From syrma at cti.gr Fri Jun 1 10:24:39 2007 From: syrma at cti.gr (Spiros Sirmakessis) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:24:39 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] IEEE ICTAI-2007: Submission Extended Message-ID: <006301c7a426$4c6294b0$0f8e8c96@spyros> ********************Apologies for cross postings************************************* The 19th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on TOOLS with ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ICTAI-2007) October 29-31, 2007 Patras, Greece Conference site: http://ictai07.ceid.upatras.gr ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 11th JUNE 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK Rudolf Kruse, Univesrity of Magdeburg, Germany Constantine D. Spyropoulos, N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Greece ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) provides a major international forum where the creation and exchange of ideas related to artificial intelligence are fostered among academia, industry, and government agencies. The conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of these ideas and promotes their transfer into practical tools, for developing intelligent systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications. The ICTAI encompasses all the technical aspects of specifying, developing and evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms of the AI based components of computer tools (i.e. algorithms, methodologies, architectures or languages). TOPICS OF INTEREST include (but are not limited to) the following: AI Algorithms and Computing AI in Bioinformatics AI in Computer Security and Information Assurance AI in Databases and Data Mining AI in E-commerce AI in Games AI in Logistics and Supply Chain Management AI in Medicine AI in Multimedia Systems AI in Real-time and Embedded Applications AI in Robotics AI in Software Engineering Ambient Intelligence Artificial Life and Societies Case-Based Reasoning Cognitive Modelling Constraint Programming Collaborative Software Agents Evolutionary Computing Hybrid Intelligent Systems Information Retrieval Intelligent Agent Architectures and Languages Intelligent Internet Agents Intelligent Interface Agents Intelligent Tutoring/Training Systems Knowledge-based Systems Knowledge Discovery Knowledge Extraction Knowledge Management and Sharing Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Machine Learning Mobile Intelligent Agents Natural Language and Speech Processing and Understanding Neural Networks Planning and Scheduling Qualitative Reasoning Reasoning Under Fuzziness or Uncertainty Search and Heuristics Semantic Web Techniques and Technologies Swarm Intelligence Vision and Image Processing and Understanding. SUBMISSION The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted or published elsewhere work. Papers should be submitted electronically in pdf format and should conform to IEEE specifications (single-spaced, double-column, 10-point font size, length up to 8 pages). The accepted papers will be included in the ICTAI-07 proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Extended versions of the best papers of the conference will be published in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI Indexed). IMPORTANT DATES Papers submission: 11 June 2007 (extended) Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2007 Camera ready paper: 5 August 2007 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Nikolaos Avouris, University of Patras, Greece Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA LOCAL CO-CHAIRS Constantinos Koutsojannis, University of Patras, Greece Spiros Sirmakessis, RACTI, Patras, Greece PUBLICATION CHAIR Giannis Tzimas, RACTI, Patras, Greece PC CHAIR Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece AREA CHAIRS Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete & FORTH, Greece Rudiger Brause, J.W. Goethe-Universitat, Germany Paola Campadelli, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Silvia Coradeschi, Orebro University, Sweden Nikolaos Fakotakis, University of Patras, Greece Eric Gregoire, University d'Artois, France Susan Haller, State University of New York at Potsdam, USA Melanie Hilario, University of Geneva, Switzerland Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, USA Manolis Koubarakis, University of Athens, Greece Spiros Likothanasis, University of Patras, Greece Luigi Portinale, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Chen-Yu (Phillip) Sheu, University of California at Irvine, USA Paolo Traverso, Trentino Cultural Institute, Italy Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Maria Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece Du Zhang, California State University, USA PC MEMBERS Plamen Agelov, Lancaster University, UK Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Grigorios Beligiannis, University of Patras, Greece Isabelle Bichindaritz, University of Washington, USA Stefano Bistarelli, Univ 'G. d'Annunzio', IIT-CNR, Italy Basilis Boutsinas, University of Patras, Greece Enhong Chen, University of Science & Technology, China Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Yuehui Chen, Jinan University, China Berthe Choueiry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Yannis Dimopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus George Dounias, University of the Aegean, Greece Anna Esposito, Second Naples University and IIASS, Italy Andres Folleco, Florida Atlantic University, USA Reva Freedman, Northern Illinois University, USA Ulrich Furbach, Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany Artur Garcez, City University, UK Bogdan Gabrys, Bournemouth University,UK John Gallagher, Wright State University, USA Joao Gama, University of Porto, Portugal John Garofalakis, University of Patras, Greece Stratos Georgopoulos, Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, Greece Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Marco Gori, Universita di Siena, Italy Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Praveen Kakumanu, Wright State University, Dayton OH, USA Dimitris Kalles, Hellenic Open University, Greece Alexandros Kalousis, University of Geneva, Switzerland Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras, Greece Vangelis Karkaletsis, N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Greece, Mehmet Kaya, Firat University, Turkey Elpida Keravnou-Papaeliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Michail Lagoudakis, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece Edmund Lam, Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Huey-Ming Lee, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan Qi Li, Western Kentucky University, USA Aristeidis Likas, University of Ioannina, Greece Amy Loutfi, University of Orebro, Sweden Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA Ilias Maglogiannis, University of the Aegean, Greece George Magoulas, University of London, UK Christos Makris, University of Patras, Greece Amol Mali, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University, USA Florent Masseglia, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Barry McCollum, Queens University, Northern Ireland Paul McMullan, Queens University, Northern Ireland Stefania Montani, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Antonio Moreno, University Rovira i Virgilli, Spain Malek Mouhoub, University of Regina, Canada Amedeo Napoli, CNRS-INRIA-University of Nancy, France Daniel Neagu, University of Bradford, UK Vassilis Plagianakos, University of Patras, Greece George Potamias, FORTH, Greece Jim Prentzas, Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece Vitorino Ramos, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Mario Refice, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Han Reichgelt, Georgia Southern Univ, USA Bob Reynolds, Wayne State University, USA Michel Rueher, Universite de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, France Vasile Rus, The University of Memphis, USA Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA Naeem Seliya, University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA Sabrina Senatore, University of Salerno, Italy Kyriakos Sgarbas, University of Patras, Greece Victor R. L. Shen, National Taipei University, Taiwan Zenon Sosnowski, Bialystok Technical University, Poland Andreas Stafylopatis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Kostas Stergiou, University of the Aegean, Greece Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami, USA Roberto Tagliaferri, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Vincent Tam, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece Michael Vrahatis, University of Patras, Greece Christel Vrain, LIFO - Universite d'Orleans, France Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Xingquan Zhu, Florida Atlantic University, USA FURTHER INFORMATION Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis (PC Chair) Dept of Computer Engineering & Informatics University of Patras 26500 Patras HELLAS (GREECE) Email: ihatz at ceid.upatras.gr URL: http://mmlab.ceid.upatras.gr/aigroup/ihatz/ From j.osrael at infosys.tuwien.ac.at Fri Jun 1 10:48:16 2007 From: j.osrael at infosys.tuwien.ac.at (Johannes Osrael) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:48:16 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: ACM Published Workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing Message-ID: <200706010848.l518lsYY007741@mr.tuwien.ac.at> Workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing at the 8th Int. ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conf. 2007 Published by ACM November 26, 2007 Newport Beach, CA, USA http://www.dedisys.org/mw4soc07/ Submission Deadline: July 26, 2007 Author Notification: September 14, 2007 Call for Papers: Service Oriented Computing (SOC) is a computing paradigm broadly pushed by vendors, utilizing services to support the rapid development of distributed applications in heterogeneous environments. The visionary promise of SOC is a world of cooperating services being loosely coupled to flexibly create dynamic business processes and agile applications that may span organisations and computing platforms and can nevertheless adapt quickly and autonomously to changes of requirements or context. Consequently, the subject of Service Oriented Computing is vast and enormously complex, spanning many concepts and technologies that find their origins in diverse disciplines like Workflow Management Systems, Component Based Computing, "classical" Web applications, and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) including Message Oriented Middleware. In addition, there is a strong need to merge technology with an understanding of business processes and organizational structures, a combination of recognizing an enterprise's pain points and the potential solutions that can be applied to correct them. Middleware, on the other hand, is defined as the software layer in a distributed computing system that lies between the operating system and the applications on each site of the system (ObjectWeb consortium). Middleware is the enabling technology of system and enterprise application integration (EAI) and therefore it clearly and evidently plays a key role for SOC. While the immediate need of middleware support for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) is evident, current approaches and solutions mostly fall short by primarily providing support for the EAI aspect of SOC only and do not sufficiently address composition support, service management and monitoring. Moreover, quality properties (in particular dependability and security) need to be addressed not only by interfacing and communication standards, but also in terms of integrated middleware support. Thus, thetopics of particular interest for our workshop include, but are not limited to: * Architectures for Middleware for SOC. - Novel middleware architectures and platforms for SOC. - Infrastructure services and new/adapted middleware protocols for service oriented middleware, e.g.: - Transaction services reflecting different types of atomicity needs. - Reliable multicast and complex communication patterns. - Service replication. - Middleware support for data and resource integration, access to data services, interaction of distributed databases with service oriented systems (SOS), interaction with the GRID layer. - Middleware support for dynamic and flexible service re-configuration, re-composition, and re-engineering during run-time in accordance with an extensible set of QoS properties and policies. Support for composability analysis of replaceability, compatibility, and conformance. * Integration of SLA (service level agreement) support through middleware. - Middleware support for QoS negotiation and agreement, QoS contracts, composability of QoS requirements, QoS-aware service discovery and composition. - Middleware support for end-to-end dependability and security of service oriented systems. - Fault-tolerance support for SOS, highly available services, mission-critical composed SOS. - Middleware support for balancing of properties, composability of non-functional requirements. * Middleware support for service management and monitoring. - Group membership services, service groups, failure detection. - SLA monitoring and management, SLA violation/repair functions. - Self-configuring, self-adapting, self-healing, self-optimizing and self-protecting, as well as necessary measures and metrics. - Middleware support for service governance across organizational boundaries. * Middleware support for flexible and dynamic integration of business functions and organizational structures into Service oriented Systems (SOS). - Representation of business policies and rules during run-time. - Middleware support for adaptive workflows (including aspect-oriented BPEL). - Middleware support for adaptiveness and context-awareness of SOS including policies and decision making, active middleware capabilities including corrective action support. * Evaluation and experience reports of middleware for SOC and service oriented middleware. - Experience reports from various application areas such as e-government, e-health, e-learning, context-aware pervasive computing, mobile computing, but also mission-critical systems and embedded systems. - Application of middleware techniques to support re-configurability and/or adaptability, re-composability, QoS negotiation and agreement, explicit trading of non-functional properties, including commercial and open-source products. Workshop Co-Chairs: Karl M. Goeschka (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria) Schahram Dustdar (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria) Frank Leymann (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany) Vladimir Tosic (NICTA, Australia) Detailed information can be found at http://www.dedisys.org/mw4soc07/ ? From hg at uni-paderborn.de Fri Jun 1 10:51:13 2007 From: hg at uni-paderborn.de (Holger Giese) Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:51:13 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: 4th Workshop on Object-oriented Modeling of Embedded Real-Time Systems (OMER 4) Message-ID: <465FDE01.3010806@uni-paderborn.de> Call for Papers 4th Workshop on Object-oriented Modeling of Embedded Real-Time Systems (OMER 4) October 30 and 31, 2007, Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn, Germany. http://omer4.uni-paderborn.de ************************************************************************** Paper Submission Deadline: 1st July 2007 ************************************************************************** Scope Most of the technical systems which make up our daily environment such as cars or airplanes are unthinkable in their current form without the hidden complex embedded software which controls and coordinates their behavior. As the embedded software of advanced technical systems not only realizes the fundamental functionality, but is today often also employed to realize the main competitive advantages of a product, embedded software has become the main driver for innovations in many technical fields. Model-based development and automatic code generation have become an established technology on the functional level. However, their seamless support for the system level and its object-oriented modeling remains challenging. The adaptation and improvement of object-oriented, component-based, and model-based methods which promise to facilitate the development, deployment, and reuse of software components in embedded environments therefore has gained much attention in industry and academia. The domain-specific constraints of technical systems such as real-time requirements, resource limitations and specific hardware dependencies, however, have often impeded the acceptance of appropriate object-oriented modeling techniques and model-based development approaches. This workshop therefore focuses on the current trends in the automotive industry and related fields towards system architectures, software reuse and complexity management. This fourth workshop in the OMER series aims like the preceding events to bring together industry and academia to encourage communication on the achievements and needs of object-oriented modeling and model-based development of embedded real-time systems. It places special emphasis on the remaining challenges, especially on how to further integrate the software engineering and control engineering worlds. Suggested areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Architectures/frameworks for platform independent, reusable software components - Code-generation - Component interoperability - Formal verification at the model and code level - Integration with control theory and functional modeling - Model-driven development and model transformations - Modeling self-optimizing or self-adaptive behavior - Multi-agent systems for mechatronic systems - Offline or real-time simulation - Object-oriented acausal models (e.g. Modelica) - Software components as products - Software quality - Model management - Standards and guidelines (e.g., AUTOSAR, IEC 61508, MISRA, UML, ?) - Respective trends in automotive software development Submission Position papers of four to six pages should be submitted electronically as PDF (see http://omer4.uni-paderborn.de). The proceedings will be published as a technical report. It is planned that revised versions of the papers will be published in a book after the workshop. Important Dates Paper submission deadline 1st July 2007 Notification of acceptance 1st August 2007 Camera-ready papers due 1st September 2007 Program Chairs Holger Giese, University of Paderborn, Germany Joachim Stroop, dSPACE GmbH, Germany Local Chair Matthias Gehrke, University of Paderborn, Germany Program Committee H. D?rr, Carmeq GmbH, Germany U. Freund, ETAS GmbH, Germany S. Graf, Verimag, France H. Hansson, M?lardalen University, Sweden U. Honekamp, Vector Informatik, Germany H. Hungar, OFFIS, Oldenburg, Germany S. J?hnichen, TU Berlin/Fhg FIRST, Germany S. Kowalewski, RWTH Aachen, Germany I. Kr?ger, UC San Diego, USA P. Mosterman, The MathWorks, USA R. Rinat, Telelogic, Israel S. Rooks, IBM Rational Software, United Kingdom B. Rumpe, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany B. Sanchez, Siemens VDO Automotive, France W. Sch?fer, University of Paderborn, Germany B. Sch?tz, TU Munich, Germany A. Sch?rr, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany M. T?rngren, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden M. von der Beeck, BMW AG, Germany J. Ziegler, Nokia, Helsinki, Finland Main Sponsors dSPACE GmbH Secondary Sponsors s-lab, University of Paderborn SFB 614, University of Paderborn Other Supporters Joint Interest Group on Modeling of the German Informatics Society (GI) From areces at loria.fr Fri Jun 1 16:45:40 2007 From: areces at loria.fr (Carlos Areces) Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:45:40 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] ESSLLI 2008: Call for Course and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <46603114.1010801@loria.fr> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 20th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2008 Monday, 4 August - Friday, 15 August 2008 Hamburg, Germany %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------- The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, http://www.folli.org) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. The ESSLLI 2008 Program Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 20th annual Summer School on a wide range of timely topics that have demonstrated their relevance in the following fields: - Logic and Language - Logic and Computation - Language and Computation PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals should be submitted through a web form available at http://www.folli.org/submission.php All proposals should be submitted no later than ******* Monday July 2, 2007. ******* Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than Monday September 10, 2007. Proposers should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate can not be considered. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: Anyone interested in lecturing or organizing a workshop during ESSLLI-2006, please read the following information carefully. ALL COURSES: Courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers. They consists of five sessions (a one-week course), each session lasting 90 minutes. Lecturers who want to offer a long, two-week course should submit two independent one-week courses (for example an introductory course in the first week of ESSLLI, and a more advanced course during the second). The ESSLLI program committee has the right to select only one of the two proposed courses. Timetable for Course Proposal Submissions: July 2, 2007: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 10, 2007: Notification June 2, 2008: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material (by ESSLLI Local Organizers) FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are strictly elementary courses not assuming any background knowledge. They are intended for people to get acquainted with the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they should allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key competences of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses may presuppose some experience with scientific methods in general, so as to be able to concentrate on the issues that are germane to the area of the course. INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School. They are intended to equip students and young researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and techniques. Introductory courses in, for instance, Language and Computation, can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the course as compared to standard texts in the area (if available). ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced Masters or PhD students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. WORKSHOPS: The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work. Workshops should have a well defined theme, and workshop organizers should be specialists in the theme of the workshop. It is a strict requirement that organizers give a general introduction to the them during the first session of the workshop. They are also responsible for the organization and program of the workshop including inviting the submission of papers, reviewing, expenses of invited speakers, etc. In particular, each workshop organizer will be responsible for producing a Call for Papers for the workshop by November 11, 2007. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the LLI community. It should also note that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions: July 2, 2007: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 10, 2007: Notification Nov 11, 2007: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers (by ESSLLI PC chair) Nov 18, 2007: Workshop organizers send out (First) Call for Papers Mar 17, 2008: Deadline for Papers (suggested) Apr 28, 2008: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested) June 2, 2008: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of Workshop Proceedings (by ESSLLI Local Organizers) Notice that workshop speakers will be required to register for the Summer School; however, they will be able to register at a reduced rate to be determined by the Local Organizers. FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS: The web-based form for submitting course and workshop proposals is accessible at http://www.folli.org/submission.php. You will be required to submit the following information: * Name (name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer) * Address (contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer; where possible, please include phone and fax numbers) * Title (title of proposed course/workshop) * Type (is this a workshop, a foundational course, an introductory course, or an advanced course?) * Section (does your proposal fit in Language & Computation, Language & Logic or Logic & Computation? name only one) * Description (in at most 150 words, describe the proposed contents and substantiate timeliness and relevance to ESSLLI) * External funding (will you be able to find external funding to help fund your travel and accommodation expenses? if so, how?) * Further particulars (any further information that is required by the above guidelines should be included here; in particular, indicate here your teaching experience in an interdisciplinary field as the one addressed by ESSLLI.) FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Prospective lecturers and workshop organizers should be aware that all teaching and organizing at the summer schools is done on a voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible. Lecturers and organizers are not paid for their contribution, but are reimbursed for travel and accommodation (up to a fixed, maximum amount that will be notified to lecturers when courses are accepted). It should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs, specially from destinations outside Europe. Please note the following: In case a course is to be taught by two lecturers, a lump sum is reimbursed to cover travel and accommodation expenses for one lecturer. The splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers. The local organizers highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and workshop organizers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses, and such issues might be taken into account when selecting courses. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chair: Rineke Verbrugge Institute of Artificial Intelligence University of Groningen Grote Kruisstraat 2/1 9712 TS Groningen The Netherlands phone +31 (0)50 571 81 41 e-mail : rineke (at) ai.rug.nl www : http://www.ai.rug.nl/~rineke Local co-chair: Benedikt L?we Area Specialists: Petra Hendriks and Philippe Schlenker (Logic and Language) Michael Kaminski and Enrico Franconi (Logic and Computation) Khalil Sima'an and Massimo Poesio (Language and Computation) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Walter von Hahn and Cristina Vertan FURTHER INFORMATION: The website for ESSLLI 2008 will become operational in the second half of 2007. For this year's summer school, please see the web site at http://www.cs.tcd.ie/esslli2007/ . With best regards, Rineke Verbrugge From ipc07cyberchair at gmail.com Sat Jun 2 01:40:12 2007 From: ipc07cyberchair at gmail.com (IPC-07 Cyberchair) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 08:40:12 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] IPOC-07 Call for Papers Message-ID: <7710b8a00706011640v486ee206oda824403a0c2578a@mail.gmail.com> ============IPC-07 Call for Papers ======================= *****Submission Due: June 22, 2007 (Hard Deadline)******* The 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing (IPC-07) http://www.sersc.org/IPC2007 October 11th ~ 13th, 2007, in Jeju Island, Korea ---------------------------------------------------------- The 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing (IPC-07) will be held in Jeju Island, Korea on October 11-13, 2007. IPC-07 will be the most comprehensive conference focused on the various aspects of advances in intelligent pervasive computing. Pervasive computers, networks and information are paving a road towards a smart world in which computational intelligence is distributed throughout the physical environment to provide trustworthy and relevant services to people. This intelligent pervasive computing (IPC) will change the computing landscape because it will enable new breeds of applications and systems to be developed; the realm of computing possibilities will be significantly extended. By embedding digital intelligence in everyday objects, our workplaces, our homes and even ourselves, many tasks and processes could be simplified, made more efficient, safer and more enjoyable. Intelligent pervasive computing composes these many "intelligent objets" to create the environments that underpin the smart world. The IPC conference will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of IPC. In addition, the conference will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in IPC. Furthermore, we expect that the conference and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject. ==Topics: 10 Tracks == Mobile and Wireless Communications Database and Data Mining Multimedia Embedded Systems and Software Security, Privacy and Trust Pervasive Applications Agent and Intelligent Computing Service and Semantic Computing Grid, P2P and Scalable Computing Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing ==Organization== Steering Chairs Tai-hoon Kim (Hannam University, Korea) Wai-Chi Fang (NASA, USA) General Chairs Jong Hyuk Park (Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea) Laurence T. Yang (St Francis Xavier University, Canada) Program Chairs Minyi Guo (University of Aizu, Japan) Im Yeong Lee (SoonChunHyang University, Korea) Workshop Chairs Agustinus Borgy Waluyo (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Sajid Hussain (Acadia University, Canada) Zhiwen Yu (Kyoto University, Japan) Steering Committee Hamid R. Arabnia (The University of Georgia, USA) Kyo-il Chung (ETRI, Korea) Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Sharma Chakravarthy (The University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Sajal K. Das (University Texas at Arlington, USA) Mario Freire (Department of Informatics, Portugal) Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Tom Chen (Southern Methodist University, USA) Program Vice-Chairs Mobile and Wireless Communications: Jemal H. Abawajy (Deakin University, Australia) E-mail: jemal at deakin.edu.au Database and Data Mining: Sharma Chakravarthy (The University of Texas at Arlington, USA) E-mail: sharma at cse.uta.edu Multimedia: Chengcui Zhang (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA) E-mail: zhang at cis.uab.edu Embedded System and Software: Zili Shao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) E-mail: cszlshao at comp.polyu.edu.hk Security, Privacy and Trust: Kouichi Sakurai (Kyushu University, Japan) E-mail: sakurai at csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp Pervasive Applications: Deok Gyu Lee (ETRI, Korea) E-mail: deokgyulee at gmail.com Agent and Intelligent Computing: Sajid Hussain (Acadia University, Canada) E-mail: Sajid.Hussain at acadiau.ca Service and Semantic Computing: Feilong Tang (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China) E-mail: tang-fl at cs.sjtu.edu.cn Grid, P2P and Scalable Computing: Ching-Hsien Hsu (Chung Hua University, Taiwan) E-mail: chh at chu.edu.tw Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing: Noria Foukia (Otago University of Otago, New Zealand) E-mail: nfoukia at infoscience.otago.ac.nz Local Arrangement Chairs Khi Jung Ahn (Cheju National University, Korea) Publicity Chairs Antonio Coronato (ICAR-CNR, Italy) Daniel Howard (QinetiQ, UK) Haeng-kon Kim (Catholic Univ. of Taegu, Korea) Ilsun You (Korean Bible University, Korea) Guojun Wang (Central South University, P.R.China) Publication Chair Hangbae Chang (Daejin University, Korea) Jiyoung Lim (Korean Bible University, Korea) International Liaison Chairs Andrew Kusiak (The University of Iowa, USA) Hakan Duman (British Telcom, UK) System & Web Management Chairs Byoung-Soo Koh (DigiCAPS Co., Ltd, Korea) Sang-Soo Yeo (Kyushu University, Japan) Program Committee: http://www.sersc.org/IPC2007/page8.php ==Paper Submission== Submit a full paper with no page limits (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press with 6 pages for each paper. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. Distinguished papers accepted and presented in IPC-07, after further revisions, will be published in special issues on prestigious international journals (Pending). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20070602/fc23272b/attachment.htm From zhang at cis.uab.edu Sat Jun 2 17:49:44 2007 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (Chengcui Zhang) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 10:49:44 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ecoop-info] Deadline Extended: IEEE workshop on Semantic Computing and Multimedia Systems (SCMS 2007) Message-ID: [Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting] Dear Prospective Author: The paper submission deadline has been extended to June 13th (FIRM). Manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to one of the Program Chairs - Dr. Chengcui Zhang: zhang at cis.uab.edu Dr. Hongli Luo (luoh at ipfw.edu)) on or before the deadline date of June 13, 2007. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). Submissions should include the name and the email address of the corresponding author. Again, all information regarding paper submission requirements are elaborated in the workshop web site at: http://www.cis.uab.edu/kddm/scms07/call01.htm best, Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Assistant Professor Associate Director of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Lab Department of Computer and Information Sciences [Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------- The First IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Multimedia Systems (IEEE-SCMS 2007), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC 2007). September 17-19, 2007, Irvine, California, USA http://www.cis.uab.edu/kddm/scms07/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: With the explosion of multimedia data (image, video, structured text, etc.) and the recent advances in networks and information technology, multimedia computing is having an unprecedented impact on every aspect of our life, from the personal use of multimedia mobile devices, such as iPod and PDA, to a wide spectrum of domains such as business and healthcare. The new multimedia standards (e.g., MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in an ever effective way, bringing along the multimedia revolution. Traditional multimedia research, which lies in signal processing and data communication, is now challenged by the new requirements such as multi-modal interaction and mining, cooperative processing, new multimedia standards, Quality of Service (QoS), multimedia security, and social issues, which are just a few of the major research areas. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in the areas of multimedia systems to discuss the state of the art of the research on multimedia information systems, present theoretical frameworks and practical implementations, and identify challenges and open issues in multimedia system design and modeling. This workshop has a special focus on the different system aspects of this growing research in multimedia semantic computing, including pervasive multimedia computing systems, multimedia delivery over the network, personalized multimedia information retrieval systems which adapt to the users needs, integration of semantic content and schema from distributed multimedia sources so that the user sees a unified view of heterogeneous data, clustering and classification of semantically-tied information in different multimedia modalities, security issues in multimedia/hypertext systems, etc. We invite researchers from various disciplines to submit original research contributions to this workshop. IEEE SCMS 2007 will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (http://icsc2007.eecs.uci.edu/). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * content-based retrieval (image, video, audio, etc.) * multimodal data analysis and interaction * Multimedia streaming and networking * human-centered multimedia computing * image/video/audio databases * multimedia data mining * multimedia data storage * social network analysis from multimedia * multimedia data modeling * distributed multimedia systems * multimedia data visualization * multimedia assurance and security * applications --------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions for authors: Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and related topics are solicited. Authors should submit a 6- to 8-page technical paper manuscript (in English) in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract, following the document templates available on the ICSC2007 web page (http://icsc2007.eecs.uci.edu/submission.html). Manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to one of the Program Chairs listed below on or before the deadline date of June 13, 2007. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). Submissions should include the name and the email address of the corresponding author. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance by the Program Committee. The acceptance/rejection of the papers will be based on the review results. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 13, 2007 (Firm) Notification of Results: July 1, 2007 Camera-Ready Due: July 15, 2007 Author Registration: July 15, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Co-chairs: Chengcui Zhang (zhang at cis.uab.edu) The University of Alabama at Birmingham Hongli Luo (luoh at ipfw.edu) Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee: Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA Mei-Ling Shyu University of Miami, USA Xingquan Zhu Florida Atlantic University, USA William I. Grosky University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Ishwar K. Sethi Oakland University, USA Latifur Khan University of Texas at Dallas, USA Min Chen University of Montana, USA Shermann S. M. Chan Florida International University, USA Shih-Hsi Liu California State University, Fresno, USA Alan Sprague The University of Alabama at Birmingham _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors From wva at info.fundp.ac.be Sat Jun 2 22:16:21 2007 From: wva at info.fundp.ac.be (Wim Vanhoof) Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:16:21 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] (2nd CFP) Workshop on Logic-based Methods in Programming Environments (WLPE'07) Message-ID: <4661D015.5010907@info.fundp.ac.be> [Apologies for multiple copies...] ----------------------------------------------------------- WLPE' 07 - CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Logic-based Methods in Programming Environments (satellite workshop of ICLP'07) September 13, 2007 Porto, Portugal http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/hill/WLPE07/ ----------------------------------------------------------- The 17th Workshop on Logic-based methods in Programming Environments will take place in Porto, Portugal, as a satellite workshop of ICLP'07, the 23th International Conference on Logic Programming. This workshop will continue the series of successful international workshops on logic programming environments held in Ohio, USA (1989), Eilat, Israel (1990), Paris, France (1991), Washington, USA (1992), Vancouver, Canada (1993), Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy (1994), Portland, USA (1995), Leuven, Belgium and Port Jefferson, USA (1997), Las Cruces, USA (1999), Paphos, Cyprus (2001), Copenhagen, Denmark (2002), Mumbai, India (2003), Saint Malo, France (2004), Sitges, Spain (2005) and Seattle, Washington USA (2006). The workshop aims at providing an informal meeting for researchers working on logic-based tools for development and analysis of programs. In addition to papers describing more conceptual work on environmental tools, we solicit papers describing the implementation of and experimentation with such tools. Areas particularly relevant to the workshop include: * static and dynamic analysis * debugging and testing * program verification and validation * code generation from specifications * termination and non-termination analysis * reasoning on occurs-check freeness and determinacy * profiling and performance analysis * type- and mode analysis * module systems * optimization tools Note that this list is not exhaustive and, if you are interested in taking part in the workshop but unsure if your work falls within its scope, do contact the organisers who will be happy to advise. Submission guidelines --------------------- We invite the submission of full papers which, excluding references, should not exceed 16 pages, or short papers describing work in progress which should be no more than 6 pages. Authors are requested to submit their paper in standard postscript or pdf format (preferable in Springer LNCS style) to: http://www.easychair.org/WLPE07/ An informal proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. After the workshop, the proceedings will be publicly available on-line in the Computing Research Repository (CoRR). Important dates --------------- Submission: June 15, 2007 Notification: July 8, 2007 Camera-ready: August 15, 2007 Workshop: September 13, 2007 Workshop organizers ------------------- Patricia Hill School of Computing, University of Leeds Leeds, England Phone: +44 113 343 6807 Fax: +44 113 343 5468 http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/hill/ Wim Vanhoof Insitut d'Informatique, University of Namur Namur, Belgium Phone: +32 81 72 49 77 Fax: +32 81 72 49 67 http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~wva/ Program committee ----------------- John Gallager (Roskilde University, Denmark) Gopal Gupta (University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A) Michael Hanus (Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel, Germany) Pat Hill (University of Leeds, U.K.) Erwan Jahier (Verimag Laboratory, Gi?res, France) Gerda Janssens (KULeuven, Belgium) Susana Mu?oz-Hern?ndez (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain) Baudouin Le Charlier (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) Lunjin Lu (Oakland University, USA) German Puebla (Technical University of Madrid, Spain) Alexander Serebrenik (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Fausto Spoto (Universit? di Verona, Italy) Wim Vanhoof (University of Namur, Belgium) Enea Zaffanella (Parma University, Italy) Event's Web homepage -------------------- http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/hill/WLPE07/ From iliano at cmu.edu Sun Jun 3 17:17:58 2007 From: iliano at cmu.edu (Iliano Cervesato) Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:17:58 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for papers -- ASIAN'07 Message-ID: <4662DBA6.7000207@cmu.edu> [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] CALL FOR PAPERS ASIAN'07 12th Annual Asian Computing Science Conference Focusing on Computer and Network Security December 9-11, 2007 Carnegie Mellon University Doha, Qatar http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/asian07 The ASIAN conference series provides a forum for researchers throughout Asia to present cutting-edge results in yearly-themed areas of Computer Science, to discuss advances in these fields, and to interact with researchers from other continents. The 2007 edition focuses on computer and network security. Networked computer systems stand at the core of today's information society: by providing fast access to huge quantities of information, they enable higher productivity at a much higher convenience than ever in the past. They also provide a substantial opportunity for abuse. The closely related areas of Network and Computer Security are concerned with mitigating this risk and preventing disruption, fraud, disclosure, etc. The former tends to concentrate on the infrastructure, while the latter deals with everything else. In recent years, they have made enormous progress both in our theoretical understanding of what security is and in the development of practical protection mechanisms. Yet, they are engaged in a continuing arms race with an underground army of ever more sophisticated attackers intent to bypass whatever shield protects a system. This makes network and computer security one of the most active fields in today's scientific landscape. New results in the fields of computer and network security are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Access control * Data and system integrity * Database security * Distributed systems security * Privacy and Anonymity * Security for mobile computing * Cryptographic protocols * Wireless network security * Trust and trust management * Denial-of-service and prevention * Authentication * Intrusion detection and avoidance * Digital rights management * Digital forensics * Executable content * Vulnerabilities and risk management * Language-based security * Secure electronic commerce * Formal methods for security * Secure software engineering Invited Speakers ---------------- It has been a tradition of ASIAN to invite three of the most influential researchers in the focus area, one from Asia, one from Europe and one from the Americas, to discuss their work and their vision for the field. We are honored that the following members of the community have accepted this invitation. * Joshua Guttman, MITRE (USA) * Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University (Sweden) * Kazuhiko Kato, University of Tsukuba (Japan) Submission Instructions ----------------------- Submissions must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be submitted in Postscript or Portable Document Format (PDF); papers submitted in a proprietary word processor format such as Microsoft Word cannot be considered. Submissions can be of two types: * Regular papers are meant to describe solid new research results. They can be up to 15 pages long in LNCS style, including figures, bibliography and appendices. * Short papers are intended to report on interesting work in progress. They can be at most 7 pages long in the LNCS style. Papers can be electronically submitted by visiting http://www.easychair.org/ASIAN07/. Prospective authors are required to register a title and an abstract a week before the paper submission deadline (see below). As with the previous editions, the proceedings of ASIAN'07 will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. They will be available at the conference. Participation ------------- Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one will be present at the symposium. Papers that do not adhere to this policy will be removed from the proceedings. Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission deadline: July 27, 2007 Paper submission deadline: August 3, 2007 Notification of acceptance: September 7, 2007 Camera-ready papers: September 28, 2007 ASIAN 2007: December 9-11, 2007 Program Committee ----------------- * Michael Backes, Saarland University (Germany) * Iliano Cervesato, Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar) - chair * Anupam Datta, Stanford University (USA) * Mourad Debbabi, Concordia University (Canada) * Sven Dietrich, CERT (USA) * Masami Hagiya, University of Tokyo (Japan) * Yassine Lakhnech, VERIMAG (France) * Ninghui Li, Purdue University (USA) * Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Lab (USA) * R. Ramanujam, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (India) * Takamichi Saito, Meiji University (Japan) * Dheeraj Sanghi, IIT Kanpur (India) * Thierry Sans, Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar) * Andre Scedrov, University of Pennsylvania (USA) * Vitaly Shmatikov, University of Texas-Austin (USA) * Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University (USA) * Yuqing Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) * Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore) Contact Information ------------------- Email: asian07 at qatar.cmu.edu Web page: http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/asian07 From cfp at oopsla.org Mon Jun 4 02:05:57 2007 From: cfp at oopsla.org (cfp at oopsla.org) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 20:05:57 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] OOPSLA Call for Posters, Demos and other late content Message-ID: <200706032005.58112.cfp@oopsla.org> **** What's oopsla up to? The leading forum for innovative and thought-provoking ideas in object-oriented programming for 21 years, oopsla is taking on today's software challenges, attracting people interested in: * programmer productivity * secure and reliable software * changing hardware platforms * ultra-large scale systems oopsla is the premier conference for publishing state of the art research, for seeking comment on works in progress, for sharing practical experiences, and (frequently, we're proud to say) for presenting Turing Award lectures on significant works. It is where industry experts and their academic peers gather to * improve programming languages * refine the practice of software development * explore new paradigms Through collaboration, diversity, and incubation we are overcoming the challenges facing the software industry. **** The conference isn't until October, what's happening now? Right now we're looking for submissions for: * Posters * Demonstrations * Doctoral Symposium * Onward! Tools and Films * Student Research Competition Visit http://www.oopsla.org/2007/submissions to see how you can contribute. Furthermore, the accepted workshops are looking for submissions. Visit http://www.oopsla.org/2007/workshops to see the list of accepted workshops. Submissions to workshops should be to the workshop organizer. All year long the conference committee works hard to organize the program. People like you ? developers, researchers, industry experts, and academics from around the world ? contribute most of the content. Contributing provides tremendous satisfaction and pride in sharing your knowledge and insight. A bonus is the chance to meet a like (or unlike) mind who's worked on similar problems, providing an opportunity for feedback and brainstorming solutions to sticky problems. Contribute to oopsla and you will be enriched as you enrich the world of software. **** And when are those submissions due? July 2, 2007 - Submission Deadline for Posters, Demonstrations, Doctoral Symposium, Onward! Tools and Films, Student Research Competition, and Student Volunteers October 21, 2007 - Conference starts Contact the workshop organizer for deadlines of that specific workshop. In addition, there are four symposia that will be co-located with OOPSLA 2007. These may be appropriate if you want to target a very specific audience. Here are their web sites: * Dynamic Languages Symposium --- http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/dls07/ * International Symposium on Memory Management --- http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~greg/ismm07/ * WikiSym --- http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/ * Library-Centric Software Design Symposium --- http://lcsd.cs.tamu.edu/2007/ -- For more information, visit http://oopsla.org Program Chair David F. Bacon, IBM papers at oopsla.org Onward! Chair Cristina Videira Lopes, UC Irvine onward!@oopsla.org Conference Chair Richard P. Gabriel, USA chair at oopsla.org From av at lcc.uma.es Mon Jun 4 10:43:03 2007 From: av at lcc.uma.es (Antonio Vallecillo) Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:43:03 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] WODPEC 2007: Call for Papers -- REMINDER Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20070604104201.020ab108@localhost> This is to remind you that the deadline for submitting papers to WODPEC 2007 is June 15, 2007. Should you require any further extension, please request it as soon as possible. We look forward to receiving your contributions this year, in which the special emphasis is on *tool support for enterprise architecture, in particular for ODP system specifications*. Contributions on the rest of the topics listed in the CFP below are of course warmly welcome, too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** 4th International Workshop on ODP for Enterprise Computing (WODPEC 2007) In conjunction with the 11th IEEE EDOC 2007 ("The Enterprise Computing Conference") 15th October, Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A http://www.inf.ufes.br/~jpalmeida/wodpec2007 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The RM-ODP standard (ISO/IEC 10746 | ITU-T Rec. X.901-X.904, Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing) provides a comprehensive and coherent framework of concepts for the specification of complex large scale IT systems, and has taken on a new significance in the light of the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) initiative from the OMG and the wide-scale adoption of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). Thus, we are witnessing major companies and organizations starting to use RM-ODP as an effective approach for structuring their large-scale distributed IT system specifications. With this increase in the significance of the RM-ODP comes the need to address a range of associated issues arising both from the practical application of its concepts and from its relationship with other enterprise architectural frameworks and methodologies. From a practical point of view, there are issues related to the use of the RM-ODP to achieve effective and integrated business and service modeling, and to handle the complexity of specifying policy, security and system management requirements of current IT systems. The integration of disparate technologies under the same framework should also be addressed to be able to specify large ?systems of systems?. There are also issues related to the notations required for modeling RM-ODP viewpoints. UML is probably the natural candidate, but its use as the language and notation of choice for ODP system modeling is not free from problems. Besides, what is the role that Model-Driven Software Development, and in particular MDA; can play here? Should other modeling notations be considered, such as SysML? With regard to the relationship of the RM-ODP with other frameworks and methodologies, there are issues concerning development methods and processes, and current and emerging architectural approaches. How can an approach based on the RM-ODP accommodate other architectural approaches such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the Component-based Architecture (CBA), and the Event Driven Architecture (EDA)? Can it accommodate aspect-oriented development approaches? Can it be successfully integrated into development processes such as RUP? What is the relationship of the RM-ODP to enterprise architectural frameworks such as TOGAF or DoDAF? Following the success of WODPEC 2004, 2005 and 2006, WODPEC 2007 aims to continue to provide a discussion forum where researchers, practitioners, system modelers, tool developers and representatives of standardization bodies can meet and exchange experiences, problems and ideas related to the ODP framework for system specification, its practical application and long term evolution, and its use in conjunction with other architectural practices and approaches (e.g., MDA, SOA, CBA, EDA) in the realm of Enterprise Distributed Computing. In particular, this time in WODPEC we are especially interested in tool support for ODP system specifications, and in general for enterprise architecture. The advent of the MDD and the proliferation of modeling languages and tools have provided an excellent environment for the development of tools for ODP system specifications. Such tools may include viewpoint language editors, viewpoint correspondence management tools, model analyzers, code generators, viewpoint model repositories, etc. Demonstrations of such tools are warmly welcome for presentation at the Workshop. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * RM-ODP system specifications: + the relationship of an ODP enterprise specification to, and its integration with, more general business models; + specification for the management of enterprise federations; + specification of business rules; + specification of policy; + specification of security and system management; + specification for system evolution; + the impact of developments in technology on the ODP computational, engineering and technology languages; + the use of ODP for specific application domains (finance, telecomms, health care, aerospace, utility, etc.); + identification and management of correspondences between viewpoints; + conceptual and formal foundations of the RM-ODP. * Use of UML + current issues, limitations and problems in using UML profiles to represent ODP concepts; + formal semantics for UML Profiles for the representation of ODP concepts; + definition of UML Profiles for ODP viewpoints and for extensions and refinements of the RM-ODP for particular application domains. + representation of viewpoint correspondences using UML; + potential problems for the industrial adoption of UML for ODP system specifications; + use of modelling languages other than UML for ODP system specifications. * Development practices/approaches and RM-ODP + relationship of the RM-ODP approach to, and its integration with, the MDA; + relationship of the RM-ODP approach to, and its integration with, architectural approaches such as SOA, CBA, EDA and aspect-oriented development ); + relationship of the RM-ODP approach to, and its integration with, development processes such as RUP; + relationship of the RM-ODP approach to enterprise architectural frameworks such as TOGAF or DoDAF. * Tool support for enterprise architecture + requirements on supporting tools or tool chains (currently in use or under development); + MDD tools for ODP system specifications. * Case studies and experiences + examples of the application of the RM-ODP approach to the specification of IT systems, in particular large-scale distributed systems; + teaching the system of RM-ODP concepts to students, especially to graduate (experienced) students, not only in IT but also in IS, MBA, and other programs. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND WORKSHOP FORMAT To enable lively and productive discussions, submission of a paper or a position statement is required. All submissions will be formally peer reviewed. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages long in IEEE Computer Society format and include the author?s name, affiliation and contact details. They should be submitted by e-mail as postscript or PDF files before 15 June 2007, to jpalmeida 'at' ieee.org. A package with formatting instructions and a template for Word and style files for Latex is available from the workshop web page. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 30 July 2007. At least one author of accepted papers should participate in the Workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library. The duration of the Workshop is one day. The Workshop will be divided into two main sessions (morning and afternoon). The first session will be dedicated to the brief presentation of papers, initial discussions, and the joint identification of specific issues that participants consider to be of particular relevance and deserving further joint analysis. These issues will be discussed in groups during the afternoon, closing the Workshop with one hour wrap-up session dedicated to drawing the Workshop's conclusions, identifying the open issues, and outlining some future work. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline: 15 June 2007 - Paper acceptance notification: 30 July 2007 - Camera ready of papers: August 2007 (to be determined) - Workshop date: 15 October 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Jo?o Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo (Brazil) and University of Twente (The Netherlands) - Peter F. Linington, University of Kent (UK) - Antonio Vallecillo, University of M?laga (Spain) - Bryan Wood, Agile Enterprise Ltd (UK) PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Dave Akehurst, University of Kent (UK) - Jo?o Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo (Brazil) and Univ. of Twente (The Netherlands) - Jean B?rub?, Idigenic (Canada) - Remco Dijkman, Technical University Eindhoven (The Netherlands) - Celso Gonz?lez, IBM (Canada) - Haim Kilov, Stevens Institute of Technology (US) - Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki (Finland) - Nicole Levy, University of Versailles (France) - Peter F. Linington, University of Kent (UK) - Arve Meisingset, Telenor (Norway) - Joaquin Miller, X-Change Technologies (US) - Zoran Milosevic, Deontik (Autralia) - Jos? Ra?l Romero, University of C?rdoba (Spain) - Tom Rutt, Coast Enterprises, INCITS T3 IR (US) - Peter Shames, NASA/JPL (US) - Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente (The Netherlands) - Akira Tanaka, Hitachi (Japan) - Bruno Traverson, EDF R&D (France) - Sandy Tyndale-Biscoe, Agile Enterprise Ltd (UK) - Antonio Vallecillo, University of M?laga (Spain) - Alain Wegmann, EPFL (Switzerland) - Bryan Wood, Agile Enterprise Ltd (UK) - Takahiro Yamada, JAXA (Japan) From samt2007 at ge.imati.cnr.it Mon Jun 4 10:11:14 2007 From: samt2007 at ge.imati.cnr.it (samt2007 at ge.imati.cnr.it) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:11:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [ecoop-info] SAMT 2007 CFP : Deadline extension Message-ID: <1877.192.168.0.129.1180944674.squirrel@samba.ge.imati.cnr.it> [Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this mail to anyone interested.] --- DEADLINE EXTENSION --- NEW DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION IS JUNE 11TH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Second international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT 2007) Former European Workshop on the Integration of knowledge, semantic and digital Media Technologies (EWIMT) December 5-7, 2007 Genova, Italy http://samt2007.ge.imati.cnr.it/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OBJECTIVES ---------- The international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technologies (SAMT) targets to narrow the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media - The Semantic Gap. SAMT started out as two workshops, EWIMT 2004 and EWIMT 2005, that quickly achieved enormous success in attracting high-quality papers and over 100 participants from across Europe and beyond. Last year EWIMT turned into the full-fledged conference SAMT, addressing integrative research on new knowledge-based forms of digital media systems. SAMT brings together those forums, projects, institutions and individuals investigating the integration of knowledge, semantics and low-level multimedia processing, and links them with industrial research and development engineers who exploit the underlying emerging technology. In cooperation with the European Commission DG Information Society, the third day of the conference will feature keynote talks from EC representatives. TOPICS ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Integration of multimedia processing and Semantic Web technologies * Multimedia ontologies and infrastructures * Knowledge assisted multimedia analysis and access * Knowledge based inference for semi-automatic semantic media annotation * Integration of content-based multimedia analysis with natural language and speech processing * Multimodal techniques, high dimensionality reduction and low-level feature fusion * Revelance feedback for finding semantics * Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval * Metadata management for multimedia * Browsing large multimedia archives * Scalable, semantic-driven multimedia content adaptation and summarization * Interfaces and personalisation for interaction with large multimedia repositories * Social tagging, ontologies and multimedia content * Semantics-driven multimedia presentation generation * Context, user, network and semantics-aware media engineering * Standards bridging the multimedia and knowledge domains PAPER SUBMISSION ----------------- Original contributions should be submitted electronically according to the instructions that will be posted to the conference web site. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science series (LNCS). Full papers are expected to be 12-14 A4 pages and should present previously unpublished original results that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The accepted full paper contributions will be presented during the plenary sessions and will appear in the conference proceedings. Short papers are expected to be 4 A4 pages at most. The accepted short papers will be included in the proceedings as extended abstract and presented as posters during the conference. Prospective contributors are invited to submit their papers on-line according to the guidelines at http://samt2007.ge.imati.cnr.it. Information for LNCS Authors at http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 Submissions will open in May 2007. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- 20 April Special Sessions Submission 4 May Notification for Special Sessions 21 May Tutorials & Workshops Proposals 11 June Paper Submission 31 July Paper Notification 10 Sept Camera-ready Papers for information, please contact samt07-chairs at ge.imati.cnr.it ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Conference Chairs: Bianca Falcidieno, IMATI-CNR, Italy Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Technical Programme Chairs: Michela Spagnuolo, IMATI-CNR, Italy Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany Special Sessions Chair: Werner Haas, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria Workshops Chair Catherine Houstis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece Tutorials Chair Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ----------------- Technical Programme Committee Bruno Bachimont, Institut National de Audiovisuell, France Wolf-Tilo Balke, University of Hannover, Germany Jenny Benois-Pineau, University of Bordeaux, France Patrick Bouthemy, IRISA, France Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary University of London, UK Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Philipp Cimiano, AIFB Universitat Karlsuhe, Germany Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Germany Touradj Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH Christophe Garcia, France Telecom, France Gregory Grefenstette, LIC2M, CEA-LIST William I. Grosky, University of Michigan, US Werner Haas, Joanneum Research, Austria Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland Paola Hobson, Motorola Labs, UK Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University of London, UK Franciska de Jong, University of Twente, The Netherlands Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK Hyoung Joong Kim, Korea University, Korea Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Paul Lewis, University of Southampton, UK Simone Marini, IMATI-GE / CNR, Italy Ferran Marques, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Jose Martinez, GTI-UAM, Spain Adrian Matellanes, Motorola Labs, UK Bernard Merialdo, EURECOM, France Ralph Moller, Hamburg Institute of Technology, Germany Frank Nack, LIRIS - University Claude Bernard, Lion, France Milind Naphade, IBM, US Jan Nesvadba, Philips Research Laboratories, Endhoven Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK Thrasyvoulos Pappas, Northwestern University, US Dietrich Paulus, University of Koblenz, Germany Ewald Quak, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Fausto Rabitti, ISTI-CNR, I Andrew Salway, University of Surrey, UK Mark Sandler, Queen Mary, University of London Simone Santini, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Francis Schmitt, CNRS, France Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, D Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Vojtech Svatek, University of Economic, Prague, Czech Republic Raphael Troncy, CWI, NL Manolis Vavalis, ITI, GR Remco Veltkamp, Utrecht University, NL Anne Verroust, INRIA, France Paulo Villegas, Telefonica I+D, Spain Li-Qun Xu, British Telecom, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO BE REMOVED FROM THIS LIST You are receiving this email because you have participated in a previous EWIMT or SAMT related event. 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From iclp07-publicity at di.uevora.pt Mon Jun 4 12:46:55 2007 From: iclp07-publicity at di.uevora.pt (ICLP07 publicity) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:46:55 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: ASP2007 - 4th International Workshop on Answer Set Programming Message-ID: <0AF7C1F7-9298-4938-8B98-E8CBD87CD991@di.uevora.pt> (Apologies for multiple copies) ********* CALL FOR PAPERS ********* *************** Deadline June 30, 2007 **************** ======================================================================== =================== ASP2007 4th International Workshop on Answer Set Programming Co-located with the International Conference on Logic Programming ICLP 2007 September 8 and 13, 2007 Porto, Portugal ======================================================================== =================== *** Overview *** Answer Set Programming is by now a well-established paradigm of declarative programming. While close in syntax to prolog-like logic programming, its semantics is based on a program having a number of answer sets, that represent possible consistent "views" on the "world" defined by the program itself. Answer Set Programming can be seen under several points of view: as a knowledge representation language strongly related to non- monotonic reasoning, as a programming language suitable to many application domains where incomplete/uncertain information may occur, as an underlying formalism for many extensions tailored to specific application domains. An increasingly important application area is that of databases and data integration systems, where the need of constructing and managing a unified view of data originating from different heterogeneous and possibly distributed sources calls for increased flexibility in managing inconsistency. *** Topics: *** All with focus on Answer Set Programming, among which: * foundations * extensions * ASP-based programming languages * reasoning about action and change * causal reasoning * reasoning with uncertain knowledge * planning, diagnosis, learning * representation of and reasoning about complex systems * deductive databases * data integration systems * ASP and agents * specification and verification of formal properties * implementations and benchmarks * tools and methodologies for ASP-programming * (innovative) application domains ======================================================================== ==================== *** Submissions *** We invite submissions of 2 kinds: 1. Submissions of high quality, original papers, which are not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style, which can be obtained from http://www.springeronline.com, and not exceed 15 pages including figures, references, etc. Each paper should include some examples illustrating the proposed techniques. 2. Submissions of system descriptions, to be presented at the workshop as demos. In this category papers should be written in English, formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS style, which can be obtained from http://www.springeronline.com, and not exceed 5 pages including figures, references, etc. Each paper should describe a working system illustrating its objectives and the implementation techniques. Working systems possibly include solvers, solver components and interfaces and application-oriented systems that employ Answer Set Programming for some of their functions. Submissions should be sent by E-mail to the Workshop Co-chairs. The message should indicate paper Title, Authors and Abstract, with the .pdf version of the paper in attachment. Email: stefcost at di.univaq.it and richard.watson at ttu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- *** Important Dates *** Submission Deadline: June 30, 2007 Notification: July 30, 2007 Camera Ready Copy Due: August 10, 2007 ASP'07 : September 8 and September 13, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- *** Proceedings *** A printed volume of the proceedings will be available at the workshop. We also plan to publish a selection of extended workshop papers on a journal ======================================================================== =================== *** Invited Speaker: *** to be announced ======================================================================== =================== *** About ASP Workshop Series *** You can find information about the ASP worshop series here (http:// asp05.cs.bath.ac.uk/). ======================================================================== =================== *** Workshop Chairs *** Stefania Costantini, University of L'Aquila, Italy Richard Watson, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- *** Programme Committee *** Marcello Balduccini, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA Loreto Bravo, University of Edinburgh, UK Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Pedro Cabalar, Corunna University, Galicia, Spain Andrea Formisano, University of Perugia, Italy Emilia Oikarinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Mauricio Osorio, Fundacion Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, M?xico. Gerald Pfeifer, Novell/SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Germany Giorgio Terracina, University of Calabria, Italy ======================================================================== ============== *** Workshop Web site *** http://www.cs.ttu.edu/asp07/ For any inquiry, please send it to stefcost at di.univaq.it. From peter.ryan at newcastle.ac.uk Mon Jun 4 10:08:23 2007 From: peter.ryan at newcastle.ac.uk (Peter Ryan) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 09:08:23 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] DSN tutorial on high assurance voting systems In-Reply-To: <4662DBA6.7000207@cmu.edu> References: <4662DBA6.7000207@cmu.edu> Message-ID: <2ED602334F87F94CB1CA268F9608C194015408AD@moonraker.campus.ncl.ac.uk> At this year's DSN in Edinburgh 25 June, Peter Ryan will be giving a tutorial on high assurance voting systems. Registration: http://www.dsn.org/ Details: http://www.dsn.org/fullProgram.htm Outline: Confidence in voting systems has been badly shaken in recent years, in particular in the wake of the 2000 and 2004 US elections, but also many other elections throughout the world whose accuracy and probity has been questioned. Researchers have been pursuing the goal of high assurance, verifiable voting schemes. A number of schemes have emerged in the last few years that are reaching a sufficient level of maturity for them to be seriously considered for deployment in real elections and referenda. The problem with most existing voting technologies is that voters (and election officials) have to place a high degree of trust in the underlying technology, software etc. Recent schemes seek to provide voter-verifiablity: voters are able to confirm that their vote is accurately included in the count whilst not being able to prove to a third party how they voted. Furthermore, this should be achieved without needing to place any trust in hardware, software, system suppliers etc. The tutorial will describe the requirements for high-assurance voting systems, describe the multitude of threats and present a number of solutions, focussing on the author's Pret a Voter scheme. From wiiat at kis-lab.com Mon Jun 4 17:49:03 2007 From: wiiat at kis-lab.com (Jia Hu) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:49:03 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2007 Deadline Extended: June 16, 2007 Message-ID: <20070604155333.342CC6BB15@mail.mjolner.com> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] Dear Colleague, In response to many requests for an extension, we are pleased to extend the paper submission deadline for WI 2007 to ** June 16, 2007 **. Submission can be done online at: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/ We look forward to receiving your submissions soon. With best regards, Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin PC chair of WI-IAT'07 ##################################################################### 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 # # Program Chair and Co-Chairs # T.Y. Lin, Professor, SJSU, BISC Fellow, UC-Berkeley # Laura Haas, Director, IBM Almaden Research Center # Janusz Kacprzyk, Professor, Polish Academy of Science # Rajeev Motwani, Professor, Stanford University # # Organizing Chair # Howard Ho, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center # # WI-IAT Joint Keynote Speakers (Tentative) # # Vinton G. Cerf, Turing Award Winner, # VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google # Richard M. Karp, Turing Award Winner, # University of California Berkeley # Anant Jhingran, VP and CTO, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory # # WI Invited Speakers: # # Dieter A. Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria # Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan # (More WI Invited Speakers will be announced) # # (Papers Due: ** June 1 **, 2007) # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI. ###################################################################### Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (e.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and advanced Information Technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities. It is one of the most important as well as promising IT research fields in the era of Web and agent intelligence. The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07) will be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07), the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'07), and the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC'07) for providing synergism among the four research areas. It will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The four conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across the four conferences. We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper sessions that discuss common problems in the four areas. +++++++++++ Highlights +++++++++++ The conference will be held in Silicon Valley, California. Many high-tech companies and three distinguished universities (Stanford, UC Berkely and UCSC) are just around the corner. The highlight of the conference is that a unique forum consisting of a half-day industry/ demo track and free discussion will be organized to link industries and academics. Leading IT companies like IBM, Google, and Yahoo etc will present at the conference. The area now known as Silicon Valley has been a center of technological development since the 1950's. The name Silicon Valley stems from the early 1970's, when the area had become the center for many semiconductor companies. While still hosting semiconductor and microprocessor companies, the region now hosts the headquarters of high tech companies of every kind, including many of the best known and most prestigious names in personal computers, Web search, Internet auctions, networking, storage, databases, etc. +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ The topics and areas include, but not limited to: * WI Foundations - Brain Informatics for WI - Human level WI - New cognitive models and computational models for WI - Granular Computing (GrC) for WI - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI * World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation - Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML) - Search of Best Means and Ends - Goal-Directed Services Support - Distributed Resources Optimization - Service Self-Aggregation - Web Inference Engine - Information and Knowledge Markets - New Social Interaction Paradigms - Social and Psychological Contexts - Regularities and Laws of W4 * Social Networks and Social Intelligence - Social Network Mining - Web Site Clustering - Link Topology and Site Hierarchy - Theories of Small-World Web - Virtual and Web Communities - Web-Based Cooperative Work - Knowledge Community Formation and Support - Ubiquitous Computing - Intelligent Wireless Web - Ubiquitous Learning Systems - Entertainment * Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence - Semantic Grids - Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery - On-Demand Planning and Routing - Brokering and Scheduling - Middleware Architectures and Tools * Web Mining and Farming - Text Mining - Data Stream Mining - Multimedia Data Mining - Web Content Mining - Web Log and Usage Mining - Learning User Profiles - Context Sensitive Web Mining - Web Information Clustering - Web Page Clustering and Mining - E-Mail Classification - Web Site Classification - Web Information Indexing - Data Warehousing - Web Farming and Warehousing * Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval - Ontology-Based Web Mining - Web-Based Ontology Learning - Semantic Web * Web Agents - Global Information Foraging - Distributed Problem Solving - Coordination - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms - Self-Organization and Reproduction - Agent Networks and Topologies - Mobile Agents - Macroscopic Behavior Modeling - Trust Models for Web Agents * Web Services - Service-Oriented Computing - Matchmaking - Web Service Reconfiguration - Web Service Workflow Composition - Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services - Grid Services * Web Information Filtering and Retrieval - Automatic Cataloging and Indexing - Clustering-Based Recommender Systems - Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation - Hybrid Recommendation - Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations - Web Information Categorization and Ranking - Proxy and Cache Techniques - Web Prediction and Prefetching - Distributed Web Search - Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process - Web Crawling Systems - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines * Intelligent Human-Web Interaction - Adaptive Web Interfaces - Context-Aware Computing - Learning User Profiles - Personalized Interfaces - Personalized Web Sites - Remembrance Agents - Multimedia Representation - Visualization of Information and Knowledge - Social and Psychological Issues * Web Support Systems - Information Retrieval Support Systems - Web Site Navigation Support Systems - Recommender Support Systems - Web-Based Decision Support Systems - Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing) and Uncertainty Management for WI * Intelligent e-Technology - Business Intelligence - Digital Library - Decentralized Community Communication Techniques - e-Community - e-Business and e-Commerce - e-Finance - e-Government - e-Learning - e-Publishing - e-Science - Intelligent Enterprise Portals - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM - Web-Based EDI - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 7 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the Author Guidelines of last year at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/wi06.xml). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI'07 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'07 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI. Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 7 pages in the proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers. All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission, notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification. A selected number of WI'07 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html). More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the WI'07 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ WI'07 Best Paper Awards ++++++++++++++++++++++++ The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. The full author list and paper title will be announced on the Web Intelligence Consortium homepage: http://wi-consortium.org/html/wicawards.html ++++++++++++++++++++ Industry/Demo-Track ++++++++++++++++++++ We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods. (1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as the research track. (2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule. (3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option. That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration. For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions at the homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/ We are planning to arrange the Industry/Demo track in the afternoon of November 3 (before and during the conference reception), jointly with the IAT'07 Demo sessions. Leading IT companies in Silicon Valley will be invited to attend this track. ++++++++++ Workshops ++++++++++ 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). ---------------------- WI-IAT 2007 Workshops: ---------------------- Title: Educating the Web-Generation (Edu4WebGen 2007) Organisers: Elisabeth Heinemann Email: elisabeth.heinemann at googlemail.com Web page: http://www.effactory.com/Edu4WebGen/ Title: Collective Intelligence on Semantic Web (CISW 2007) Organisers: Geun Sik Jo; Jason J. Jung; Ngoc Thanh Nguyen Email: gsjo at inha.ac.kr; j2jung at intelligent.pe.kr; thanh at pwr.wroc.pl Web page: http://intelligent.pe.kr/CISW07/ Title: New Computing Paradigms for Web Intelligence and Brain Informatics (WImBI 2007) Organisers: Dr. Yuefeng Li; Dr. Yulin Qin, Prof. Dieter Fensel Email: y2.li at qut.edu.au; dieter.fensel at deri.org Web page: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wimbi07/WImBI2007.htm Title: Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WPRS 2007) Organisers: Yue Xu Email: yue.xu at qut.edu.au Web page: http://www.wprs07.fit.qut.edu.au/ Title: Service Composition & SWS Challenge (SerComp & SWS Challenge 2007) Organisers: M. Brian Blake; Dumitru Roman; Charles Petrie Email: blakeb at cs.georgetown.edu; dumitru.roman at deri.org Web page: http://events.deri.at/sercomp2007/ Title: Biomedicine Applications of Web technologies (BMWT 2007) Organisers: Chun-Nan Hsu; Vincent Shin-Mu Tseng; Wen-Hsiang Lu Email: chunnan at iis.sinica.edu.tw; tsengsm at mail.ncku.edu.tw; whlu at mail.ncku.edu.tw Web page: http://chunnan.iis.sinica.edu.tw/BMWT2007.html Title: Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI 2007) 1st Organiser: Prof. Seiji YAMADA Email: seiji at nii.ac.jp Web site: http://ymd.ex.nii.ac.jp/ws/iwi/07/ Title: Cyberinfrastucture for e-Science (CyIneS 2007) Organisers: Prof. Vasant Honavar; A/prof. Kei Cheung Email: honavar at cs.iastate.edu; kei.cheung at yale.edu Web page: http://www.cild.iastate.edu/events/CyIneS2007/ Title: Social Media Analysis (SMA 2007) Organisers: Chun-hung Li, William K. Cheung, Quoping Qiu Email: sma at comp.hkbu.edu.hk Web page: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~sma/ Title: Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust (WSIPT 2007) Organisers: Dr. Yiuming Cheung, Prof. Michael Chau, and Prof. Yong Zhang Email: ymc at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK; mchau at business.hku.hk; zhangyong076 at gmail.com Web page: http://isec.hitsz.edu.cn/wsipt07/ Title: Communication between Human and Artificial Agents (CHAA 2007) Organisers: Christel Kemke Email: ckemke at cs.umanitoba.ca Web page: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ckemke/CHAA-07/ Title: Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems (RRS 2007) Organisers: Takayuki Ito Email: ito.takayuki at nitech.ac.jp Web page: http://www-itolab.mta.nitech.ac.jp/RRS2007/ Title: P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents (P2PAA 2007) Organisers: Tarek Helmy, Khaled Ragab Email: helmy at ccse.kfupm.edu.sa; helmy at kfupm.edu.sa Web Page: http://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~helmy/P2PAA2007_WI.html Title: (Multi-)Agent Systems Systems in E-Business: Concepts, Technologies and Applications (MASeB 2007) Organisers: Costin Badica; Maria Ganzha; Marcin Paprzycki Email: badica_costin at software.ucv.ro; ganzha at euh-e.edu.pl; marcin.parzycki at swps.edu.pl Web page: http://software.ucv.ro/~badica_costin/maseb2007/ Title: Agent & Data Mining Interaction (ADMI 2007) Organisers: Pericles A. Mitkas, Longbing Cao, Vladimir Gorodetsky, Justin Zhan Email: mitkas at eng.auth.gr; lbcao at it.uts.edu.au Web page: http://issel.ee.auth.gr/ADMI For more information, please visit the conference website at http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/?index=workshop. ++++++++++ Tutorials ++++++++++ WI'07 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'07 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Workshop proposal submission: March 20, 2007 Electronic submission of full papers: ** June 1, 2007 ** Tutorial proposal submission: June 15, 2007 Notification of paper acceptance: July 22, 2007 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: August 17, 2007 Conference: November 2-5, 2007 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Chair: * Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA Program Chair: * Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA WI Program Co-Chairs: * Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA WI Program Vice Co-chairs * Ajith Abraham Yonsei University South Korea * Peter Brusilovsky University of Pittsburgh USA * Ashish Goel Stanford University USA * Ramanathan V. Guha Google USA * Jane Yung-jen Hsu National Taiwan University Taiwan * Ravi Kumar Yahoo! Research USA * Jie Lu University of Technology Sydney Australia * Tsuyoshi Murata Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan * York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe Germany * Pang-Ning Tan Michigan State University USA * Bhavani Thuraisingham University of Texas at Dallas USA * Mohammed Zaki Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA IAT Program Co-Chairs: * Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia IAT Program Vice Co-chairs * Longbing cao University of Technology Sydney Australia * Joseph A. Giampapa Carnegie Mellon University USA * Maria Gini University of Minnesota USA * Vladimir Gorodetsky St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation Russia * Alessio Lomuscio Imperial College London UK * Zbigniew Ras University of North Carolina USA * Marius C. Silaghi Florida Institute of Technology USA * Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University Japan Organizing Chair: * Howard Ho, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Workshop Co-Chairs: * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Tutorial Chair: * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada Industry/Demo-Track Chair: * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Local Accommodations Co-Chairs: * David Scot Taylor, San Jose State University, USA * Tom Qi Zhang, Google, USA Publicity Chair: * James Wang, Clemson University, USA (chair) Publicity Co-Chairs: * Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium * Jia Hu, International WIC Institute, China * Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, West Bengal University of Technology, India IEEE-CS-TCII Chair: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan ACM-SIGART Chair * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA WIC Co-Chairs/Directors: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada WIC Advisory Board: * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA * Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA * Philip Yu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA * L.A. Zadeh, University of California Berkeley, USA WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee: * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck/Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland * Jinglong Wu, Kagawa University, Japan * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Webmaster: * Albert Sutojo, San Jose State University, USA Abbreviation: WI 2007, WI2007, WI'2007, WI'07, WI07, WI 07, WI-07, WI-2007 *** Contact Information *** Jia Hu International WIC Institute, China E-mail: hujia at kis-lab.com From akan at eee.metu.edu.tr Mon Jun 4 18:38:11 2007 From: akan at eee.metu.edu.tr (Ozgur B. Akan) Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:38:11 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call For Papers: ACM PE-WASUN 2007 ( Deadline Extended to June 10, 2007 ) Message-ID: <46643FF3.7090901@eee.metu.edu.tr> [*** Submission Deadline has been *extended* to June 10, 2007 ***] [ We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ACM PE-WASUN 2007 4th ACM* International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (Jointly with the 10th ACM MSWiM Symposium) http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/pe-wasun07 Chiana, Crete Island, GREECE 22-26 October, 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope ----- Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. This workshop aims to bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Analytical modeling - Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Queuing and network information theoretic analysis - Tracing and trace analysis - Software tools for network performance and evaluation - Simulation methods - Automatic performance analysis - Performance comparison - Performance of wireless and sensor devices - RF channel capacity modeling and analysis - Mobility modeling and management - Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks - Performance evaluation of wireless mesh networks. - Performance evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous networks - Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning - Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks - Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks Workshop Co-Chairs: ------------------- Ozgur B. Akan Middle East Technical University, Turkey (akan at eee.metu.edu.tr) Isabelle Gu?rin Lassous Universit? Lyon I/LIP, France (Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous at ens-lyon.fr) Program Committee Members: -------------------------- Khalid Al-Begain Univ. of Glamorgan, UK Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Paolo Bellavista University of Bologna, Italy Brahim Bensaou Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., HK Fernando Boavida University of Coimbra, Portugal Luciano Bononi University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada Ioannis Chatzigiannakis Patras University, Greece Ling-Jyh Chen Academia Sinica, Taiwan Michele Colajanni University of Modena, Italy Francesca Cuomo University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy Marcelo Dias de Amorim CNRS/LIP6, France Falko Dressler Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Eylem Ekici Ohio State University, USA Vittoria Gianuzzi University of Genova, Italy Zhen Liu IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Bernard Mans Macquarie University, Australia Pietro Manzoni Politechnic Univ. of Valencia, Spain Kenichi Mase Niigata University, Japan Tommaso Melodia Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Jelena Misic University of Manitoba, Canada Mohamed Naimi University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Sotiris Nikoletseas Computer Technology Institute, Greece Mohamed Ould-Khaoua University of Glasgow, UK Anna Philippou University of Cyprus, Cyprus Guy Pujolle University Paris 6, France Pedro M. Ruiz University of Murcia, Spain Marco Spohn Federal Univ. of Campina Grande, Brazil Mineo Takai University of California, USA Damla Turgut University of Central Florida, USA Fabrice Valois Insa de Lyon, France Paper Submission: ----------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. The length of the papers should not exceed 8 single-spaced,two-column pages,ACM style including tables/figures. A template for ACM SIG Proceedings style (LaTeX2e and MSWord) can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM workshop proceedings. Papers should be submitted via ConfMan on the following link: http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/pe-wasun07/ConfMan_1.7/REG-paper/. For the details of paper submission, please check the conference website: http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/pe-wasun07/ . Important Dates: ---------------- Paper registration due: June 8, 2007 (*Extended*) Full paper due: June 10, 2007 Acceptance notifcation: July 10, 2007 Camera ready due: TBA From vv at di.fc.ul.pt Tue Jun 5 09:54:37 2007 From: vv at di.fc.ul.pt (Vasco Vasconcelos) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:54:37 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] The AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners for 2007 Message-ID: AITO is very proud to announce that the Dahl-Nygaard Prizes for 2007 will be given to Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research Cambridge (Senior prize) for his overall contribution to both theory and practice for object-oriented languages, and to Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh (Junior prize) for his recent contribution to expressing and verifying software architecture in object-oriented languages. Luca Cardelli systematically developed typing theories for objects, from record types to bounded quantification, eventually leading to the famous book "A Theory of Objects", published with Martin Abadi in 1996. This masterpiece develops an "object calculus" as a foundation for object-oriented languages, in much the same way that Church's lambda-calculus is a foundation for procedural languages. Overall, Luca's work was inspired by strong expertise on language design, including functional languages and theory, such as ML, and object- oriented languages such as Modula-3. This leads Luca to further contribute to language design in the domain of mobility and locality with contributions such as Obliq and Ambient. The Ambient Calculus (developed with Andy Gordon) enables the formal analysis of mobile and wide-area systems, in part by taking advantage of a decade of previous work on process algebra. This work on mobility indirectly led to his recent interest in Systems Biology. Jonathan Aldrich develops lightweight ways to statically assure architectural characteristics of large, real-world object-oriented systems. His pioneering thesis work on ArchJava (with advisors Craig Chambers and David Notkin) was the first system to verify at compile time that the dynamic structure of an object-oriented application conforms to an abstract, hierarchical software architecture. ArchJava, like Jonathan's other work, tackles head-on challenging aspects of object-oriented systems, including aliasing, reentrancy, inheritance, and the use of sophisticated design patterns. Jonathan's research is grounded in formal soundness proofs yet is validated through case study evaluations with realistic software systems and tasks. More recently, Jonathan and his students have made contributions in other aspects of object-oriented architecture assurance, including object protocol checking, modularity in aspect- oriented programming, and novel object models. The AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prizes are named for Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, two pioneers in the area of programming and simulation. Their foundational work on object-oriented programming, made concrete in the Simula language, is one of the most important inventions in software engineering. Their key ideas were expressed already around 1965, but took over 20 years to be absorbed and appreciated by the broader software community. After that, object-orientation has profoundly transformed the landscape of software design and development techniques. It was a great loss to our community that both Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard passed away in 2002. In remembrance of their scholarship and enthusiastic encouragement of young researchers, AITO has established in 2004 a prize to be awarded annually to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions and a younger researcher who has demonstrated great potential for following in the footsteps of these pioneers. For 2006, the prize committee has recommended deviating from the norm and giving one prize but to a group of four people. The prizes will be awarded in July at ECOOP 2007, July 30 - August 03, Berlin, Germany. Luca Cardelli and Jonathan Aldrich have agreed to give keynotes talks. For details, see the conference program. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20070605/1c71d9d8/attachment.htm From info at icstconferences.org Tue Jun 5 13:26:06 2007 From: info at icstconferences.org (info at icstconferences.org) Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:26:06 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICST - CFP: International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2007) Message-ID: [Appologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] COLLABORATECOM 2007 The 3rd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing Jointly sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Create-Net and the International Communication Sciences and Technology Association (ICST) Crowne Plaza White Plains, New York, USA, November 12-15, 2007 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 26th, 2007. Over the last two decades, many organization and individuals have relied on electronic collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer applications, and/or autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and produce joint products that would have been impossible to develop without the contributions of multiple collaborators. Technology has evolved from standalone tools, to open systems supporting collaboration in multi-organizational settings, and form general purpose tools to specialized collaboration grids. Future collaboration solutions that fully realize the promises of electronic collaboration requires advancements in networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction paradigms, and interoperation with application-specific components and tools. The Third International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2007) will continue to serve as a premier international forum for discussions among academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications. TOPICS AND AREAS Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for collaborative computing networks and systems * Autonomic computing and quality of services in collaborative networks, systems, and applications * Collaboration in pervasive computing applications * Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in large scale digital libraries * Collaborative mobile networks, sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks & applications * Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services * Computer Supported Collaborative Work with distributed systems * Data management and middleware support for collaborative information systems * Distributed technologies and architectures to support group collaboration, activity, and awareness * Empirical studies on distributed collaboration * Energy management for collaborative networks * Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications * Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative networking and applications * Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications * Security and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and applications * Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and trials of collaborative networks and applications * Software design, testing, and experimentation technology for collaborative networking and applications * Theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration * Theoretical foundations and algorithms for collaborative networks, applications, and worksharing * Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations * Visualization techniques and visual languages for collaborative networks and applications * Web services technologies for collaborative networking and applications * Workflow technology and workflow management for collaborative network management * Modeling for Collaboration * P2P platforms for supporting collaboration * Collaborative, location aware mobile systems * Collaborative sensor systems * Security an privacy in collaboration * Human/robot collaboration * Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration * Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure * Group-driven composition of systems from components * Technology and system for collaboration in real-time enterprises The conference will be hierarchically structured into 5 areas: * Collaborative applications * Networking * Collaboration technology and systems * Ubiquitous collaboration * Interfaces and protocols for team and man-machine collaboration The vice chairs that we choose to lead these areas will further refine the scope of the conference. PAPERS: The conference invites original technical papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Contributions addressing all areas related to collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications are solicited. The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings, which will be a maximum of ten pages in IEEE double column format. POSTERS: The conference will include a poster session that highlights recent and on-going research, experiments, and provocative ideas that have not been published elsewhere. Poster submissions will be reviewed and one page summaries of accepted posters will appear in the conference proceedings. WORKSHOPS: Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential instructors are requested to submit a workshop proposal of at most five pages, including a biographical sketch of each instructor, to the Workshop. Evaluation of workshop proposals will be based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on the relevance of the subject matter. PANELS: Proposals for panel discussions that focus on future visions for collaborative networking, applications, and worksharing are preferred. Potential panel organizers should submit a panel proposal of at most five pages, including biographical sketches of the proposed panelists, to the Panel Chair. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper, poster, panel, and workshop submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the conference website www.CollaborateCom.org for detailed submission requirements and procedures. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members and the reviewers they invite. Accepted papers and posters will be published by the IEEE in the conference proceedings and placed on IEEE Xplore. They will also be indexed by DBLP. A selected number of best papers will be considered for publication in a leading journal. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Juan Quemada, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Tao Zhang, Telcordia Technologies, USA Technical Program Chairs Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA Bugra Gedik, IBM TJ Watson, USA Publicity & Publication Chair Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway Workshops Chair James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Waleed Smari, University of Dayton, USA Industrial Program Chair Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Corp. Research Center, USA Conference Organization Zsuzsi Kazsab, ICST Europe Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST USA STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy Tao Zhang (Vice Chair), Telcordia Technologies, USA Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA Nim Cheung, Telcordia Technologies, USA Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson, USA Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Isidro Laso, D.G. Information Society and Media, European Commission PROGRAM COMMITEE Joon-Soo Bae, Chonbuk National University, South Korea Roger S Barga, Microsoft Research, USA Clifford Behrens, Telcordia, USA Cui Bin, Peking University, China Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA Jyh-Cheng Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago , USA Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, UK Peter Dommel, Santa Clara University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Claude Godart, Nancy University, France Xiaohua Hu, Drexel University, USA Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Vana Kalogeraki, University of California - Riverside, USA George Karabatis, University of Maryland - Baltimore County, USA Yuecel Karabulut, SAP Research, USA Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Friedrich Schiller University - Jena, Germany Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Chung-Sheng Li, IBM TJ Watson, USA Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneva, Switzerland Erich J. Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria Anne H. H. Ngu, Texas State University, San Macros, USA Oznur Ozkasap, Koc University, Turkey Willy Picard, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy Thomas E. Potok, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Wolfgang Prinz, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA Berthold Reinwald, IBM Almaden, USA Philippe Roose, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France Aameek Singh, IBM Almaden, USA Antonio F. Gomez Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain Amy Soller, Institute for Defense Analyses, USA Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM TJ Watson, USA Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Robert Tolksdorf, Free University of Berlin, Germany Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Kun-Lung Wu, IBM TJ Watson, USA Philip S. Yu, IBM TJ Watson, USA -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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From Sotirios.Terzis at cis.strath.ac.uk Tue Jun 5 14:10:33 2007 From: Sotirios.Terzis at cis.strath.ac.uk (Sotirios Terzis) Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:10:33 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: 5th International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-hoc Computing (MPAC2007) Message-ID: <466552B9.60404@cis.strath.ac.uk> --------------------------------------------------------------------- *** OUR SINCERE APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES *** --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers --------------- 5th International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC2007) http://www.smartlab.cis.strath.ac.uk/MPAC/ A Workshop of Middleware 2007 Newport Beach, Orange County, California, USA November 26th ? 30th, 2007 Problem Space Building on the success of the 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 workshops, this workshop seeks to develop a roadmap for research on the essential middleware abstractions and infrastructures for ad-hoc and pervasive computing in general, and sensor-based services in particular. Over the past decade, large-scale ad-hoc and pervasive computing environments have grabbed the attention of the research community as evidenced by the large number of research and development projects in the area. However, despite considerable progress, the promise of pervasive computing still remains elusive. The diversity in currently available devices, networking infrastructure and information content has complicated research efforts, forcing many projects to focus only on point-examples of this technology. This workshop is premised on our belief that underpinning middleware mechanisms are central in weaving together the multitude of sensing, computing, communication and information technologies. In this respect, middleware for pervasive computing and ad-hoc networking provides two core research areas. In particular, pervasive computing middleware will allow you to take advantage of the resources in your environment to tailor your services and applications for seamless access and unrestricted mobility. Ad-hoc networking middleware will permit the formation of ad-hoc communities for new applications. However, such pervasive and ad-hoc environments pose some serious challenges to existing middleware technologies and approaches. A synthesis of the discussion that took place in previous MPAC workshops has led to the identification of the following topics of interest for the workshop. This list is by no means exhaustive. ? Sensor networks: applications, infrastructure, middleware support and emerging standards (OMG DDS, IEEE/NIST 1451.x, OSGi WireAdmin, JSR256 & 257 ?); ? Calculi for sensor data, and middleware support for their processing and distribution; ? Sensor data mining; ? Component-based and service-oriented architectures, and design patterns for sensor based services; ? Theoretical foundations and middleware support for context based adaptation for mobile pervasive systems, and sensor-based services; ? Mobile device-centric sensing platforms and services; ? New notations for specifying context-sensitive systems; ? Ad-hoc communities: applications, infrastructure and middleware support; ? Roles and responsibilities in ad-hoc communities; ? Group management and communication support for ad-hoc communities; ? Ad-hoc network communications, quality of service, management and middleware support; ? Service-connection middleware and architectures; ? Support for zero configuration; ? Middleware for self-assembly, self-configuration, self-distribution and autonomic computing in general; ? Data management infrastructures for ad hoc and pervasive systems; ? Ambient information systems and applications; ? Trust, security, and privacy for pervasive systems and sensor based services; ? Privacy preservation and identity management for device-to-device interactions; ? Reliability and availability in pervasive systems and sensor based services; ? Middleware infrastructures supporting novel applications of pervasive and ad-hoc computing (e.g. advertising, health care, gaming, mobile TV, etc.); ? Tangible computing (surface computing, RFID / NFC, 2D and 3D bar codes); ? Experiences or cases studies with new technologies (WiMax, WiBree); ? Technology trade-offs (agent infrastructures, mobile code systems, event based middleware); ? Resource discovery and management; ? Virtualisation technologies and applications, especially for task migration; ? Implications of heterogeneity (addressing needs for protocol interaction across technologies). Submission The workshop format will be focused around submission of position papers of no more than 6 pages. Please submit your papers in PDF, using the ACM proceeding format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html), to the web site http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/mpac2007/openconf/. Papers are solicited that present a view of the state of the art in a particular sub-problem area, identify specific middleware challenges, and suggest potential avenues for exploration by proposing models, abstractions and infrastructure components addressing these challenges. Approximately two thirds of the workshop will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of these papers, while the remaining third of the time will be devoted to the development of the research roadmap. Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the programme committee. The review process will be based upon identifying the relevance and potential of the position statement to contribute to the elaboration of the roadmap and to stimulate discussion. All accepted papers will appear in a special workshop proceedings volume in the ACM Digital Library as well as in a CD companion proceedings issued to the workshop participants.