From itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au Tue Oct 25 18:27:19 2005 From: itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@mail.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Wed Oct 26 11:42:17 2005 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - October 2005 Issue Message-ID: <20051025082719.GA20264@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to the October 2005 issue. 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 Applications to ACS Foundation Scholarship Australian Web Adaptability/Accessibility Conference - OZeWAI SPIE Complex Systems conference - call for participation Final CFP and Extended Deadline IMB2006 IEEE LCN + workshops Call for Participation Fourth International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT06), June 7-9, 2006, Brisbane CFP: IE2005: Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment NICTA Formal Methods Program Annual Workshop, Sydney Nov 7-9, 2005 Conference on Advances in Modal Logic International Conference Announcements KR2006: 10th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning CfP: IEEE Joint Conferences CEC06 and EEE06 IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-COMMERCE 2005 First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems CFP: IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2006 IEEE Data Mining 2005: Call for Participation The 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative CFP: Social Informatics: An Information Society for All Information Technology and Management Special Issue on Architecture & Design for Application Agility Call for Papers: IJIEM Special Issue on Business Service Management and Service Level Agreement Academic Positions Positions in distributed computing, NICTA Victoria Research laboratory Chief Scientist, Knowledge Sciences Chair in Computer Science Massey University Research Positions in Machine Learning, NICTA Multimedia research group Industry Supported PhD Scholarship Available PhD Scholarship in Computer Vision Senior Lecturer/Assoc. Prof Positions at Sohar University, Oman A PhD scholarship in data mining, USQ ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements Call for Applications to ACS Foundation Scholarship "Simon Kwan" The ACS Foundation has a donor who is willing to offer a number of WIL (Work Integrated Learning) scholarships +for students from any IT discipline, who are about to enter their final year of study, and who are +disadvantaged or who have a disability. These scholarships could be located in any state. The scholarships would be up to $28,000 in value for the 48 weeks duration. They are willing to change their workplace to suit the students requirements if necessary. Applications for these scholarships close cob 4/11/05, and should be either mailed to the :- ACS Foundation level 4, 160 Clarence Street Sydney, 2000, or emailed to adminsue@acsfoundation.com.au. For other enquires regarding ACS Foundation, please emailed to john.ridge@acsfoundation.com.au http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf0 ====================================================================== Australian Web Adaptability/Accessibility Conference - OZeWAI liddy@sunriseresearch.org OZeWAI has been held annually for a number of years. It is a conference for those interested in ensuring accessibility of the Web for all, including those with disabilities and for all others with special needs because of their context, device, location, etc. Contributions are welcome in many forms. There are new regulations for universities and these will be dealt with in detail by the WANAU (Web Accessibility in Australian Universities) community and there are new developments in public accessibility standards to be the focus of a government day. Researchers, Web developers, industry, managers, students, all are welcome. Please see the CFP at http://www.OZeWAI.org/2005/ Conference dates are December 7 - 9 at La Trobe University, Melbourne. http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf1 ====================================================================== SPIE Complex Systems conference - call for participation peter.lindsay@itee.uq.edu.au The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) 2005 international symposium will include a conference on Complex Systems (Chair Alex Bender, DSTO), to be held in Brisbane 12-14 Dec 2005. See the web for the conference program and registration details: http://spie.org/Conferences/Programs/05/au/conferences/index.cfm?fuseaction=6039 Special guest speaker is Prof Yaneer Bar-Yam, Director of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), speaking on "Complex Systems Insights for Technology" http://spie.org/Conferences/Programs/05/au/SpecialEvents/index.cfm?fuseaction=plenary http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf2 ====================================================================== Final CFP and Extended Deadline IMB2006 r.lawson@uws.edu.au Due to a number of requests from authors, the deadline for submission of papers has been extended to 7th October 2005. On behalf of the Organising Committee, I cordially invite you to submit papers and to participate in the 2nd International Conference on Information Management and Business (IMB2006) to be held in Sydney, Australia, 14 - 16 February 2006. The conference features pre-Conference Doctoral Consortium on 13 February 2006, and tutorials and workshops. For further information about the Conference, please refer to the website, or the FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS below. http://www.aimb.org/imb2006/ Extended Deadline for submission of papers: 7th October 2005 We are looking forward to your participation in the IMB2006. Sincerely Robyn Lawson ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf3 ====================================================================== IEEE LCN + workshops Call for Participation matthew@cs.bonn.edu ======================================================================= A D V A N C E T E C H N I C A L P R O G R A M + K E Y N O T E S LCN 2005 The 30th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) Sydney/Australia November 15-17, 2005 Please check the conference + workshop URLs for timing information and further details on the program as well as a one-page schedule overview. - LCN: IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, http://www.ieeelcn.org/ - IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Security (WoNS 2005) http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~wkui/IEEE-WoNS.htm - IEEE Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~boukerch/IEEE-perf.html - IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN) ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf4 ====================================================================== Fourth International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT06), June 7-9, 2006, Brisbane y.li@qut.edu.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: The Fourth International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT06) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://amt06.fit.qut.edu.au/ June 7-9, 2006, Brisbane, Australia Sponsored by Queensland University of Technology and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society In the great digital era, we are witnessing many rapid scientific and technological developments in human-centred, seamless computing environments, interfaces, devices, and systems with applications ranging from business and communication to entertainment and learning. These developments are collectively best characterized as Active Media Technology (AMT), a new area of intelligent information technology and computer science that emphasizes the proactive, seamless roles of interfaces and systems as well as new media in all aspects of digital life. An AMT based system offers services to enable the rapid design, implementation and support of customized solutions. The main themes, to be addressed include, but not limited to: ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf5 ====================================================================== CFP: IE2005: Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment Yusuf Pisan **CALL FOR PARTICIPATION** IE2005 The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/ie/05/ 23-25 November 2005 Sydney, Australia IE2005: The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment is a cross-disciplinary conference that will bring together researchers from artificial intelligence, cognitive science, media studies, drama, HCI, psychology, interactive media, cultural studies, graphics, audio, as well as researchers from other disciplines working on new game specific technologies or providing critical analysis of games and interactive environments. Program available at: http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/ie/05/program.html Registration at: http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/ie/05/registration.html ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf6 ====================================================================== NICTA Formal Methods Program Annual Workshop, Sydney Nov 7-9, 2005 Ron.vanderMeyden@nicta.com.au NICTA Formal Methods Program Annual Workshop Sydney Nov 7-9, 2005 The NICTA Formal Methods program will hold its annual Workshop Nov 7-9 to take a snapshot of current work in areas related to program's research interests, particularly its projects in operating systems verification, static analysis and formal methods for trusted wireless networks. The workshop will include several tutorials by international speakers, and there will be a special focus on research in formal methods for secure systems development. There will be presentations by several invited international speakers: * Dusko Pavlovic (Kestrel Institute): Tutorial on deriving, attacking and defending security protocols * Mathhew Hennessy (University of Sussex): Tutorial on Modelling mobile agents using the pi-calculus * David Hardin (Rockwell Collins) Proving Computing Platforms Correct for Security Applications ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf7 ====================================================================== Conference on Advances in Modal Logic rajeev.gore@anu.edu.au FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AiML-2006 Advances in Modal Logic 25-28 September 2006, Noosa (Queensland, Australia) DEADLINE: 27 March 2006 Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic and its many applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. AiML-2006 is the sixth conference in the series. TOPICS We invite submission on all aspects of modal logics, including the following: > applications of modal logic ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf8 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements KR2006: 10th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Mary-Anne@it.uts.edu.au Call for Papers (Preliminary) Submission deadline: November 7, 2005 Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) is a vibrant and exciting field of human endeavour. KR&R techniques are key drivers of innovation in computer science, and they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering. Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by reasoning engines are an integral and crucial component of intelligent systems. Semantic Web technologies, the design of software agents and Bio-Informatics technologies, in particular, provide significant challenges for KR&R. We intend KR2006 to be a forum for the exchange of news, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of KR&R systems. We encourage papers presenting substantial new results in the principles of KR&R systems that clearly contribute to the formal foundations or show the applicability of the results to implemented or implementable systems. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications, experiments, developments, and tests. Such papers ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf0 ====================================================================== CfP: IEEE Joint Conferences CEC06 and EEE06 william@comp.hkbu.edu.hk The CFP is also available at http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06/doc/CEC-EEE-2006-CFP.pdf ********************************************************************* **************************************************** * * * Call For Paper * * * * CEC.06 and EEE.06 Joint Conferences * * June 26-29, 2006 * * San Francisco, California * * * * Theme: .Real-Time Enterprises. * * * * http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06/ * * * **************************************************** Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Electronic Commerce ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf1 ====================================================================== IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-COMMERCE 2005 Chris.Avram@inbfotech.monash.edu.au ---- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline: 31 October 2005 ---- IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-COMMERCE 2005, December 15-17, 2005 - PORTO, PORTUGAL (http://www.iadis.org/ec2005) * Keynote Speakers (confirmed): Professor Sandeep Krishnamurthy, University of Washington, USA Professor Petra Schubert, University of Applied Sciences Basel (UAS Basel) and Director of the Institute for Business Economics, Switzerland * Conference background and goals The IADIS e-Commerce 2005 conference is a major international event for researchers, academics, industry specialists, practitioners & students interested in the advances in, and applications of, e-Commerce. The participants will have an opportunity to present and observe the latest research results, and ideas in these areas. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to this new business paradigm. The Conference invites proposals from the introductory through advanced level on all topics related to e-Commerce. Proposals which address the theory, research and ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf2 ====================================================================== First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems j.cao@latrobe.edu.au First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE 2006) Co-sponsored by IEEE CS Society (pending approval) 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#osconf3 ====================================================================== CFP: IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2006 Yusuf Pisan The IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2006 March 25 and 26, Alexandria, Virginia USA (In conjunction with IEEE Virtual Reality 2006) Download Call for Papers [PDF format] Web: http://www-human.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/3dui2006/ The IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2006 is the first international symposium focused on the topic of 3D UIs. It will provide an intensive exchange between industrial and academic researchers working in various 3DUI research areas. The Symposium builds on and expands the scope of the workshop " New Directions in 3D User Interfaces " in March 2005 and the workshop " Beyond Wand and Glove Based Interaction " in March 2004. The symposium will last one day and a half, and will be followed immediately by the IEEE VR conference. Ravin Balakrishnan (University of Toronto) will give a keynote address. The theme of the Symposium will again be expanded and the scope will include all types of 3D UI research. The Symposium themes include but are not limited to the following topics: 3D input devices ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf4 ====================================================================== IEEE Data Mining 2005: Call for Participation icdm@wi-lab.com ============================================= IEEE Data Mining 2005: Call for Participation ============================================= The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) to be held at the Inter-Continental Hotel, 2222 West Loop South Houston, TX 77027, USA November 27th - 30th, 2005, invites you to attend. * On-line registration (and other information) is available at http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~icdm05/ Register by October 22nd to get the early-bird rate! * Be sure to book hotel rooms by November 17, 2005 for discounted rates. Hotel Website: http://www.houston.intercontinental.com/ The three letter code to get special rate, during online booking is 'S07'. The code for phone booking is ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf5 ====================================================================== The 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative richards@ics.mq.edu.au CALL FOR PAPERS -- CSCWD 2006 The 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design May 3-5, 2006, Nanjing, P.R. China http://2006.cscwid.org/ (http://198.20.44.104/cscwd2006/) http://cscwd2006.seu.edu.cn/ Organized by Southeast University, Nanjing, P.R. China Co-Sponsored by IEEE Beijing Section National Natural Science Foundation of China (pending) ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf6 ====================================================================== CFP: Social Informatics: An Information Society for All chris.avram@infotech.monash.edu.au International Federation for Information Processing IFIP-TC9 "Relationship Between Computers and Society" Seventh International Conference "Human Choice and Computers" (HCC7) An International Conference in remembrance of Rob Kling Social Informatics: An Information Society for All? Nova Gorica (Slovenia), Gorizia (Italy) September 21-23, 2006 Scope of the Conference Human choice and computers, Computers and Society, Social Informatics, are terms referring to a similar preoccupation: How is the human being and its societal environment kept in the centre - How to build up an "Information Society for All" [UNESCO, 2002], [eEurope, 2002] when developing our more and more complex ICT (Information and Communication Technology) systems? Call for Papers and Full Information ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf7 ====================================================================== Call for Papers: Information Technology and Management Special Issue on Architecture & Design for Application Agility jain@uwm.edu Call for Papers Information Technology and Management Special Issue on Architecture & Design for Application Agility Guest Editors: Hemant Jain, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Padmal Vitharana, Syracuse University The current extremely dynamic, competitive, and global business environment has dramatically increased the rate of change in businesses resulting in mergers and acquisitions, building of alliances, increased pace of product and service development, and marketing innovation. Unfortunately, in this environment IT is often looked upon more often as a road block than the enabler of change. One of the major reasons for this is the slow pace and high cost of integrating and changing IT applications. These problems are inherently rooted in the way IT applications are architected and designed. Advances in component based development (CBD), Web Services ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf8 ====================================================================== Call for Papers: IJIEM Special Issue on Business Service Management and Service Level Agreement patrick.hung@uoit.ca Call for Papers International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM) Volume 5, Issue 2, April-June 2007 ISSN (Online): 1741-5330 - ISSN (Print): 1476-1300 - Inderscience Publishers http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=39 Special Issue on Business Service Management and Service Level Agreement http://www.businessandit.uoit.ca/mdc "The IJIEM is a double-blind refereed, highly professional and authoritative source of information in the field of the Internet and its applications in enterprise management. IJIEM also publishes theories and practices that are useful to executives in managing enterprises." When two enterprise systems come to talk with each other, one of the ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf9 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships Positions in distributed computing, NICTA Victoria Research laboratory pearce@cs.mu.oz.au Two positions in distributed computing are presently open within the NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory, see links below. Research Fellow: http://nicta.nga.net.au/mjs_customer_data/nicta/job_files/235/Distributed%20Comp%20NIP_advert_Aug.pdf http://nicta.nga.net.au/mjs_customer_data/nicta/job_files/235/Distributed%20Comp%20NIP_JD_Aug.pdf Software Engineer http://nicta.nga.net.au/mjs_customer_data/nicta/job_files/236/Software%20Eng%20NIP_advert_Aug.pdf http://nicta.nga.net.au/mjs_customer_data/nicta/job_files/236/Software%20EngineerNIP_JD_Aug.pdf NICTA jobs site http://nicta.com.au/jobs.html http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads0 ====================================================================== Chief Scientist, Knowledge Sciences Mary-Anne.Williams@uts.edu.au Chief Scientist, Knowledge Sciences Information Sciences and Engineering Division Computational and Information Sciences Directorate Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, Washington The Position: The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science multi-program research laboratory operated by Battelle Memorial Institute. PNNL is located in the city of Richland in Southeastern Washington State. PNNL has distinctive signatures and substantial expertise, research programs and facilities in computational and information sciences and is seeking to expand its expertise and research programs in Knowledge Sciences. Our work in the Knowledge Sciences Technical Group is focused on addressing client requirements for managing and exploiting data, information, and knowledge. With a goal of delivering actionable knowledge to our clients through our R&D efforts, we apply knowledge ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads1 ====================================================================== Chair in Computer Science Massey University e.heinrich@massey.ac.nz Massey University is seeking to appoint a Professor of Computer Science, based at its main campus in Palmerston North. We invite applications from outstanding candidates to lead the Computer Science programme and develop internationally recognised research and postgraduate activities. Suitable candidates for this position will have excellent records of innovative research and teaching and will possess well developed leadership skills. ABOUT MASSEY UNIVERSITY Massey University is one of New Zealand.s leading educational institutions. A state funded university, with a proud 70-year tradition of academic excellence and a strong national and international reputation, Massey University is an important part of New Zealand.s higher education system. Campuses in Palmerston North, Wellington and Auckland, cater for some 19,000 local and international on-campus students, with an additional 18,000 students studying by distance education. The five college structure provides a diversity of degrees, diplomas and certificates. Massey University is a leader in the fields of sciences, design, social sciences, education and business. Staff in many areas are internationally ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads2 ====================================================================== Research Positions in Machine Learning, NICTA Multimedia research group jian.zhang@nicta.com.au There are one research level B and two research engineer positions in our Multimedia research group under Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition program in NICTA You can find the Ad. http://nicta.com.au/jobs.html Research position Research level B . Symbolic Machine Learning & Knowledge Acquisition (Video Analysis and Content Management Project) General position Research engineer . Symbolic Machine Learning & Knowledge Acquisition ------------------------------------------ Jian Zhang PhD Principal Researcher & Project Leader ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads3 ====================================================================== Industry Supported PhD Scholarship Available pkrishna@staff.bond.edu.au The Centre for Software Assurance at the School of Information Technology, Bond University is offering the Bond University and KJRoss and Associates Joint PhD scholarship to an applicant with a degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline. The PhD scholarship will include a full waiver of tuition and also include a tax exempt living allowance for 3 years. The research project: Nowadays our day to day activities depend on the correct working of a number of systems that have a significant software subsystem. This increased dependency forces one to ensure that such systems behave as required. The aim of the research is to develop techniques to guarantee behaviour for large systems such as those used for banking, e-commerce and government services. This research is supported by KJRoss and Associates who provide specialist services in software verification and validation to a variety of large clients. They were the first laboratory to complete the world recognised NATA ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads4 ====================================================================== PhD Scholarship in Computer Vision app@csse.monash.edu.au Australian Postgraduate Award-Industry (Information Technology) provided by ARC Linkage grant LP0560847 is available to a PhD student who has an Australian permanent resident status to work on an industry related project: Automatic fruit inspection and classification in real time. The project aims at investigation of advanced computer vision algorithms for fruit inspection and classification in real time. The new methods should improve parameters of the existing industrial fruit sorters increasing their inspection and classification ability. In general the fruits are classified for size, shape and skin blemishes. On the computer vision side the related methods include shape, surface and texture reconstruction form multiple views including stero vision and motion. On the pattern recognition side the methods applied include variety of neural networks including radial-basis functions and support vector machines. All derived algorithms must be ready for real-time application to allow fruit sorting with a speed of around ten fruits a second. The candidate must have a H1 degree in Electrical or Computer System ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads5 ====================================================================== Senior Lecturer/Assoc. Prof Positions at Sohar University, Oman personnel@soharuni.edu.om Sohar University is the first private University established in the Sultanate of Oman and is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Strategically located mid-way between Dubai and Muscat, the University offers an excellent environment for teaching and research with easy access to these major cities. In addition, Al Ain City is only 60 minutes away from Sohar. Sohar is the fastest growing city in the Sultanate with USD 13 billion invested in heavy industries in the port area. Sohar University currently employs staff from 16 different countries and in line with its expansion plan has a vacancy for the following position: Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Information Technology The candidate must: * Have a PhD in Information Technology or closely related field plus at least 3 years experience at University level. ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads6 ====================================================================== A PhD scholarship in data mining, USQ Jiuyong.Li@usq.edu.au An ARC PhD scholarship Department of Mathematics and Computing University of Southern Queensland Stipend of $22,886 p.a. (tax free) for three years Application close: 15 November 2005 Project Title: Developing Robust Data Mining Tools for Microarray Classification Area: Data mining and bioinformatics Description: A large amount of digital data has been collected in various fields last decades. Data mining, which is to discover knowledge automatically in data, becomes increasingly important. Most exiting data mining methods are designed for "ideal" data, and ..... http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads7 ======================================================================