From itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au Fri Apr 1 10:26:03 2005 From: itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@mail.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Fri Apr 1 10:27:59 2005 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 April 2005 Message-ID: <20050401002603.GA9966@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 1 for April, 2005. This service is sponsored by the Australian Computer Society (www.acs.org.au). Complete news items may be found at http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm. Australian International and Local Conference Announcements South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation - SEARCC 05 USYD Basser seminar, 06.04.05: Jon Patrick on "The Scamseek Project" Call for Papers - QSIC 2005, September 19 - 21, 2005, Melbourne, Australia The APAC Conference and Exhibition on Advanced Computing, Grid Applications and eResearch Call for papers: International Workshop on Agent-Based Web Engineering (ABWE-2005)-at ICWE 2005 CFP: MDWE 2005 - 1st Int. Workshop on Model-Driven Web Engineering at ICWE 2005 CFP: WISM 2005 International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling e-Science 2005 Conference: Call for Papers International Conference Announcements Mobility Conference 2005 Call for Papers Final CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT'05 The 1st IFIP Working Conference on Computer Aided Innovation - TC5 ICALT2005 Registration is now open (Early bird registration Academic Positions New PhD scholarships University of New South Wales Positions in computational science - data grids and application support ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation - SEARCC 05 "Simon Kwan" SEARCC Conference is an annual ICT event organized by the South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC) and its component member computer associations. The 2005 SEARCC Conference (SEARCC'05) is hosted by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and will be held in Sydney, Australia between 28-30 September, 2005. The conference theme is "ICT Building Bridges" reflecting the ubiquity, connectivity and impact of information communication technology applications on organizations, government, nations and the community. The conference will comprise four major streams: Emerging Technologies ICT in Management ICT in Government ICT in Education (Academic). Program Chair: Anthony Wong Emerging Technologies - Professor Vijay Varadharajan ICT in Management - Anthony Wong, John Price, Linda Kennedy ICT in Government - Patrick Callioni ICT in Education (Academic) - Professor Graham Low ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf0 ====================================================================== USYD Basser seminar, 06.04.05: Jon Patrick on "The Scamseek Project" seminar@it.usyd.edu.au Basser Seminar series, School of Information Technologies, USYD: The Scamseek Project - Identifying Financial Scams on the Internet Speaker: Jon Patrick University of Sydney Time: 06. April 2005, 2-3pm Location: Sydney Uni, Madsen Building, room G92 ABSTRACT: The Scamseek project had the principal objective of building an industrially viable system that retrieves potential scam candidate texts from the Internet and classifies them as to their potential risk of containing an illegal investment proposal or advice. The value of the system is the gain of significant time and efficiency savings for the human analyst. The project was developed in two stages over 15 months and produced multiple classifiers for different types of data, achieved higher than expected performance statistics ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf1 ====================================================================== Call for Papers - QSIC 2005, September 19 - 21, 2005, Melbourne, Australia elau@ict.swin.edu.au ------------------------------- ***** ------------------------------- QSIC 2OO5 FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUALITY SOFTWARE MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, SEPTEMBER 19 -21, 2005 http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/conferences/qsic2005 ------------------------------- ***** ------------------------------- BACKGROUND ---------- Software is playing an increasingly important role in our day-to-day life. Unfortunately, software systems often fail to deliver according to promises. It is well known that there are still unresolved errors in many of the software systems that we are using every day. The aim of the QSIC series of conferences is to provide a forum to bring together researchers and practitioners working on improving the ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf2 ====================================================================== The APAC Conference and Exhibition on Advanced Computing, Grid Applications and eResearch jenny@it.uts.edu.au Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, 26 - 29 September 2005 We invite you to submit a paper on the APAC'05 theme "Empowering Research Communities" and relating to advanced computing, grid applications and eResearch. All details may be found at http://www.vpac.org/ocs Full papers must be submitted electronically by 10 June, 2005 to: http://www.vpac.org/ocs http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf3 ====================================================================== Call for papers: International Workshop on Agent-Based Web Engineering (ABWE-2005)-at ICWE 2005 ak86@uow.edu.au International Workshop on Agent-Based Web Engineering (ABWE-2005) http://www.dsl.uow.edu.au/abwe05/ July 25 or 26, 2005 Sydney, AUSTRALIA to be held in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2005) http://www.icwe2005.org Call for papers Agent-based approaches to systems development are becoming increasingly popular. The agent paradigm finds application in all stages of software development, ranging from agent-oriented conceptual modeling and requirements elicitation, through specification, design, implementation, testing and maintenance. The rise in the popularity of agent-based approaches coincided with the advent of the web, and was, in part, driven by it. Web applications helped emphasize the value proposition of agent-based software and strong synergy has existed between web engineering and agent-based approaches ever since. At this time, agent applications drive web search engines and underpin the semantic web initiative. Large, complex, distributed applications ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf4 ====================================================================== CFP: MDWE 2005 - 1st Int. Workshop on Model-Driven Web Engineering at ICWE 2005 kochn@informatik.uni-muenchen.de ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------ First Int. Workshop on Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE 2005) in conjunction with ICWE 2005 in Sydney, Australia July 25 or July 26, 2004 at the University of Technology of Sydney http://www.lcc.uma.es/~av/mdwe2005/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers --------------- ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf5 ====================================================================== CFP: WISM 2005 International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling flaviusf@win.tue.nl ********************************************************************** * * * PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 9 May 2005 * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * International Workshop on * * Web Information Systems Modeling (WISM 2005) * * * * (Held in conjunction with ICWE 2005) * * * * July 24, 2005 * * Sydney, Australia * * * * URL: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~flaviusf/wism2005 * * * ********************************************************************** ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf6 ====================================================================== e-Science 2005 Conference: Call for Papers raj@cs.mu.oz.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- e-Science 2005 Conference: Call for Participation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on e-Science and Grid Technologies Dec. 5-8, 2005, Melbourne, Australia http://www.gridbus.org/escience Sponsored/Organised By [*-pending approval]: IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing* Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics* University of Melbourne, Australia Queen's University, UK CALL FOR PAPERS The next generation of scientific research and experiments will be carried out by communities of researchers from organizations that span national boundaries. These activities will involve geographically distributed and heterogeneous resources such as computational systems, scientific instruments, databases, sensors, software components, networks, and ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf7 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements Mobility Conference 2005 Call for Papers mobility@inmeet.com.sg Mobility 2005 is the second conference to be held after the success of the first conference in Singapore. This conference covers specifically on mobile devices and mobile networks in Asia. This is a significant step in the continuous effort to actively promote and accelerate both research and applications of mobile devices and systems in this part of the world. The conference will serve as a perfect venue for researchers, scientists, engineers, and managers from Europe and North America to meet with their Asian counterparts to understand mobile device & system related issues faced here. We look forward to your participation at this coming event. Mobility Conference 2005 is a three (3) day event comprising of invited speaker for plenary sessions and technical presentations.All submissions will be refereed by a selected peer review committee. Accepted work must be presented by one of the authors. The conference abstracts will be published and indexed in Inspec. Authors are invited to submit extended summary of not more than 4 pages. ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf0 ====================================================================== Final CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT'05 iat@maebashi-it.org ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2005 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05) September 19-22, 2005 Compiegne University of Technology, France http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/ Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf1 ====================================================================== The 1st IFIP Working Conference on Computer Aided Innovation - TC5 Chris.Avram@infotech.monash.edu.au Key Words artificial intelligence, CAD, CAE, CAM, computer simulation, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, innovation, optimisation, problem solving, TRIZ I am pleased to announce the 1st IFIP Working Conference on Computer Aided Innovation November 14-15, 2005 Hosted by DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology: Digital Engineering Competence Center, Ulm, Germany. I quote from the conference welcome page at http://www.mty.itesm.mx/dia/centros/cidyt/1ifip-cai/Pagina/ The development of a new category of tools known as CAI (Computer Aided Innovation) is growing as a response to a higher industry demand. These new tools stand out from the current CAD/CAE/CAM tools because they challenge the previous standards. The goal of these CAI tools is to assist designers and process developers in their creative stage, expecting changes in ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf2 ====================================================================== ICALT2005 Registration is now open (Early bird registration kinshuk@ieee.org Dear Colleagues The "5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2005)", is taking place during July 5-8, 2005 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (with optional summerschool during June 28 - July 3, 2005). Early bird registration deadline is April 15, 2005. The conference website is: http://lttf.ieee.org/icalt2005/ Conference highlights --------------------- Keynotes: - Dr Katherine Sinitsa (Technologies for teaching and learning: standards and varieties) - Prof. Rob Koper (Learning Design: state-of-the-art and future developments) ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf3 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships New PhD scholarships University of New South Wales sowmya@cse.unsw.edu.au Up to TWO new PhD scholarships are available within an ARC Discovery project in the VLSI Design Verification Group at School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney. The aim of this project is to develop tools and techniques that will assist in the design of provably-correct on-chip communication-based systems. DEADLINE April 30th 2005 See details at ~sowmya/public_html/newPhDschol05.html http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads0 ====================================================================== Positions in computational science - data grids and application support jenny@it.uts.edu.au COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH SUPPORT UNIT UNIT MANAGER & 3 COMPUTATIONAL SCIENTISTS Faculty of Science UTS and its Faculty of Science are establishing a Computational Research Support Unit in response to the rapidly evolving importance of computation in the practice of modern science. The Unit will have a staff of five and will provide a unified, comprehensive and expert service to researchers. In addition to its internal role, supporting the computational activities/needs of researchers within the University, the Unit will be contributing to the programs of the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC)—the national partnership established by the Commonwealth to provide advanced computing and grid services to the Australian research community. At this exciting and formative time, there are four positions to be filled: a Manager of the Unit, and three specialist programmers—one in the area of data grids and the two primarily in application support—who will be associated with the APAC programs. ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads1 ======================================================================