From itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au Mon Jan 8 15:36:01 2007 From: itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@mail.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Mon Jan 8 15:55:23 2007 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 January 2007 Message-ID: <20070108043601.GA10149@cpu0.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 1 for January, 2007. 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. International Conference Announcements 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2007) 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science(ICIS 2007) Mobile Service-oriented Architectures and Ontologies (MoSO) Workshop; 2nd edition CFP Indigenous Knowledge Visualisation SEDE-2007 CFP, July 9-11, Las Vegas, Nevada DAIS 2007: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: Extended submission deadline Academic Positions Computer Science Job South Africa PHD scholarship, Computing Department, Macquarie University APAI PhD Scholarship Available, UTS C++ Software Engineer - Lexxe Search Engine, Sydney, NSW ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements International Conference Announcements 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2007) Michael.Shin@ttu.edu CALL FOR PAPERS - 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2007) http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke07.html Hyatt Harborside at Logan International Airport, Boston, USA July 9 - July 11, 2007 Paper submission deadline: February 20, 2007 Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute The Nineteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'07) will be held in Hyatt Harborside at Boston's Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, USA, July 9-11, 2007. The hotel's website is at: http://harborside.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss on relevant results in either software ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0 ====================================================================== 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science(ICIS 2007) r.sarker@adfa.edu.au Call for Papers 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science(ICIS 2007), July 11-13, 2007 Hotel: TBA, Melbourne, Australia http://acis.cps.cmich.edu:8080/ICIS2007/ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACIS. 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science brings together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of computer and information science, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The conference will cover a broad set of research topics: - Middleware Architectures & Techniques - Communication Systems & Networks - Visual and Multimedia Computing - Web Engineering & Applications - Data Mining, Data Warehousing & Database ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt1 ====================================================================== Mobile Service-oriented Architectures and Ontologies (MoSO) Workshop; 2nd edition dumitru.roman@deri.org First Call for Submissions ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Services-oriented Architectures and Ontologies (MoSO 2007) http://events.deri.at/MoSO2007/ at The 8th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'07) http://mdm2007.uni-mannheim.de/ May 7 (tentative), 2007, Mannheim, Germany -------------------------------------------------------- THEME OF THE WORKSHOP The theme of the workshop is the intersection of three major trends in today's computing: * mobile computing becomes more and more important. Mobile portable ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt2 ====================================================================== CFP Indigenous Knowledge Visualisation twyeld@itee.uq.edu.au Dear colleagues, below is the first call for papers for a new symposium "World Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge Visualisation", part of the 2007 11th European Information Visualisation Conference, at the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, 4 - 6 July. I hope you will help support this new venture by distributing the CFP widely. Many regards, Theodor G Wyeld. ************************************************************************ International Symposium of "World Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge Visualisation", IV07-IKV ************** http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV06/IKV.htm ************** ************************************************************************ 4, 5, 6 July 2007 ETH - ZURICH - SWITZERLAND -------------------------------------------------------------------- ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt3 ====================================================================== SEDE-2007 CFP, July 9-11, Las Vegas, Nevada isca@ipass.net SEDE-2007 CALL FOR PAPERS 16th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering July 9-11, 2007 Imperial Palace Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada USA Sponsored by the International Society for Computers and their Applications (ISCA) The 16th SEDE Conference seeks high quality submissions in all areas of Software Engineering (SE) and Data Engineering (DE). This year the conference puts special emphasis on the impact of parallel computing on software engineering and data engineering. Applied case studies will report on exemplary solutions deployed in industries like automotive, aerospace, telecommunications and finance. In the SE section particular emphasis will be placed on techniques for software specification and design of software/hardware components and the modeling of system architectures. In the DE section, the emphasis this year is on high performance algorithms that learn patterns from large volumes of data, learn and predict events, adapt to situations, rationalize, provide autonomous control, and assist in executive decision-making. The conference also includes a BEST PAPER AWARD. The conference will cover a ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt4 ====================================================================== DAIS 2007: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: Extended submission deadline ricky.robinson@nicta.com.au --------------------------------------------------------------------- Third CALL FOR PAPERS *EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE* DAIS 2007 7th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems "Towards Sustainability" Paphos, Cyprus 6 - 8 June 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: 15 January 2007 Paper submission: 22 January 2007 Work-in-progress papers: 2 February, 2007 Author notification: 7 March 2007 Camera-ready copy: 26 March 2007 ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt5 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships Computer Science Job South Africa philip@itee.uq.edu.au The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa is advertising a position which may be filled at a range of levels up to senior lecturer. If interested, see for details. Feel free to email me if you have any questions: I worked there until mid-2002. Philip Machanick School of ITEE, University of Queensland http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt0 ====================================================================== PHD scholarship, Computing Department, Macquarie University tao@ics.mq.edu.au Computing Department, Macquarie University (http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~jian/soc) PHD scholarship Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is at the heart of the business process development and distributed computing. The aim of the this group is to bring together the researchers in the area to exchange ideas and colaborate. The current research focuses are business process modeling and management, web service composition and monitoring, business transaction management, service oriented security and trust modeling and management. The group maintains close collaborations with a number of national and international academic research groups, industry and government research institutions, and commercial companies. International Students (with studying fee exemption) are welcome. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt1 ====================================================================== APAI PhD Scholarship Available, UTS rsteele@it.uts.edu.au We invite applications for an Australian Research Council APAI PhD Scholarship available for starting from the beginning of 2007. The project is in a leading e-Commerce sector, and is in collaboration with our industry partners in the field and will utilize Web services technologies, search technologies and Semantic Web technologies. Applicants should be Australian citizens or permanent residents. A good knowledge of XML and distributed systems is highly desirable. The sholarship amount is at the high end of the typical scholarship range. Please contact Associate Professor Robert Steele for more information, rsteele@it.uts.edu.au, 9514 7872. http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt2 ====================================================================== C++ Software Engineer - Lexxe Search Engine, Sydney, NSW hong.qiao@lexxe.com Software Engineer [Job ID: 0604] All applicants must have work permit to work in Australia. Essential: BS in Computer Science or equivalent (MS and PhD a plus). Several years of software development experience. Experience with Unix/Linux, C++ development, distributed systems, machine learning, information retrieval, network programming and/or developing large software systems a plus. Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems. Unix system and scripting language (Shell, Perl, Javascript, Python) Desirable: Knowledge of search engine technology. Knowledge of HTML specification. Knowledge of Natural Language Processing and statistics. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt3 ====================================================================== From itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au Tue Jan 9 10:39:27 2007 From: itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@mail.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Tue Jan 9 11:10:41 2007 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 January 2007 Message-ID: <20070108233927.GA5436@cpu0.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 1 for January, 2007. 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. International Conference Announcements 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2007) 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science(ICIS 2007) Mobile Service-oriented Architectures and Ontologies (MoSO) Workshop; 2nd edition CFP Indigenous Knowledge Visualisation SEDE-2007 CFP, July 9-11, Las Vegas, Nevada DAIS 2007: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: Extended submission deadline Academic Positions Computer Science Job South Africa PHD scholarship, Computing Department, Macquarie University APAI PhD Scholarship Available, UTS C++ Software Engineer - Lexxe Search Engine, Sydney, NSW ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2007) Michael.Shin@ttu.edu CALL FOR PAPERS - 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2007) http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke07.html Hyatt Harborside at Logan International Airport, Boston, USA July 9 - July 11, 2007 Paper submission deadline: February 20, 2007 Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute The Nineteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'07) will be held in Hyatt Harborside at Boston's Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, USA, July 9-11, 2007. The hotel's website is at: http://harborside.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss on relevant results in either software ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0 ====================================================================== 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science(ICIS 2007) r.sarker@adfa.edu.au Call for Papers 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science(ICIS 2007), July 11-13, 2007 Hotel: TBA, Melbourne, Australia http://acis.cps.cmich.edu:8080/ICIS2007/ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACIS. 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science brings together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of computer and information science, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The conference will cover a broad set of research topics: - Middleware Architectures & Techniques - Communication Systems & Networks - Visual and Multimedia Computing - Web Engineering & Applications - Data Mining, Data Warehousing & Database ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt1 ====================================================================== Mobile Service-oriented Architectures and Ontologies (MoSO) Workshop; 2nd edition dumitru.roman@deri.org First Call for Submissions ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Services-oriented Architectures and Ontologies (MoSO 2007) http://events.deri.at/MoSO2007/ at The 8th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'07) http://mdm2007.uni-mannheim.de/ May 7 (tentative), 2007, Mannheim, Germany -------------------------------------------------------- THEME OF THE WORKSHOP The theme of the workshop is the intersection of three major trends in today's computing: * mobile computing becomes more and more important. Mobile portable ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt2 ====================================================================== CFP Indigenous Knowledge Visualisation twyeld@itee.uq.edu.au Dear colleagues, below is the first call for papers for a new symposium "World Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge Visualisation", part of the 2007 11th European Information Visualisation Conference, at the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, 4 - 6 July. I hope you will help support this new venture by distributing the CFP widely. Many regards, Theodor G Wyeld. ************************************************************************ International Symposium of "World Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge Visualisation", IV07-IKV ************** http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV06/IKV.htm ************** ************************************************************************ 4, 5, 6 July 2007 ETH - ZURICH - SWITZERLAND -------------------------------------------------------------------- ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt3 ====================================================================== SEDE-2007 CFP, July 9-11, Las Vegas, Nevada isca@ipass.net SEDE-2007 CALL FOR PAPERS 16th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering July 9-11, 2007 Imperial Palace Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada USA Sponsored by the International Society for Computers and their Applications (ISCA) The 16th SEDE Conference seeks high quality submissions in all areas of Software Engineering (SE) and Data Engineering (DE). This year the conference puts special emphasis on the impact of parallel computing on software engineering and data engineering. Applied case studies will report on exemplary solutions deployed in industries like automotive, aerospace, telecommunications and finance. In the SE section particular emphasis will be placed on techniques for software specification and design of software/hardware components and the modeling of system architectures. In the DE section, the emphasis this year is on high performance algorithms that learn patterns from large volumes of data, learn and predict events, adapt to situations, rationalize, provide autonomous control, and assist in executive decision-making. The conference also includes a BEST PAPER AWARD. The conference will cover a ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt4 ====================================================================== DAIS 2007: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: Extended submission deadline ricky.robinson@nicta.com.au --------------------------------------------------------------------- Third CALL FOR PAPERS *EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE* DAIS 2007 7th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems "Towards Sustainability" Paphos, Cyprus 6 - 8 June 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: 15 January 2007 Paper submission: 22 January 2007 Work-in-progress papers: 2 February, 2007 Author notification: 7 March 2007 Camera-ready copy: 26 March 2007 ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt5 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships Computer Science Job South Africa philip@itee.uq.edu.au The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa is advertising a position which may be filled at a range of levels up to senior lecturer. If interested, see for details. Feel free to email me if you have any questions: I worked there until mid-2002. Philip Machanick School of ITEE, University of Queensland http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt0 ====================================================================== PHD scholarship, Computing Department, Macquarie University tao@ics.mq.edu.au Computing Department, Macquarie University (http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~jian/soc) PHD scholarship Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is at the heart of the business process development and distributed computing. The aim of the this group is to bring together the researchers in the area to exchange ideas and colaborate. The current research focuses are business process modeling and management, web service composition and monitoring, business transaction management, service oriented security and trust modeling and management. The group maintains close collaborations with a number of national and international academic research groups, industry and government research institutions, and commercial companies. International Students (with studying fee exemption) are welcome. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt1 ====================================================================== APAI PhD Scholarship Available, UTS rsteele@it.uts.edu.au We invite applications for an Australian Research Council APAI PhD Scholarship available for starting from the beginning of 2007. The project is in a leading e-Commerce sector, and is in collaboration with our industry partners in the field and will utilize Web services technologies, search technologies and Semantic Web technologies. Applicants should be Australian citizens or permanent residents. A good knowledge of XML and distributed systems is highly desirable. The sholarship amount is at the high end of the typical scholarship range. Please contact Associate Professor Robert Steele for more information, rsteele@it.uts.edu.au, 9514 7872. http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt2 ====================================================================== C++ Software Engineer - Lexxe Search Engine, Sydney, NSW hong.qiao@lexxe.com Software Engineer [Job ID: 0604] All applicants must have work permit to work in Australia. Essential: BS in Computer Science or equivalent (MS and PhD a plus). Several years of software development experience. Experience with Unix/Linux, C++ development, distributed systems, machine learning, information retrieval, network programming and/or developing large software systems a plus. Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems. Unix system and scripting language (Shell, Perl, Javascript, Python) Desirable: Knowledge of search engine technology. Knowledge of HTML specification. Knowledge of Natural Language Processing and statistics. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt3 ======================================================================