From itannounce at pop.it.usyd.edu.au Wed May 9 13:44:06 2007 From: itannounce at pop.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@pop.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Wed May 9 13:55:13 2007 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 May 2007 Message-ID: <20070509034406.GA9102@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 1 for May, 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 CFP: The 13th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'07) MilCIS Conference-November 2007 International Conference Announcements CFP DDDM'07 - 2007 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining Call For Participation - SEKE2007 DAIS 2007 - Call for Participation 2nd CFP: PDCAT'07 (The Eight International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies) 2nd CFP: WISE 2007 (The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering) Call for Papers - ICSOC 2007 Vienna, Austria September 17-20, 2007 CFP: Workshop on Web Personalization and Recommender Systems In conjunction with WI'07 ICFI 2007 -- Call for papers Academic Positions Research Fellow (in Grid Computing) opportunity opening at Melbourne University Research Programmer - RMIT Intelligent agents research group Junior Research Programmer - RMIT Intelligent agents research group ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements CFP: The 13th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'07) mick@deakin.edu.au ======================================================================== The 13th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'07) December 17-19, 2007 Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 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 of the world to exchange ideas for improving the dependability of computing systems. This symposia will be returning to Melbourne, Australia in 2007, after hosting ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt0 ====================================================================== MilCIS Conference-November 2007 michael.frater@milcis.com.au Military communications and information systems have become increasingly important in recent years as networks and the network dimension become essential to military concepts such as information operations, information warfare, and network centric warfare. As modern defence forces become more network enabled and the pace of technological innovation quickens, it is increasingly difficult to maintain currency with the vast array of technologies associated with information-age warfare. MilCIS is an annual conference aimed at attendees from military and government organisations, academia, and defence industry, who contribute to key decisions in investments in communications and information systems. Papers are sought for oral presentation on all aspects of military communications and information systems, especially those focusing on the Conference themes. All papers will be refereed (on the full paper.) Authors will be advised in writing of acceptance or non acceptance of their paper. MilCIS2007 will address: * Operational concepts * Information management * Command support systems ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt1 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements CFP DDDM'07 - 2007 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining lbcao@it.uts.edu.au ******************************************************************************** Call for Papers 2007 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM 2007) San Jose, California, USA, 12th August 2007 In conjunction with ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'07) URL: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/dddm/ ******************************************************************************** The "2007 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM2007)" aims to provide a premier forum for sharing findings, knowledge, insight, experience and lessons in tackling potential challenges in discovering actionable knowledge from complex domain problems, promoting interaction and filling the gap between academia and business, and driving a paradigm shift from interesting hidden pattern mining to actionable knowledge discovery in varying data mining domains. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0 ====================================================================== Call For Participation - SEKE2007 Michael.Shin@ttu.edu CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'07) http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke07.html Important Dates: * Early Registration Deadline: May 1, 2007 Hyatt Harborside at Logan International Airport, Boston, USA July 9 - July 11, 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 ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt1 ====================================================================== DAIS 2007 - Call for Participation ricky.robinson@nicta.com.au --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation DAIS 2007 7th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems "Towards Sustainability" Paphos, Cyprus 6 - 8 June 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Early Registration Deadline: May 5, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.discotec07.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 7th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt2 ====================================================================== 2nd CFP: PDCAT'07 (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 the first time in Australia in the city of Adelaide in South Australia. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt3 ====================================================================== 2nd CFP: WISE 2007 (The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering) qsheng@cs.adelaide.edu.au *** CALL FOR RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, AND TUTORIALS *** WISE 2007 The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering December 3-7, 2007 Nancy, France http://wise2007.loria.fr/ The aim of this conference is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), and Wuhan, China (2006). ===RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY TRACKS=== There will be two independent tracks for Research and Industrial papers, each managed by a different program committee and with a different set of evaluation ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt4 ====================================================================== Call for Papers - ICSOC 2007 Vienna, Austria September 17-20, 2007 jiri@it.uts.edu.au Fifth International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2007) Vienna, Austria September 17-20, 2007 http://www.icsoc.org ICSOC 2007 seeks original papers in the field of service oriented computing, from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences, with the emphasis on results that contribute to solve the many still open research problems that are of significant impact to the field of service oriented applications. ICSOC 2007 also solicits proposals for workshops, tutorials and panels. Please see the website for more details. Topics include, but are not limited to: service description, discovery and composition, service deployment, platform configuration and capacity planning, monitoring, service middleware, service-oriented architectures, service management, information as a service, service development and maintenance, novel business models for SOAs, economical implications of Web Services and SOAs, service science, mobile and peer-to-peer services, data services, quality of service, exception handling, service reliability and security. The proceedings of ICSOC 2007 will be published by Springer Verlag as a part of its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt5 ====================================================================== CFP: Workshop on Web Personalization and Recommender Systems In conjunction with WI'07 yue.xu@qut.edu.au CALL FOR PAPER Workshop on Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WPRS07) in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI’07) and Agent Technology (IAT’07) November 2-5, 2007, Silicon Valley, USA Workshop Theme In recent years, interest in recommender systems has dramatically increased, driven by demand for Internet personalization applications. Many major e-commerce web sites are currently using recommender systems to provide advice to users about products or services and help users find the information of their interests quickly. Web-based recommender systems are the most notable application of the web personalization. With today's increasing information overload problem on the Web, the area of recommender systems research becomes more challenging than ever before. There remain difficulties limiting the full exploitation of ersonalization and recommendation, arising both from technology and from the "human factor." The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic and industrial researchers to exchange ideas about past, present and future trends in Web personalization and recommender systems and discuss the most innovative approaches to personalization and recommendation making. The themes will be in algorithms, applications and interfaces. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt6 ====================================================================== ICFI 2007 -- Call for papers m.dumas@qut.edu.au 9th International Conference on Feature Interactions in Software and Communication Systems (ICFI) September 3 - 5, 2007 Grenoble, France http://lig.imag.fr/ICFI2007 The International Conference on Feature Interactions in Software and Communication Systems (ICFI) has evolved out of the Feature Interaction Workshop, and is now concerned in all types of software systems. It has been the leading forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators in the field, and the most dedicated place for discussion and reporting on research in the feature interaction problem in telecommunications and software systems since 1992. The forum includes invited speakers, presentation of research papers, short presentations, posters and tool demonstrations. Feature interaction occurs when one feature modifies or subverts the operation of another one. This phenomenon can occur in any software system that is subject to changes; it is becoming a major issue in software product lines. We focus the conference on the topics listed below. Contributions extending beyond this list and addressing other issues related to the interaction problem (e.g. classification, taxonomy or benchmarking) ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt7 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships Research Fellow (in Grid Computing) opportunity opening at Melbourne University raj@csse.unimelb.edu.au Dear Colleague: The University of Melbourne has an opening for a Research Fellow at PostDoc Level in the area of Grid Computing to work on a DEST funded International Science Linkage Project. A summary of project is enclosed below. Details on how to apply for this position can be found at: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=307232 Due to funding body's condition, the candidate has be an Australian citizen or Permanent resident visa holder. Currently the position is advertised as 1 year position, but it has potential to be extensible upto 2.5 years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Science Linkage Project: funded by Australian Department of Science, Education and Training Project Title: The Utility Grid Project: Autonomic and Utility-Oriented Global Grids for Powering Emerging e-Research Applications. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt0 ====================================================================== Research Programmer - RMIT Intelligent agents research group johthan@cs.rmit.edu.au Research Programmer (Full Time) - Closing Date : 09/05/2007 RMIT has a large computer science department with a strong group working in the area of Intelligent Agents (www.cs.rmit.edu.au/agents). Melbourne is the hub of a significant amount of research and development in Intelligent Agents and their applications, and is the home of "Agents Victoria" a group of industry, government and university groups, involved in agent research and applications. We have a variety of funded projects and a strong team of academics, postdocs, research programmers and research students. We are currently seeking a new pprogrammer to provide programming support for various research projects. In particular the main task would be to maintain and extend the development of a Java based Agent design tool (www.cs.rmit.edu.au/agents/pdt). The applicant should have excellent programming skills in Java, with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, or cognate discipline, and some demonstrated industrial experience in Java applications development. Interested applicants please contact John Thangarajah (johthan@cs.rmit.edu.au) sending your CV and cover letter. (As some of our grants will only allow us to employ Australian permanent residents or citizens, please also provide your Australian residency status.) ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt1 ====================================================================== Junior Research Programmer - RMIT Intelligent agents research group johthan@cs.rmit.edu.au Junior Research Programmer (Part Time 20hrs/week) - Closing Date : 09/05/2007 RMIT has a large computer science department with a strong group working in the area of Intelligent Agents (www.cs.rmit.edu.au/agents). Melbourne is the hub of a significant amount of research and development in Intelligent Agents and their applications, and is the home of "Agents Victoria" a group of industry, government and university groups, involved in agent research and applications. We have a variety of funded projects and a strong team of academics, postdocs, research programmers and research students. This position would suit a student looking to gain work experience and one that has interest in the area of Artificial Intelligence and research. The new position would be expected to provide programming support for various research projects in particular to support a research project in agents and learning. The applicant should have very good programming skills in Java, good communication skills and the ability to work within a team. Interested applicants please contact Andy Song (asong@cs.rmit.edu.au) sending your CV ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt2 ====================================================================== From itannounce at pop.it.usyd.edu.au Tue May 22 20:16:49 2007 From: itannounce at pop.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@pop.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Tue May 22 20:36:54 2007 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 2 May 2007 Message-ID: <20070522101649.GA32277@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 2 for May, 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 CFP: The 13th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'07) MilCIS Conference-November 2007 Second call for papers: DG/SUM 2007, an international workshop on distributed and mobile spatial computing CFP VSMM'07 Brisbane 23 - 26 September CFP: Australasian Computing Education Conference 2008 Call For Papers: The Second International Conference on Knowledge, Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM'2007) International Conference Announcements CFP DDDM'07 - 2007 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining Call For Participation - SEKE2007 DAIS 2007 - Call for Participation 2nd CFP: PDCAT'07 (The Eight International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies) 2nd CFP: WISE 2007 (The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering) Call for Papers - ICSOC 2007 Vienna, Austria September 17-20, 2007 CFP: Workshop on Web Personalization and Recommender Systems In conjunction with WI'07 ICFI 2007 -- Call for papers International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, June 29-Jule 2, 2008 Shanghai China CFP: IEEE SenseApp 2007 (Deadline Approaching - 14th May) First Call for Paper - MMM2008 CFP: Workshop on Web Personalization and Recommender Systems In conjunction with WI'07 CFP: IEEE HASE 2007 PRIMA 2007 CPF WI-IAT 2007 Workshop Announcement 2nd CFP: WI 2007 2nd CFP: IAT-2007 CFP: VORTE 2007 Academic Positions Research Fellow (in Grid Computing) opportunity opening at Melbourne University Research Programmer - RMIT Intelligent agents research group Junior Research Programmer - RMIT Intelligent agents research group Positions/Sabbaticals in Seoul National University C/C++ Software Engineer: Lexxe Search Engine Computational Linguist: Lexxe Search Engine Intern Programmer: Lexxe Search Engine ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements CFP: The 13th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'07) mick@deakin.edu.au ======================================================================== The 13th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'07) December 17-19, 2007 Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 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 of the world to exchange ideas for improving the dependability of computing systems. This symposia will be returning to Melbourne, Australia in 2007, after hosting ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt0 ====================================================================== MilCIS Conference-November 2007 michael.frater@milcis.com.au Military communications and information systems have become increasingly important in recent years as networks and the network dimension become essential to military concepts such as information operations, information warfare, and network centric warfare. As modern defence forces become more network enabled and the pace of technological innovation quickens, it is increasingly difficult to maintain currency with the vast array of technologies associated with information-age warfare. MilCIS is an annual conference aimed at attendees from military and government organisations, academia, and defence industry, who contribute to key decisions in investments in communications and information systems. Papers are sought for oral presentation on all aspects of military communications and information systems, especially those focusing on the Conference themes. All papers will be refereed (on the full paper.) Authors will be advised in writing of acceptance or non acceptance of their paper. MilCIS2007 will address: * Operational concepts * Information management * Command support systems ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt1 ====================================================================== Second call for papers: DG/SUM 2007, an international workshop on distributed and mobile spatial computing plaube@unimelb.edu.au *** Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to redistribute. *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS | dg/sum'07 ISSNIP/ISPRS joint international workshop on distributed geoinformatics and sensing, ubiquity, and mobility. September 19, 2007 Melbourne, Australia Held in conjunction with COSIT 2007, the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory in Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23, 2007. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Theme Recent technological advances have led to an abundance of sensor, image, and streaming information. The ubiquitous availability of mobile processing devices, wireless sensor networks, and RFID tags in tandem with novel distributed computing architectures will enable a new range of applications. Most of the information generated by these distributed systems and applications is spatially referenced. Managing, processing, and using this geospatial information presents significant new research challenges in distributed information systems, including: ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt2 ====================================================================== CFP VSMM'07 Brisbane 23 - 26 September twyeld@gmail.com Call for Papers 13th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM"07). Brisbane, Australia from 23 - 26 September. http://australia.vsmm.org/ aus_reviewers@vsmm.org Multimedia and Virtual Environment technologies are increasingly appearing in an array of applications that foster deeper understandings of the environments around us. In the spirit of international exchange, cooperation and development, the focus of VSMM in 2007 will be on the application of these technologies in "Bridging Space and Place through digital exchange and experience". We seek long and short papers and posters reporting on Theoretical, Practical, and Applied research in the diverse fields of Virtual Heritage, Virtual Environments and their Applied technological systems. In addition to traditional conference paper and workshop proposals(?), VSMM07 encourages ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt3 ====================================================================== CFP: Australasian Computing Education Conference 2008 ace2008@newcastle.edu.au Tenth Australasian Computing Education Conference Wollongong, Australia, as part of Australasian Computer Science Week Tuesday 22 January - Friday 25 January 2008 The Call for Papers for ACE2008 has now been released. The paper deadline is likely to be August 26. For details, see: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/conference/ace2008 Simon, Margaret Hamilton ACE2008 co-chairs http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt4 ====================================================================== Call For Papers: The Second International Conference on Knowledge, Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM'2007) dongmo@scm.uws.edu.au Call For Papers The 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: ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt5 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements CFP DDDM'07 - 2007 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining lbcao@it.uts.edu.au ******************************************************************************** Call for Papers 2007 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM 2007) San Jose, California, USA, 12th August 2007 In conjunction with ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'07) URL: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/dddm/ ******************************************************************************** The "2007 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM2007)" aims to provide a premier forum for sharing findings, knowledge, insight, experience and lessons in tackling potential challenges in discovering actionable knowledge from complex domain problems, promoting interaction and filling the gap between academia and business, and driving a paradigm shift from interesting hidden pattern mining to actionable knowledge discovery in varying data mining domains. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0 ====================================================================== Call For Participation - SEKE2007 Michael.Shin@ttu.edu CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'07) http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke07.html Important Dates: * Early Registration Deadline: May 1, 2007 Hyatt Harborside at Logan International Airport, Boston, USA July 9 - July 11, 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 ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt1 ====================================================================== DAIS 2007 - Call for Participation ricky.robinson@nicta.com.au --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation DAIS 2007 7th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems "Towards Sustainability" Paphos, Cyprus 6 - 8 June 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Early Registration Deadline: May 5, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.discotec07.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 7th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt2 ====================================================================== 2nd CFP: PDCAT'07 (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 the first time in Australia in the city of Adelaide in South Australia. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt3 ====================================================================== 2nd CFP: WISE 2007 (The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering) qsheng@cs.adelaide.edu.au *** CALL FOR RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, AND TUTORIALS *** WISE 2007 The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering December 3-7, 2007 Nancy, France http://wise2007.loria.fr/ The aim of this conference is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), and Wuhan, China (2006). ===RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY TRACKS=== There will be two independent tracks for Research and Industrial papers, each managed by a different program committee and with a different set of evaluation ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt4 ====================================================================== Call for Papers - ICSOC 2007 Vienna, Austria September 17-20, 2007 jiri@it.uts.edu.au Fifth International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2007) Vienna, Austria September 17-20, 2007 http://www.icsoc.org ICSOC 2007 seeks original papers in the field of service oriented computing, from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences, with the emphasis on results that contribute to solve the many still open research problems that are of significant impact to the field of service oriented applications. ICSOC 2007 also solicits proposals for workshops, tutorials and panels. Please see the website for more details. Topics include, but are not limited to: service description, discovery and composition, service deployment, platform configuration and capacity planning, monitoring, service middleware, service-oriented architectures, service management, information as a service, service development and maintenance, novel business models for SOAs, economical implications of Web Services and SOAs, service science, mobile and peer-to-peer services, data services, quality of service, exception handling, service reliability and security. The proceedings of ICSOC 2007 will be published by Springer Verlag as a part of its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt5 ====================================================================== CFP: Workshop on Web Personalization and Recommender Systems In conjunction with WI'07 yue.xu@qut.edu.au CALL FOR PAPER Workshop on Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WPRS07) in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07) and Agent Technology (IAT'07) November 2-5, 2007, Silicon Valley, USA Workshop Theme In recent years, interest in recommender systems has dramatically increased, driven by demand for Internet personalization applications. Many major e-commerce web sites are currently using recommender systems to provide advice to users about products or services and help users find the information of their interests quickly. Web-based recommender systems are the most notable application of the web personalization. With today's increasing information overload problem on the Web, the area of recommender systems research becomes more challenging than ever before. There remain difficulties limiting the full exploitation of ersonalization and recommendation, arising both from technology and from the "human factor." The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic and industrial researchers to exchange ideas about past, present and future trends in Web personalization and recommender systems and discuss the most innovative approaches to personalization and recommendation making. The themes will be in algorithms, applications and interfaces. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt6 ====================================================================== ICFI 2007 -- Call for papers m.dumas@qut.edu.au 9th International Conference on Feature Interactions in Software and Communication Systems (ICFI) September 3 - 5, 2007 Grenoble, France http://lig.imag.fr/ICFI2007 The International Conference on Feature Interactions in Software and Communication Systems (ICFI) has evolved out of the Feature Interaction Workshop, and is now concerned in all types of software systems. It has been the leading forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators in the field, and the most dedicated place for discussion and reporting on research in the feature interaction problem in telecommunications and software systems since 1992. The forum includes invited speakers, presentation of research papers, short presentations, posters and tool demonstrations. Feature interaction occurs when one feature modifies or subverts the operation of another one. This phenomenon can occur in any software system that is subject to changes; it is becoming a major issue in software product lines. We focus the conference on the topics listed below. Contributions extending beyond this list and addressing other issues related to the interaction problem (e.g. classification, taxonomy or benchmarking) ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt7 ====================================================================== International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, June 29-Jule 2, 2008 Shanghai China r.wang@massey.ac.nz CALL FOR PAPERS The 2008 International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC 2008) is sponsored by International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control (IJMIC). It provides an international forum for professionals, academics, and researchers to present latest developments from interdisciplinary theoretical studies, computational algorithm development and applications. It particularly welcomes those emerging methodologies and techniques that bridge theoretical studies and applications in all engineering and science branches. Novel quantitative social, economical/financial studies may be considered as well. The 2008 ICMIC is organized by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and will be held in Shanghai, 'the Oriental pearl' of China. Papers are solicited on all aspects of research, development, and application of modelling, identification and control, including but not limited to: ; Static and dynamic systems modelling ; Novel and unconventional linear system modelling techniques ; Nonlinear and linear system identification ; Model calibration and validation ; Control and optimization techniques ; Neural networks, fuzzy logic, and other heuristic techniques ; Robotics ; Software development, benchmarking tests, and applications ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt8 ====================================================================== CFP: IEEE SenseApp 2007 (Deadline Approaching - 14th May) salilk@cse.unsw.edu.au Apologies for any duplicates. __________________________________________________________________________________ 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 Submission Deadline Extended to 14th May, 2007. 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 ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt9 ====================================================================== First Call for Paper - MMM2008 phoebe@deakin.edu.au First Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM2008) http://research.nii.ac.jp/mmm2008/ January 9-11 2008, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Supported by IEEE, ACM SIGMM, IEICE, and ITE ----- Important Dates --------------- Paper Submission: July 6, 2007 (23:59 Japan Standard Time (GMT+9)) Notification of Acceptance: September 10, 2007 Camera-ready Papers: October 5, 2007 Author Registration: October 5, 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt10 ====================================================================== CFP: Workshop on Web Personalization and Recommender Systems In conjunction with WI'07 yue.xu@qut.edu.au CALL FOR PAPER Workshop on Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WPRS07) in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07) and Agent Technology (IAT'07) November 2-5, 2007, Silicon Valley, USA http://www.wprs07.fit.qut.edu.au/ Workshop Theme In recent years, interest in recommender systems has dramatically increased, driven by demand for Internet personalization applications. Many major e-commerce web sites are currently using recommender systems to provide advice to users about products or services and help users find the information of their interests quickly. Web-based recommender systems are the most notable application of the web personalization. With today's increasing information overload problem on the Web, the area of recommender systems research becomes more challenging than ever before. There remain difficulties limiting the full exploitation of ersonalization and recommendation, arising both from technology and from the "human factor." The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic and industrial researchers to exchange ideas about past, present and future trends in Web personalization and recommender systems and discuss the most innovative approaches to personalization and recommendation making. The themes will be in algorithms, applications and interfaces. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt11 ====================================================================== CFP: IEEE HASE 2007 jdong@utdallas.edu THE 10TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HIGH ASSURANCE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (HASE 2007) November 14-16, 2007, Dallas, Texas http://hase07.utdallas.edu/ The IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering is a forum for discussion of systems and software engineering issues to achieve high assurance systems. The focus is on integrated approaches for assuring reliability, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, safety, and real-time of complex systems and the methods for assessing the assurance levels of the systems to a high degree of confidence. Technical and experience papers on algorithms, policies, middleware, tools, and models for high assurance systems development, verification and validation, and assessment are welcome. Topics of interests for the symposium include, but are not limited to: * Design and development of highly reliable, survivable, secure, safe, and time-assured systems * Integrated system reliability, availability, security, safety, and timing analysis and evaluation methods * Policies for reliability, safety, security, integrity, privacy, and confidentiality of high assurance systems ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt12 ====================================================================== PRIMA 2007 CPF chattrakul.s@msu.ac.th =========================================================== Call for Paper: PRIMA 2007 The 10th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents November 21-23, 2007 Bangkok, Thailand Website: http://www.prima2007.org Contact: info.prima2007@gmail.com =========================================================== PUBLICATION =========================================================== PRIMA 2007 workshop proceeding will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in AI series. =========================================================== IMPORTANT DATES: =========================================================== Papers due: July 16, 2007 ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt13 ====================================================================== WI-IAT 2007 Workshop Announcement wiiat@kis-lab.com [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2007) Accepted Workshop List ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007 Official: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/ Mirror: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/wi/ As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee (i.e., conference registration covers everything). ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt14 ====================================================================== 2nd CFP: WI 2007 wiiat@kis-lab.com [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### 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) ###################################################################### ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt15 ====================================================================== 2nd CFP: IAT-2007 wiiat@kis-lab.com [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07) Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007 Official: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/ Mirror: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/iat/ (to be collocated with WI'07, BIBM'07 and GrC'07) Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ##################################################################### ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt16 ====================================================================== CFP: VORTE 2007 j.b.dietrich@massey.ac.nz The 3rd International Workshop on VOCABULARIES, ONTOLOGIES AND RULES FOR THE ENTERPRISE (VORTE 2007) http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/ In conjunction with the 11th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007) "The Enterprise Computing Conference" http://edoc.mitre.org/ 15-19 October 2007, Annapolis, Maryland, USA Selected papers accepted to the workshop to be invited for a special issue in Elsevier's ISI-indexed Information Systems journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys/ WORKSHOP OVERVIEW Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules are key components of a model-driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy. VORTE 2007 is the third workshop associated with an EDOC conference that intends to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modelling, information systems, Semantic Web, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), business rules, and business processes. The goal of the workshop is to discuss the role that foundational and domain ontologies play in the conceptual development and implementation of next generation ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt17 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships Research Fellow (in Grid Computing) opportunity opening at Melbourne University raj@csse.unimelb.edu.au Dear Colleague: The University of Melbourne has an opening for a Research Fellow at PostDoc Level in the area of Grid Computing to work on a DEST funded International Science Linkage Project. A summary of project is enclosed below. Details on how to apply for this position can be found at: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=307232 Due to funding body's condition, the candidate has be an Australian citizen or Permanent resident visa holder. Currently the position is advertised as 1 year position, but it has potential to be extensible upto 2.5 years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Science Linkage Project: funded by Australian Department of Science, Education and Training Project Title: The Utility Grid Project: Autonomic and Utility-Oriented Global Grids for Powering Emerging e-Research Applications. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt0 ====================================================================== Research Programmer - RMIT Intelligent agents research group johthan@cs.rmit.edu.au Research Programmer (Full Time) - Closing Date : 09/05/2007 RMIT has a large computer science department with a strong group working in the area of Intelligent Agents (www.cs.rmit.edu.au/agents). Melbourne is the hub of a significant amount of research and development in Intelligent Agents and their applications, and is the home of "Agents Victoria" a group of industry, government and university groups, involved in agent research and applications. We have a variety of funded projects and a strong team of academics, postdocs, research programmers and research students. We are currently seeking a new pprogrammer to provide programming support for various research projects. In particular the main task would be to maintain and extend the development of a Java based Agent design tool (www.cs.rmit.edu.au/agents/pdt). The applicant should have excellent programming skills in Java, with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, or cognate discipline, and some demonstrated industrial experience in Java applications development. Interested applicants please contact John Thangarajah (johthan@cs.rmit.edu.au) sending your CV and cover letter. (As some of our grants will only allow us to employ Australian permanent residents or citizens, please also provide your Australian residency status.) ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt1 ====================================================================== Junior Research Programmer - RMIT Intelligent agents research group johthan@cs.rmit.edu.au Junior Research Programmer (Part Time 20hrs/week) - Closing Date : 09/05/2007 RMIT has a large computer science department with a strong group working in the area of Intelligent Agents (www.cs.rmit.edu.au/agents). Melbourne is the hub of a significant amount of research and development in Intelligent Agents and their applications, and is the home of "Agents Victoria" a group of industry, government and university groups, involved in agent research and applications. We have a variety of funded projects and a strong team of academics, postdocs, research programmers and research students. This position would suit a student looking to gain work experience and one that has interest in the area of Artificial Intelligence and research. The new position would be expected to provide programming support for various research projects in particular to support a research project in agents and learning. The applicant should have very good programming skills in Java, good communication skills and the ability to work within a team. Interested applicants please contact Andy Song (asong@cs.rmit.edu.au) sending your CV ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt2 ====================================================================== Positions/Sabbaticals in Seoul National University rimsnucse@gmail.com The school of computer science and engineering of Seoul National University (SNU), the best research-oriented university in Korea, is recruiting foreign (i.e., Non-Korean) Visiting Professors in all the fields of computer science and engineering. ** Visiting Professors: Applicants should have PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering and other related fields. They can freely perform their research in a well organized research environment. The commitment is to teach 2 courses in English per semester. Contracts from can be from 2 to 4 years. Once approved, the Korean government will provide up to $US60,000 annual salary. This is also a great opportunity for professors who are seeking for places for sabbatical year. Interested applicants are welcome to send their CVs to Prof. Chang-Gun Lee (cglee@snu.ac.kr) by May 10, 2007. http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt3 ====================================================================== C/C++ Software Engineer: Lexxe Search Engine hong.qiao@lexxe.com All applicants must have work permit to work in Australia. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Software Engineer [Job ID: 0702] Essential: BSc in Computer Science or equivalent (MSc and PhD a plus). Several years of software development experience. Experience with Unix/Linux, C/C++ development, distributed systems, machine learning, information retrieval, network programming and/or developing large software systems a plus. Unix system and scripting language (Shell, Perl, Javascript, Python) Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems. 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.txt4 ====================================================================== Computational Linguist: Lexxe Search Engine hong.qiao@lexxe.com All applicants must have work permit to work in Australia. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computational Linguist [Job ID: 0703] Essential: BSc/BA degree in Lingustics, Computational Linguistics or Computer Science or equivalent (MSc/MA and PhD a plus). Solid knowledge in linguistics. Several years of work experience in computational linguistics. Experience in corpus linguistics, computational lexicography, machine learning, information retrieval, particularly in software development environment Knowledge of foreign languages. Unix system and scripting language (Shell, Perl, Javascript, Python) Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems. Desirable: Knowledge of search engine technology. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt5 ====================================================================== Intern Programmer: Lexxe Search Engine hong.qiao@lexxe.com All applicants must have work permit to work in Australia. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intern Programmer [Job ID: 0704] Essential: BSc in Computer Science or equivalent. Knowledge of Unix/Linux, C/C++. Knowledge of HTML specification. Unix system and scripting language (Shell, Perl, Javascript, Python) Knowledge of a foreign language. Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems. Desirable: Knowledge of machine learning, information retrieval, network programming. Knowledge of search engine technology. Team player and also independent problem solving ability. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt6 ======================================================================