From itannounce at pop.it.usyd.edu.au Wed Mar 14 21:30:24 2007 From: itannounce at pop.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@pop.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Wed Mar 14 21:31:36 2007 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 2 March 2007 Message-ID: <20070314103024.GA3211@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 2 for March, 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 Papers: ACM SenSys 2007 BPM 2007 (5th International Conference on Business Process Management) PDCAT'07: CFP (The Eight International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies) International Conference Announcements ACIVS 2007 Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Special session on: Evolutionary Computation in Games CMLSA 2007: Conceptual Modelling for Life Sciences Applications 3rd International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2007) CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2007 (Silicon Valley,USA) WI-IAT'07 (Silicon Valley, USA) - Call for Workshop Proposals SEKE2007 Deadline is further extended to March 8, 2007 2007 IFIP International Workshop on Network and System Security (NSS 2007) IEEE LCN 2007- The 32nd Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 10th ACM/IEEE MSWiM 2007- Greece 11th IEEE/ACM Distributed Simulation and Virtual reality BPSC'07 (Business Process and Services Computing The 7th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies CFP: 2nd Int'l WS on Service- and Process-Oriented Software Engineering 2007 International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Sciences CMLS'07 CFP: IEEE LCN ON-MOVE 2007- Workshop On User MObility and Vehicular Networks CFP Submission - The Second IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements CfP: 3rd IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Security mda4soa'07 - Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures Workshop; 2nd edition 2nd Int'l WS on Service- and Process-Oriented Software Engineering IEEE SenseApp 2007 - Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications FCS-ARSPA'07 (Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security and Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis) Academic Positions Research Assistant / Fellow in Computational Linguistics PhD Scholarship at MQ in Trust and Security Closing date: 15 April 2007 Research Associate position available in area of Mobile Trust, UTS ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements Call for Papers: ACM SenSys 2007 guoqiang@ee.usyd.edu.au ===================================================================== ACM SenSys 2007: Call for Papers The 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems November 6-9, 2007* (subject to confirmation) Sydney, Australia http://sensys.acm.org/2007/ ============================================================================= Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS and SIGBED (approval pending); with support from NSF. The 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) is a highly selective, single-track forum for the presentation of research results on systems issues in the area of embedded, networked sensors. Distributed systems based on networked sensors and actuators with embedded computation capabilities enable an instrumentation of the physical world at an unprecedented scale and density, thus enabling a new generation of monitoring and control applications. This conference provides an ideal venue to address the research challenges facing the design, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of these systems. Sensor networks require contributions from many fields, from ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt0 ====================================================================== BPM 2007 (5th International Conference on Business Process Management) cliu@ict.swin.edu.au Call for Papers - BPM 2007 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT http://bpm07.fit.qut.edu.au Brisbane, Australia, 24-27 September 2007 Organized by the BPM Research Group Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology BPM 2007 is the fifth in a conference series that provides one of the most prestigious forums for researchers and practitioners in all aspects of business process management. The conference has a record of attracting innovative research of the highest quality related to all aspects of business process management (theory, frameworks, methods, techniques, software architectures, empirical findings). One explicit aim of BPM 2007 will be to provide a unique forum for bridging the viewpoints of leading research outcomes with practical ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt1 ====================================================================== PDCAT'07: CFP (The Eight International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies) 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 ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt2 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements ACIVS 2007 Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Dan.Popescu@cmis.csiro.au ACIVS 2007 Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems August 28-31, 2007 Delft University the Netherlands http://acivs.org/acivs2007/ Lecture Notes in Computer Science Sponsored by: Eurasip, IEEE Benelux Signal Processing Chapter, DSP Valley, Philips, Barco. Acivs 2007 is a conference focusing on techniques for building adaptive, intelligent, safe and secure imaging systems. Acivs 2007 will consist of four days of lecture sessions, both regular (25 mns) and invited presentations, and poster sessions. The proceedings of Acivs 2007 will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Important deadlines ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0 ====================================================================== Special session on: Evolutionary Computation in Games p.hingston@ecu.edu.au Dear Games Researcher, This email is to remind you about the special session on evolutionary computation in games to be held at the upcoming IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'07). CEC'07 will be held in Singapore from 25-28 September 2007. Special session on: Evolutionary Computation in Games ===================================================== Games have proven to be an ideal test domain for the study of evolutionary algorithms as not only are they fun to play and interesting to observe, but they provide competitive and dynamic environments that model many real-world problems. Evolutionary techniques have successfully been applied to many different kinds of games, however a number of research questions still remain. This special session aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss recent advances and explore future directions in this field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt1 ====================================================================== CMLSA 2007: Conceptual Modelling for Life Sciences Applications M.Kirchberg@massey.ac.nz F I R S T C A L L F O R P A P E R S ---------------------------------------------- First International Workshop on Conceptual Modelling for Life Sciences Applications November 05-09, 2007 -- Auckland, New Zealand http://er2007.massey.ac.nz/cmlsa07/ CMLSA 2007 will be held in conjunction with the Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2007). Life Sciences applications typically involve large volumes of data of various kinds and a multiplicity of software tools for managing, analysing and interpreting them. There are many challenging problems in the processing of life sciences data that require effective support by ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt2 ====================================================================== 3rd International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2007) r.wang@massey.ac.nz ========================================================================= 3rd International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2007) Oct.29-31, 2007, Xi'an, China ========================================================================= The International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG) is a cross-area international forum on semantic computing, knowledge networking, and grid computing. SKG promotes cross-area research and pushes the development of relevant areas. SKG2007 will be held in Xi'an, a city with 3100 years' history. THEMES (include but not limited to) (1) Semantics and Semantic Grid. .Semantic Web .Semantic Search and Query .Semantic Link Network .Semantic Normalization .Semantic Interoperability .Semantic Visualization and Modeling .Semantic Web Mining .Semantic Brokering ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt3 ====================================================================== CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2007 (Silicon Valley,USA) wi-iat@maebashi-it.org ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07) Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007 Official: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/ Mirror: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/wi/ (to be collocated with IAT'07, BIBM'07 and GrC'07) Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ###################################################################### # Conference Chair # Andrei Broder, VP, Yahoo Fellow, Yahoo! Research ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt4 ====================================================================== WI-IAT'07 (Silicon Valley, USA) - Call for Workshop Proposals wi-iat@maebashi-it.org ============================================================== Call for Workshop Proposals 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'07) Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007. http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/ ******************************************************************* Workshop Proposals Due: ** March 20 **, 2007 All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI. =================================================================== The Program Committees of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'07) invite proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt5 ====================================================================== SEKE2007 Deadline is further extended to March 8, 2007 Michael.Shin@ttu.edu --------------------------------------------------- Deadline is further extended to March 8, 2007 --------------------------------------------------- The Nineteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering SEKE'2007 Hyatt Harborside at Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, USA July 9 - July 11, 2007 http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke07.html Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute CALL FOR PAPERS The Nineteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'07) will be held in Hyatt Harborside ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt6 ====================================================================== 2007 IFIP International Workshop on Network and System Security (NSS 2007) y.xiang@cqu.edu.au =========================================================================== NSS 2007 - http://nss2007.cqu.edu.au 2007 IFIP International Workshop on Network and System Security (NSS 2007) 20th September 2007, Dalian, China In conjunction with IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2007) http://www.dlmu.edu.cn/npc2007/ Call For Papers --------------- In recent years, there has been significant increase in Internet attacks, such as DDoS, viruses, worms, spyware, and malware, etc, causing huge economical and social damage. While the attack systems have become more easy-to-use, sophisticated, and powerful, interest has greatly increased in the field of building more effective, intelligent, and active defense systems which are distributed and networked. We will focus our program on issues related to Network and System Security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability and sustainability of network defense systems. We also welcome research reports on network attack systems; because we believe only by fully understanding the attack mechanisms can we perform ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt7 ====================================================================== IEEE LCN 2007- The 32nd Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks boukerch@site.uottawa.ca ================================================================= Paper registration deadline: April 2, 2007 Paper submission deadline: April 9, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------- LCN 2007 The 32nd Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) http://www.ieeelcn.org Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) with support from: Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG)/ Waterford Institute of Technology, Ericsson UK Dublin, Ireland October 15-18, 2007 ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt8 ====================================================================== 10th ACM/IEEE MSWiM 2007- Greece boukerch@site.uottawa.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10th ACM/IEEE MSWiM 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 10th ACM/IEEE* International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems Chania, Crete Island, Greece October 22 - 26, 2007 http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: A Special Issue of Performance Evaluation (Elsevier) is planned and will contain a revised and extended version of selected best papers from MSWiM 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * IEEE/ACM Pending Upon Approval -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: May 2, 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt9 ====================================================================== 11th IEEE/ACM Distributed Simulation and Virtual reality boukerch@site.uottawa.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers DS-RT 2007 11th IEEE/ACM* International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds-rt2007/ October 22-26, 2007 Chania, Crete Island, Greece * IEEE/ACM pending upon Approval ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Deadline: May 10th, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope In its eleventh anniversary, the 2007 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2007) will take place in Chania, Crete Island, Greece, in conjunction with the 10th ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt10 ====================================================================== BPSC'07 (Business Process and Services Computing leszek@ics.mq.edu.au 1st International Conference on Business Process and Services Computing - BPSC'2007 25-26 September 2007, Leipzig, Germany http://bpsc.sabre-conference.com as part of SABRE www.sabre-conference.com IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: May 4, 2007 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2007 Camera-ready papers: July 6, 2007 Conference: September 25-26, 2007 MISSION The mission of BPSC (Business Process and Services Computing) conferences is to be a prime international forum to discuss and publish research findings and IT industry experiences with relation to process-centric service-oriented paradigm as it applies to the development and integration of enterprise and e-business information systems. By looking at the ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt11 ====================================================================== The 7th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies bbz@it.usyd.edu.au The 7th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies APPT’07 (http://appt07.gdut.edu.cn) Nov. 22-23, 2007 Guangzhou, China Sponsored by Architecture Professional Committee of China Computer Federation National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China Guangdong University of Industry, China University of New South Wales, Australia In cooperation with IEEE TCPP, IEEE-HK, Guangdong Computer Federation of CCF -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPT’07 will be the 7th bi-annual conference on parallel processing technologies aimed at providing an exciting platform and paradigm attracting professionals of different communities such as industry and academic. Although the original objective is to share the experience in the area of the parallel processing technology with the underlying ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt12 ====================================================================== CFP: 2nd Int'l WS on Service- and Process-Oriented Software Engineering mmrb95@uow.edu.au SOPOSE'07 Call for Papers (Apologies if you receive multiple announcements) ***************************************************************************************************************************** 2nd International Workshop on Service- and Process-Oriented Software Engineering (SOPOSE-07) To be held in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE Services Congress, incoporating the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007) and IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, July 9-13, 2007(http://conferences.computer.org/services/2007/). WORKSHOP WEBPAGE: http://www.dsl.uow.edu.au/sopose ***************************************************************************************************************************** THEME: It is now widely recognized that service-oriented computing will be the dominant computing paradigm for at least the next decade. Businesses are also increasingly committing to a process-oriented approach in Business Process Management (BPM), which requires careful modelling, ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt13 ====================================================================== 2007 International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Sciences CMLS'07 tuan.pham@jcu.edu.au 2007 International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Sciences CMLS'07 December 10-12, 2007, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Symposium website: http://www.it.jcu.edu.au/~pham/CMLS07/CMLS07.htm ----------------------- *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ----------------------- With an emphasis on the applications of computer, physical, engineering and mathematical models for solving modern challenging problems in life sciences, CMLS’07 aims to bring biologists, medical and health-science researchers together with computational scientists to focus on problems at the frontier of computational life sciences. A goal of this meeting is that the interactions of scientists across several disciplines will lead to the identification of new scientific investigations, shape future directions for strategic research, and help industrial users apply advanced computational techniques for solving practical life-science problems. As another important aspect, ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt14 ====================================================================== CFP: IEEE LCN ON-MOVE 2007- Workshop On User MObility and Vehicular Networks soumaya.cherkaoui@usherbrooke.ca ---------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE LCN ON-MOVE 2007 Workshop On User MObility and VEhicular Networks http://www.ieee-lcn-onmove.org/ Dublin, Ireland; October 15-18, 2007. ---------------------------------------------------- To be held in conjuction with IEEE LCN http://www.ieeelcn.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------- IMPRTANT DATES: * Paper registration deadline: April 23, 2007 * Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2007 * Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2007 * Camera-ready paper due: July 23, 2007 * Author registration by: July 23, 2007 SCOPE: Users are becoming increasingly mobile and this requires solutions to ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt15 ====================================================================== CFP Submission - The Second IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements Nischal.Piratla@telekom.de The Second IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements To be held in conjunction with The 32nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2007) October 15-18, 2007 Dublin, Ireland CALL FOR PAPERS The Second LCN International Workshop on Network Measurements, will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). The workshop will include papers and panels dealing with latest advances and challenges facing the field. The expected audience will include networking researchers, practitioners, scientists and engineers, academia and government. The first IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Measurements was very successful in bringing together a set of participants actively working on network measurements in various domains. This year we will continue with the theme “Network Measurements – Different Perspectives,” to further promote the exchange of knowledge among different network measurement domains. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt16 ====================================================================== CfP: 3rd IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Security toelle@fgan.de ----------------------------------------------- Call for Papers WNS 2007 The Third IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Security Dublin, Ireland, October 2007 http://wns.fgan.de ----------------------------------------------- The Third IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Security will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) (Please also visit http://www.ieeelcn.org/). The workshop will bring together networking researchers, engineers, and practitioners with participants from industry, academia, and government. Topics of Interest: The proliferation of commercial activities over different networked systems has brought security concerns on an unprecedented scale. From ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt17 ====================================================================== mda4soa'07 - Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures Workshop; 2nd edition mda4soa@gmail.com First Call for Submissions (Submissions deadline: April 2, 2007) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures Workshop; 2nd edition (mda4soa'07) http://events.deri.at/mda4soa2007/ co-located with the 2007 IEEE International Conferences on Services Computing (SCC 2007) and Web Services (ICWS 2007) July 13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA -------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL OVERVIEW A new paradigm "service-orientation" is currently emerging for distributed computing and e-business processing; it has evolved from object-oriented and component-based computing to enable building agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries. This new paradigm utilizes ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt18 ====================================================================== 2nd Int'l WS on Service- and Process-Oriented Software Engineering mmrb95@uow.edu.au ***************************************************************************************************************************** 2nd International Workshop on Service- and Process-Oriented Software Engineering (SOPOSE-07) To be held in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE Services Congress, incoporating the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007) and IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, July 9-13, 2007(http://conferences.computer.org/services/2007/). WORKSHOP WEBPAGE: http://www.dsl.uow.edu.au/sopose ***************************************************************************************************************************** THEME: It is now widely recognized that service-oriented computing will be the dominant computing paradigm for at least the next decade. Businesses are also increasingly committing to a process-oriented approach in Business Process Management (BPM), which requires careful modelling, documentation and management, as well as continual improvement of, business processes. The software engineering questions relating to service-oriented systems, as well as those relating to process-oriented ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt19 ====================================================================== IEEE SenseApp 2007 - Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications salilk@cse.unsw.edu.au __________________________________________________________________________________ SENSEAPP 2007 SECOND IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PRACTICAL ISSUES IN BUILDING SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS (in conjunction with IEEE LCN 2007) Dublin, Ireland 15 - 18 October 2007 Web: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~senseapp CALL FOR PAPERS Sensor nodes are tiny autonomous devices that combine sensing, computing and wireless communication capabilities. These nodes are deeply embedded into the physical surroundings, and gather and process information such as temperature, humidity, light characteristics, seismic activities or images and sound samples from the physical world. Networked systems of such sensors are expected to be used in a variety of applications including habitat monitoring, precision agriculture, disaster recovery ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt20 ====================================================================== FCS-ARSPA'07 (Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security and Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis) Luca Vigano ************************ **** **** **** FCS-ARSPA'07 **** **** **** ************************ A LICS'07 and ICALP'07 Affiliated Workshop on FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SECURITY and AUTOMATED REASONING FOR SECURITY PROTOCOL ANALYSIS Wroclaw, Poland, July 8-9, 2007 http://profs.sci.univr.it/~vigano/fcs-arspa07 *********************** *** FIRST *** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt21 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships Research Assistant / Fellow in Computational Linguistics a.dong@arch.usyd.edu.au The Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at the University of Sydney is seeking to award a Post-Doctoral Fellowship to an excellent candidate who has recently completed, or is about to complete, an earned doctorate in computer science with a research emphasis in computational linguistics, and now wishes to continue a career in research or higher education. The Fellowship is funded by an ARC Discovery Project grant and will provide support for up to 3 years. The Fellow will contribute to the research on a language model of design with application to the analysis of text relating to the design of civic works. Successful applicants will be expected to commence in 2007. Further information can be obtained from Dr Andy Dong, The University of Sydney, Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, Wilkinson Building (G04), NSW 2006 (Phone: (02) 9351 4766; Fax: (02) 9351 3031 E-mail: andy.dong at usyd.edu.au). Expressions of interest or applications should be sent directly to Dr Andy Dong at the above address. Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a brief statement of research interests and achievements, and the names and contact details of at least two referees. The term of the appointment and the salary level are negotiable based on the candidates' interests and experience. However, it is expected to appoint the candidate at minimum 50% FTE in the Level A academic staff rate. Please refer to http://www.usyd.edu.au/hr/eb/2006/AC_annual_rates.pdf for the current ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt0 ====================================================================== PhD Scholarship at MQ in Trust and Security Closing date: 15 April 2007 yanwang@ics.mq.edu.au Service-oriented computing is an emerging field involving a diversity of e-services and complex technologies. Mechanisms for evaluating and enhancing the quality and reputation of services are critical. This project will investigate the reputation-based trust modeling and evaluation approaches in service-oriented environments. Additionally security mechanisms will be studied to enable a secure and reliable trust management system. A full-time Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarships (MQRES) is currently available to domestic and international students. Applicants should have completed equivalent research qualifications to an Australian undergraduate degree with first class honours in computer science, such as a Masters degree with substantial thesis component. Candidates with the experience on Web services are encouraged to apply. International applicants may need the IELTS score of 7.0 for the scholarship. The MQRES stipend is currently $19,616 p.a. tax exempt (2007). Tenure is 3.5 years full-time, subject to satisfactory progress with tuition fees funded for the scholarship tenure. Additional support for project costs and conference travel will also be available from the Divisional (approx $12,000) and University (approx $4,000) Postgraduate Research ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt1 ====================================================================== Research Associate position available in area of Mobile Trust, UTS Robert James Steele Faculty of Information Technology Ref No. R160207 Applications are invited for a Research Associate to work on the ARC Discovery Project "An Innovative Framework and Techniques for Trusted Mobile Interaction". This project will research new approaches to enabling trusted mobile interaction, an issue of growing academic and industry importance. The successful applicant will have a strong knowledge of XML as well as a strong understanding of security techniques and concepts. The project will be carried out at the Sydney CBD, UTS campus, and is available to start immediately. Salary range: Level A: $51,677 - $62,939pa. The University offers salary packaging plus attractive superannuation. This position is offered as a fixed-term contract for a period of ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt2 ======================================================================