on http://www.irit.fr/jelia2012/location.html. From lukasiew at gmail.com Wed Jul 11 00:17:51 2012 From: lukasiew at gmail.com (Thomas Lukasiewicz) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:17:51 +0100 Subject: URSW 2012: Call for Papers Message-ID: <4FFCAA0F.1010301@cs.ox.ac.uk> *********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2012) http://c4i.gmu.edu/ursw/2012 In conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) Boston, USA November 11-12, 2012 *********************************************************** You are invited to participate in the upcoming workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW), to be held as part of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in November of 2012 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers, USA. ISWC is a major international forum for presenting visionary research on all aspects of the Semantic Web. The Uncertainty Reasoning Workshop is an exciting opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between the uncertainty reasoning community and the Semantic Web community. Effective methods for reasoning under uncertainty are vital for realizing many aspects of the Semantic Web vision, but the ability of current-generation web technology to handle uncertainty is extremely limited. Recently, there has been a groundswell of demand for uncertainty reasoning technology among Semantic Web researchers and developers. This surge of interest creates a unique opening to bring together two communities with a clear commonality of interest but limited history of interaction. By capitalizing on this opportunity, URSW could spark dramatic progress toward realizing the Semantic Web vision. AUDIENCE The intended audience for this workshop includes the following: - Researchers in uncertainty reasoning technologies with interest in Semantic Web and Web-related technologies; - Semantic web developers and researchers; - People in the knowledge representation community with interest in the Semantic Web. - Ontology researchers and ontological engineers; - Web services researchers and developers with interest in the Semantic Web; - Developers of tools designed to support semantic web implementation, e.g., Jena developers, Protégé developers, OWL-API developers. TOPIC LIST We intend to have an open discussion on any topic relevant to the general subject of uncertainty in the Semantic Web (including fuzzy theory, probability theory, and other approaches). Therefore, the following list should be just an initial guide. - Syntax and semantics for extensions to Semantic Web languages to enable representation of uncertainty; - Logical formalisms to support uncertainty in Semantic Web languages; - Probability theory as a means of assessing the likelihood that terms in different ontologies refer to the same or similar concepts; - Architectures for applying plausible reasoning to the problem of ontology mapping; - Using fuzzy approaches to deal with imprecise concepts within ontologies; - The concept of a probabilistic ontology and its relevance to the Semantic Web; - Best practices for representing uncertain, incomplete, ambiguous, or controversial information in the Semantic Web; - The role of uncertainty as it relates to Web services; - Interface protocols with support for uncertainty as a means to improve interoperability among Web services; - Uncertainty reasoning techniques applied to trust issues in the Semantic Web; - Existing implementations of uncertainty reasoning tools in the context of the Semantic Web; - Issues and techniques for integrating tools for representing and reasoning with uncertainty; - The future of uncertainty reasoning for the Semantic Web. IMPORTANT DATES July 31, 2012 Paper submissions due August 21 Paper acceptance notification September 10 Camera-ready papers due November 11-12 URSW 2012 SUBMISSION DETAILS The URSW workshop will be accepting submissions of technical papers and position papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality, and clarity. Since all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant at the ISWC 2012 conference, and committed to attend the URSW workshop. Submissions to the workshop are only accepted in electronic format and should be sent via the workshop's submission site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ursw2012. Papers must be formatted in the style of the Springer publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). This is the very same format adopted by the ISWC 2011. For complete details, see Springer's Author Instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Technical papers submitted to the URSW Workshop must not exceed 12 pages, including figures. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Position papers consist of a summary of ideas, projects, or any research efforts that are relevant to the URSW Workshop and must not exceed 4 pages. Following the general acceptance rules of the ISWC 2012 conference, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the URSW workshop. PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION URSW 2012 will be a full-day workshop divided into 4 sessions. The first session will start with the workshop's keynote presentation, which will be followed by technical paper presentations. Sessions two and three will be devoted to presenting our selected technical and position papers, while the remaining session will be planned in a format that invites an open debate on results, conclusions, and recommendations. We plan to convey a work meeting after the workshop, if the last session needs to be extended. All papers accepted to URSW 2012 will be presented during the workshop and published in the workshop proceedings. Authors of accepted technical papers will have 20 minutes to present their work, while authors of accepted position papers will have a 10-minute slot to share their ideas. After each presentation, 5 minutes will be allocated to questions from the audience. Both technical and position papers will be published in the URSW workshop proceedings, to be available after the ISWC 2012 Conference. In addition, technical papers accepted for presentation at URSW 2012 will be eligible for participating in an international journal special issue or in a post-proceedings book. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE The organizing committee is as follows (in alphabetical order): Fernando Bobillo - University of Zaragoza, Spain Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK Matthias Nickles - Technical University of Munich, Germany Michael Pool - Vertical Search Works, Inc., USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE The confirmed members of the program committee are the following (in alphabetical order): Fernando Bobillo - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Silvia Calegari - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Rommel N. Carvalho - George Mason University, USA Davide Ceolin - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Paulo C. G. Costa - George Mason University, USA Fabio G. Cozman - Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil Nicola Fanizzi - University of Bari, Italy Marcelo Ladeira - University of Brasilia, Brazil Kathryn B. Laskey - George Mason University, USA Kenneth J. Laskey - MITRE Corporation, USA Thomas Lukasiewicz - University of Oxford, UK Trevor Martin - University of Bristol, UK Matthias Nickles - University of Bath, UK Rafael Peñaloza - Technical University Dresden, Germany Michael Pool - Vertical Search Works, Inc., USA Livia Predoiu - University of Magdeburg, Germany Guilin Qi - Southeast University, China Célia Ralha - University of Brasilia, Brazil Dave Robertson - University of Edinburgh, UK Daniel Sánchez - European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain Sergej Sizov - University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Giorgos Stoilos - National and Technical University of Athens, Greece Umberto Straccia - ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Matthias Thimm - Universität Koblenz, Germany Andreas Tolk - Old Dominion University, USA Peter Vojtas - Charles University, Czech Republic We are looking forward to seeing you in Boston! -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Wed Jul 11 14:03:36 2012 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announcements) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:03:36 +0300 Subject: IEEE CSE/EUC 2012: Call for Papers (extended deadline!) Message-ID: *** Call for Papers *** *** New Deadline: 10th August *** The 15th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (IEEE CSE 2012) http://www.cse2012.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ The 10th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (IEEE/IFIP EUC 2012) http://www.euc2012.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ 5-7 December 2012, Paphos, Cyprus CSE 2012 The Computational Science and Engineering area has earned prominence through advances in electronic and integrated technologies beginning in the 1940s. Current times are very exciting and the years to come will witness a proliferation in the use of various advanced computing systems. It is increasingly becoming an emerging and promising discipline in shaping future research and development activities in academia and industry, ranging from engineering, science, finance, economics, arts and humanitarian fields, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with tight timing schedules. CSE 2012 is the next event, in a series of highly successful IEEE International Conferences on Computational Science and Engineering, held mainly as the International Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing for 10 editions. The previous CSE-11 was held in Dalian, China, August 24-26, 2011. CSE 2012 is to bring together computer scientists, applied mathematicians, engineers in different disciplines and researchers to present, discuss and exchange ideas, results and experiences in the area of advanced computing for problems in science and engineering applications and inter-disciplinary. We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics: * Intelligent and Bio-inspired Computing * Distributed and Parallel Computing * Database and Data Mining * Cluster, Grid, P2P and Cloud Computing * Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications * CSE Education * Scientific and Engineering Computing * Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing * Advanced Networking and Applications * Security, Privacy and Trust * Service and Internet Computing - Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing * CSE applications EUC 2012 Embedded and ubiquitous computing is an exciting paradigm that promises to provide computing and communication services to the end users all the time and everywhere. Its systems are now invading in every aspect of our daily life and promise to revolutionize our life much more profoundly than elevators, electric motors or even personal computer evolution ever did. The emergence of this technology is a natural outcome of research and technological advances in a variety of areas including embedded systems, pervasive computing and communications, wireless networks, mobile computing, distributed computing and agent technologies. EUC 2012 is the next event, in a series of highly successful IEEE International Conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), previously held as ICDCS-ECS04 (Tokyo, Japan, March 2004), EUC-04 (Aizu, Japan, August 2004), EUC-05 (Nagasaki, Japan, December 2005), EUC-06 (Seoul, Korea, August 2006), EUC-07 (Taipei, Taiwan, December 2007), EUC-08 (Shanghai, China, December 2008), EUC-09 (Vancouver, Canada, August 2009), EUC-10 (Hong Kong, December 2010) and EUC 2011 (Melbourne, Australia, October 2011). Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Embedded Computing * Embedded System Software and Optimization * Embedded System Architectures * Hardware/Software Co-design and Design Automation * Real-Time Systems and Operating Systems * Application-Specific Processors and Devices * Power-Aware Computing * Sensor Networks * System/Network-on-Chip * Reconfigurable Computing Systems and Applications * Cyber-Physical Systems Ubiquitous Computing * Pervasive Computing and Communications * Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing * Internet Computing and Applications * Multimedia and Data Management * Human-Computer Interaction * Network Protocols * Wireless Communication & Networks * Mobile Computing * Agents and Distributed Computing * Security and Fault Tolerance Applications Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and should follow the IEEE 8.5" x 11" Two-Column Format. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the submission deadline. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE conference proceedings (EI indexed). Journal Special Issues Selected best papers will be published in special issues of high quality journals. Currently we are under negotiation, among others, with the Computer Journal (Oxford University Press), the Journal of Computer and System Sciences (Elsevier), the International Journal of High Performance Computing (SAGE publs), the Future Generation Computing Systems journal (Elsevier), Concurrency and Computation (Wiley), the Journal of System Architecture (Elsevier), the IEEE System Journal, the Journal of Wireless Personal Communications (Springer), and the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Springer). Important Dates * Submission Deadline (extended!): 10 August * Notification of Acceptance: 21 September * Camera-ready Versions Submitted: 5 October * Author Registration: 5 October -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Wed Jul 11 14:42:26 2012 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announcements) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:42:26 +0300 Subject: CFP: ECSCW 2013 - deadline 2 Feb 2013 Message-ID: *** Call for Papers *** The 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2013) 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus. website: http://www.ecscw2013.org/ Submission deadline for full papers and notes: 4 February, 2013. General Chair: George Angelos Papadopoulos. Program Chairs: Olav W. Bertelsen and Antonietta Grasso. ECSCW 2013 calls for submissions reporting on investigations into cooperation in real world settings and designs of innovative technologies to support collaboration. ECSCW is interested in cooperative settings in the workplace, in everyday life, and the civic society, and across boundaries between these spheres of life. The conference is soliciting high quality contributions that advance the state of the art in CSCW: - empirical studies of work that contribute to the design space, - novel techniques and technologies, - enhancement of the conceptual foundations. In particular, the conference welcomes contributions that focus on: - Empirical studies of collaboration in settings ranging from work to civic engagement and everyday life. - Comparative analyses of empirical studies that contribute to a deeper understanding of domain specific or more general CSCW principles. - Empirical studies on the appropriation of innovative technologies. - Studies on collaborative work in emergent and developing economies. - Investigations into the usage and design of coordination artefacts as well as webs of technology (infrastructures). - New technology-enabled forms of organization and virtual organizing. - Innovative technologies, applications, or functionality in support of collaborative work. - Conception, construction and use of CSCW technologies in complex and demanding settings, like manufacturing, software engineering, healthcare, care giving, security, and control systems. - Architectures supporting CSCW technologies with quality requirements, such as flexibility, tailorability, and adaptability. - Ubiquitous and mobile computing in collaborative settings: empirical research of use, studies of integration with other CSCW technologies and applications. - Innovative use of social media to support collective action. All contributions will be rigorously evaluated in terms of their novelty,significance, quality, and contribution to the discipline. Accepted research papers and notes will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer and freely available at the ECSCW website at: www.ecscw.org. They will also be indexed in and available through the ACM digital library. ECSCW 2013 requires that submissions have not been published previously and that papers submitted are not under simultaneous review for any other publication. -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Wed Jul 11 17:44:11 2012 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:44:11 +0200 Subject: FOIS 2012: Final Call for Participation: Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Jul 24-27, Graz, Austria Message-ID: <201207111544.q6BFiFZh013918@isun.informatik.uni-leipzig.de> (apologies for cross-posting) ... (please distribute) ----------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL for Participation >>> FOIS 2012 <<< Jul 24-27, Graz, Austria [1] http://purl.org/icbofois2012 PROGRAM: [2] http://www.kr-med.org/icbofois2012/program.htm ------------------------------------------------ TITLE AND CO-LOCATION ------------------------------------------------ Seventh International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2012) July, 24-27, 2012 in Graz, Austria held together with the Third International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012) ------------------------------------------------ DEFINITION AND SCOPE ------------------------------------------------ Researchers in diverse areas increasingly recognize the need for serious engagement with ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations making up their respective domains of enquiry, in providing a solid foundation for their work. Among these areas there are * conceptual modeling, * database design, * software engineering, * organizational modeling, * artificial intelligence, * computational linguistics, * the life sciences, * bioinformatics, * geographic information science, * knowledge engineering, * information retrieval, and * the semantic web. The FOIS conference is designed to provide a meeting point for interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from all interested disciplines. The conference series [3] began with the first meeting in Trento, Italy in June 1998 followed by meetings in 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010. The seventh FOIS conference will be held in Graz, Austria July 24-27, 2012, in conjunction with the third International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012). For further general information on FOIS, the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) [4], please consult the websites of FOIS 2012 [1] or the conference series website [3]. ------------------------------------------------ LATE REGISTRATION (FOIS only) ------------------------------------------------ Late registration rates apply, between 350 EUR (student IAOA member) and 720 EUR (full, no IAOA membership). There are special rates for combining FOIS and ICBO. Additional rates apply per tutorial and per workshop. For details, please see [5-7]. Note that the periods for early or complimentary registration and for applications for travel funding are over. [5] http://www.kr-med.org/icbofois2012/registration.htm ------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM AND KEYNOTES ------------------------------------------------ The program starts with workshops and official reception on July 24. Joint scientific sessions of ICBO and FOIS start on July 25, 08:30 a.m. Note further the IAOA General Assembly in the evening of July 25. Keynotes: July 25 "Observing Formal Ontology from the Street" Steven R. Ray (Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, California, USA) July 26 "Improving the Coherence of Lexical Resources and Ontologies" Laure Vieu (CNRS-IRIT, Toulouse, France) July 27 "A Computational, Meta-Ontological Framework" Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University, California, USA) Program overview and details are available at [2], while they may still be subject to change. [2] http://www.kr-med.org/icbofois2012/program.htm ------------------------------------------------ CONFERENCE ORGANISATION ------------------------------------------------ Conference chair: Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada) Program chairs: Maureen Donnelly (University at Buffalo, USA) Giancarlo Guizzardi (Fed. Univ. of Espírito Santo, Brazil) Local organization: Stefan Schulz (Graz University, Austria) For the FOIS program committee, please see the FOIS 2012 website [1]. ------------------------------------------------ LINKS ------------------------------------------------ [1] http://purl.org/icbofois2012 == http://www.kr-med.org/icbofois2012 FOIS and ICBO 2012 website [2] http://www.kr-med.org/icbofois2012/program.htm Program overview and detailed schedules [3] http://www.formalontology.org/ FOIS conference series [4] http://www.iaoa.org International Association for Ontology and Its Applications [5] http://www.kr-med.org/icbofois2012/registration.htm FOIS/ICBO page with registration information [6] http://de.amiando.com/icbofois2012registration.html FOIS/ICBO online registration [7] http://www.kr-med.org/icbofois2012/graph/rates.png FOIS/ICBO registration rates overview ----------------------------------------------------------------- From C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk Thu Jul 12 12:31:48 2012 From: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk (Orasan, Constantin) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:31:48 +0000 Subject: MPhil studentship in the area of Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics Message-ID: <1342089110.12789.36.camel@dinel-desktop> [apologies for multiple postings] MPhil studentship - A study into the use of referring expressions as a factor influencing the reading comprehension of people with language disabilities Closing date - 10th August 2012 The Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk) at the University of Wolverhampton invites applications for a University of Wolverhampton MPhil studentship in the area of Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics, with the option of transfer to PhD dependent on funding and successful completion of year 1 and 2 studies. This is a funded bursary which will consist of a stipend towards living expenses and remission of UK/EU fees. The MPhil candidate will be expected to carry out research in the area of referring expressions and the overlap between Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics. The study will exploit natural language processing. This research will extensively analyse the existing computational and psycholinguistics approaches to referring expressions and propose a model which brings these two fields together. It is expected that the study will focus on reading comprehension by people with language disabilities. This phenomenon (the use of referring expressions) will be considered in the context of language disabilities. The application deadline is 10th August 2012. The starting date of the studentship is October 2012. The successful applicant must have: - A good honours degree or equivalent in Computational Linguistics, Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Psychology, Statistics, Psychometry, Social Psychology, Interactive Methods (Quantitative and Qualitative Research), or closely related areas. - Knowledge and understanding of statistical and other quantitative research. - Experience in translating scientific literature from English to Bulgarian. - Developed skills in writing scientific text. - Experience in Computational Linguistics / Psychology. Applications must include: 1) A curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, courses covered, publications, relevant work experience, and names of two referees that could be contacted if necessary 2) A 1-page cover letter with statement of research interests, indicating why you are interested in this position and why you consider your experience is relevant. 3) An expression of interest form: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/Docs/grad_sch_exp_of_int.doc The shortlisted applicants will be interviewed by telephone in the weeks following the application deadline. The successful applicant will then be asked to complete a research proposal. Established by Prof Mitkov in 1998, the Research Group in Computational Linguistics delivers cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic summarisation, question answering, multilingual text processing, multiple-choice question generation and text simplification. The results from the latest Research Assessment Exercise announced on 17 December 2008 confirm the Research Group in Computational Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research. The research group was ranked joint 3rd with 2 more universities in the Unit of Assessment “Linguistics”. According to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton in one of the top 6 in the UK. Informal enquiries and electronic applications can be sent to by email to: Mrs Erin Stokes Research Administrator Research Institute of Information and Language Processing University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB United Kingdom Email: erin.stokes at wlv.ac.uk -- Dr. Constantin Orasan Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics Deputy Head of the Research Group in Computational Linguistics Research Group in Computational Linguistics http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/ University of Wolverhampton From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Thu Jul 12 19:24:03 2012 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:24:03 +0200 Subject: OBML 2012: 3rd Call for Papers (4th Workshop on Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences, Sep 27-28, Dresden, Germany) Message-ID: <201207121724.q6CHO7NM011048@isun.informatik.uni-leipzig.de> (apologies for cross-posting) ... (please distribute) ------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers >> OBML 2012 << Sep 27-28, Dresden, Germany DEADLINE APPROACHING ! DEADLINE APPROACHING ! Submission deadline: Aug 01, 2012 [1] https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML/Workshops/2012 ------------------ Fourth Workshop of Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences (OBML 2012) Goals of OBML ------------- The workshop series on "Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences" (OBML workshop) was initiated by the working group for OBML of the German Society for Computer Science in 2009. The OBML workshop aims to bring together scientists who are working on all areas of ontologies applied to biomedicine and the life sciences to exchange ideas, discuss new results, start collaborations and to initiate new projects. The OBML workshop is held annually and deals with all aspects of biomedical ontologies as well as additional "hot" topics. This year's "hot" topic is the representation of physiology. Physiology is the science of the functions and functionings of biological systems, and significant resources have been invested in biology and medicine to describe and simulate physiological processes. In particular, researchers in systems biology and systems medicine have generated a large number of computational models to predict the outcome of physiological processes on a sub-cellular, cellular, tissue and organ-level scale, and projects such as the Virtual Physiological Human aim to extend this work further and create a computational model of human physiology. While ontologies are now widely applied to integrate biomedical data in many domains, the complexity of the physiology domain has limited the success of ontologies so far. We aim to address this problem in the OBML workshop by organizing a special session on the ontology of physiology. This session will bring together researchers in ontology, biomedicine, systems biology and knowledge representation to present their solutions and requirements for the domain of physiology. Topics ------ We invite submissions in all areas of biomedical ontology, including the following topics: - applications of ontologies and terminologies in biology, medicine, and clinical research - methods and tools for the construction and management of ontologies - ontologies for knowledge representation, methods of reasoning, integration and interoperability of ontologies - applications of the Semantic Web and knowledge representation formalisms in biomedicine and the life sciences - new biomedical ontologies and updates to existing ontologies For our special session on "ontology of physiology", we are particularly interested in - ontology and systems biology - ontology of processes - ontology of functions, functionings, dispositions and tendencies - links between physiology, phenotypes and disease - use of ontologies for the description of parameters, inputs, simulations and simulation results of computational models Submission of Papers -------------------- Submissions to the workshop should comprise 2-4 pages and must be written in English. The preferred file format for submissions is PDF, other admitted formats are Microsoft Word (DOC and DOCX) and Postscript (PS). Please use the corresponding template for submissions, either the LaTeX template or the Microsoft Word template. Submissions must be submitted via Easychair at [2] http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=obml2012 Accepted papers will be printed in a proceedings volume (with ISSN) that will be distributed during the workshop. A selection of these papers will be published in the Journal of Biomedical Semantics [3]. Dates ----- Submission deadline: August 01, 2012 Author notification: August 31, 2012 Submission of camera-ready manuscripts: September 16, 2012 OBML Workshop: September 27-28, 2012 Location -------- The OBML Workshop 2012 will take place in Dresden, Germany, at the Biotechnology Center of the Technical University. Invited Speakers ---------------- Francisco Couto (Universidade de Lisboa) Michael Schroeder (Technical University Dresden) George Gkoutos (University of Cambridge) Organization ------------ Robert Hoehndorf (chair) Martin Boeker (program chair) Heinrich Herre (program chair) Frank Loebe (co-organizer) Local Organization ------------------ Michael Schroeder (Biotechnology Center, Technical University Dresden) Program committee ----------------- Martin Boeker, University Medical Center Freiburg Patryk Burek, University of Leipzig Fred Freitas, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil George Gkoutos, University of Cambridge Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig Robert Hoehndorf, University of Cambridge Ludger Jansen, University of Rostock Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Toralf Kirsten, University of Leipzig Frank Loebe, University of Leipzig Axel Ngonga-Ngomo, University of Leipzig Anika Oellrich, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge Roberto Poli, University of Trento Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge Peter Robinson, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Paul Schofield, University of Cambridge Michael Schroeder, Technical University Dresden Stefan Schulz, Medical University Graz Luca Toldo, Merck KGaA George Tsatsaronis, Technical University Dresden Links ----- [1] Workshop website https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML/Workshops/2012 [2] Submission system http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=obml2012 [3] Journal of Biomedical Semantics http://www.jbiomedsem.com/ From a.ricci at unibo.it Sat Jul 14 14:03:54 2012 From: a.ricci at unibo.it (Alessandro Ricci) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:03:54 +0000 Subject: 2nd CFP: AGERE! @ SPLASH 2012 - Programming based on Actors, Agents & Decentralized Control Message-ID: <98260FBC-4756-45F8-A1A1-A4A49C3CD6ED@unibo.it> 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS AGERE! @ SPLASH 2012 2nd Int. Workshop on Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control Workshop held at the ACM SPLASH Conference 2012 Tucson, Arizona (US) October 21-22, 2012 http://agere2012.apice.unibo.it Deadlines: Abstracts: August 5, 2012 Papers: August 12, 2012 + special issue on Science of Computer Programming ăgo ăgo, ăgis, egi, actum, ăgĕre latin verb meaning to act, to lead, to do, common root for actors and agents The fundamental turn of software into concurrency and distribution is not only a matter of performance, but also of design and abstraction. It calls for programming paradigms that, compared to current mainstream paradigms, would allow us to more naturally think about, design, develop, execute, debug, and profile systems exhibiting different degrees of concurrency, autonomy, decentralization of control, and physical distribution. The AGERE! workshop is dedicated to focusing on and developing the research on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, agents and any related programming paradigm promoting a decentralized control mindset in solving problems and in developing systems to implement such solutions. The workshop is designed to cover both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on the models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. The first edition of AGERE! was organized in SPLASH 2011, drawing significant interest and attendance (see program at http://agere2011.apice.unibo.it). The workshop is now scheduled to take place also at SPLASH 2012 and, related to this event, a special issue on the journal Science of Computer Programming is scheduled for the end of the year. === Organizers Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Rafael H. Bordini, FACIN–PUCRS, Brazil Assaf Marron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy (ref: a.ricci at unibo.it) === Program Committee (partial list, other names are to be confirmed) Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Joe Armstrong, SICS / Ericsson, Sweden Saddek Bensalem, Verimag, France Rafael H. Bordini, FACIN–PUCRS, Brazil Gilad Braha, Google, USA Rem Collier, UCD, Dublin Tom Van Cutsem, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, LIP6 - Univ. P and M. Curie, Paris, France Philipp Haller, Typesafe, Switzerland Jurgen Dix, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany Tom Holvoet, Dept. Computer Science K.U.Leuven, Belgium Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway Assaf Marron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Mark Miller, Google, USA Olaf Owe, University of Oslo, Norway Jens Palsberg, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Ravi Pandya, Microsoft, USA Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy Birna van Riemsdijk, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA Gera Weiss, Ben Gurion University, Israel Guy Wiener, HP, Israel Akinori Yonezawa, University of Tokyo, Japan University, Japan ... === Main topics The topics of interest for the workshop include: - Programming languages and frameworks + theory and practice about languages and frameworks based on agents, actors, and decentralized control. - Foundations + ideas, concepts, formalization of the computation and programming models for agents, actors and decentralized control. - Design + design principles underlying the paradigms and bridging the gap between design to programming - Validation and verification + theory and tools about testing, debugging, profiling, verifying and validating software systems based on such paradigms - Applications + design and development of real-world applications - Teaching + experiences and reflections about using these paradigms in teaching (concurrent and distributed) programming === Contributions & deadlines AGERE! welcomes three kinds of contributions: - full-papers + length up to 10 pages; covering new research, per the above topics, not previously published. - short-papers & position papers + length up to 4 pages, these papers are meant to introduce a contribution (an idea, a viewpoint, an argument, work in progress...) which may be in its initial stage and not fully developed but which is worth to be presented given its relevance to the AGERE! topics, triggering discussions and interactions. - reviews & surveys + up to 10 pages, these papers are meant to provide a good synthesis & reflections about some aspect (specific or general) which is relevant for the workshop, contributing then to workshop discussions on the state of the art and open issues - demo + length up to 4 pages, these contributions are about a technology/system that will be demonstrated during the workshop. Deadlines: Abstracts August 5, 2012 Papers (*) August 12, 2012 Papers can be submitted here https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ageresplash2012 in PDF format. Submissions should use the ACM format, following the guidelines in http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm. (*) including full-papers, short/position papers, reviews & surveys, demo === Publication channels Accepted papers (full, short/position, surveys/reviews, demo) will be included in the ACM DL proceedings after the conference. Besides, a selected set of papers will be invited to be extended and included in a special issue which is being organized for the end of the year in the journal Science of Computer Programming. The special issue will be about actor-oriented and agent-oriented programming, and - more generally - on programming systems, languages, and applications based on actors, agents, and decentralized control abstractions. Read more on AGERE! web site: http://agere2012.apice.unibo.it === SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY * To “set the frequency” [1] Actors and Agents as Programming Paradigms - An Overview. AGERE! 2011 introductory talk. A. Ricci. http://apice.unibo.it/xwiki/bin/download/AGERE/WebHome/opening.pdf [2] H. Sutter and J. Larus. Software and the concurrency revolution. ACM Queue: Tomorrow’s Computing Today, 3(7):54–62, Sept. 2005. [3] M. Resnick. Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams. Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds. MIT Press, 1994. [4] A. Kay. Programming and programming languages, 2010. VPRI Research Note RN-2010-001. [5] Howell R. Jordan, Goetz Botterweck, Marc-Philippe Huget, Rem Collier: A feature model of actor, agent, and object programming languages. SPLASH Workshops 2011: 147-158 * Actors & OO Concurrent Programming approaches [1] G. Agha. Actors: a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1986. [2] C. Hewitt. 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ABCL: an object-oriented concurrent system. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1990. [9] J. Armstrong. Erlang. Commun. ACM, 53(9):68–75, 2010. [10] J. Schafer and A. Poetzsch-Heffter. Jcobox: generalizing ¨active objects to concurrent components. In Proceedings of the 24th European conference on Object-oriented programming, ECOOP’10, pages 275–299, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010. Springer-Verlag. [11] P. Haller and M. Odersky. Scala actors: Unifying thread-based and event-based programming. Theoretical Computer Science, 2008. [12] T. Van Cutsem: AmbientTalk: modern actors for modern networks. SPLASH Workshops 2011: 227-230 [13] M. S. Miller, Eric Dean Tribble, Jonathan S. Shapiro: Concurrency Among Strangers. TGC 2005: 195-229 * Agents and Agent-Oriented Programming [1] J. J. Odell. Objects and agents compared. Journal of Object Technology, 1(1):41–53, 2002. [2] N. R. Jennings. An agent-based approach for building complex software systems. Commun. ACM, 44(4):35–41, 2001. [3] Y. Shoham. 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MATES 2010: 100-112 * Other Decentralized Control Programming Approaches [1] D. Harel, Assaf Marron, Gera Weiss: Programming Coordinated Behavior in Java. ECOOP 2010: 250-274 [2] S. Bliudze and J. Sifakis. A notion of glue expressiveness for component-based systems. CONCUR, 2008. [3] D. Harel, Assaf Marron, Guy Wiener, Gera Weiss: Behavioral programming, decentralized control, and multiple time scales. AGERE! @ SPLASH Workshops 2011: 171-182 LA RICERCA C’È E SI VEDE: 5 per mille all'Università di Bologna - C.F.: 80007010376 http://www.unibo.it/5permille Questa informativa è inserita in automatico dal sistema al fine esclusivo della realizzazione dei fini istituzionali dell’ente. From f.j.mcneill at ed.ac.uk Mon Jul 16 13:33:59 2012 From: f.j.mcneill at ed.ac.uk (Fiona McNeill) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:33:59 +0100 Subject: Final CFP: ISWC'12 Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data (LHD-12) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for papers for LHD-12 workshop at ISWC-12, 11 or 12 November 2012, Boston: The 2nd Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/lhd-12/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An interdisciplinary approach is necessary to discover and match meaning dynamically in a world of increasingly large data sources. This will be a half-day workshop which will bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government to participate in discussion and debate. It will involve * A panel discussion focussing on these issues from an industrial and governmental point of view. Membership to be confirmed, but we expect a representative from Scottish Government and from Google, as well as others. * Short presentations grouped into themed panels, to stimulate debate not just about individual contributions but also about the themes in general. This is a continuation of the LHD-11 workshop (http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/lhd-11/). Workshop Description The problem of semantic alignment - that of two systems failing to understand one another when their representations are not identical - occurs in a huge variety of areas: Linked Data, database integration, e-science, multi-agent systems, information retrieval over structured data; anywhere, in fact, where semantics or a shared structure are necessary but centralised control over the schema of the data sources is undesirable or impractical. Yet this is increasingly a critical problem in the world of large scale data, particularly as more and more of this kind of data is available over the Web. In order to interact successfully in an open and heterogeneous environment, being able to dynamically and adaptively integrate large and heterogeneous data from the Web "on the go" is necessary. This may not be a precise process but a matter of finding a good enough integration to allow interaction to proceed successfully, even if a complete solution is impossible. Considerable success has already been achieved in the field of ontology matching and merging, but the application of these techniques - often developed for static environments - to the dynamic integration of large-scale data has not been well studied. Presenting the results of such dynamic integration to both end-users and database administrators - while providing quality assurance and provenance - is not yet a feature of many deployed systems. To make matters more difficult, on the Web there are massive amounts of information available online that could be integrated, but this information is often chaotically organised, stored in a wide variety of data-formats, and difficult to interpret. This area has been of interest in academia for some time, and is becoming increasingly important in industry and - thanks to open data efforts and other initiatives - to government as well. The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government who are involved in all aspects of this field: from those developing, curating and using Linked Data, to those focusing on matching and merging techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Integration of large and heterogeneous data * Machine-learning over structured data * Ontology evolution and dynamics * Ontology matching and alignment * Presentation of dynamically integrated data * Incentives and human computation over structured data and ontologies * Ranking and search over structured and semi-structured data * Quality assurance and data-cleansing * Vocabulary management in Linked Data * Schema and ontology versioning and provenance * Background knowledge in matching * Extensions to knowledge representation languages to better support change * Inconsistency and missing values in databases and ontologies * Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation * Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., p2p, agents, streaming) * Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications * Open problems * Foundational issues Applications and evaluations on data-sources that are from the Web and Linked Data are particularly encouraged. Submission LHD-12 invites submissions of papers of no more than 8 pages. Position papers of 2-3 pages are also encouraged. Papers will be accepted on the basis of interesting content that will stimulate discussion, and are not required to describe work that is completed or extensively evaluated, though such work is also encouraged. All accepted papers will be published as part of the ISWC workshop proceedings, and will be available online from the workshop website. The previous workshop resulted in a special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Review, and we will consider another special issue following this workshop. All contributions should be in pdf format and should be uploaded via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lhd12. Authors should use the LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6793341-0). Important Dates Submission: July 31, 2012 Notification: August 31, 2012 Camera ready: September 10, 2012 Early registration: TBA Late registration: TBA Workshop: November 11 or 12, 2012 Organising Committee: Fiona McNeill (University of Edinburgh) Harry Halpin (Yahoo! Research) Andriana Gkaniatsou (University of Edinburgh) Program committee: Krisztian Balog (University of Amsterdam) Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) Vinay Chaudri (SRI) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes) Eraldo Fernandez (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University) Tom McCutcheon (Dstl) Shuai Ma (Beihang University) Adam Pease (Articulate Software) David Roberston (University of Edinburgh) Peter Winstanley (Scottish Government) From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Tue Jul 17 16:01:47 2012 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:01:47 -0400 Subject: Call for Contributions: What will the Semantic Web look like 10 years from now? - workshop at ISWC2012 Message-ID: <5005704B.1060000@wright.edu> Call for Contributions ISWC2012 workshop on What will the Semantic Web look like 10 years from now? http://stko.geog.ucsb.edu/sw2022/ The Semantic Web, as a field, is undergoing a major shift. After 10 years of mainly foundations-driven research, we now see strong indicators that Semantic Web methods are entering mainstream technology, in a number of forms. The consequent rise in commercial interest will likely have a fundamental impact on the field. Some established research results will make it into mainstream applications. Others will become obsolete. Radically new ideas will emerge. It is thus the right time for the community to contemplate the way ahead. In this workshop, we will provide an exciting forum for the discussion of the future of the Semantic Web. Researchers and practitioners from all corners of the field are invited to provide their insights and projections. The event will focus on discussions and the exchange of ideas, and will use a mix of different styles of interaction between the participants. It is always good to try to look ahead and anticipate the development of a field. For the Semantic Web, it is now particularly important because recent developments indicate that Semantic Web technologies are entering the industrial mainstream. Schema.org and the Facebook Open Graph Protocol are bringing metadata to bear on the Web large-scale. IBM's Watson and Apple's Siri incorporate Semantic Technologies. Google is revamping its search approach and is going more semantic in implementing their knowledge graph. And these are just a few of the prominent examples. The commercial uptake will be a game-changer for the field. It seems that only a fraction of the research results of the past ten years are currently being picked up. It seems that shallow semantics brings added value in many, but not all, application areas. In others it seems that there are roadblocks for which deep semantics is required for added value - but current approaches are still limited. Linked Data and Big Data are popular buzzwords right now, but could they be hitting a peak on the expectation curve? If so, what is going to happen in the subsequent dive? If not, how will those areas affect the field's future? In this workshop, we intend to bring together researchers from all corners of the broader Semantic Web community, to share and discuss projections of the way ahead in Semantic Web technologies and knowledge engineering in general. WORKSHOP FORMAT AND STRUCTURE This full-day workshop is open for all interested parties. We ask for responses to the question in the workshop's title, and they can be of a variety of formats, including short (4-6 page) papers, abstracts, slidesets or any other (up to 6 page) approach an author may wish to include. The submitted material will be assessed by the program committee and the organizers, and decisions will be made which of the contributions can be presented, and in what form. Depending on the contributions, we will have primarily short oral presentations, panel discussions, posters, and demos. Most importantly, the workshop will focus on the exchange of ideas and on discussions. SUBMISSIONS AND PROCEEDINGS Sumissions, which are due by July 31, 2012, can take a variety of formats, limited to a maximum of 6 pages. They can be * single-page abstracts * short papers (4-6 pages) * a set of slides (maximum 4 slides per page) * any other format (e.g., HTML5 limited to an equivalent of 6 pages, audio or video limited by 5 minutes) - authors are encouraged to contact the chairs to get approval. All accepted submissions will be made available through the workshop web-page and the electronic conference proceedings of ISWC 2012. Accepted papers and other suitable material will be made available via CEUR-WS. Selected papers may be considered for a fast-track submission to a Semantic Web journal. Submissions must be made via easychair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sw2022 IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: July 31, 2012 Acceptance Notification: August 21, 2012 Camera-ready Copies: September 10, 2012 ORGANIZERS Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands James A. Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A. Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, U.S.A. Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Denny Vrandecic, AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; and Wikimedia Deutschland PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Stefan Decker, DERI Galway, Ireland Dieter Fensel, STI Innsbruck, Austria Tim Finin, University of Maryland, U.S.A. Mark Greaves, Vulcan, Inc. Jeff Hefflin, Leehigh University, U.S.A. Ivan Hermann, W3C Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford, U.K. Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany Ora Lassila, Nokia Tony Lee, Saltlux, South Korea David Martin, Apple, Inc. Enrico Motta, The Open University, U.K. Natasha Noy, University of Stanford, U.S.A. Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Michael Witbrock, CyCorp For further information, please see http://stko.geog.ucsb.edu/sw2022/ -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From behrens at in.tu-clausthal.de Mon Jul 23 15:40:31 2012 From: behrens at in.tu-clausthal.de (Tristan Behrens) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:40:31 +0200 Subject: Multi-Agent Programming Contest (MAPC 2012) -- Final CfP Message-ID: <500D544F.9050901@in.tu-clausthal.de> === CALL FOR PARTICIPATION =============== Multi-Agent Programming Contest (MAPC 2012) http://multiagentcontest.org/2012 ======================================== 1. AIMS AND SCOPE This competition is an attempt to stimulate research in the area of multi-agent system development and programming by 1. identifying key problems, 2. collecting suitable benchmarks, and 3. gathering test cases which require and enforce coordinated action that can serve as milestones for testing multi-agent programming languages, platforms and tools. We also expect that participating at the contest helps to debug existing systems and to identify their weak and strong aspects. The performance of a particular system will be determined in a series of games where the systems compete against each other. While winning the competition is not the main point, we hope it will shed light on the applicability of certain frameworks to particular domains. 2. HISTORY The Multi-Agent Programming Contest was initiated in 2005 and since then it has passed through three distinct phases. The first phase began in 2005 with the "food-gatherers"-scenario, where a pre-specified multi-agent system had to be implemented. These MASs were later examined in order to determine the winner. From 2006 - 2007 we ran the "goldminers"-scenario. This time we provided the environment by means of an online-architecture, and automatically determined the winner. Then from 2008 - 2010 we ran the "cows and cowboys"-scenario. Again on the same online-architecture, but this time with a slightly changed objective. 3. THE FOURTH PHASE: "AGENTS ON MARS" In 2011 we began the fourth phase with the definition of a new scenario: "Agents on Mars". The goal is to implement a team of cooperating agents with different roles in order to occupy zones on planet Mars. The challenge of the scenario is its increased complexity, that is that we have defined 5 roles of agents with different properties and capabilities. In this year's iteration we will work with the 2011 scenario again. 4. ENROLLING AND DOWNLOAD We would like to invite potential participants to join the MAPC 2012 list. To subscribe, send an e-mail to agentcontest2012-subscribe [at] in.tu-clausthal.de with the subject "subscribe". The confirmation request and welcome message will be sent to you shortly afterwards. Please follow the instructions in the automatic mailing list replies. And please do not hesitate to say hello on the mailing list. You can download the software package here: http://multiagentcontest.org/downloads?func=startdown&id=731 5. PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS The participation in this contest consists of these parts: 1. Declaring the intent to participate by registering to the mailing list. 2. Submission of a short team description. Thus registering to the contest officially. 3. Participation in the contest tournament by taking part on the final tournament. 4. Submitting the source-code of your application right after the tournament. 5. Submission of a paper after the tournament. 6. TIMELINE Today: releasing the final software package. Starting now: testing phase. In which you are invited to test your agents (against other teams) using our servers. 6th - 27th August: registration phase. Handled via the mailing list. 5th and 6th September: qualification phase. In which you have to prove that your agents' connections to our servers are stable and reliable. 10th - 14th September: tournament. After tournament: publications. 7. PUBLICATIONS After the tournament we invite every participant to submit a paper about their team. The organizers will select a couple of high-quality papers and publish them in the ProMAS 2012 post-proceedings. The others will be published in the Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology, Technical Reports Series. 8. PRICE The winner of the contest will be awarded with a voucher for 500 EUR worth in books, thankfully provided by Springer Verlag. Requirements are the submission of a paper and the sourcecodes of the agents. 9. PEOPLE Organizers: Tristan Behrens (Clausthal University of Technology) Jürgen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology) Michael Köster (Clausthal University of Technology) Federico Schlesinger (Clausthal University of Technology) Steering Committee: Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University) Jürgen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology) Jomi Hübner (Federal University of Santa Catarina) Peter Novak (Delft University of Technology) From glukacsy at cisco.com Wed Jul 18 09:41:15 2012 From: glukacsy at cisco.com (Gergely Lukacsy (glukacsy)) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:41:15 +0000 Subject: ICLP 2012 Early registration extended till July 20th Message-ID: Apologies for cross posting. Gergely ========================================================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 28th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2012) Theory and Practice of Logic Programming Budapest, Hungary, September 4-8, 2012 http://www.cs.bme.hu/iclp2012/ ========================================================================= REGISTRATION Registration Site is now open at: http://www.cs.bme.hu/iclp2012/Registration.html Early registration is until July 20, 2012. ACCOMMODATION Information on hotels is available on the homepage: http://www.cs.bme.hu/iclp2012/HotelInfo.html CONFERENCE SCOPE Since the first conference held in Marseille in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. This year conference will offer invited talks and tutorials, as well as technical presentations on the broad spectrum of most recent research topics in the field. The conference will also host Doctoral Consortium, several workshops, and a Prolog programming contest. WORKSHOPS * Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP 2012), September 4 * 9th International Workshop on Constraint Handling Rules (CHR 2012), September 4 * 12th International Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint and LOgic Programming Systems (CICLOPS 2012), September 4 * WG17, September 4-5 * 22nd Workshop on Logic-based methods in Programming Environments (WLPE 2012), September 8 * Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics (WCB'12), September 8 * Coinductive Logic Programming (Co-LP), September 8 Workshops are perhaps the best places for the presentation of preliminary work, undeveloped novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience with opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The 8th Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming provides research students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and world-renown experts in the field. Accepted participants receives partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper and presentation from the DC is given the opportunity to present in a special session of the main ICLP conference. INVITED TALKS * Ferenc Darvas (http://www.thalesnano.com/board_of_directors) "Several Applications of Logic Programming in Hungary" * Jan Wielemaker (http://www.cs.vu.nl/~janw/) "25 years of SWI Prolog" * Mike Elston (http://www.securitease.com/) on "Applications of Prolog and CHR to stock brokering tools" * Invited author(s) of the most influencial paper of ICLP/ILPS 1992 * Invited author(s) of the most influencial paper of ICLP 2002 TUTORIAL * Viviana Mascardi (http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MascardiV/) "Logic-based Agents and the Semantic Web" FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE The Association for Logic Programming has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants and, specially, students in order to be able to attend the conference. For information, please contact the organizers of the Doctoral Consortium and the General Chair. HOTELS See http://www.cs.bme.hu/iclp2012/HotelInfo.html. CONFERENCE VENUE The Conference will be located in Tulip Inn Budapest Millennium. Budapest is in the center of Hungary, in the heart of Central Europe. Hungary is member of the European Union and belongs to the Schengen area. Hungary is well-served by transport links from abroad. The main international airport is Budapest Ferihegy. Budapest is linked to 15 European capitals by train, directly or indirectly; e.g. a Wien-Budapest trip is less than 3 hours. SPONSORS The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP), the Artificial Intelligence Section of the John von Neumann Computer Society and by AIT-Budapest (Aquincum Institute of Technology). ICLP 2012 ORGANIZATION General Chair: Péter Szeredi (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics) Program Comittee Chairs: Agostino Dovier (Univ. of Udine), Vítor Santos Costa (Univ. of Porto) Workshop Chair: Mats Carlsson (SICS, Sweden) Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Marco Gavanelli (Univ. of Ferrara), Stefan Woltran (Vienna University of Technology) Prolog Programming Contest Chair: Tom Schrijvers (Universiteit Gent) Publicity Chair: Gergely Lukácsy (Cisco Systems Inc.) Web Manager: János Csorba (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics) -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From publicity at ecmlpkdd2013.org Wed Jul 18 11:37:54 2012 From: publicity at ecmlpkdd2013.org (ECMLPKDD2013) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:37:54 +0200 Subject: ECML PKDD 2013 Call for Papers and Journal Articles Message-ID: <500683F2.2090003@ecmlpkdd2013.org> [ please distribute - apologies for multiple postings ] *-- Important: ECML PKDD 2013 will have a continuous journal submission track in addition to the regular conference submission. The journal submission track is now open. --* ECML PKDD 2013 European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases Prague, Czech Republic, September 23 to 27. First Call for Papers The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) provides an international forum for the discussion of the latest high-quality research results in all areas related to machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases, as well as their application in innovative application domains. The 2013 edition of ECML PKDD will have, next to the usual proceedings track, a new journal track in collaboration with Machine Learning and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Articles can be submitted to the journal track all year long, while the proceedings track will have one deadline in April. Submissions to the journal track should meet the standards of the journals, and, additionally, be concise and lend themselves to oral presentation at a conference. Articles focusing on consolidation of earlier work are less suitable for this track. Submissions will benefit from a streamlined reviewing process that allows for notification within 8 weeks. Resubmission of revised versions is possible. Upon acceptance, submissions automatically earn a presentation slot at the conference, and an abstract of the article will be included in the proceedings. More information about this new submission model is available at www.ecmlpkdd2013.org. Submissions are invited on all aspects of machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining, including real-world applications. Journal submissions should present work that is novel, timely, and constitutes a clearly delineated piece of research that can be considered finished. Submissions to the proceedings track ideally present innovative ideas that are inspiring, provoke discussion, and/or are demonstrated to have a large potential. Important criteria for all submissions are their: * potential to inspire the research community by introducing new and relevant problems, concepts, solution strategies, and ideas * contribution to solving a problem widely recognized as both challenging and important * capability to address a novel area of impact of machine learning and data mining * scientific rigor, correctness, reproducibility of experiments * presentation quality: preciseness and clarity is required IMPORTANT DATES : Journal track: * bi-weekly batch deadlines on Sundays (GMT). The 2012 deadlines are 12.8., 26.8., 9.9., 23.9., 7.10., 21.10., 4.11., 18.11., 2.12., and 16.12. * currently open to submissions * notification within 8 weeks (for submissions within the page restrictions) Proceedings track: * abstract submission: Thursday, April 18, 2013 * paper submission: Monday, April 22, 2013 * notification: Friday, June 14, 2013 * camera ready copy: Friday, June 28, 2013 Conference: September 23-27, 2013 -- Publicity at ECMLPKDD -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From evomusart at gmail.com Thu Jul 19 10:24:27 2012 From: evomusart at gmail.com (Penousal Machado) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:24:27 +0200 Subject: evomusart 2013 CFP - 2nd International Conference Message-ID: *evo***** **call for papers **evo**musart** **2013 2nd International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design** * 3-5 April 2013 / Vienna, Austria http://www.evostar.org Submission* **1 November 2012* Conference *3-5 April 2013* Notification to authors *21 December 2012* Camera-ready deadline *15 January 2013* Following the success of previous events and the importance of the field of evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design, evo musart has become an evo* conference with independent proceedings. Thus,evo musart 2013 is the eleventh European Event and the second International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design. The use of biologically inspired techniques for the development of artistic systems is a recent, exciting and significant area of research. There is a growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields such as: visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound synthesis; architecture; video; poetry; design; and other creative tasks. The main goal of evomusart 2013 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired computer techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area. The event will be held from 3-5 April, 2013 in Vienna, Austria as part of the evo* event. Submissions will be rigorously reviewed for scientific and artistic merit. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters at the event and included in the evomusart proceedings, published by *Springer Verlag* in a dedicated volume of the *Lecture Notes in Computer Science* series. The acceptance rate at evomusart 2012 was 34.9% for papers accepted for oral presentation, or 46.5% for oral and poster presentation combined. *Topics of Interest* Submissions should concern the use of biologically inspired computer techniques — e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence, other artificial intelligence techniques — in the generation, analysis and interpretation of art, music, design, architecture and other artistic fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *Generation* - Biologically Inspired Design and Art — systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.; - Biologically Inspired Sound and Music — systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound analysis, etc.; - Robotic-Based Evolutionary Art and Music; - Other related artificial intelligence or generative techniques in the fields of Computer Music, Computer Art, etc. *Theory* - Computational Aesthetics, Experimental Aesthetics; Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty; - Representation techniques; - Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification of weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification; - Validation methodologies; - Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas; - New models designed to promote the creative potential of biologically inspired computation; *Computer Aided Creativity and Computational Creativity* - Systems in which biologically inspired computation is used to promote the creativity of a human user; - New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle; - Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the resulting artefacts; - Collaborative distributed artificial art environments; *Automation* - Techniques for automatic fitness assignment; - Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is used in conjunction with biologically inspired techniques to produce novel objects; - Systems that resort to biologically inspired computation to perform the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of artistic object. * * * *Additional information and submission details* Submit your manuscript, at most *12 A4 pages long*, in Springer LNCS format no later than *November 1, 2012*. Instructions downloadable from http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 . The reviewing process will be double-blind; please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. *Programme committee* Alain Lioret, Paris 8 University, France Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia Alejandro Pazos, University of A Coruna, Spain Alice Eldridge, Monash University, Australia Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal Amy K. Hoover, University of Central Florida, USA Andrew Brown, Griffith University, Australia Andrew Gildfind, Google, Inc., Australia Andrew Horner, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, USA Antonino Santos, University of A Coruna, Spain Arne Eigenfeldt, Simon Fraser University, Canada Artemis Sanchez Moroni, Renato Archer Research Center, Brazil Benjamin Schroeder, Ohio State University, USA Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA Brian Ross, Brock University, Canada Carlos Grilo, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK Dan Ashlock, University of Guelph, Canada Dan Costelloe, Independent Researcher (Solace One Ltd), Ireland Daniel Jones, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Douglas Repetto, Columbia University, USA Eduardo Miranda, University of Plymouth, UK Eelco den Heijer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Eleonora Bilotta , University of Calabria, Italy Erik Hemberg, University College Dublin, Ireland Francois Pachet, Sony CSL Paris, France Gary Greenfield, University of Richmond, USA Hans Dehlinger, Independent Artist, Germany Hernán Kerlleñevich, National University of Quilmes, Argentina J. E. Rowe, University of Birmingham, UK James McDermott, University of Limerick, Ireland Jeffrey Ventrella, independent artist/researcher, USA John Collomosse, University of Surrey, UK Jon McCormack, Monash University, Australia José Fornari, NICS/Unicamp, Brazil Juan Romero, University of A Coruna, Spain Marcelo Freitas Caetano, IRCAM, France Marcos Nadal, University of Illes Balears, Spain Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA Michael O'Neill, University College Dublin, Ireland Nicolas Monmarché, University of Tours, France Oliver Bown, University of Sidney, Australia Palle Dahlstedt, Göteborg University, Sweden Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Pedro Cruz, University of Coimbra, Portugal Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal Peter Bentley, University College London , UK Philip Galanter, Texas A&M College of Architecture, USA Philippe Pasquier, Simon Fraser University, Canada Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain Roger Malina, International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, USA Roisin Loughran, University of Limerick, Ireland Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia, Indonesia Scott Draves, Independent Artist, USA Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia Stephen Todd, IBM, UK Takashi Ikegami, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Vic Ciesielski, RMIT, Australia William Latham, University of London, UK *Conference chairs* James McDermott University College Dublin, Ireland jamesmichaelmcdermott [at] gmail [dot] com Penousal Machado University of Coimbra, Portugal machado [at] dei [dot] uc [dot] pt *Publication chair* Adrian Carballal University of A Coruna, Spain adrian.carballal [at] udc [dot] es -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From pakdd2013 at gmail.com Thu Jul 19 14:59:43 2012 From: pakdd2013 at gmail.com (CFP PAKDD2013) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:59:43 +0200 Subject: Call For Papers PAKDD 2013 Message-ID: Call For Papers PAKDD 2013 The 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Gold Coast, Australia Conference Website http://pakdd2013.pakdd.org/ Submission System https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/PAKDD2013/ Important Dates Paper submission due: Oct. 1 (Mon). 2012 Notification to author: Dec. 19 (Wed). 2012 Camera ready due: Jan. 6 (Sun). 2013 *[23:59:59 Pacific Time] ============================================================== Conference Scope The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) is a leading international conference in the areas of data mining and knowledge discovery (KDD). It provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all KDD related areas, including data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, databases, statistics, knowledge engineering, visualization, and decision-making systems. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial papers reporting real data mining applications and system development experience. ============================================================== Topics The topics of relevance for the conference papers include but not limited to the following: * Novel models and algorithms * Clustering * Classification * Ranking * Association analysis * Anomaly detection * Data pre-processing * Feature extraction and selection * Mining heterogeneous data * Mining multi-source data * Mining sequential data * Mining spatial and temporal data * Mining unstructured and semi-structured data * Mining graph and network data * Parallel, distributed, and high performance data mining on the cloud platform * Privacy preserving data mining * Mining high dimensional data * Mining uncertain data * Mining imbalanced data * Mining dynamic/streaming data * Statistical methods for data mining * Visual data mining * Interactive and online mining * Mining behavioral data * Mining multimedia data * Mining scientific databases * Ubiquitous knowledge discovery * Agent-based data mining * Mining social networks * Financial data mining * Fraud and risk analysis * Security and intrusion detection * Opinion mining and sentiment analysis * Post-processing including quality assessment and validation * Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining * Human, domain, organizational and social factors in data mining * Applications to healthcare, bioinformatics, computational chemistry, * Eco-informatics, marketing, online gaming, etc All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference home page. ============================================================== Paper Submission Each submitted paper should include an abstract up to 200 words. It should also adhere to the double-blind review policy and not longer than 12 single-spaced pages with 10pt font size. Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript submission guidelines (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) for their initial submissions. All papers must be submitted electronically through Microsoft's Conference Management Service (CMT) in PDF format only. The submitted papers must not be previously published anywhere, and must not be under consideration by any other conferences or journal during the PAKDD review process. Submitting a paper to the conference means that if the paper were accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the paper. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification. The program committee chairs are not allowed to submit papers to the conference for a fair review process. All papers will be double-blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. Papers that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines will be rejected without review. Before submitting your paper, please carefully read and agree with the PAKDD submission policy and no-show policy: http://pakdd.togaware.com/policy.html ============================================================== Conference Officers Honorary Co-chairs * Jiawei Han. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,USA * Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia * Graham Williams. Australia Taxation Office, Australia Conference Co-chairs * Hiroshi Motoda, AFOSR/AOARD and Osaka University, Japan * Longbing Cao. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committee Co-chairs * Jian Pei. Simon Fraser University, Canada * Vincent S. Tseng. National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Local Arrangement Co-chairs * Vladimir Estivill-Castro. Griffith University (Gold Coast), Australia * Xue Li, University of Queensland, Australia * Richi Nayak, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Xinhua Zhu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Workshop Co-chairs * Jiuyong Li. University of Sourth Australia, Australia * Kay Chen Tan. National University of Singapore, Singapore * Bo Liu. Guangdong University of Technology, China Tutorial Co-chairs * Tu Bao Ho. Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan * Mengjie Zhang. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Award Chair * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Sponsorship Co-chair * Yue Xu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Publicity Co-chairs * P.Krishna Reddy, The International Institute of Information * Technology, Hyderabad, India * Yifeng Zeng, Aalborg University, Denmark * Xin Wang, University of Calgary, Canada * Zhihong Deng, Peking University, China ============================================================== Further Information For further information, please contact the Program Committee Chairs by pakdd13-program at pakdd.org . General inquiries * Longbing Cao University of Technology Sydney, Australia Email: pakdd13 at pakdd.org Phone: (61)2-9514-4477 Fax: (61)2-9514-1807 -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From Thomas.Agotnes at infomedia.uib.no Sat Jul 21 12:01:44 2012 From: Thomas.Agotnes at infomedia.uib.no (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_=C5gotnes?=) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:01:44 +0200 Subject: Postdoc position: logic for AI/multi-agent systems, Bergen (Norway), 4 years Message-ID: <0CBD4FE0-184B-4765-9F2B-DA4D07CFC984@infomedia.uib.no> At the University of Bergen, Norway, a postdoc position is open in several areas of information science, including logic in artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems. Highlights: * Your own project: the position is not connected to an existing research project. Instead, applicants submit their project proposals within the research areas of the department's research groups. * 4 years with 25% teaching duties. * The application deadline is 20 August 2012. * Contact Thomas Agotnes (thomas.agotnes at infomedia.uib.no) if you want to discuss project proposals within the area of logic and formal models of information and interaction in artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems. See http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=83925 (choose "English" in the upper right corner) for more details and information about the application process. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ågotnes Department of Information Science and Media Studies University of Bergen P.O. Box 7802, N-5020 Bergen, Norway Tel: (+47) 55584105 Fax: (+47) 55589149 Thomas.Agotnes at infomedia.uib.no http://folk.uib.no/nmita/ From e.haasdijk at vu.nl Sat Jul 21 17:49:34 2012 From: e.haasdijk at vu.nl (Evert Haasdijk) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:49:34 -0400 Subject: 1st CFP: EvoROBOT - Evolutionary Computation in Robotics Message-ID: [apologies for cross-posting] EvoROBOT 2013, Vienna, Austria, 3-5 April 2013 Evolutionary Computation in Robotics The well-known EvoStar conference (http://www.evostar.org/) has been extended to host the EvoROBOT track as part of EvoApplications, the European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, to be held in April 2013 at the Vienna University of Technology. The EvoROBOT track focusses, as the name implies, on evolutionary robotics: the application of evolutionary computation techniques to automatically design the controllers and/or hardware of autonomous robots, real or simulated. This is by nature a multi-faceted field that combines approaches from other fields such as neuro-evolution, evolutionary design, artificial life, robotics, et cetera. We seek high quality contributions dealing with state-of-the-art research in the area of evolutionary robotics. Topics include but are not limited to: Evolution of (neural) robot controllers; Evolution of modular robot morphology; Hardware/morphology and controller co-evolution; Open-ended evolution in robotics; Robotic evolutionary Artificial Life; Evolutionary self-assembly and self-replication; Evolution, development and learning; Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches. Important Dates ---------------- Submission deadline: 1 November 2012 Notification to authors: 21 December 2012 Camera-ready deadline: 15 January 2013 EvoStar event 3-5 April 2013 Publication Details ------------------- Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of EvoStar, published as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Submission Details ------------------ Submissions must be novel and original. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee and authors of accepted papers are required to address the reviewer's comments to produce a camera-ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and attend the conference to present their work. The reviewing process will be double-blind and any information that may identify the authors should be removed from the initial submission. Please submit your contribution to EvoROBOT in Springer LNCS format at http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps13. The page limit is 10 pages. Track Chairs ------------ Gusz Eiben Evert Haasdijk Programme Committee (provisional) --------------------------------- Nicolas Bredeche Stéphane Doncieux Heiko Hamann Serge Kernbach Jean-Marc Montanier Jean-Baptiste Mouret Stefano Nolfi Claudio Rossi Sanem Sariel Florian Schlachter Thomas Schmickl Juergen Stradner Jon Timmis Andy Tyrrell Alan Winfield Further Information ------------------- Visit http://www.evostar.org/cfpEvoApplications.html or join the EVOstar group on LinkedIn for more details and updates. From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Wed Jul 25 14:50:44 2012 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announcements) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:50:44 +0300 Subject: IEEE CSE/EUC 2012: Final Call for Papers (extended deadline!) Message-ID: *** Final Call for Papers *** *** Final Deadline: 10th August *** The 15th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (IEEE CSE 2012) http://www.cse2012.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ The 10th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (IEEE/IFIP EUC 2012) http://www.euc2012.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ 5-7 December 2012, Paphos, Cyprus CSE 2012 The Computational Science and Engineering area has earned prominence through advances in electronic and integrated technologies beginning in the 1940s. Current times are very exciting and the years to come will witness a proliferation in the use of various advanced computing systems. It is increasingly becoming an emerging and promising discipline in shaping future research and development activities in academia and industry, ranging from engineering, science, finance, economics, arts and humanitarian fields, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with tight timing schedules. CSE 2012 is the next event, in a series of highly successful IEEE International Conferences on Computational Science and Engineering, held mainly as the International Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing for 10 editions. The previous CSE-11 was held in Dalian, China, August 24-26, 2011. CSE 2012 is to bring together computer scientists, applied mathematicians, engineers in different disciplines and researchers to present, discuss and exchange ideas, results and experiences in the area of advanced computing for problems in science and engineering applications and inter-disciplinary. We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics: * Intelligent and Bio-inspired Computing * Distributed and Parallel Computing * Database and Data Mining * Cluster, Grid, P2P and Cloud Computing * Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications * CSE Education * Scientific and Engineering Computing * Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing * Advanced Networking and Applications * Security, Privacy and Trust * Service and Internet Computing - Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing * CSE applications EUC 2012 Embedded and ubiquitous computing is an exciting paradigm that promises to provide computing and communication services to the end users all the time and everywhere. Its systems are now invading in every aspect of our daily life and promise to revolutionize our life much more profoundly than elevators, electric motors or even personal computer evolution ever did. The emergence of this technology is a natural outcome of research and technological advances in a variety of areas including embedded systems, pervasive computing and communications, wireless networks, mobile computing, distributed computing and agent technologies. EUC 2012 is the next event, in a series of highly successful IEEE International Conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), previously held as ICDCS-ECS04 (Tokyo, Japan, March 2004), EUC-04 (Aizu, Japan, August 2004), EUC-05 (Nagasaki, Japan, December 2005), EUC-06 (Seoul, Korea, August 2006), EUC-07 (Taipei, Taiwan, December 2007), EUC-08 (Shanghai, China, December 2008), EUC-09 (Vancouver, Canada, August 2009), EUC-10 (Hong Kong, December 2010) and EUC 2011 (Melbourne, Australia, October 2011). Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Embedded Computing * Embedded System Software and Optimization * Embedded System Architectures * Hardware/Software Co-design and Design Automation * Real-Time Systems and Operating Systems * Application-Specific Processors and Devices * Power-Aware Computing * Sensor Networks * System/Network-on-Chip * Reconfigurable Computing Systems and Applications * Cyber-Physical Systems Ubiquitous Computing * Pervasive Computing and Communications * Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing * Internet Computing and Applications * Multimedia and Data Management * Human-Computer Interaction * Network Protocols * Wireless Communication & Networks * Mobile Computing * Agents and Distributed Computing * Security and Fault Tolerance Applications Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and should follow the IEEE 8.5" x 11" Two-Column Format. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the submission deadline. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE conference proceedings (EI indexed). Journal Special Issues Selected best papers of CSE and EUC will be published in special issues of the following high quality journals: ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (ACM) ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (ACM and Springer) Journal of Computer and System Sciences (Elsevier) International Journal of High Performance Computing (SAGE Publs) Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) Journal of Embedded Computing (IOS) Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier) Journal of System Architecture (Elsevier) (pending) Journal of Wireless Personal Communications (Springer) (pending) Journal of Computing (Springer) (pending) Important Dates * Submission Deadline (extended!): 10 August * Notification of Acceptance: 21 September * Camera-ready Versions Submitted: 5 October * Author Registration: 5 October -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. From tsoumakas at gmail.com Thu Jul 26 09:07:32 2012 From: tsoumakas at gmail.com (Grigorios Tsoumakas) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:07:32 +0300 Subject: ECML PKDD 2012 - Call for Participation - Early Registration: July 31 Message-ID: *** ECML PKDD 2012 *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** EARLY REGISTRATION: JULY 31 *** The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) will take place in Bristol, UK from September 24th to 28th, 2012. ECML-PKDD is the prime European scientific event in machine learning and data mining. It will feature presentations of contributed papers and invited speakers, a wide program of workshops and tutorials on the first and last days, a discovery challenge, and a DINe track with demo, industry, and 'nectar' talks. http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/programme/keynote-talks/ http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/programme/workshops/ http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/programme/tutorials/ The list of accepted research track papers can be accessed at http://ecmlpkdd2012.webfactional.com/ . The early registration deadline with reduced registration fee is July 31st, 2012. Accommodation is booked directly with the hotels: reduced rates are available on a first-come-first-serve basis, so please act now to avoid disappointment! http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/attending/registration/ http://www.ecmlpkdd2012.net/attending/hotels/ We look forward to welcoming you in Bristol this September. 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URL: From sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de Fri Jul 27 11:45:03 2012 From: sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de (Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:45:03 +0200 Subject: PhD or Postdoc Position available (in the AVACS project) Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------- PhD or Postdoc Position in the AVACS project --------------------------------------------------------------------- A position at PhD or postdoc level is available in the AVACS project SFB TR 14 Automatic Verification And Analysis of Complex Systems http://www.avacs.org/ in the group of Professor Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans http://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/koblenz/fb4/institute/IFI/RGVSS The position will start as soon as possible, and will end on 31 December 2015. Tasks: ------ The research activity will aim at investigating and developing novel techniques, methodologies and tools for automated reasoning in complex logical theories (in particular devising decision procedures for complex data types) and applying the results of this research in the verification of real time systems and hybrid systems. Profile: -------- Candidates must have a MSc (or a PhD) in Computer Science and a very good background in logic. Familiarity with automated reasoning, satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), and/or verification will be of advantage. Application: ------------ Applicants should send their application, consisting of: - a statement of interest, - a Curriculum Vitae - a list of publications and - the names of at least two references to Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (E-Mail: sofronie at mpi-inf.mpg.de) Deadline for sending the applications: -------------------------------------- August 15, 2012 Applications might be accepted also after this deadline, until the position is filled. From invitation at iariaprogram.org Mon Jul 30 17:33:39 2012 From: invitation at iariaprogram.org (ICNS 2013) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:33:39 -0400 Subject: 1st CfP: ICNS 2013 || March 24 - 29, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal Message-ID: <1343662419271.1452@iariaprogram.org> INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICNS 2013. The submission deadline is October 29, 2012. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== ICNS 2013 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICNS 2013, The Ninth International Conference on Networking and Services March 24 - 29, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ICNS13.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/CfPICNS13.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/SubmitICNS13.html Submission deadline: October 29, 2012 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html ICNS 2013 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) ENCOT: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies Access and home networks; Ad hoc networks; Application-specific networks (e.g. SANs); Autonomic Networks; Delay-tolerant Networking; Distributed communications systems & applications; Energy-efficient networking; High-speed & optical networks; Mobile networking and systems; MPLS-VPN & IPSec-VPN networks; Multimedia and multicast communications; Networking Communication theory; Network modeling & simulation; Network monitoring techniques; Network security; Next Generation Networks (NGN); Overlay networks; Peer-to-peer networking; Programmable and Active Networks; Sensor networks; Switching and routing; Wireless and Satellite Networks COMAN: Network Control and Management Network, control and service architectures; Network signaling, pricing and billing; Network middleware; Network management, monitoring and control; Network resource scheduling; Networks policy-based management; Management of autonomic networks and systems; Telecommunication networks architectures; On-demand networks, utility computing architectures; Applications and case studies SERVI: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance Service-oriented architectures; Service definition, creation, bundling, deployment; Service reuse, composition and service feature interaction; Service orchestration and federation; Inter-provider service dependency; Intra-provider service dependency and service interaction; Service middleware and service development platforms (SDPs); Service open architecture (SOA); Profiling and service adaptation; Service privacy and security; Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]; Service agreement violations; Mobile services and service migration; Reliability, availability, serviceability [RAS]; Service performance metrics; Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring; Voice over IP services; IP Multimedia services; Real-time/not-real-rime services; real-time services over IP/IPv6; Service performance evaluation, tools, simulation NGNUS: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services Methodologies, development support, and tools for NGN and converging services; NGN and convergence of ubiquitous services; NGN frameworks, architectures, and concepts; NGN technologies and mechanisms; QoS/SLA, traffic in NGN; NGN transport/service layered capabilities and operations; NGN concepts for active, ad hoc, mobile, and wireless networks; 3G and 4G Mobile networks; Fixed/mobile networks integration and internetworking; Services and service differentiation over NGN; Managing ubiquitous services in NGN; NGN interworking, non-NGN interoperability, migration; Regulatory services in NGN and standard activities; NGN device instrumentation; NGN policy-based control; Next Generation Internet MPQSI: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking Architectures, frameworks, mechanisms for admission control and measurement; QoS in multi-provider and multi-technology networks; Service classes and multi-provider service class discovery; Service level agreement and service assurance in multi-provider environments; Carrier-class end-to-end SLA and QoS monitoring and management; Multi provider accounting/billing/cost sharing; Management, monitoring, and measurements in multi-provider networks; End-to-end QoS/SLA advanced network services in multi-provider networks; End-to-end QoS/SLA for multimedia applications and services in multi-provider networks; Security issues in multi-service provider networks; Business models for multi-providers under QoS/SLA constraints; Standards and fora activities GRIDNS: Grid Networks and Services GRID theory, frameworks, methodologies, architecture, ontology; GRID infrastructure and technologies; GRID middleware; GRID protocols and networking; GRID computing, utility computing, autonomic computing, metacomputing; Programmable GRID; Data GRID; Context ontology and management in GRIDs; Distributed decisions in GRID networks; GRID services and applications; Virtualization, modeling, and metadata in GRID; Resource management, scheduling, and scalability in GRID; GRID monitoring, control, and management; Traffic and load balancing in GRID; User profiles and priorities in GRID; Performance and security in GRID systems; Fault tolerance, resilience, survivability, robustness in GRID; QoS/SLA in GRID networks; GRID fora, standards, development, evolution; GRID case studies, validation testbeds, prototypes, and lessons learned EDNA: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications Theory on disaster-tolerant robust networks; Recovery by disruption resource procedures; Security issues with emergency services and disaster recovery; Networks resiliency methods; Formal methods for safety-critical systems; Networks emergency services; Public safety, reliable emergency communications, and applications; Response to the networks emergency services; Disaster prevention and recovery; Fighting mechanisms for disaster of networks and applications; Notifications and recovery in various network technologies; Customer protection and serviceability perception; Cost models and business impact; Cultural and legal aspects; Future advanced network development and evolution; Standards and guidelines; Lawful interception and defense strategies; IPv6DFI: Deploying the Future Infrastructure IP Upgrade - An Engineering Exercise or a Necessity?; Worldwide IPv6 Adoption - Trends and Policies; National Strategies in Stimulating IPv6 Adoption; IPv6 in Government Infrastructures - Specific Requirements; IPv6 Infrastructures for Emergency Response and Law Enforcement - MetroNet6; Communications Equipment Certification for IPv6 Support; IPv6 in Broadband Networks; IPv6 Programs, from Research to Knowledge Dissemination; IPv6 Technology - Practical Information; Advanced Topics and Latest Developments in IPv6; IPv6 Deployment Experiences and Case Studies; IPv6 Enabled Applications and Devices IPDy: Internet Packet Dynamics Measurement of stream characteristics (reordering, delay, losses, jitter, etc.); Measurement and estimation of network characteristics; Tools, metrics and benchmarks; End-to-end packet dynamics; Timing aspects in packet dynamics; Impact of load balancing, parallelism within nodes, etc. on packet dynamics; QoS mechanisms and their impact on packet dynamics; Models (e.g., relating protocols, resources and architectures to packet dynamics); Mitigation of adverse effects of reordering, jitter, etc.; Traffic engineering; Impact of packet dynamics on application performance GOBS: GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks Terabit burst switching; Burst assembly for IP DiffServ over optical burst switching networks; Optical network infrastructure for Grid; Synchronous stream optical burst switching; Optical burst switching based GRID architecture; Reliable optical burst switching for next-generation Grid networks; Throughput for Grid optical burst switching Grid networks; Resiliency paths over the optical Grid networks; Consumer oriented Grids using optical burst switching; Protocols for optical burst switched Grid networks; Hybrid optical switching for data-intensive media Grid; Anycast routing in optical burst switched Grid networks; Optical burst switching for IP-over-WDM/DWDM; Customizable Grid-to-optical network; Ultra high capacity optical networks; Hybrid optical burst/circuit switched for Grid-enabled optical networks; Job scheduling in optical burst switching Grid networks; Architecture and middleware for Grid-Over-OBS Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ComICNS13.html ================================================ To stop receiving notices about ICNS, please reply with "DROP ICNS event at in.tu-clausthal.de" in the subject field. To receive notices about specific topics only, please reply with "TOPIC CHANGE event at in.tu-clausthal.de" in the subject field, and the specific topics in the email body. To stop receiving any notice, please reply with "UNSUBSCRIBE event at in.tu-clausthal.de" in the subject field. From C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk Mon Jul 30 19:36:53 2012 From: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk (Orasan, Constantin) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:36:53 +0000 Subject: Job announcement: 2 research associate positions Message-ID: <1343669820.13479.18.camel@dinel-desktop> The Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk) at the University of Wolverhampton invites applications for two research associate posts in the DVC project (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk/projects/DVC/) Salary: £28,401 – £31,020 pa (level of appointment dependent on qualifications and experience) Duration: These are temporary, fixed-term appointments for maximum three years (dependent on start date of contract). Application deadline: 2nd September 2012 RA1: Research Associate in Computational Linguistics (REF: A5910) To work as part of a team to research computational linguistics approaches to investigate the relationship between the meaning and the use of English verbs. This is a project funded by AHRC and the successful applicant may be required to attend meetings in the Czech Republic. Applicants should have a PhD in Information Science, Computer Science or Natural Language Processing (or equivalent experience) and proven research experience in these fields. Applicants must be familiar with corpus linguistics and should have experience of at least some of the following fields: textual entailment, semantic role labelling and word sense disambiguation. Knowledge of a programming language is also essential. Experience of web application development, corpus annotation and using NLP tools is desirable. Applicants should feel comfortable with understanding linguistic theories such as Sinclair’s and/or Hanks’s principles of corpus pattern analysis. RA2: Research Associate in Lexicography (REF: A5911) To work as part of a team to research computational linguistics approaches to investigate the relationship between the meaning and the use of English verbs. This is a project funded by AHRC and the successful applicant may be required to attend meetings in the Czech Republic. Applicants should have a PhD in Corpus Linguistics and/or equivalent practical experience in Lexical Analysis for publication. They must have experience of contextual analysis of meaning, collocational preferences, and lexical semantics, along with knowledge of corpus linguistics and dictionary building. Experience of working with ontologies and/or semantic types is desirable, as is knowledge of Sinclair’s and/or Hanks’s principles of corpus pattern analysis, familiarity with corpus annotation and the use of annotation tools, and exposure to computational linguistics. For informal enquiries please contact Alison Carminke, alison.carminke at wlv.ac.uk quoting the reference number. For detailed further particulars and an application form visit our website: http://www.wlv.ac.uk Alternatively please contact the Personnel Services Department, University of Wolverhampton, Molineux Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB. Tel: 01902 321049 (ansaphone). For hearing impaired candidates our minicom number is 01902 321249. Email address: per at wlv.ac.uk Visit our website at http://www.wlv.ac.uk/ The University is eager to attract larger numbers of applications from groups of people currently under-represented in the staff population, especially from women and people from ethnic minority groups. Established by Prof Mitkov in 1998, the Research Group in Computational Linguistics delivers cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic summarisation, question answering, multilingual text processing, multiple-choice question generation and text simplification. The results from the latest Research Assessment Exercise announced on 17 December 2008 confirm the Research Group in Computational Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research. The research group was ranked joint 3rd with 2 more universities in the Unit of Assessment “Linguistics”. According to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton in one of the top 6 in the UK. -- Dr. Constantin Orasan Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics Deputy Head of the Research Group in Computational Linguistics Research Group in Computational Linguistics http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/ University of Wolverhampton