From itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au Tue Aug 8 20:56:33 2006 From: itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@mail.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Tue Aug 8 20:58:20 2006 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 August 2006 Message-ID: <20060808205633.A15568@staff.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 1 for August, 2006. 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 RIKD06 Call for Papers (Reliability Issues in Knowledge Discovery) Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM 2007) CFP: Australasian Information Security Workshop 2007 (Privacy Enhancing Technologies) CFP: Colloquium in IS Security Education - Asia Pacific CISSE-AP CFP: ASWEC 2007 - 18th Australian Conference on Software Engineering CFP: APVIS 2007 Asia Pacific Symposium on Visualisation International Conference Announcements CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'06 Workshop CFP: IEEE ICDM'06 Workshop CFP - SDM'07: 2007 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining CFP - iiWAS2006 Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services CFP: 2007 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS2007) Academic Positions PhD Scholarship on Database Support for Bioinformatics Postdoctoral position: Faculty of Information Technology, UTS ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements RIKD06 Call for Papers (Reliability Issues in Knowledge Discovery) gangli@deakin.edu.au Call for Papers IEEE International Workshop on Reliability Issues in Knowledge Discovery (ICDM06 Workshop --- RIKD'06) December 18, 2006, Hong Kong Website: http://www3.it.deakin.edu.au/~hdai/RIKD06/ INVITATION ---------- The 2006 IEEE ICDM Workshop on Reliability Issues of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery will focus on the theory and techniques that can ensure the discovered knowledge is reliable and to identify in which cases or under which conditions the discovered knowledge is reliable or the discovery process is robust. In the last 20 years, many data mining algorithms have been developed for the discovery of knowledge from given data bases. However in many cases, the discovery process is not robust or the discovered knowledge is not reliable or even incorrect in certain cases. In some cases, the discovered knowledge may not necessary be the real reflection of the data. Why does this happen? What are major factors which affect the discovery process? How can we make ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#cfp.txt0 ====================================================================== Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM 2007) M.Kirchberg@massey.ac.nz Call for Papers Call for Papers Call for Papers Call for Papers *********************************************************************** * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM 2007) * * Ballarat, Victoria, Australia * * January 30 to February 02, 2007 * * * * http://apccm.massey.ac.nz/apccm07/ * * * *********************************************************************** The Asia-Pacific Conferences on Conceptual Modelling provide an annual forum for disseminating the results of innovative research in information modelling and related areas. The fourth conference of the series will be held in early 2007 as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2007), which also includes the following conferences, symposia and workshops: ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#cfp.txt1 ====================================================================== CFP: Australasian Information Security Workshop 2007 (Privacy Enhancing Technologies) Chris.Steketee@cs.unisa.edu.au AISW-Pet aims at promoting research on privacy enhancing technologies and increasing the synergy between academic and industrial researchers working in this area. It is a one-day workshop to be held in conjunction with the Australasian Computer Science Conference, as part of Australasian Computer Science Week in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 30 January - 2 February 2007. We seek submissions from academic and industrial researchers on all theoretical and practical aspects of privacy enhancing technologies. Suggested topics include but are not restricted to: Anonymity and unobservability modeling Attacks on anonymity systems Cryptography Ethics, policy and law relating to privacy Identity management and identity theft Privacy and anonymity in peer-to-peer architectures Privacy-enhanced data authentication/certification Privacy in ubiquitous computing Privacy preserving access control Privacy preserving data mining Protocols that preserve anonymity/privacy ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#cfp.txt2 ====================================================================== CFP: Colloquium in IS Security Education - Asia Pacific CISSE-AP jill.slay@unisa.edu.au 2nd Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education - Asia Pacific (CISSE-AP) November 30st and December 1st 2006, Adelaide, Australia Preliminary Call for Papers This colloquium, builds on the first CISSE-AP colloquium held in Adelaide in 2005, will bring together leading figures from academia, government, and industry to address the national need for security and assurance of our information and communications infrastructure. Colloquium Co-Chairs Professor Bill Caelli QUT Dr Jill Slay UniSA The Colloquium provides an opportunity for networking and research collaboration on a range of issues not necessarily limited to teaching and training ... http://www.cisse-ap.org.au/ ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#cfp.txt3 ====================================================================== CFP: ASWEC 2007 - 18th Australian Conference on Software Engineering s.loke@latrobe.edu.au CALL FOR PAPERS 18th Australian Conference on Software Engineering (ASWEC 2007) April 10-13 2007, Melbourne, Australia http://aswec07.cs.latrobe.edu.au The eighteenth Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) will be held in Melbourne, one of the world's most livable cities, boasting a rich mix of history, culture, economic and scientific activities, from April 10-13, 2007. Since 1986, ASWEC has been the premier Australasian software engineering conference, providing a platform for presenting the latest and significant research findings and industry based experience reports. ASWEC is a joint conference of Engineers Australia and the Australian Computer Society reporting through the Engineers Australia/ACS Joint Board on Software Engineering. ASWEC 2007 will bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators to share issues, novel solutions, and experiences in software engineering. The conference will also feature tutorials, workshops, and industry experience reports (please see industry experience reports track below). ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#cfp.txt4 ====================================================================== CFP: APVIS 2007 Asia Pacific Symposium on Visualisation Richard.Webber@nicta.com.au ============================================ Call for Papers Asia Pacific Symposium on Visualisation 5-7 February, 2007 Sydney, Australia http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~visual/apvis2007/ ============================================ APVIS2007 is the sixth annual international symposium to be held in the Asia-Pacific region with the objective to foster greater exchange between visualisation researchers and practitioners. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original and unpublished research and practical applications in all areas of visualisation. The scope of previous APVIS meetings was limited to graph drawing and information visualisation. From this year, APVIS has been expanded to include scientific visualisation. We anticipate an exciting technical program. * Scope Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to: - Theoretic foundations of visualisation ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#cfp.txt5 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'06 Workshop wi@maebashi-it.org ============================================================== Call for Workshop Papers 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'06) Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China, 18-22 December 2006 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/wi/?index=workshop or http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/iat/?index=workshop (Full Workshop Papers Due: 30 July 2006) Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI. Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year (i.e., conference registration covers everything). =================================================================== ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0 ====================================================================== CFP: IEEE ICDM'06 Workshop icdm@wi-lab.com ================================================================== Call for Workshop Papers ICDM'06: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China, 18-22 December 2006 Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/icdm/?index=workshop (Full Workshop Papers Due: 30 July 2006) Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI. Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year (i.e., conference registration covers everything). =================================================================== As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt1 ====================================================================== CFP - SDM'07: 2007 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining chawla@it.usyd.edu.au ======================================================================== Call for Papers SDM'07: 2007 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA April 26-28, 2007. http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm07/ ======================================================================== Important Dates: Abstracts: October 6th 2006 Papers: October 13 2006 11:59:59 PM, Pacific Standard Time Author Notification: December 20th 2006 Camera Ready: January 26th 2007 ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt2 ====================================================================== CFP - iiWAS2006 Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services adel@it.usyd.edu.au Call for paper for The 8th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2006), 4-6 December 2006, Yogyakarta, Indonesia http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2006/ This year iiWAS2006 will be held in conjunction with MoMM2006 (The 4th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia) and six related workshops: - SIIK2006, The International Workshop on Semantic Information Integration on Knowledge Discovery - MoMIR2006, The International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Information Retrieval - BWCCA-2006, The International Workshop on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications - SoC-06, The International Workshop on Systems-On-Chips - TwUC-06, The International Workshop on Trustworthy Ubiquitous Computing ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt3 ====================================================================== CFP: 2007 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS2007) xiaodong@cs.rmit.edu.au *********************************** * C A L L F O R P A P E R S * *********************************** 2007 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS2007) Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007 http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2007 The 2007 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS2007) will be held as part of the first IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2007 (SSCI 2007), which consists of 12 symposia. AIMS AND SCOPES --------------- Swarm Intelligence is a computational intelligence technique involving the study of collective behavior in decentralized systems. Such systems are made up of a population of simple individuals interacting locally ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt4 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships PhD Scholarship on Database Support for Bioinformatics roehm@it.usyd.edu.au APAI Research Scholarship on Database Support for Bioinformatics University of Sydney, School of Information Technologies We are looking for candidates for a PhD position in the research area of database support for bioinformatics. The PhD student shall investigate the management of bio-datatypes in relational databases, as well as the tight integration of biodata and bioinformatics algorithms using .NET-based stored procedures. The objective of this project is to explore the feasibility of running scientific algorithms, e.g. from the bioinformatics area, inside a database and to develop practical optimisation guidelines for the integration of biodata and virtual machines in today's database engines. This scholarship is funded by an ARC Linkage-Projects grant and will provide support for 3 years on a full-time basis for a research project leading to a PhD. Applicants should have an Honours 1 degree in Computer Science, IT, or Software Engineering. Experience/background in databases or bioinformatics and good programming skills would be an advantage. Applicants must be Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents or New Zealand citizens. The scholarship stipend is AUD 24,650 p.a. in 2006 (tax exempt). ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt0 ====================================================================== Postdoctoral position: Faculty of Information Technology, UTS John Debenham POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW Faculty of Information Technology, UTS The Research Fellow will play a central role in the industry-focused research project =93Managing quality of experience delivery in new generation telecommunications networks with e-negotiation=94, supported by an ARC Linkage Grant and by Alcatel Australia. The Research Fellow will play a central role in the development of the network management framework. This includes the development and integration of the technologies that 1. extract information from the network and distribute it efficiently, and 2. enable decision-making to negotiate with each other so as to exploit this information. Applicants should have a doctorate in a relevant area to ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt1 ====================================================================== From itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au Wed Aug 16 13:20:36 2006 From: itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@mail.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Wed Aug 16 13:23:19 2006 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 2 August 2006 Message-ID: <20060816032036.GA31913@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 2 for August, 2006. 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. Submit news items at http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/itpost.htm. Australian International and Local Conference Announcements 1st Int. Workshop on Integrating AI and Data Mining (AIDM 2006) Call for Chapter: Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems ASCS 2007 Australasian Society for Cognitive Science International Conference Announcements 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology CFP: Expert Systems Journal Special Issue on Ontologies Academic Positions Faculty and Administrative Positions Open Adelaide Research Scientists at SUNY Albany NLP Postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements 1st Int. Workshop on Integrating AI and Data Mining (AIDM 2006) leong@deakin.edu.au In recent years, we are witnessing an increasing number of applications that combine AI and data mining to deliver sophisticated intelligent systems. While the two disciplines have been strongly correlated, either in research or application, there have never been a time where such level of convergence exists within a single system. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioneers in either or both disciplines to present their work and discuss the future development of this research direction. IMPORTANT DATES ***** Papers due: September 8, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: September 21, 2006 Camera Ready: October 1, 2006 Details: http://www.deakin.edu.au/~leong/aidm06 ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#cfp.txt0 ====================================================================== Call for Chapter: Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems a.yang@adfa.edu.au ************************************************************************* CALL FOR CHAPTERS Proposal submission deadline: August 31, 2006 Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems Editor: Ang Yang, University of New South Wales, Australia Yin Shan, The Australian National University, Australia Publisher: Idea Group Inc. (www.idea-group.com) ************************************************************************* Introduction ============ The universe is a big system of systems. It has for example, ecological systems, social systems, commodity and stock market, etc. These systems are complex and constantly adapting to their environment. Many of these systems are essential to the very existence of human beings. They cannot be fully understood by isolating their components or applying simple cause and effect reasoning due to the complexity and intensive interactions among these components. These systems can be examined by looking for patterns within their behaviour. The Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#cfp.txt1 ====================================================================== ASCS 2007 Australasian Society for Cognitive Science cogsci01@adelaide.edu.au Dear All, An update on ASCS 2007, the 8th conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science: Venue: The University of Adelaide, South Australia Dates: Monday 9 July - Thursday 12 July 2007 Theme: Reconsidering the Foundations of the Cognitive Sciences The conference is being held in conjunction with a two day Computational Neuroscience workshop, confirmed speakers for which include: Martin Engelhaaf (Bielefeld University, Germany) Eric Warrant (Lund University, Sweden) Chuck Higgins (The University of Arizona, USA). Further details of invited speakers and registration will be available shortly. Cheers, Jon ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#cfp.txt2 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology w.abdulla@auckland.ac.nz ELEVENTH AUSTRALASIAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, 6-8 DECEMBER 2006 The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA) is a scientific association that aims to advance the understanding of speech science and its application to speech technology. ASSTA and the University of Auckland are pleased to announce the Eleventh International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2006). Conference Themes Submissions are invited for oral and poster presentations. Submissions should describe original contributions to spoken language, speech science and/or technology that will be of interest to an audience including scientists, engineers, linguists, psychologists, speech and language therapists, audiologists and other professionals. Submissions are invited in all areas of speech science and technology, but particularly in the following areas: ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0 ====================================================================== CFP: Expert Systems Journal Special Issue on Ontologies mehmet@comp.mq.edu.au CALL FOR PAPERS Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering Special Issue on Advances in Ontologies Expert Systems seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on Advances in Ontologies scheduled to appear in late 2007. The use of formal ontologies in knowledge systems has many advantages. It allows for an unambiguous specification of the structure of knowledge in a domain, enables knowledge sharing and, as a result, makes it possible to perform automated reasoning about ontologies. In recent years there has been a worldwide increase in the use of ontologies, both in industry and in research laboratories. This special issue of Expert Systems on the theme of Advances in Ontologies is intended to present the recent advances in ontology research and its applications to a general audience, to provide an opportunity for the broader Expert Systems community to become aware of recent ontology research. The special issue will seek submissions of papers dealing with all aspects of ontology research, including the theoretical foundations, ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt1 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships Faculty and Administrative Positions Open Adelaide spoon@it.usyd.edu.au Carnegie Mellon University H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Australia FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS OPEN The Heinz School's branch in Adelaide, South Australia is hiring for faculty and senior management positions to support its growing operations. The Heinz School is one of the top seven public policy schools in the U.S. and is ranked the number one school in information technology within the public policy and management arenas. Carnegie Mellon, a top research university, boasts a national and international reputation-we are highly ranked in computer science, engineering and business, and one of the top twenty-five national universities. The Heinz School, Australia is an extremely entrepreneurial, rapidly growing institution. Executive Director Responsible for the overall operation of the Australia branch of the Heinz School including academic, financial, administrative and student activities. Oversees faculty, organizes hiring and review processes and provides direct oversight of administrative and programmatic activities. Creates and maintains relationships with industry and ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt0 ====================================================================== Research Scientists at SUNY Albany Nick Webb The Institute for Informatics, Logics and Security Studies (www.ils.albany.edu) at SUNY Albany is looking for full-time researchers in Natural Language Processing, Question Answering, Human- Computer Dialogue, and related areas. Description of Duties: Research on the areas of advanced Question Answering, Multi-Channel Dialogue, and Collaborative Information Systems; Coordination of the development and implementation of systems for real users; Supervision of experiments. Candidates should be able to work with faculty and students from a variety of disciplines and prepare research papers and presentations for sponsoring agencies. Qualifications: Candidates must have an advanced degree in Computer Science, with experience or significant interest in topic areas such as Information Retrieval, QA, Dialogue systems or other aspects of Natural Language Processing. Minimum 5 years combined experience of Java and C++ programming, with at least 2 years of significant Java programming; Significant experience with Windows, Linux and Unix. To apply, please send a CV to the ILS Administrator, Lynne Casper ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt1 ====================================================================== NLP Postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh Janyce M. Wiebe The University of Sydney COMPUTING THE FUTURE SYMPOSIUM 2006 Wednesday,13th September 2006 It has been 50 years since the first highspeed computer - SILLIAC - was built at an Australian University. Join leaders from across industry, eminent researchers and international guest speakers as we celebrate the University of Sydney's distinguished history in computer science, and explore future IT directions. Keynote Speakers Include: David Murray Chairman, Future Fund Board of Guardians & Former CEO of Commonwealth Bank Howard Charney Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems & One of the four founders of 3Com Corporation Dr Caroline Kovac General Manager, IBM Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences, & named one of the 50 most powerful women in business by Fortune magazine in 2004 Eminent researchers who will open our minds to the opportunities of ICT innovation over the next 50 years include: * Dr David Skellern, CEO, National ICT Australia* Professor Albert Y. Zomaya, Head of the School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney * Professor Benjamin Eggleton, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh- bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, The University of Sydney * Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Research Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems, The University of Sydney Event Details Date: Wednesday, 13th September 2006 Time: 9.00am - 5.30pm Venue: Everest Theatre, Seymour Centre, The University of Sydney Cost: $150; $100 for Members of Supporting Associations & Post-Graduate Students For more info & to register: www.it.usyd.edu.au/ctf or phone 1300 651 485. _________________________________________________ PDF Version _______________________________________________ Please click on url below to download the pdf version of the 'Computing the Future' Symposium flyer. http://www.slatteryit.com.au/Pdf/usyd_060913_flyer.pdf _________________________________________________ HTML Version _______________________________________________ Please click on url below to download the HTML version of the 'Computing the Future' Symposium. http://www.slatteryit.com.au/usyd_promo.html ___________________________________ Thanks for your time and let us know if you need further assistance. 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