From itannounce at pop.it.usyd.edu.au Wed Jun 20 12:37:02 2007 From: itannounce at pop.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@pop.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Wed Jun 20 12:37:35 2007 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 2 June 2007 Message-ID: <20070620023702.GA5808@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 2 for June, 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. Australian International and Local Conference Announcements Call for Abstracts: HCSNet Workshop on Next Generation Search Technology -- NGS07 APCCM 2008: Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling Advances in Semantics for Web services Workshop: June 30, 2007 (extended deadline) Australian Computer Science Week Conferences - January 2008 CFP: KSEM'2007 (Update) CFP: PRDC'07 (Melbourne, Australia Dec 17-19, 2007): Deadline Extended 25/6/07 PDCAT'07 Call for Student Posters International Conference Announcements Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing PDCAT07 CFP: International Workshop on Web Services and Geographic Information Systems Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications RuleML-2007 Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering WISE2007: Deadline Extended Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia PCM 2007 Preliminary CFP : Middleware Engineering Track @ ACM SAC 2008 Last CFP: (Extended Deadline) Workshop on Intelligent Pervasive Middleware (IPM 2007) Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems FoIKS 2008: Call for Papers CfP: 7th Domain-Specific Modeling workshop at OOPSLA SerComp & SWS Challenge '07 1st CFP: NFPSLA-SOC'07 at ICSOC 2007 The 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements Call for Abstracts: HCSNet Workshop on Next Generation Search Technology -- NGS07 Diego Molla Second HCSNet Next Generation Search Workshop -- NGS07 Macquarie University 19-20 July 2007 http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/workshops/next-gen-search07 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS BACKGROUND Existing information retrieval systems effectively treat documents as unstructured bags of words. As current Web search engines demonstrate, this approach works surprisingly well. At the same time, it is clear that human processors of information make use of a much deeper understanding of text than these systems exhibit. Humans cannot compete with machines in terms of quantity, but their abilities far exceed those of machines when it comes to quality. Linguistics treats texts as richly structured objects that obey complex and interacting rules about language use, and natural language ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt0 ====================================================================== APCCM 2008: Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling M.Kirchberg@massey.ac.nz C A L L F O R P A P E R S --------------------------------- Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM 2008) January 22-25, 2008 -- Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia http://2008.apccm.org/ 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 fifth conference of the series will be held in early 2008 as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2008), which also includes the following conferences, symposia and workshops: * The Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC); * The Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE); ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt1 ====================================================================== Advances in Semantics for Web services Workshop: June 30, 2007 (extended deadline) dumitru.roman@deri.org =================================== NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2007 =================================== -------------------------------------------------------- Advances in Semantics for Web services Workshop (semantics4ws'07) http://events.deri.at/semantics4ws2007/ at the Fifth International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007) http://bpm07.fit.qut.edu.au/ Brisbane, Australia, 25-27 September 2007 -------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL OVERVIEW Web services have added a new level of functionality to the current Web by taking a first step towards seamless integration of distributed software components using Web standards. Nevertheless, current ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt2 ====================================================================== Australian Computer Science Week Conferences - January 2008 jenny@it.uts.edu.au Australasian Computer Science Conference The Australasian Computer Science Conference is an annual forum for exploring research, development, and novel applications in Computer Science. The Thirty-First Australasian Computer Science Conference, ACSC 2008, will be held at the University of Wollongong as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week. Registration to the Australasian Computer Science Conference enables delegates to attend sessions in any conference participating in the Australasian Computer Science Week. - http://www.uow.edu.au/conferences/ACSW08/home.html Key Areas ACSC 2008 solicits contributions in all fields of Computer Science research. Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are: * Algorithms * Artificial Intelligence * Communications and Networks * Compilers * Computer Architecture * Computer Vision ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt3 ====================================================================== CFP: KSEM'2007 (Update) dongmo@scm.uws.edu.au Call For Papers Second International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM'2007) 28-30 November, 2007 Melbourne, Australia http://www.deakin.edu.au/scitech/eit/ksem07/ KSEM'2007 is the second in this series, which builds on the success of the first international conference on knowledge science, engineering and management (KSEM'2006) in Guilin, China. The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to provide a forum for researchers in the broad areas of knowledge science, knowledge engineering, and knowledge management to exchange ideas and to report state of the art research results. You are invited to submit papers that are original and not yet published. Papers on the synergism of knowledge science, knowledge engineering and knowledge management are especially welcomed. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Knowledge Science - Knowledge representation and reasoning ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt4 ====================================================================== CFP: PRDC'07 (Melbourne, Australia Dec 17-19, 2007): Deadline Extended 25/6/07 mick@deakin.edu.au ======================================================================== The 13th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'07) December 17-19, 2007 Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA ******************************************** ** NEW DUE DATE: June 25th, 2007 6pm AEST ** ******************************************** http://www.deakin.edu.au/conferences/prdc2007 --CALL FOR PAPERS-- PRDC 2007 is the thirteenth in this series of symposia started in 1989 that are devoted to dependable and fault tolerant computing. PRDC is now recognized as the main regular event of the Pacific area that is covering the many dimensions of dependability and fault tolerance, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the dependability of computing system has become increasingly critical. This symposium provides a forum for countries around the Pacific Rim and other areas ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt5 ====================================================================== PDCAT'07 Call for Student Posters brad@cs.adelaide.edu.au PDCAT'07 Call for Student Posters (3-6.12.2007, Adelaide, Australia) ======================================================= The Eight International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT) December 3-6, 2007, Adelaide, South Australia Co-sponsored by IEEE http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/pdcat07/?section=cfp&subsection=poster Submission deadline: July 23, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR STUDENT POSTERS The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT) is a major forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present the latest research, results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of parallel and distributed computing. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt6 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing PDCAT07 qsheng@cs.adelaide.edu.au PDCAT'07 Call for Papers (3-6 December 2007, Adelaide, Australia) ================================================================= The Eight International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT'07) December 3-6, 2007, Adelaide, South Australia Co-sponsored by IEEE http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/pdcat07 CALL FOR PAPERS The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT) is a major forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present the latest research, results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of parallel and distributed computing. Following PDCAT'00 in Hong Kong, PDCAT'01 in Taipei, PDCAT'02 in Kanazawa, Japan, PDCAT'03 in Chengdu, China, PDCAT'04 in Singapore, PDCAT'05 in Dalian, China and PDCAT'06 in Taipei, Taiwan; PDCAT'07 will be held for the first time in Australia in the city of Adelaide in South Australia. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0 ====================================================================== CFP: International Workshop on Web Services and Geographic Information Systems qsheng@cs.adelaide.edu.au Call For Papers Workshop on Web Services and Geographic Information Systems To be held in conjunction with The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2007) October 29-31, 2007 - Lyon, FRANCE - http://www.icdim.org Description. The wide spread of Internet technologies is having an important impact on the way businesses deal with their partners and customers. To remain competitive, traditional businesses are under pressure to take advantage of the information revolution the Internet and the Web have brought about. The rapidly expanding Web services are one of the technologies that could help businesses be more Web-oriented. A Web service is an operation typically addressed via a URL, declaratively described using widely accepted standards, and accessed via platform-independent XML-based messages. The development of industry standards, products, and tools for supporting Web service system development is proceeding at a very rapid rate. Standards exist for service discovery (UDDI), description (WSDL), coordination (BPML, BPEL4WS, WSCI), and ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt1 ====================================================================== Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications RuleML-2007 j.b.dietrich@massey.ac.nz The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) October 25-26, 2007, Orlando, Florida http://2007.ruleml.org Co-located with the 10th International Business Rules Forum, the International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) is the first symposium devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. After a series of successful RuleML workshops and then conferences (e.g. http://2006.ruleml.org), this is a new kind of event where the Web Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the Business Rules community (http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross-fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology. The goal of RuleML-2007 is to bring together rule system providers, representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g., RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL, SBVR) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss Rules , Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt2 ====================================================================== Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering WISE2007: Deadline Extended qsheng@cs.adelaide.edu.au Due to many requests, the deadline for paper submissions to WISE 2007 has been extended to Sunday, June 10, 2007. WISE 2007 The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering December 3-7, 2007 Nancy, France --------------------------------------------------- Deadline extended to June 10, 2007 --------------------------------------------------- For more information about WISE 2007, please visit http://wise2007.loria.fr/ ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt3 ====================================================================== Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia PCM 2007 phoebe@deakin.edu.au -------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------- Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2007) December 11-14, 2007 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong http://www.pcm2007.org -------------- IMPORTANT DATE -------------- 15 June 2007: Paper Submission (*new deadline*) 1 June 2007: Proposal for Special Session and Tutorial 1 Aug 2007: Notification of Acceptance 22 Aug 2007: Camera-Ready Paper http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt4 ====================================================================== Preliminary CFP : Middleware Engineering Track @ ACM SAC 2008 praveen@mscs.mu.edu PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************************** *********************************************************************************** The 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008) Special Track on Middleware Engineering (ME) March 16 - 20, 2008, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil Conference Website : http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008 Track Website : http://www.mscs.mu.edu/~praveen/me.html +++++ Deadline for Paper Submissions : September 08, 2007 ++++++++++ *********************************************************************************** *********************************************************************************** SAC 2008 -------- For the past twenty-two years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2008 is sponsored ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt5 ====================================================================== Last CFP: (Extended Deadline) Workshop on Intelligent Pervasive Middleware (IPM 2007) praveen@mscs.mu.edu CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************************** *********************************************************************************** The 2007 International Workshop on Intelligent Pervasive Middleware (IPM 2007) In conjunction with The 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing (IPC-07) October 11th - 13th, 2007, Jeju Island, Korea Workshop Website : http://www.sersc.org/IPC2007/IPM2007.php +++++New Extended Deadline for Paper Submissions : June 29, 2007 ++++++++++ *********************************************************************************** *********************************************************************************** WORKSHOP AIM ------------ Research in middleware systems has evolved from simple client server models to distributed systems, peer-to-peer systems, mobile devices, smart ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt6 ====================================================================== Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems FoIKS 2008: Call for Papers M.Kirchberg@massey.ac.nz C A L L F O R P A P E R S --------------------------------- Fifth International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2008) February 11-15, 2008 -- Pisa, Italy http://2008.foiks.org/ The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. The goal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences, promote collaboration and identify new issues and directions for future research. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt7 ====================================================================== CfP: 7th Domain-Specific Modeling workshop at OOPSLA jpt@metacase.com C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= The 7th OOPSLA Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling October 21-22, 2007 Montréal, Canada http://www.dsmforum.org/events/DSM07 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: Domain-Specific Modeling raises the level of abstraction beyond programming by specifying the solution directly using domain concepts. In many cases, final products can be generated automatically from these high-level specifications. This automation is possible because both the language and generators need fit the requirements of only one company and domain. Industrial experiences of DSM consistently show it to be 5-10 times ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt8 ====================================================================== SerComp & SWS Challenge '07 dumitru.roman@deri.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Service Composition & SWS Challenge (SerComp & SWS Challenge '07) http://events.deri.at/sercomp2007/ at the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2007) http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/ November 5, 2007, Silicon Valley, USA -------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL OVERVIEW Composition of services in dynamic environments has received much interest for its potential to support Business-to-Business (B2B) or Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). One of such dynamic environments is the World Wide Web, which makes available a huge and rapidly growing number of heterogeneous services. Recent ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt9 ====================================================================== 1st CFP: NFPSLA-SOC'07 at ICSOC 2007 ioan.toma@deri.at Call for Submissions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Non Functional Properties and Service Level Agreements in Service Oriented Computing Workshop (NFPSLA-SOC'07) http://events.deri.at/nfpsla-soc07/ at The 5th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2007) http://www.icsoc.org/ September 17, 2007, Vienna, Austria -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THEME: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming a key aspect for system agility and quickly developing new businesses. As core concepts of any SOA-based system, services have recently received significant interest. They can be used to support Business-to-Business (B2B), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), and collaborations ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt10 ====================================================================== The 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining schawla@it.usyd.edu.au The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) is the leading data mining conference of the Pacific-Asia region. The world's best known researchers in data mining and related areas actively participate and attend the annual PAKDD event. PAKDD 2008 seeks proposals for workshops on foundational and emerging topics in areas relevant to data mining. The PAKDD workshops provide an informal and vibrant opportunity for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research positions, original research results and practical development experiences on specific new challenges and emerging issues. The workshop topic should be focused so that the Participants can benefit from interaction with each other and the cohesiveness of the topic. A possible (non-exhaustive) list of topics include: 1. Foundational Topics in Data Mining 2. Data Mining and Systems Biology (a systems view of genomics and proteomics) 3. Data Mining and Climate Change 4. Data Mining and Financial Time-Series 5. Data Mining for Social Networks Analysis (Relational Mining) 6. Data Mining on specialized data types: structured, unstructured, semi-structured, streaming, spatio-temporal, text, multimedia, etc. 7. Real life applications and success stories ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt11 ======================================================================