From itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au Tue Jul 12 14:58:34 2005 From: itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@mail.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Tue Jul 12 15:00:20 2005 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 July 2005 Message-ID: <20050712045816.GA29153@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 1 for July, 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 ACS Foundation Scholarship - Seven Work Integrated Learning Scholarships IMB2006 Sydney, February 13-16 2006 2005 Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology 29th Australasian Computer Science Conference-2006 ASWEC 2006 - First Call for Papers APAC Conference and Exhibition on Advanced Computing Grid Applications and eResearch NICTA-HCSNet: Multimodal User Interaction Workshop, Sydney, Sept 2005 International Conference Announcements IEEE in co-operated International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems Special Issue on Intelligent Decision Support Systems and Their Applications in Business and Educata The 1st International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2005)-Beijing ARC/NSFC e-Water'06 Workshop on ICT and Water Resource Management Academic Positions Visiting Professor positions in Korea in in embedded Linux Lecturing Positions at La Trobe University Open Position for Research Associate in Agents and Serivices at Swinburne ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements ACS Foundation Scholarship - Seven Work Integrated Learning Scholarships "Simon Kwan" The foundation has just completed the negotiations with a donor for seven new WIL scholarships. These scholarships are to commence at the beginning of the second academic semester 2005 and run for a period of twelve months. The Scholarship is to the value of $28,000 per annum plus free membership of the Australian Computer Society and comes with an additional opportunity to gain $2,000 worth of software support from Intersystems. Appropriate students should be completing their penultimate year of ICT studies. There are four scholarships to based in Sydney at West Pennant Hills, St. Leonards, North Sydney and the IBM Innovations Centre for Business in Sydney. The Victorian Scholarships will be based in Melbourne. The Foundation is seeking your cooperation in promoting to your students these scholarship opportunities. Students can be completing any ICT related degree but must be able to demonstrate outstanding communication skills; high academic achievements; individual motivation and an ability to participate in team / client ICT solutions. A knowledge of Unix ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf0 ====================================================================== CFP: IMB2006 Sydney, February 13-16 2006 r.lawson@uws.edu.au Call for Papers *************** The 2nd International Conference on Information Management and Business Sydney, Australia, February 13-16, 2006 Conference Web site www.aimb.org/imb2006/ Purpose ======= IMB is an international conference held annually under the collaboration of University of Western Sydney, Australia, Shih Chien University, Taiwan, Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany, South Carelia Polytechnic, Finland, and associated academic and industrial societies. The 2nd annual IMB Conference, in 2006, will be held in Sydney, Australia. This conference will provide excellent opportunity for academics and practitioners to present their work and define the future of information management and business applications. The conference organizers are committed to the success of this event and envisage its significant influence on the business information systems and management community internationally. In addition to contributed papers, invited talks and panel discussions, the conference also features industrial ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf1 ====================================================================== 2005 Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology c.ragan@imb.uq.edu.au 2005 Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology Monday 11 - Friday 15 July 2005 The University of Queensland, Brisbane The ARC Centre in Bioinformatics and the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland will host the Winter School in "Mathematical and Computational Biology". For advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers in mathematics, IT, or science who want to learn about current problems and opportunities in computational bioscience. Topics are Complex biological systems and networks, Molecular evolution and phylogenetics, Protein structure and dynamics, Pattern discovery in molecular sequences, and Computational neurobiology. For detailed information, please visit ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf2 ====================================================================== 29th Australasian Computer Science Conference-2006 masa@it.usyd.edu.au 29th Australasian Computer Science Conference-2006 http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/conferences/ACSC2006/ACSC2006CallForPapers.html The University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia January 16 - 19, 2006 (preliminary call for papers) The Australasian Computer Science Conference series is an annual forum for exploring research, development and novel applications in computer science. The 29th edition will be hosted by the University of Tasmania and its School of Computing as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week which includes: - 29th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2006) - 8th Australasian Computing Education conference (ACE2006) - 17th Australasian Database Conference (ADC2006) - 7th Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC2006) - Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium (CATS2006) - Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modeling (APCCM2006). The 29th Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC2006) will be held ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf3 ====================================================================== ASWEC 2006 - First Call for Papers malibaba@nicta.com.au 17th Australian Software Engineering Conference 2006 (ASWEC 2006) April 18-21 2006, Sydney, Australia http://www.aswec.org The seventeenth Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) will be held at the Australian Technology Park (ATP), Sydney, April 18-21, 2006. Since 1986, ASWEC has been the premier Australasian software engineering conference, providing a platform for presenting the latest and significant research findings and industry based experience reports. ASWEC 2006 will bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators to share issues, novel solutions, and experiences in software engineering. The conference will also feature industry experience reports, tutorials, and workshops. ASWEC 2006 invites software engineering researchers and practitioners to: * Submit original, and unpublished results of finished or ongoing research, which promises to make significant contribution to the software engineering discipline. * Propose tutorials and/or workshops * Submit extended abstract on industrial experiences (Please see ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf4 ====================================================================== APAC Conference and Exhibition on Advanced Computing Grid Applications and eResearch Email addressjenny@it.uts.edu.au You are invited to attend APAC'05, a forum to exchange ideas, experiences and research results related to advanced computing, grid applications and eResearch. Hosted by APAC and QPSF, APAC'05 will take place at Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast, Australia from Monday 26th September to Friday 30th September 2005. See www.apac.edu.au/apac05/ Early bird registration closes Monday 15th August and costs just AU$550. To register go to https://www.secureregistrations.com/apac05/ Keynote speakers include: · Dr Fabrizio Gagliardi, CERNe-Infrastructure in Europe · Professor Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago · Professor Peter Hunter, University of Auckland and Oxford University Computational Physiology and the Physiome Project · Professor Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center – Data Grids and Data Virtualization ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf5 ====================================================================== NICTA-HCSNet: Multimodal User Interaction Workshop, Sydney, Sept 2005 barbara.munday@nicta.com.au NICTA's IMAGEN Program and HCSNet present a free workshop: NICTA-HCSNet: Multimodal User Interaction Workshop 2005 13-14th September, 2005 NICTA ATP Laboratory, Redfern, Sydney This workshop is intended to provide a two-day forum comprising presentations from leading international researchers on the emerging science and technology of natural communication between humans and machines using two or more concurrent input and/or output modes. Multimodal interfaces are steadily gaining interest from both the research community and the commercial world as computing devices become smaller and more mobile, input and output technologies become more robust, and new interaction possibilities appear on the horizon. The workshop will comprise two keynote speeches, more than fifteen technical presentations, live demonstrations, and a Collaborative Project Forum. Keynote Speakers Prof Sharon Oviatt, Oregon Health and Science University Other speakers to be confirmed ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf6 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements IEEE in co-operated International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation masoud.mohammadian@canberra.edu.au CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation 28 - 30 November 2005 Vienna, Austria http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca05/ In co-operation with: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE Sponsored by: European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - EUFLAT International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy - SIGEF Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association - TFSA World Wide Web Business Intelligence - W3BI Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA University of Canberra ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf0 ====================================================================== CFP: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce masoud.mohammadian@canberra.edu.au CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic05/ Jointly with International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation 28 - 30 November 2005 Vienna, Austria http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca05/ Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in USA and will be index world wide. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2005 provides a medium for researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore the issues and opportunities in the area of intelligent agent, web technologies and Internet commerce. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of intelligent agents, web technologies and Internet commerce. ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf1 ====================================================================== First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems j.cao@latrobe.edu.au Call for Papers INFOSCALE 2006 =============== First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE) 30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong http://www.infoscale.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS As the data volumes continue to increase and the ways of information dispersion across the globe continue to diversify, new scalable methods and structures are needed for efficiently processing those distributed and autonomous data. Grid computing, P2P technology, distributed information retrieval technology, and networking technology all must be merged to address the scalability concern. This forum focuses on this key merged domain and looks for new integrated solutions for this diversifying world of information. Conference Scope: Parallel Information Retrieval Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf2 ====================================================================== Special Issue on Intelligent Decision Support Systems and Their Applications in Business and Educata r.wang@massey.ac.nz International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications Special Issue On Intelligent Decision Support Systems and Their Applications in Business and Education in Australasia Guest Editors: Dr. Ruili Wang and A/Prof. W. L. Xu Intelligent Decision Support Systems have become increasingly popular in many fields. New generation systems now outperform the previous systems by adopting innovative AI techniques. The goal of this special issue is to provide a snapshot of the current research activities and progress in Intelligent Decision Support Systems in business and education in Australasia. The emphasis of this special issue is on publishing papers that demonstrate original and non-trivial works in all areas of intelligent decision support systems with applications in business and education. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf3 ====================================================================== The 1st International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2005)-Beijing r.wang@massey.ac.nz The Internet and World Wide Web are milestones of information sharing. IT professionals are in the critical historical stage of creating the new brilliance --- a new interconnection environment. Semantics and knowledge have become the kernel issues in developing the new environment. The 1st International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2005) is to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas of knowledge and intelligence, semantics, and grid computing to share their visions, research achievements and solutions to real problems, to attack the challenge issues, and to establish worldwide cooperative research and development. Authors are invited to submit papers on the following topics (but are not limited to): l Semantics and Semantic Grid Semantic Computing Semantic Interoperability Semantic-based Virtual Organizations Semantic Capture Automatic Semantic Annotation ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf4 ====================================================================== ARC/NSFC e-Water'06 Workshop on ICT and Water Resource Management yzhang@csm.vu.edu,au National Natural Science Foundation of China Australia Research Council e-Water 2nd Workshop on ICT Infrastructure for Water Resource Management Harbin, China, January 16-17, 2006 http://e-research.csm.vu.edu.au/e-water/ Background E-Research has begin to play global importance in collaborative research cross multi-disciplines. The e-Water Workshop series aims to promote research collaborations and develop research programs between ICT researchers and domain experts in water resouce management and to exchange ideas and research results on water resounce management and ICT related issues. The 1st e-Water Workshop was held in Gold Coast, Australia, where a small number of ICT researchers and domain experts are invited to discuss and identify research issues related to ICT and Water Resource Management. The 2nd ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf5 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships Visiting Professor positions in Korea in in embedded Linux jenny@it.uts.edu.au I am Yong-Soo Kim and teaching Computer Science at Software College of Kyungwon University (www.kyungwon.ac.kr) in Korea. The University is located at the suburbs of Seoul. We are planning to invite a couple of visiting professors overseas majoring in embedded Linux for 5 months. I wonder if you could introduce someone who is interest in studying in Korea with us. Two professors, Prof. Richard Lai (R.Lai@latrobe.edu.au) and Dianhui Wang (dh.wang@latrobe.edu.au), from La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) have been working with us since March. The terms and conditions are as follow: 1) Qualification (1) Ph.D. degree in IT, preferably in embedded system or e-Learning (2) Fluent English in speaking and writing (3) At least two years of industry or teaching experience 2) Teaching and Research (1) Teaching in English: 3 hours per week (from Sep. 1st for 16 weeks) (2) Research: Embedded Linux porting 2.6 and the related 3) Pay (1) Base: US$30,000 ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads0 ====================================================================== Lecturing Positions at La Trobe University l.telford@latrobe.edu.au Lecturing Positions The Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, at La Trobe University, is advertising for two new full-time continuing positions. Associate Lecturer/Lecturer (one position) Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (one position) Full details concerning the position descriptions and how to apply are available from the following La Trobe University web address: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/jobs/ The closing date for the submission of applications is Friday 15 July 2005. http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads1 ====================================================================== Open Position for Research Associate in Agents and Serivices at Swinburne rkowalczyk@swin.edu.au Open Position for Research Associate in Agents and Serivices Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia An opportunity exists for a Research Associate (Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Research Fellow or R&D Software Engineer) to join a research team working on a large research project involving agent-based service composition management in collaboration with Australian industry and the EU Adaptive Services Grid Consortium. For more information see http://www.it.swin.edu.au/centres/ciamas (Please circulate this announcement to the prospective candidates. Note that due to the Government Grant requirements, only candidates with Australian citizenship or permanent residency status are eligible for this position). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Ryszard Kowalczyk Director, Centre for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads2 ======================================================================