From itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au Mon Jun 6 01:07:42 2005 From: itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@mail.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Mon Jun 6 01:08:50 2005 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 June 2005 Message-ID: <20050605150742.GA26260@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 1 for June, 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 Call for participation IEEE Emnets-II Workshop (May 30-31), Sydney CFP: Digital Rights Management: Technology, Issues, Challenges and Systems IDEAL'05: Data Engineering and Automated Learning CFP: 1st IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer System (TableTop2006) 2nd CFP: 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence International Conference Announcements International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems International Workshop on Protection by Adaptation (PBA-2005) Joint Call for Participants: ICWS + SCC = IEEE 2005 Joint Conference on SERVICES Knowledge-Based Web Information Systems (KBWIS 2005) IWAN2005 : International Working Conference on Active and Programmable Networks Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe'05) Academic Positions New Master Degree in Distributed Computing - a Call for Admissions Positions in Computer Science at The Australian National University ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements Call for participation IEEE Emnets-II Workshop (May 30-31), Sydney sjha@cse.unsw.edu.au C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N The Second IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-II) Carlton Crest Hotel, Sydney, Australia, 30-31 May 2005 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~emnet The Second IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-II) will bring together researchers working in the broad area of embedded, networked sensors. The goal of the workshop is to promote community-wide discussion of ideas that will influence and foster continued research in the field. The workshop will provide a venue for researchers to present new ideas that have the potential to significantly impact the community in the long term, especially those exploring how practical considerations or novel application scenarios and requirements shape the design of these embedded and sensor networks. This is a very focussed single-track workshop. The workshop program consists of 17 full papers and 7 posters with many innovative ideas from leading research groups across the globe. The highlight of this year's ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf0 ====================================================================== CFP: Digital Rights Management: Technology, Issues, Challenges and Systems drmtics2005@titr.uow.edu.au First International Conference on Digital Rights Management: Technologies, Issues, Challenges and Systems Sydney, Australia 31 October - 2 November 2005 http://www.titr.uow.edu.au/DRMTICS2005 This new conference series (abbreviated: DRMTICS, pronounced:"dramatics") seeks submissions from academia and industry describing novel research results that cover theoretical and practical advancements in all areas of DRM systems. The conference will serve as a broad multi-disciplinary forum for all DRM related issues. Of particular interest this year are rights expression languages,processes and methods for DRM applications, together with social, legal, usability, and business aspects of such systems. Alternative economic and incentive based models, their analysis, implementation and case studies are highly encouraged. Topics include but are not limited to: * DRM systems and architecture * ODRL, XrML and other rights expression languages * Usage monitoring and metering * Business and charging models for content distribution * Economic aspects of content distribution * Code obfuscation and software protection * Usability aspects of DRM systems * Concrete software patent cases * DRM law and policy issues ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf1 ====================================================================== IDEAL'05: Data Engineering and Automated Learning marcusg@itee.uq.edu.au ================================================================== Call for Participation Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'05) 6th - 8th July, 2005 Brisbane, Australia. http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~ideal05/ Email: ideal05@itee.uq.edu.au ================================================================== IDEAL is an annual conference dedicated to emerging and challenging topics in intelligent data analysis and engineering and their associated learning paradigms. The conference received 167 submissions from throughout the world. Following the reviewing process, 76 papers were selected for presentation at the conference. The conference will also include a number of invited ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf2 ====================================================================== CFP: 1st IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer System (TableTop2006) masa@takatsuka.org Call For Papers The First IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer System (TableTop2006) Adelaide, South Australia, January 5-7, 2006. http://www.tinmith.net/tabletop2006 Support by IEEE, NICTA, DSTO, University of South Australia The use of the tabletop as an input/output device is an exciting and emerging domain of computer systems. This is cross disciplinary domain. An example set of combining areas are as follows: projector based display systems, augmented reality, user interface technologies, multi-modal interactions, CSCW, and information visualisation. The purpose of the workshop is two-fold in bringing together leading researchers for following reasons: ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf3 ====================================================================== 2nd CFP: 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence "Hussein A. Abbass" 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Proceedings published in LNCS/LNAI by Springer The 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Sydney, Australia, 5-9 December 2005 http://attend.it.uts.edu.au/ai05 SCOPE AND TOPICS The 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI05) is a leading Australian conference that focuses on all aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) that entirely intends a timely, in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying AI. The Program Committee of AI05 invites technical papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence. This conference attempts to meet the needs of a large and diverse community, which includes practitioners, researchers, educators, and users. Topics of AI05 include, but are not limited to: ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf4 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation cimca05 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 of: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 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 Jointly with International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf0 ====================================================================== First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems j.cao@latrobe.edu.au Call for Papers =============== INFOSCALE 2006 First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems 30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong http://www.cs.hku.hk/infoscale06/ 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 =============== ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf1 ====================================================================== International Workshop on Protection by Adaptation (PBA-2005) ghita.kouadrimostefaoui@unifr.ch ================================================================================================================================= International Workshop on Protection by Adaptation (PBA-2005) 19-21 September 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia http://www.iiwas.org/workshops/pba-2005/ In conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (iiWAS2005) http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2005/iiwas2005.html ================================================================================================================================= Scope ----- For most people *security* refers to cryptographic algorithms, biometric authentication techniques, passwords, etc. Beyond these intuitive notions, security is rather a very broad topic and may be viewed from a variety of other perspectives, including new access control models, software architectures for security systems, and security policies specifications. Emerging applications are subject to a high number of attacks due to the distributed nature of these new environments, mobility of users and devices, services heterogeneity and the different capabilities of devices used to access these services. ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf2 ====================================================================== Joint Call for Participants: ICWS + SCC = IEEE 2005 Joint Conference on SERVICES patrick.hung@uoit.ca Joint Call for Participants (IEEE Joint Conference on SERVICES) =============================================================== 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005) -------------------------------------------------------------- http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2005 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005) ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2005 July 12-15, 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (http://tab.computer.org/tcsc) ***Theme: Bridge the Gap between Business Services and IT Services*** The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005) is the THIRD year of ICWS focusing on Web Services. ICWS is a forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art and practice of Web Services, as ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf3 ====================================================================== Knowledge-Based Web Information Systems (KBWIS 2005) M.Kirchberg@massey.ac.nz CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------- First International Workshop Knowledge-Based Web Information Systems (KBWIS 2005) in conjunction with CIKM 2005, Bremen, Germany, 5 November 2005 The KBWIS workshop tries to bring together researchers in the areas of data and knowledge bases and web information systems. Web information systems are understood as data-intensive systems that are accessed via the world-wide-web. For these systems several integrated design methods have been proposed covering a variety of aspects such as content modelling, navigation modelling, personalisation to user behaviour, task modelling, etc. Many of these aspects are related to problems in knowledge-bases such as reasoning about preferences using Kleene algebras with tests, Hoare logic or dynamic logic, reasoning about obligations and rights of users using deontic action logics, reasoning about static and dynamic consistency using dynamic logic, non-monotonic reasoning about user profiles, etc. ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf4 ====================================================================== IWAN2005 : International Working Conference on Active and Programmable Networks laurent.lefevre@ens-lyon.Fr -------------------------------------------------------- -- I W A N 2 0 0 5 -- -- Seventh Annual International Working Conference on -- -- Active and Programmable Networks -- -- November 21-23 2005 -- -- Sophia Antipolis, Nice, FRANCE -- -- -- -- Co-organized by : -- -- INRIA (RESO Team) and HITACHI Europe -- -- -- -- http://www.iwan2005.net -- -- -- -------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers Active and programmable networking has, over the past several years, laid the foundations of providing easy, but robust, introduction of new network services to devices such as routers and switches by adding dynamic programmability to network equipment. Network programmability and service deployment architectures can bring the right services to the customer at the right time and location. The methods and technologies explored in active and programmable networking research have helped to realise the trend towards ad-hoc networks, autonomic computing and communications, sensor networks and content-aware distribution. Also, active and programmable networks will continue to play an important role in future network architectures where the Quality of Service aspects of performance, security and resilience are crucial. IWAN 2005 brings together members of various communities using active and programmable network techniques to address the above challenges, and it provides a forum for discussion and collaboration involving researchers, developers, service providers and potential users. We encourage the submission of papers that cover all aspects of active network based communication, including foundations of robust languages and security mechanisms, active transport, active services and service deployment, active terminals, ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf5 ====================================================================== Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe'05) AWeSOMe05 ***************************************************************** The First International Workshop on Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe'05) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/awesome2005cfp.html In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'05) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag ***************************************************************** Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 31 Oct - 4 Nov 2005 ***************************************************************** ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf6 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships New Master Degree in Distributed Computing - a Call for Admissions raj@cs.mu.oz.au ------------------------------------- Dear Colleague: The University of Melbourne has launched a new "Master of Engineering in Distributed Computing (MEDC)" degree program. This new degree program has been designed to: * provide expertise for developing service-oriented, enterprise computing systems and applications that need to operate in wired/wireless network environments * promote the utilisation of industry standard distributed computing technologies such as J2EE and .NET * focus on highly specialised distributed computing topics such as distributed systems, cluster and grid computing, distributed algorithms, mobile systems programming, sensor networks and Web services * emphasise the design and development of distributed computing technologies and their application in e-Science or e-Business areas through a compulsory team-based project, and * be taught with a combination of academic and practitioners input. -------- An article that appeared in The Age puts our new program nicely in perspective: Please browse at: ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads0 ====================================================================== Positions in Computer Science at The Australian National University jwl@mail.rsise.anu.edu.au Research Fellow/Fellow/Senior Fellow Computer Sciences Laboratory Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering The Australian National University Canberra, Australia Applications are invited for two positions in the Computer Sciences Laboratory. Of these, one position would preferably be in the area of machine learning. At most one appointment will be made at Senior Fellow level. Current research areas in the Laboratory include automated reasoning, planning and diagnosis, agents, and machine learning. The emphasis is on excellence in research at a fundamental level, quality supervision of PhD students, and outside interactions. Further particulars, including selection criteria, are available from: http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/Jobs/Academic_Positions/_ISE2841.asp Closing date: 3 June 2005 http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads1 ====================================================================== From itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au Wed Jun 22 02:10:41 2005 From: itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@mail.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Wed Jun 22 02:11:23 2005 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 2 June 2005 Message-ID: <20050622021041.A5679@staff.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 2 for June, 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 Australasian Language Technology Workshop ALTW 2005 Call for papers 2005 International Conference on Mobile Business, Crowne Plaza Darling Harbour, Sydney, July 11-13 International Conference Announcements CFP: International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling,Control and Automation CFP: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce CFP: Web Information Systems Quality Workshop (WISQ 2005) Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS06 Preliminary CFP Call for Papers - Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS) 2006 cfp workshop in Tokyo on "Smart Environments and Their Applications to Cultural Heritage" with Ubicomp 2005 INFOSCALE06:First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems ICSOC 2005: the site for submission is now opening Academic Positions Research Fellow Position in Bioinformatics & Distributed Computing at Sydney University PhD Scholarships at QUT Postgraduate Research Study at Victoria University - School of Computer Science and Mathematics PhD scholarships at UNSW in Mathematical Biology ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements Australasian Language Technology Workshop ALTW 2005 Call for papers menno@ics.mq.edu.au 2005 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW2005) First Call for Papers University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 10 and 11 December 2005 Submissions due: 15 September 2005 http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2005 Workshop contact email: workshop AT alta.asn.au PURPOSE A two-day workshop on Natural Language Technology will be organised by the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA). This event will be the third annual installment of the workshop in its most-recent incarnation, and the continuation of an annual workshop series that has existed under various guises since the early 90s. It will be held in conjunction with a tutorial day, also at the ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf0 ====================================================================== Call for Participation: 2005 International Conference on Mobile Business, Crowne Plaza Darling Harbour, Sydney, July 11-13 rsteele@it.uts.edu.au ====================================================================== Call For Participation ====================================================================== The Fourth International Conference on Mobile Business IEEE Sponsored Conference m-Business 2005 Sydney, Australia July 11 - 13, 2005 Conference URL: http://www.mbusiness2005.org The proceedings of ICMB05 are published by the IEEE Computer Society ====================================================================== The annual, International m-Business Conference, attracts leading scholars and industry leaders in the m-Business/ wireless space from across the world. The m-Business 2005 Conference takes place in Sydney, Australia, July 11-13, 2005 with the theme of Mobile Transformation - Enterprise transformation through mobile technologies and applications. The main aim of the m-Business 2005 Conference is to further research, ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf1 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements CFP: 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 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 Jointly with International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf0 ====================================================================== CFP: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce iawtic@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/ 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. Conference Topics Include (but not limited to): ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf1 ====================================================================== CFP: Web Information Systems Quality Workshop (WISQ 2005) Shonali.Krishnaswamy@infotech.monash.edu.au Web Information Systems Quality (WISQ 2005) Workshop ----------------------------------------------------- Workshop URL: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/wisq05 To be held in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2005) 20-22 November 2005, New York City, New York, USA Aims and Scope --------------- WISQ 2005 aims to continue the series of workshops held in conjunction with WISE since 2003 with a focus on the quality aspects of web applications, systems and services - namely WQW 2003 and WIS 2004. This workshop will provide a forum discussion and dissemination of research from a holistic and comprehensive perspective on quality of web information systems including web services. This workshop aims to promote all the areas related to the quality of the web information systems. The topics for which submissions are solicited include (but are not limited to): ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf2 ====================================================================== Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS06 Preliminary CFP lbcao@it.uts.edu.au CALL FOR PAPERS The Fifth International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS AAMAS-06 Hakodate, Japan May 8--12, 2006 AAMAS-06 encourages the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological, and applications papers. Theory papers should make clear the significance and relevance of their results to the AAMAS community. Similarly, applied papers should make clear both their scientific and technical contributions, and are expected to demonstrate a thorough evaluation of their strengths and weaknesses in practice. Papers that address isolated agent capabilities (for example, planning or learning) are discouraged unless they are placed in the overall context of autonomous agent architectures or multiagent system organization and performance. A thorough evaluation is considered an essential component of any submission. Authors are ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf3 ====================================================================== Call for Papers - Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS) 2006 M.Kirchberg@massey.ac.nz C A L L F O R P A P E R S --------------------------------- Fourth International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS) February 14-17, 2006 -- Budapest, Hungary http://foiks.massey.ac.nz/foiks06/ The goal of the FoIKS symposia, which take place once every two years, is to bring together researchers working on the theoretical foundations of information and knowledge systems and to attract researchers working in mathematical fields such as discrete mathematics, combinatorics, logics and finite model theory who are interested in applying their theories to research on database and knowledge base theory. FoIKS took up the tradition of the conference series Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems (MFDBS), which enabled East-West collaboration in the field of database theory. Previous FoIKS symposia ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf4 ====================================================================== cfp workshop in Tokyo on "Smart Environments and Their Applications to Cultural Heritage" with Ubicomp 2005 Tullio Salmon Cinotti Ubicomp 2005 September 11-14, 2005 | Tokyo, Japan The Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2005/ Workshop: "Smart Environments and Their Applications to Cultural Heritage" Organizers: Nick Ryan (University of Kent), Tullio Salmon Cinotti (Universit?? di Bologna), Giuseppe Raffa (Universit?? di Bologna) Url: http://smart.arces.unibo.it/ Cultural and natural heritage applications have proved to be an attractive vehicle for ubicomp researchers. Several projects have developed data collection tools, museum or city visitor guides as a means of demonstrating various concepts including location and context awareness and smart building environments. Together, these represent two ends of the 'production' process of bringing cultural and natural heritage from the research environment to its consumers. The intermediate analytical, archival and curatorial stages are less well represented, but also provide considerable scope for ubicomp research. ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf5 ====================================================================== INFOSCALE06:First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems j.cao@latrobe.edu.au First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE) 30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong http://www.infoscale.org/ PRELIMINARY 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 Scalable Grid Information Systems P2P Systems ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf6 ====================================================================== ICSOC 2005: the site for submission is now opening qsheng@cse.unsw.edu.au We would like to invite you to submit papers to ICSOC'05. The site for submission is now opening. The deadline for abstract submission is June 24, 2005 and the deadline for full paper submission is July 1, 2005. More details can be found in the following: ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ICSOC'05 3rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing Amsterdam, the Netherlands December 12-15, 2005 http://www.icsoc.org/ ===================================================================== The 3rd International Conference of Service Oriented Computing ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf7 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships Research Fellow Position in Bioinformatics & Distributed Computing at Sydney University bbz@it.usyd.edu.au The School of Information Technologies has a vacancy for a Research Fellow in Advanced Network Research group. The successful applicant will work with a research team to undertake research in the design of efficient algorithms and the development of grid or distributed computing systems for solving problems in bioinformatics, contribute to existing ARC Discovery projects and develop applications for further external funding. In addition the research fellow will provide guidance and technical assistance to junior researchers in the team. The position is full-time fixed term for two years, subject to the completion of a satisfactory probation period for new appointees. There is the possibility of further offers of employment, subject to funding and need. Membership of a University approved superannuation scheme is a condition of employment for new appointees. For further information contact Dr Bing Bing Zhou on (02) 9036 9112 or e-mail: bbz@it.usyd.edu.au Information about the School of Information Technologies can be found at http://www.it.usyd.edu.au Remuneration Package: $75,136 - $89,223 p.a. (which includes a base salary Level B $63,491 - $75,395 p.a., leave loading and up to 17% ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads0 ====================================================================== PhD Scholarships at QUT m.dumas@qut.edu.au PhD Scholarships in Information Technology QUT's Faculty of Information Technology is offering a number of 3 year PhD Scholarships for students commencing in Semester 2, 2005. People with an Australian first class honours degree (or equivalent) are eligible to apply. Faculty Merit Scholarships A number of scholarships to the value of $18,837 pa (with annual CPI adjustments) will be available for research projects that fit within the Faculty's five broad themes: * Security and Trust * Business Process Management * Socio-Technical Systems * Complex Systems Engineering * Human-Centred Smart Systems More detailed information on specific research areas is available from: http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/research/ ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads1 ====================================================================== Postgraduate Research Study at Victoria University - School of Computer Science and Mathematics Gitesh.Raikundalia@vu.edu.au Victoria University is one of Australia's largest universities, with more than 50,000 students both in Australia and overseas and 3,000 staff. The University has a highly diverse student population, including nearly 2,300 international students. The University has 12 campuses located throughout Melbourne, Australia's second largest city. The School of Computer Science and Mathematics contributes to one-sixth of the University's total output of publications. The School is home to the Internet Technologies and Applications Research Laboratory, a research group and physical laboratory space dedicated to research on Internet Technologies. The School also encompasses the Research Group in Mathematical Inequalities and Applications that carries out internationally recognised research on Mathematical Inequalities. Research is conducted on the following areas: * Internet Technologies * Mathematical Inequalities * Software Engineering * Human-Computer Interaction * Artificial Intelligence * Computer Vision ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads2 ====================================================================== PhD scholarships at UNSW in Mathematical Biology "Miles Davenport" The University of New South Wales is offering up to three APA supplements for students with a strong undergraduate record to commence a PhD in mathematical biology. Students with a background in mathematics, statistics, computing or engineering are sought to work on projects aimed at understanding the three major infectious diseases of our time - HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis. Two groups in the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science are developing models to understand both the dynamics of infection within infected individuals, as well as the spread of infection through populations. The groups work closely with a number of experimental collaborators to analyse and model data. Current collaborations include investigation of HIV vaccination trials in monkeys, malaria and influenza infection of mice, and transmission of tuberculosis in humans. No prior experience in biology is required - just strong quantitative background and a willingness to learn new ideas. Three supplements of $8000 p.a. to be held for up to three years are available. Closing date for applications is 31 October 2005. ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads3 ======================================================================