From itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au Thu May 5 11:39:58 2005 From: itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@mail.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Thu May 5 13:54:14 2005 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 May 2005 Message-ID: <20050505013958.GA3411@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 1 for May, 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 2nd CFP: MDWE 2005 - 1st Int. Workshop on Model-Driven Web Engineering at ICWE 2005 Call for Book Chapters: E-Service Intelligence Systems Engineering Test and Evaluation Conference (SETE 2005) Queensland CSEd Conventicle 2005 (Deadline Extended) 1st International Workshop on Integration of Software Engineering and Agent Technology (ISEAT 2005) CFP: WISM 2005 International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling IEEE LCN 2005 -- Paper submission reminder CFP: IE2005: Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment International Conference Announcements WMTE2005 Call for Papers: IEEE Intl Workshop on Mobile Tech in Education Intl Conf on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2005) CFP: OTM 2005 Federated Conferences 17th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing Call for Participation and Call for Workshop Contributions - EDOC 2005 Academic Positions PhD/research positions in Game Technology / KA / LT / Training Simulation / VR ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements 2nd CFP: MDWE 2005 - 1st Int. Workshop on Model-Driven Web Engineering at ICWE 2005 kochn@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de ----------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------ First Int. Workshop on Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE 2005) in conjunction with ICWE 2005 in Sydney, Australia 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#ausconf0 ====================================================================== Call for Book Chapters: E-Service Intelligence jielu@it.uts.edu.au Call for Book Chapters E-Service Intelligence -- Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (To be published in the Springer's book series on Computational Intelligence in 2006) Editors: Jie Lu*, Da Ruan**, Guangquan Zhang* *University of Technology, Sydney, Australia **Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK.CEN), Mol, Belgium Correspondences: Prof. Jie Lu Faculty of IT, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia Phone: +61 2 9514 1838, Fax: +61 2 9514 4535, Email: jielu@it.uts.edu.au Proposal Submission due: July 1, 2005 Full Chapter Submission due: November 1, 2005 Final Revised Chapter Submission due: March 1, 2006 The Tentative Book Structure: ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf1 ====================================================================== Systems Engineering Test and Evaluation Conference (SETE 2005) grunske@itee.uq.edu.au Call For Papers & Tutorial Proposals Systems Engineering/Test and Evaluation Conference (SETE 2005) A Decade of Growth ....and Beyond 7 - 9th November, 2005 Carlton Crest Hotel, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia http://www.iceaustralia.com/sete2005/ A Conference of The Systems Engineering Society of Australia (SESA), The Southern Cross Chapter of The International Test and Evaluation Association (ITEA) and The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). Important dates: Abstracts for refereed papers: 01 June 2005 Abstracts for non-refereed papers: 15 June 2005 Submission of refereed papers for review: 15 June 2005 Submission of tutorial proposals: 15 June 2005 ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf2 ====================================================================== Queensland CSEd Conventicle 2005 (Deadline Extended) deraadt@usq.edu.au Call for Presentations (Deadline Extentended) Queensland CSEd Conventicle 2005 Venue: USQ, Toowoomba Date: Fri 27 May, 2005 Submission Deadline: Fri 6th May, 2005 (Extended) Registration Deadline: Fri 20 May, 2005 Website: http://www.usq.edu.au/conventicle [Conventicle: n. a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship.] The Conventicle is a free 'local' one-day conference focussing on IT Education research. Submit - Present ~ Works that have been accepted in a refereed journal or conference in the last year. ~ In exceptional cases, older works and advanced works in progress will be considered. ~ While it is expected that the majority of attendees will be academics from Queensland, submissions are welcome from interstate. ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf3 ====================================================================== 1st International Workshop on Integration of Software Engineering and Agent Technology (ISEAT 2005) winikoff@cs.rmit.edu.au Hi all! The submission deadline for the 1st International Workshop on Integration of Software Engineering and Agent Technology (ISEAT 2005) has been extended to the 22nd of May. Please pass this on to your colleagues, and consider whether you or any of your colleagues or students might be interested in writing a paper for this workshop. It's a local workshop (held in Melbourne in September) and is a good opportunity for the Melbourne agents community to present their work to an international audience (the workshop is part of the Fifth International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2005)). Cheers, Michael Winikoff ISEAT co-chair http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf4 ====================================================================== 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 25, 2005 * * Sydney, Australia * * * * URL: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~flaviusf/wism2005 * * * ********************************************************************** Theme of the Workshop --------------------- ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf5 ====================================================================== IEEE LCN 2005 -- Paper submission reminder matthew@cs.uni-bonn.de Dear colleagues, a quick reminder on LCN + workshops: The deadline for LCN paper online registration is May 10, 2005. - LCN: 30th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Paper submission deadline May 10, 2005 http://www.ieeelcn.org/ The following workshops are held in conjunction with LCN: - WLN: 5th International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks, http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~wln2005/ - 1st IEEE International Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~boukerch/IEEE-perf.html - The IEEE LCN Network Security workshop http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~wkui/IEEE-WoNS.htm ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf6 ====================================================================== CFP: IE2005: Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment ypisan@it.uts.edu.au http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/ie/05/ [** Less than 1 month remaining to paper deadline **] CFP: IE2005: The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment 23-25 November 2005 Sydney, Australia Submission Deadlines: Full Papers: 15 June 2005 Short Papers: 22 June 2005 Demo Proposals: 29 June 2005 http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/ie/05/ The computer game and interactive entertainment industry is now a multi-billion industry driving new computer technologies and defining a new set of cultural conventions. The lack of game-specific academic conferences has prevented many academics from fully embracing game development as a serious field of study. As a result, although current research in games and interactive entertainment is published in a wide ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf7 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements WMTE2005 Call for Papers: IEEE Intl Workshop on Mobile Tech in Education kinshuk@ieee.org The submission deadline of WMTE2005 is June 1, 2005. Please find below Call for papers. Please submit your research work. Please also help me By forwarding it to those who may have research work to submit. 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE 2005) November 28-30, 2005, Tokushima, Japan http://lttf.ieee.org/wmte2005/ ** Sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology The Workshop Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. ** Workshop theme Learning everywhere: Designs and challenges for the ubiquitous learning society ** Topics of Interest The topics of interest related to the conference theme include but are ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf0 ====================================================================== Intl Conf on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2005) kinshuk@ieee.org -- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 3 June 2005 (for all contributions) -- IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COGNITION AND EXPLORATORY LEARNING IN DIGITAL AGE (CELDA 2005) December 14-16, 2005 - PORTO, PORTUGAL http://www.iadis.org/celda2005/ * Conference background and goals The IADIS CELDA 2005 conference aims to address the main issues concerning with the evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in digital age. There have been huge advancements in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines has never been faster before and this marriage has affected the very basis of the academia. Paradigms such as just-in-time learning, constructivist approaches, student-centered learning and collaborative approaches have emerged, and are being supported by technological advancements ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf1 ====================================================================== CFP: OTM 2005 Federated Conferences bright@cs.pdx.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OTM 2005 Federated Conferences - Call For Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "On the Move -OTM- to Meaningful Internet Systems and Ubiquitous Computing" 2005 consisting of: - International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'05) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/doa2005cfp.html - International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE'05) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/odbase2005cfp.html - International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'05) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/coopis2005cfp.html Agia Napa, Cyprus October 31 - November 4, 2005 http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ BRIEF OVERVIEW: The current and future software needs are towards the ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf2 ====================================================================== 17th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing raj@cs.mu.oz.au Call for Papers =============== SBAC-PAD 2005 17th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing Hotel Pestana, Rio de Janeiro, October 24-27, 2005 http://www.sbc.org.br/sbac/2005 Sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) and the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Important Dates =============== Paper submission: May 23, 2005 Author notification: July 4, 2005 ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf3 ====================================================================== Call for Participation and Call for Workshop Contributions - EDOC 2005 patrick.hung@uoit.ca Call for Participation and call for Workshop contributions ========================================================== Ninth International IEEE EDOC Conference (EDOC 2005) "The Enterprise Computing Conference" 19-23 September 2005, Enschede, The Netherlands http://www.edocconference.org Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (approval pending), IEEE Communications Society (approval pending) University of Twente / Centre for Telematics and Information Technology Telematica Instituut ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The EDOC Conference is the primary annual event focusing on the convergence of the paradigms, technologies and methods involved in enterprise computing. EDOC 2005 is the ninth event in the successful ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf4 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships PhD/research positions in Game Technology / KA / LT / Training Simulation / VR richards@ics.mq.edu.au Postdoc / PhD / Researcher Positions in Game Technology / Knowledge Acquisition / Language Technology / Training Simulation / Virtual Reality The Department of Computing at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia is seeking candidates to fill a number of vacant research positions: * Postdoctoral researchers. * Researchers holding an MSc degree or Diploma in Information Technology / Electrical Engineering / Computer Science / Cognitive Science / Lingusitics / Mechanical Engineering / Digital Media or equivalent. The applicants can work towards a PhD degree, while occupying these positions, if desirable. The researchers profile and related information can be found at http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~richards/hcsg/. The Department houses a Virtual Reality Lab for experimental studies. The positions are funded by a competitive Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant. The general research topic is virtual training environment for risk assessment and spans the fields of Game Technology / Knowledge Acquisition / Language Technology / Training Simulation / Virtual Reality. An indicative list ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads0 ====================================================================== From itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au Sun May 15 23:22:05 2005 From: itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@mail.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Sun May 15 23:33:07 2005 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 2 May 2005 Message-ID: <20050515232205.A23270@staff.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 2 for May, 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 CFP: First International Workshop on Services Engineering (SEIW 2005) - Melbourne, Australia, 19-21 September 2005 Final CFP: ICDM '05: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining USYD Basser seminar distinguished speaker, TUESDAY, 24.05., 1:30pm: Gordon Bell on "MyLifeBits a Memex-inspired personal store for everything" International Conference Announcements International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce - Vienna Austria First International Conference on Communication Systems Software and Middleware CFP MMM2006 The 12th International Conference on Multimedia Modelling Invitation to IEEE Services Computing Forum CFP: The 3rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC'05) Academic Positions Faculty Position (Game Development) Opportunity in UOIT Computational Botany Scholarship ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements CFP: First International Workshop on Services Engineering (SEIW 2005) - Melbourne, Australia, 19-21 September 2005 patrick.hung@uoit.ca Call for Papers First International Workshop on Services Engineering (SEIW 2005) Melbourne, Australia, 19-21 September 2005 In association with The FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUALITY SOFTWARE (QSIC 2005) With recent advances in network technologies and infrastructure, there is increasing demand for ubiquitous access to networked services. New challenges arise in the study of services engineering, an emerging research area devoted to the software engineering of service-oriented applications. Services Engineering is a very important area of the Services Computing Discipline, as promoted by the IEEE Computer Society. Its goal is to formulate effective solutions to the quality development, deployment and management of these applications. The workshop aims to provide a forum for software practitioners and researchers to exchange the latest industrial experience and research ideas on services engineering. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following. - Mathematical foundation of services engineering - Service oriented architecture - Services interoperability - Services for ubiquitous applications - Requirements engineering for services computing applications - Design methodologies for services engineering - Model driven architecture for services engineering - Analysis and design patterns for services - Refactorization of services - Services verification and validation ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf0 ====================================================================== Final CFP: ICDM '05: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining icdm@wi-lab.com ================================================================== Final Call for Papers ICDM '05: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 27-30 November 2005 http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~icdm05/ (Papers Due: 15 June 2005) =================================================================== The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM '05) provides a premier forum for the dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences as well as original research results in data mining, spanning applications, algorithms, software and systems. The conference draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf1 ====================================================================== USYD Basser seminar distinguished speaker, TUESDAY, 24.05., 1:30pm: Gordon Bell on "MyLifeBits a Memex-inspired personal store for everything" seminar@it.usyd.edu.au I am pleased to announce Gordon Bell as distinguished speaker in the Basser Seminar series, School of Information Technologies, USYD: (please NOTE the different time and location!) "MyLifeBits a Memex-inspired personal store for everything: A TP Database" Speaker: Gordon Bell Microsoft Bay Area Research Center http://www.research.microsoft.com/~gbell Time: TUESDAY, 24. May 2005, 1:30 - 3pm Location: Sydney Uni, Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre ABSTRACT: Vannevar Bush's 1945 inspirational Atlantic Monthly article "As We May Think," posited Memex: "a device that stores all of an individual's books, records, and communications, and which is ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf2 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce - Vienna Austria cimca@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 ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf0 ====================================================================== First International Conference on Communication Systems Software and Middleware deveritt@it.usyd.edu.au C A L L - F O R - P A P E R S COMSWARE 2006 The First International Conference on Communication Systems Software and Middleware http://www.comsware.org/ January 8 - 12, 2006 Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, India Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society, Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) In Co-operation with: ACM SIGMOBILE Sponsored by: CreateNet, ICST, IBM Research, NOKIA, Lucent Research, Microsoft Research Co-sponsors (Pending): TejasNetworks, SASKEN, Motorola, Siemens The convergence of the communications, information technologies and the Internet has ushered in a revolution in the way people communicate with each other. The key enabler for this convergence has been the advancement of software technology in various communication sectors, as evident by the high levels of activity in the industry, academia, and standards ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf1 ====================================================================== CFP MMM2006 The 12th International Conference on Multimedia Modelling phoebe.chen@deakin.edu.au First Call for papers MMM2006 The 12th International Conference on MultiMedia Modelling 2006 4-6 January 2006 Media Center Hotel, Beijing, China http://www.cie-china.org/MMM2006 ============================================================ MMM2006 provides a forum to discuss the efficient representation, processing, interaction, integration, communication, and retrieval of multimedia information. In particular, MMM2006 will concentrate on common modelling frameworks for integrating the diverse fields of visual, audio, video, and virtual world information. MMM2006 will take place on 4-6 Jan 2006 in Beijing. We solicit original high-quality papers in, but not limited to, the following areas related to multimedia modeling technologies and applications: - Multimedia Databases - Formal Methods and multimedia information - Image and Video Retrieval - Video-based Multimedia Applications - Spatial and Temporal Multimedia Modeling - Semantic models for multimedia and for the Web - Web Information Systems ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf2 ====================================================================== Invitation to IEEE Services Computing Forum patrick.hung@uoit.ca IEEE has created this Services Computing Forum to allow us to exchange information regarding the advancements in the state of the art and practice of Services Computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of Services Computing. Our Services Computing community aims to bridge the gap between Business Services and IT Services with a new ground breaking technology suite that includes Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process integration and management, utility/grid computing and autonomic computing. Our Services Computing community organizes prestigious conferences such as IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS, http://conferences.computer.org/icws) and IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC, http://conferences.computer.org/scc). Thank you in advance for your great contribution to this growing community. ======================================================== Please join us at: IEEE Services Computing Forum ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf3 ====================================================================== CFP: The 3rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC'05) qsheng@cse.unsw.edu.au ===================================================================== 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 (ICSOC'05) follows on the success of two previous editions in New York City, USA (2004) and Trento, Italy (2003), and aims at consolidating as the main reference conference for service oriented computing and web services, by covering the entire spectrum from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences. ICSOC'05 has the goal of fostering cross-community scientific excellence and establishing a strong link between research and industry ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf4 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships Faculty Position (Game Development) Opportunity in UOIT patrick.hung@uoit.ca Faculty of Business and Information Technology - UOIT04-28 COMPETITION NO. UOIT04-28 Ontario's newest university opened in September 2003 with a 21st century vision of teaching and learning excellence. We invite you to consider joining the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) as we build our reputation for educational innovation and outstanding research. Our educational philosophy is student-centred, innovative, and responsive; while respecting the best practice traditions of Canada's established universities. This Faculty offers a Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) degree. Designed to provide students with a wide range of game design and programming expertise, the BIT (Honours) offers a specialization in Game Development and Entrepreneurship. Students learn game technology and theory and are introduced to the artistic and creative side of game development. The program is unique in that it emphasizes entrepreneurship. Students acquire knowledge in the areas of business and management, as well as develop entrepreneurial skills. We are ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads0 ====================================================================== Computational Botany Scholarship jim@cpai.uq.edu.au This scholarship is for someone with an interest in investigating mathematical and computational methods for modelling physiological and genetic mechanisms underlying plant development and function. The challenges are the complexity of plant structures and incomplete knowledge about plant properties and processes involved. You will explore possible ways of overcoming these problems by applying techniques such as stochastic methods and fuzzy logic to model control of branching and resource allocation to growing organs. The project will be based on an L-system modelling platform (http://algorithmicbotany.org/) designed for computer representation of the three-dimensional dynamics of growth of individual plants in their environment. For More Information: http://www.uq.edu.au/grad-school/?page=30884&pid=9275 Or Contact Dr Jim Hanan, ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research, jim@cpai.uq.edu.au http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads1 ======================================================================