From secure2000 at gmail.com Sat Mar 1 03:11:18 2008 From: secure2000 at gmail.com (B.S. K) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:11:18 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] FGCN-08 Call for Papers Message-ID: -- FGCN-08 Call for Papers -- ==================================================================== The 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN-08) http://www.sersc.org/FGCN2008/ December 13 ~ 15, 2008, Hainan Island, China ==================================================================== The ever-growing Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN) provide a Intelligent and Ubiquitous Communication and Network Technology for Tomorrow. That is, the FGCN have emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm that includes ubiquitous, grid, and peer-to-peer computing to provide computing and communication services at any time and anywhere. In order to realize the advantages of such services, it is important that intelligent systems be suitable for FGCN. FGCN-08 provides a chance for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of Communication and Networking including modeling, simulation and novel applications associated with the utilization and acceptance of computing devices and systems. Topics of Conference --------------------- The main topics include but will not be limited to: (Excellent surveying works in these areas are welcome, too.) 1) Communication Basic and Infrastructure - Telecommunications - Communication protocols - Algorithms, Architecture, and Infrastructures - Transmission Techniques - Communication Systems - etc 2) Networks Basic and Management - Network Systems and Devices - Wireless Networks, Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks - Network Modeling and Simulation - Network Management Techniques - Networks Security, Encryption and Cryptography - etc 3) Multimedia Application - Management and Diffusion of Multimedia Applications - Multimedia Data Base - Documents Monetization and Interpretation - Digital Rights Management - etc 4) Image, Video, Signal and Information Processing - Compression and Coding - Analysis and Processing - Information Fusion - Rationing Methods and Data mining - etc Call for Workshop Proposal: ----------------------------- http://www.sersc.org/FGCN2008/workshop.php Important Dates ----------------- Submission of Papers : July 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance : August 15, 2008 Submission of the camera ready: September 1, 2008 Conference Dates : December 13 ~ 15 , 2008 Submission and Publications ----------------------------- Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings with IEEE CS (indexed by EI) with two categories: regular papers (6~8 pages), short papers (4~5 pages). Paper Submission system : TBA Distinguished papers accepted and presented in FGCN-08, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of international journals indexed by SCI(E) (Confirmed). FGCN-08 Committee ------------------ *Steering Co-Chairs: Tai-hoon Kim, Hannam University, Korea Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada *General Co-Chairs: Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Alan Chin-Chen Chang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Thanos Vasilakos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece *Program Co-Chairs: Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA Charalampos Z. Patrikakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Sang-Soo Yeo, Kyushu University, Japan *Workshop Co-Chairs: Xingang Wang, University of Plymouth, UK Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea *International Journals Coordinating Co-Chairs: Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK *International Advisory Board: Wai Chi Fang, NASA JPL, USA Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA Gongzhu Hu, Central Michigan University, USA *Publication Co-Chairs: TBA *Publicity Co-Chairs: Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Hangbae Chang, Daejin University, Korea Houcine Hassan, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain *Local Organizing Co-Chairs: Deok Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea Hai Jin, HUST, China *Program Committee: A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University AL FALOU Ayman, ISEN-Brest, France Alex Sprintson, Texas A&M University, USA Amar Balla, Institut National dInformatique, Algerie Andres Iglesias Prieto, University of Cantabria, Spain Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Athanasios (Thanos) Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Avinash Srinivasan, Florida Atlantic University, USA Bin Luo, Anhui University, China Biplab K. Sarker, Innovatia Inc., Canada Byungsoo Koh, DigiCaps Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Chia-Chen Lin, Providence University, Taiwan Chin-Feng Lee, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Christophe Fouquere, LIPN, Paris-Nord University and CNRS, France Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus Chu-Hsing Lin, Tunghai University, Taiwan Clement Leung, Victoria University, Australia Cliff Shaffer, Virginia Tech, USA Damien Sauveron, University of Limoges., France Der-Chyuan Lou, National Defense University, Taiwan Dimitrios D. Vergados, University of the Aegean Don-Lin Yang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Driss Mammass, Ibn Zohr University, Morocco Fang-Rong Hsu, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany Gang Pan, Zhejiang University, China Gianluigi Ferrari, University of Parma, Italy Gongzhu Hu, Central Michigan University, USA Hao Zhu, Florida International University Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Huirong Fu, Oakland University, USA Janusz Szczepanski, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Jieh-Shan George YEH, Providence University, Taiwan Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China Jim-Min Lin, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Jing Deng, University of New Orleans Jinn-Ke Jan, National Chung Hsing University, China Jordi Forne Munoz, University of Catalonia, Spain Juha Jaakko Roning, University of Oulu, Finland Junmo Yang, Samsung Electronics Co., LTD. Kazuto Ogawa, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan Kevin Butler, Pennsylvania State University, USA Kin Keung Lai, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Kwok-Yan Lam, Tsinghua University, China Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Marc Lacoste, France T?l?com Division R&D, France Matthias Reuter, CUTEC GmbH / TU-Clausthal, Germany Mohammad Riaz Moghal, Ali Ahmad Shah-University, Pakistan P.K. Mahanti, The University of New Brunswick, Canada Paulo Bacelar Reis Pedreiras, University of Aveiro, Portugal Poompat Saengudomlert, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Ricky Y K Kwok, The University of Hong Kong Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, University of Milan, Italy Serge Chaumette, University of Bordeaux 1, France Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Central Police University, Taiwan Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang, University of Houston, USA SLIM Chokri, ISCAE, University of Manouba, Tunisia Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, USA Sun-Yuan Hsieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Tae (Tom) Oh, Rockwell Collins, Richardson, USA Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Terry Todd, McMaster University, Canada Viktor Yarmolenko, University of Manchester, UK Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerp, Belgium Vojislav B. Misic, University of Manitoba Wei-Bin Lee, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta. Canada Yeong-Deok Kim, Woosong University, Korea Young B. Choi, James Madison University, USA Zvi Meir Kedem, New York University, USA Contact Information ------------------------ -Prof. Tai-hoon Kim Hannam University Email: taihoonn at empal.com Phone: +82-10-9069-4800 -The FGCN Secretariat Ms. Hyun-ah Kim SERSC, Korea Email: fgcn at sersc.org Tel: +82 42 629 8386 Fax: +82 42 624 2205 ===================== The End of FGCN-08 CFP ================================ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20080301/fffdc43c/attachment-0001.htm From alessandra.toninelli at unibo.it Sat Mar 1 18:56:31 2008 From: alessandra.toninelli at unibo.it (Alessandra Toninelli) Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:56:31 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] IEEE Policy 2008 Demo -- Deadline approaching Message-ID: [Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this cfp] *** SYSTEM DEMONSTRATION SUBMISSION DEADLINE 9 March 2008 *** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR DEMOS FOR POLICY 2008 2008 IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks 2-4 June 2008 Palisades, NY, USA http://www.policy-workshop.org/2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLICY 2008 is the 9th in a series of successful workshops which since 1999 have provided a forum for discussion and collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy-based systems. This year, in addition to the latest research results from the communities working in any area of policy-based management and computing, we encourage contributions on policy-based techniques in support of management and security of all types of wireless networks: cellular, Wi-Fi, Mobile Ad Hoc, hybrids, etc. ------------------------------------------------ DEMO SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------ To be considered for a system demonstration, contributors are invited to submit a two page system description (not including references) following the IEEE Proceedings 2-column format (for more information, please see http://ieee-formats.notlong.com). Demo submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their technical merit and novelty. Of particular interest are systems that illustrate research contributions and innovative applications of policy based technologies. Those interested in demonstrating a system/application should submit a description following the instructions in the System Submission Section. Commercial products are eligible, but sales and marketing activities are not appropriate. Extended abstracts of accepted demonstrations will be included in the workshop proceedings. The proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE Computer Society. If you have any questions about the suitability of your work for a demo submission, please feel free to contact the demo chair, Daniel Olmedilla, at olmedilla at L3S dot de --------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- System demonstration submission deadline: 9 March 2008 System demonstration notification: 22 March 2008 Camera ready copy for system demonstrations due: 1 April 2008 Workshop dates: 2-4 June 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------- General Chair * Dakshi Agrawal -- IBM Research, US Program Chairs * Ehab Al-Shaer -- DePaul University, US * Lalana Kagal -- MIT, US * Jorge Lobo -- IBM Research, US Finance Chair * Claudio Bartolini -- HP Labs, UK Publicity Chair * Alessandra Toninelli -- University of Bologna, Italy Publication Chair * Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville -- Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil System Demonstrations Chair * Daniel Olmedilla -- L3S Research Center and Hannover University, Germany From csanto at diit.unict.it Mon Mar 3 00:34:37 2008 From: csanto at diit.unict.it (Corrado Santoro) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 00:34:37 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] ETNGRID@WETICE 2008, call for papers - DEADLINE EXTENDED! Message-ID: <20080302234735.772D17D40BD@mbox.dmi.unict.it> [Apologies for multiple copies.] DEADLINE EXTENDED! =========================================================================== Fourth Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next generation GRID (ETNGRID-2008) 17th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2008) http://etngrid.diit.unict.it Rome, Italy, 23th-25th June 2008 =========================================================================== The Grid was originally designed as a large network of computer systems able to offer an environment where computing and storage resources are shared on-demand. To date, the development of standards, such as the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA), along with the introduction of new paradigms, such as the Semantic Grid, is leading the Grid toward an environment that is not only suited for computational-intensive applications, but also for computing scenarios typical of distributed systems, like service and information providing, multimedia environments, ubiquitous computing, etc. For these and other reasons, the Grid is becoming an interesting and challenging environment supporting both old and new services for cooperative applications. A relevant research effort is thus needed not only to investigate innovative Grid infrastructures but also to make the current Grid model suitable for these emerging usage scenarios. The objective of this workshop is to gather researchers working on different emerging Grid computing aspects relevant to enterprise collaboration, covering issues ranging from the middleware layer to application development and user interaction. The goals of the workshop include (but are not limited to) discovering new application scenarios, proposing new programming abstractions and tools, identifying the challenging problem that still need to be solved, and reporting results and experiences gained by researchers in building Grid-based middleware, applications and alike. Submission Requirements ----------------------- Participants are expected to submit an original research paper or a position paper, not submitted or published elsewhere, through the EasyChair web site (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=etngrid08). You will require an EasyChair account. If you do not have an EasyChair account, instructions are provided as to how to create one on the EasyChair page for ETNGRID08. Submission should include the title of the paper, the names and affiliations of the authors, a 150-word abstract and at most eight keywords. Submission should follow the IEEE format (single spaced, two columns, 10pt, Times font) and not exceed six pages, including figures. Accepted papers will be published along with the WETICE 2007 post-proceedings. The paper should be in either PS or PDF format. Papers must focus on collaborative aspects of the Grid, including, but not limiting to, the following topics: * Middlewares for the Grid * Multimedia applications with the Grid * Reflective and Aspect-Oriented Grid systems * Reliability and Quality-of-Service aspects * Wireless and ubiquitous access to the Grid * Cooperative Agents and the Grid * Grids and Peer-to-peer systems * Web integration with the Grid * Peer-to-peer and self-organizing approaches for the Grid * Abstractions and tools for collaborative application development in Grid environments * Semantic Grid * Experience reports on collaborative application development in Grid * Scalability and Performance issues in the Grid * Analysis of stability and bottlenecks for Grid applications * Resource-aware applications in the Grid * Architectures for Grid-oriented applications * Security and Verification Issues in Large Distributed Systems Important Dates --------------- * Paper Submission: March _17_, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance: April 21, 2008 * Camera Ready Paper Due: May 26, 2008 Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Angelo Corsaro, Prismtech, France Antonella Di Stefano, Dept. of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Engineering Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Giuseppe Pappalardo, Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Catania, ITALY Corrado Santoro, Dept. of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Engineering Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Emiliano Tramontana, Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Catania, ITALY Publicity Co-Chair ------------------ Giovanni Morana, Dept. of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Engineering Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY Luigi Toscano, Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Catania, ITALY Program Committee Members ------------------------------------------------ Mauro Andreolini ........ University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Cosimo Anglano .......... University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Roberto Barbera ......... University of Catania, Italy Mario Cannataro ......... University of Calabria, Italy Giovanni Chiola ......... University of Genova, Italy Giancarlo Fortino ....... University of Calabria, Italy Geoffrey Fox ............ Indiana University, USA Pilar Herrero ........... Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Ryszard Janicki ......... McMaster University, Canada Maciej Koutny ........... University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Carlo Mastroianni ....... ICAR-CNR, Italy Giovanni Morana ......... University of Catania, Italy Agostino Poggi .......... University of Parma, Italy Eric Renault ............ GET/INT, Evry Cedex, France Ilias Savvas ............ Higher Tech. Edu. Institute of Larissa, Greece Svetlana Shasharina ..... Tech-X Corporation, USA Domenico Talia .......... University of Calabria, Italy Ian Taylor .............. University of Cardiff, UK Luigi Toscano ........... University of Catania, Italy Sara Tucci Piergiovanni.. University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Giorgio Ventre .......... University of Naples Federico II, Italy Brian Vinter ............ University of Copenhagen, Denmark Luca Vollero ............ CINI ITeM, Italy Nanbor Wang ............. Tech-X Corporation, USA Ian Welch ............... Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand -- ================================================================== Eng. Corrado Santoro, Ph.D. University of Catania - ITALY - Engineering Faculty Tel: +39 095 7382380 ? ? ? ?VoIP: sip:7035 at voicegw2.diit.unict.it Personal Home Page: http://www.diit.unict.it/users/csanto ? ? ?NUXI Home Page: http://nuxi.diit.unict.it ================================================================== From l.fanucci at dsd08.iet.unipi.it Mon Mar 3 00:46:05 2008 From: l.fanucci at dsd08.iet.unipi.it (Luca Fanucci) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 00:46:05 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] [DSD08] Paper Submission Deadline extended to March 17th, 2008 Message-ID: <02bb01c87cbf$9636a320$0301a8c0@nblf> Due to many requests from potential authors the submission deadline is extended to March 17 =============================================================== DSD'2008 CALL FOR PAPERS 11th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN Architectures, Methods and Tools University of Parma, Parma (Italy), 3-5, September,2008 http://dsd08.iet.unipi.it =============================================================== [IMPORTANT DATES] - Submission of papers: March 17th, 2008 (EXTENDED) - Notification of acceptance: May 5th, 2008 - Deadline for final version: June 9th, 2008 [SCOPES] The Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) addresses all aspects of (embedded) digital and mixed hardware/software system engineering. It is a discussion forum for researchers and engineers working on state-of-the-art investigations, development, and applications. It focuses on advanced system, design, and design automation concepts, paradigms, methods and tools, as well as, modern implementation technologies that enable effective and efficient development of high-quality (embedded) systems for important and demanding applications in fields such as (wireless) communication and networking; measurement and instrumentation; health-care and medicine; military, space, avionic and automotive systems; security; multi-media and ambient intelligence. [MAIN TOPICS] T1: Systems-on-a-chip/in-a-package: generic system platforms and platform-based design; network on chip; multi-processors; system on re-configurable chip; system FPGAs and structured ASICs; rapid prototyping; asynchronous systems; power, energy, timing, predictability and other quality issues; intellectual property, virtual components and design reuse. T2: Programmable/re-configurable architectures: processor, communication, memory and software architectures with focus on application specific and/or embedded computing, co-processors; processing arrays; programmable fabrics; embedded software; arithmetic, logic and special-operator units. T3: System, hardware and embedded software specification, modeling and verification: design languages; functional, structural and parametric specification and modeling; simulation, emulation, prototyping, and testing at the system, register-transfer, logic and physical levels; co-simulation and co-verification. T4: System, hardware and embedded software synthesis: system, hardware/software and embedded software synthesis; behavioral, register-transfer, logic and physical circuit synthesis; multi-objective optimization observing power, performance, communication, interconnections, layout, technology, reliability, robustness, security, testability and other issues; (dynamic) management of computational resources, power, energy etc.; design environments for embedded systems and re-configurable computing. T5: Emerging technologies, system paradigms and design methodologies: optical, bio, nano and quantum technologies and computing; self-organizing and self-adapting (wireless) systems; wireless sensor networks; ambient intelligence and augmented reality; ubiquitous, wearable and implanted systems; deep sub-micron design issues. T6: Applications of (embedded) digital systems with emphasis on demanding and new applications in fields such as: (wireless) communication and networking; measurement and instrumentation; health-care and medicine; military, space, avionic and automotive systems; security; multi-media, instrumentation and ambient intelligence; health-care and medicine; military, space, avionic and automotive systems; security; multi-media and ambient intelligence. [SPECIAL SESSIONS] SS1: Fault Tolerance in Digital System Design: It addresses all aspects related to concepts, theory, implementations and applications of fault tolerance principles in digital systems design. Special Session Organizer: Z. Kot?sek, Brno U. of Technology (CZ) SS2: Prospective aspects of Networks-on-Chip: It addresses all aspects related to concepts, implementations and applications of networks-on-chip as well as related EDA tools. Nonetheless, its focus is on prospective issues and interdisciplinary topics like reliability, system control, design flow, application studies and the outlook on future developments in NOC design. Special Session Organizer: C. Cornelius, Univ. of Rostock (DE) SS3: Dependability and Testing of Digital Systems: It addresses emerging issues, hot problems, new solution methods and their hardware and software implementations in all fields of digital and mixed-signal system dependability and testing. It it especially focused on the dependability and testing related to the SoC technology and modern embedded applications. Special Session Organizer: H. Kub?tov?, CTU in Prague (CZ) SS4: Planning and Optimization of Sensor Network Systems: It aims at contributions regarding both the architectural optimization of wireless sensor networks and the off-line planning of the overall sensing infrastructure. Special Session Organizer: W. Fornaciari, Politecnico Milano (I) SS5: System-Level Energy Optimization of Embedded Software: It aims at gathering within the same forum contributions regarding the optimization of the energy at different abstraction levels: from the design of code up to the library and task/resource management carried out at the operating system level. Special Session Organizer: E. Villar, Universidad de Cantabria (ES) SS6: NEWCOM++: Flexible Radio Digital Design: It addresses all aspects regarding both the architectural concepts and methodologies of multi-standard, multi-mode flexible radios. Tradeoffs considering flexibility vs. computational, power consumption parameters are cornerstones of architecture selection. Special Session Organizer: D. Noguet, CEA-LETI (FR) More information: http://dsd08.iet.unipi.it/specialsessions.htm [PROCEEDINGS] The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and they are widely available through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. [SUBMISSION GUIDELINES] Regular Papers: Submissions can be made that describe innovative work in the scope of the Conference, and especially, in any of the above main areas of interest (please indicate the topic area and the special session number). Prospective authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts for review electronically through the following web page (http://www.conftool.net/dsd2008/) or by sending the paper to the Program Chair via email l.fanucci at dsd08.iet.unipi.it (only in the case of the web access problem) before the deadline for submission. Each manuscript should include the complete paper text, all illustrations, and references. The manuscript should conform to the required format single-spaced, double column, A4/US letter page size, 10-point size Times Roman font, up to 8 pages. In order to conduct a blind review, no indication of the authors' names should appear in the submitted manuscript. Case Study and Application Papers: Submissions can be made which report on state-of-the-art digital systems, design methods and/or tools, and (embedded) applications. Papers discussing lessons learned from practical experience, demanding or new applications, and experimental research are particularly encouraged. Manuscripts may be submitted in the same way as regular papers. Prospective authors should check that the following information are included and guidelines followed while submitting the papers for refereeing purpose. - The paper and its title page should not contain the name(s) of the author(s), or their affiliation - The first page of the paper should have the following information: (Title of the paper, Brief Abstract of the paper, Track Area, Conference topic area (write the most appropriate topic area), Up to six keywords) [CONFERENCE COMMITTEES] STEERING COMMITTEE: Chairman: Lech J?zwiak, Eindhoven U. of Tech. (NL) Krzysztof Kuchcinski, Lund U. (SE) Antonio Nunez, U. Las Palmas (ES) PROGRAM CHAIR Luca Fanucci U. of Pisa (IT) ORGANIZING GENERAL CHAIRS: Gianni Conte, U. of Parma (IT) Giovanni Danese, U. of Pavia (IT) ORGANIZING LOCAL CHAIRS: Francesco Leporati, U. of Pavia (IT) Monica Mordonini, U. of Parma (IT) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: A. Akkas, Koc U., (TK) L. Benini, U. Bologna (IT) P. Carballo, U. Las Palmas (ES) C. Cornelius, Rostock U. (DE) G. Danese, U. of Pavia, (IT) M. Danek, Cz. Ac. of Sci. (CZ) R. Drechsler, U. of Bremen (DE) N. Dutt, U. of Calif., Irvine (US) P. Eles, Link?ping U. (SE) L. Fanucci U. of Pisa (IT) E. Gramatov?, Sl. Ac. of Sci. (SK) V. Hahanov, KNUR (UA) M. Handy, Rostock U. (DE) L. J?zwiak, Eindhoven U. of Tech. (NL) K. Judmann, Tech. U. of Vienna, (AT) B. Juurlink, TU Delft, (NL) S. Kaxiras, U. of Patras (GR) K. Kent, U. Brunswick (CAN) P. Kitsos, HOU Patras (GR) O. Koufopavlou, U. Patras (GR) H. Kubatova, Cz. TU. in Prague (CZ) K. Kuchcinski, Lund U. (SE) S. Kumar Jonkoping Univ. SE M. Kuwahara, Toshiba Corp. (JP) F. Leporati, U. of Pavia (IT) T. Luba, Warsaw U. of Tech. (PL) H. Maehle, U. of Luebeck (DE) E. Martins, U. of Aveiro (PT) J.S. Matos, Univ. Porto (PT) V. Muthukumar, UNLV (US) W. Najjar , UC , Riverside (US) A. Nunez, U. of Las Palmas G.C. (ES) A. Orailoglu, UC, San Diego (US) A. Pawlak, ITE & SUT (PL) M. Perkowski, Portland St. U. (US) A. Postula, U. of Queensland (AU) J. Rabaey, U. of California, Berkeley (US) B. Rouzeyre, U. Montpellier II (FR) S. Ruelke, IIS-FhG Dresden (DE) T. Sasao, Kyushu Ins. of Tech. (JP) J-P. Soininen, VTT Electronics (FI) J. Sosnowski, Warsaw U. of Tech. (PL) J. Tiberghien, Vrije Univ. Brussel (BE) D. Timmerman, Rostock U. (DE) M. F. Toro, U of Concepcion (CL) R. Ubar, Tallinn Tech. U. (EE) M. Valero, Pol. U. of Catalunya. (ES) M. Velev, Reservoir Labs (US) H.T. Vierhaus, Brandenburg U. Tech (DE) S. Vitabile, U. Palermo (IT) K. Waldschmidt, J.W. Goethe U. (DE) C. Wolinski, IRISA, Rennes (FR) H. Yasuura, Kyushu U. (JP) A. 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Service-oriented computing allows to easily develop, publish and use software functionalities. Pervasive computing rests on mobile and/or embedded devices, available anywhere and anytime, that can potentially provide services. Bringing these two trends together raises the new challenge of integrating/unintegrating, in an application, non-predefined services just discovered in the pervasive environment. Three main sub-areas of this challenge are tackled in this workshop: - Frameworks/Infrastructures for services integration: different developing frameworks exist and can be used or modified to ease services integration; different deployment infrastructures also exist and can be adapted to take into account the pervasive nature of the environment. - Services interactions: allowing non-predefined services to interact implies to have "smart" and adaptive matching and communication mechanisms. - Dynamic combining of services: because pervasive environments are highly dynamic, the integration of services needs to be aware of context changes to choose the more appropriate combining/deployment techniques. Topics of interests (but not limited to) ---------------------------------------- - Developing frameworks for services integration - Deployment infrastructures for services integration - Semantic services discovery and matching - Adaptive communication protocols for pervasive services - Context-aware integration - Aspect-oriented approaches in pervasive environments - Services composition and choreography in pervasive environments - Integration strategies - Monitoring and management of services integration - Contracting and negotiating approaches of integration - Ontologies of integration - Secure pervasive integration - Business integration approaches for pervasive services - Enterprise service integration - Autonomic integration Previous editions ----------------- Second IEEE International Workshop on Services Integration in Pervasive Environments (SIPE'2007) (http://sipe07.conf.citi.insa-lyon.fr/) at IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS'2007) in Istanbul, Turkey. First IEEE International Workshop on Services Integration in Pervasive Environments (SIPE'2006) (http://sipe06.conf.citi.insa-lyon.fr/) at IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS'2006) in Lyon, France. Paper Submission and Proceedings -------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts, which should be written in English and with a very precise and concise presentation of no more than 6pages in IEEE double-column format. Authors are invited to send their manuscripts as an attachment (PDF or PS format) by email to the workshop chair at frederic.le-mouel at insa-lyon.fr. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Workshop proceedings will be included in the IEEE edition of the ICPS conference, and also available on IEEExplore. General co-Chairs ----------------- Fr?d?ric Le Mou?l INRIA / INSA Lyon, FR frederic.le-mouel at insa-lyon.fr St?phane Fr?not INRIA / INSA Lyon, FR stephane.frenot at insa-lyon.fr Technical Program Committee --------------------------- Yolande Berbers KU Leuven, Belgium Tarak Chaari INSA Lyon, France Filip De Turck Ghent University, Belgium Didier Donsez University Joseh Fourier, France St?phane Fr?not INRIA / INSA Lyon, France Sajid Hussain Acadia University, Canada Noha Ibrahim INRIA / INSA Lyon, France Julia Kantorovitch VTT, Finland R?diger Kapitza FAU-Erlangen, Germany Fr?d?ric Le Mou?l INRIA / INSA Lyon, France Nicolas Le Sommer University of South Brittany, France Jorge Parra IKERLAN, Spain Pravin Pawar University of Twente, The Netherlands Philippe Roose University of Pau, France Ioanna Roussaki NTUA, Greece Ichiro Satoh NII, Japan Sotirios Terzis University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Andrew Tokmakoff Philips Research, The Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Fr?d?ric Le Mou?l, Associate Professor | Phone: (+33|0)4 72 43 64 22 CITI Laboratory / INRIA ARES Team | Fax : (+33|0)4 72 43 62 27 INSA Lyon / B?t. L?onard de Vinci | Room : 2.22 21 Avenue Jean Capelle | frederic.le-mouel at insa-lyon.fr F-69621 Villeurbanne Cedex, France | http://citi.insa-lyon.fr/~flemouel From pcm at csail.mit.edu Mon Mar 3 13:36:00 2008 From: pcm at csail.mit.edu (Philippe Cudre-Mauroux) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:36:00 -0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] Final CFP: ESWC 2008 Ph.D. Symposium Message-ID: <47CBF0B0.3040301@csail.mit.edu> (Extended Abstracts are due this Friday!) CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS Ph.D. Symposium 2008 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) June 2, 2008 Tenerife (Spain) http://www.eswc2008.org/ Sponsored by the Okkam project http://fp7.okkam.org/ ESWC is the leading European conference on theory, practice and application of Semantic Web Technologies, constantly attracting a large number of high quality submissions from both academia and industry. In addition to its plenary scientific sessions, the conference includes a Ph.D. Symposium to allow doctoral students to present their work and obtain guidance from leading scientists in the field. The ESWC 2008 Ph.D. Symposium will take place in Tenerife - Spain, on June 2, 2008. We invite doctoral students working on any aspect of the Semantic Web to submit an extended abstract describing the research problem they tackle in the context of their Ph.D. Each abstract will be thoroughly reviewed by two expert researchers in the field. In addition to the feedback received during the review process, students whose abstracts get accepted will have the opportunity to present their research agenda and interact with both their peers and experienced scientists during the symposium. All students are encouraged to submit an abstract, though preference will be given to students who are at an early stage of their Ph.D. (first or second year). Students who are submitting papers on specific portions of their work to the main conference are also invited to apply to the Ph.D. symposium. In that case, the short paper for the symposium must give an overview of the student's dissertation, while the paper for the main conference should focus on a specific piece of this work. TOPICS Topics related to the symposium include, but are not limited, to: Applications of the Semantic Web Evaluations of Semantic Web technologies Semantic Web technologies for multimedia content Personal Information Management Management of Semantic Web Data Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data Database technologies for the Semantic Web Search, query, and visualization of the Semantic Web Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction Ontology creation, extraction, evolution and search Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment Semantic Web architecture Semantic Web middleware Semantic Web services Agents on the Semantic Web Semantics in Peer-to-Peer systems and grids Emergent Semantics Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Applications Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web Semantic Web technology for collaboration and cooperation Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and other application domains SUBMISSIONS: Extended abstracts should not exceed five pages. Papers should be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ) and submitted electronically as pdf files through the EasyChair conference submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2008phdsymposium . We encourage students to organize their extended abstract according to the following template: 1. Research Problem: gives a description of the overall research problem tackled in the context of the Ph.D. and its relevance to the Semantic Web area 2. Related Work: discusses the state of the art in the particular field 3. Contributions: describes how the proposed project will advance the state of the art, summarizes the expected contributions and real-world use-cases 4. Evaluation: describes the methodology used to evaluate/validate the results of the projects 5. Work Plan: sketches the different stages of the project, clearly differentiating between the results achieved so far, current work and planned work. Extended abstracts structured differently will be considered as well. The best submissions -- in terms of innovation, scientific soundness and clarity of presentation -- will be invited to the symposium for presentation. In addition to the full papers, a limited number of submissions will be accepted as two page posters. Students whose work get accepted as a full paper or poster will have to register to the symposium to present their work. 500 Euro will be awarded to the best presenter. In addition, papers and posters will be published online as CEUR Workshop Proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 7, 2008 (11:59pm CET): Extended abstracts due April 4, 2008: Notification of acceptance April 25, 2008: Camera-ready version due June 2, 2008: Ph.D. Symposium PROGRAM COMMITTEE Daniel Abadi, Yale University, U.S.A. Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland Harith Alani, University of Southampton, U.K. Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy Jeremy Carroll, HP Labs, U.K. Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A. Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Boi Faltings, EPFL, Switzerland Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Carole Goble, University of Manchester, U.K. Peter Haase, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Siegfried Handschuh, NUI Galway, Ireland Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, U.K. Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan Enrico Motta, The Open University, U.K. Natasha Noy, Stanford University, U.S.A. Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Research Center, Germany Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, U.K. Axel Polleres, NUI Galway, Ireland Marta Sabou, Open University, U.K. Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria Guus Schreiber, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Luciano Serafini, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy Amit Sheth, Wright State University, U.S.A. Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy Elena Simperl, University of Innsbruck, Austria Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany Hideaki Takeda, University of Tokyo, Japan Tomas Vitvar, NUI Galway, Ireland Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, U.S.A. Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy Michal Zaremba, University of Innsbruck, Austria For further information and for any questions regarding the event or the submission process, please contact the Ph.D. Symposium Chair: Philippe Cudre-Mauroux M.I.T. -- U.S.A. pcm (AT) csail mit edu We would like to thank the Okkam project (http://fp7.okkam.org/) for sponsoring this event and STI International (http://www.sti2.org/) for its help in organizing the symposium. From iclp08pub at cs.nmsu.edu Mon Mar 3 18:11:34 2008 From: iclp08pub at cs.nmsu.edu (ICLP 08) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:11:34 -0700 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICLP'08 CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <200803031711.m23HBY1n009989@pippo.cs.nmsu.edu> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ICLP'08 24th International Conference on Logic Programming Udine, Italy, December 9th-13th, 2008 http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it CONFERENCE SCOPE ---------------- Since the first conference held in Marseilles in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions (papers, position papers, and posters) are sought in all areas of logic programming including but not restricted to: * Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation. * Implementation: Compilation, Memory Management, Virtual Machines, Parallelism. * Environments: Program Analysis, Program Transformation, Validation and Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Integration. * Language Issues: Extensions, Integration with Other Paradigms, Concurrency, Modularity, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Programming Techniques. * Related Paradigms: Abductive Logic Programming, Inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming. * Applications: Databases, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics The three broad categories for submissions are: (1) Technical papers, providing novel research contributions, innovative perspectives on the field, and/or novel integrations across different areas; (2) Application papers, describing innovative uses of logic programming technology in real-world application domains; (3) Posters, ideal for presenting and discussing current work, not yet ready for publication, for PhD thesis summaries and research project overviews. A separate session dedicated to the celebration of the 20th anniversary of stable model semantics will also be part of the program. Accepted papers and posters will be allocated time for presentation during the conference. At least one author of each accepted submission is expected to register and participate in the event. In addition to papers and posters, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, specialized sessions, workshops, and a Doctoral Student Consortium. Details, as they become available will be posted at: http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it PAPERS AND POSTERS ------------------ Papers and posters must describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Emphasis will be placed on the novelty and innovative nature of the results (even if not completely polished and refined). All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel. Submissions MUST contain substantial original, unpublished material. All submissions must be written in English. Technical papers and application papers must not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format (see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs/) The limit for posters is 5 pages in the same format. The primary means of submission will be electronic, through the Easychair submission system. The submission page is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ICLP08 PUBLICATION ----------- The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. All accepted papers and posters will be included in the proceedings. WORKSHOPS --------- The ICLP'08 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best place for the presentation of preliminary work, novel ideas, and new open problems to a more focused and specialized audience. Workshops also provide a venue for presenting specialised topics and opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration in any areas related to logic programming, including cross-disciplinary areas. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ------------------- The Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming is the 4th Doctoral consortium to provide doctoral students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and word-renown experts in the field. The DC will also offer invited speakers and panel discussions. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper and presentation from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in special session of the main ICLP conference. CELEBRATING 20th YEARS OF STABLE MODEL SEMANTICS ------------------------------------------------ The year 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the publication that introduced the stable model semantics for logic programs with negation. The paper titled "The stable semantics for logic programs" by Michael Gelfond and Vladimir Lifschitz was presented at ICLP-1988. It was a momentous event that gave rise to a vibrant subfield of logic programming known now as the answer-set programming. Its distinguishing aspects are close connections to the fields of knowledge representation, satisfiability and constraint satisfaction, ever faster computational tools, and a growing list of successful applications. To celebrate the stable-model semantics, there will be a special session at ICLP 2008 dedicated to answer-set programming. The session will feature talks by Michael Gelfond and Vladimir Lifschitz. as well as by other major contributions to the field, presenting personal perspectives on the stable-model semantics, its impact and its future. There will be a panel discussion, and regular accepted ICLP papers falling into the answer-set programming area will complete the program. CONFERENCE VENUE ---------------- The conference will be held in the city of Udine, the capital of the historical region of Friuli, Italy. Located between the Adriatic sea and the Alps, close to Venice, Austria and Slovenia, Udine is a city of Roman origins, funded by Emperor Otto in 983. Rich of historical sites, Udine is also famous for its commercial and shopping opportunities and its outstanding wine and culinary traditions. SUPPORT SPONSORING AND AWARDS ----------------------------- The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP). The ALP has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants. The ALP is planning to sponsor two awards for ICLP 2008: for the best technical paper and for the best student paper. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Papers Posters Abstract submission deadline June 2nd n/a Submission deadline June 9th August 15th Notification of authors August 1st September 1st Camera-ready copy due September 15th September 15th 20 Years of Stable Models TBA Doctoral Consortium TBA Workshop Proposals June 2nd Early-bird Registration TBA Conference December 9-13, 2008 ICLP'2008 ORGANIZATION ---------------------- General Chair: Agostino Dovier (University of Udine) Program Co-Chairs: Maria Garcia de la Banda (Monash University) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University) Workshop Chair: Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State University) Doctoral Student Consortium: David Warren (SUNY Stony Brook) Tom Schrijvers (K.U.Leuven) Publicity Co-Chairs: Marcello Balduccini (Kodak Research Labs) Alessandro Dal Palu' (University of Parma) Programming Competition Chair: Bart Demoen (K.U.Leuven) 20 Years of Stable Models: Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky) Andrea Formisano (University of Perugia) Program Committee: Salvador Abreu Sergio Antoy Pedro Barahona Chitta Baral Gerhard Brewka Manuel Carro Michael Codish Alessandro Dal Palu' Bart Demoen Agostino Dovier John Gallagher Michael Gelfond Carmen Gervet Gopal Gupta Manuel Hermenegildo Andy King Michael Maher Juan Moreno Navarro Alberto Pettorossi Brigitte Pientka Gianfranco Rossi Fariba Sadri Vitor Santos Costa Tran Cao Son Paolo Torroni Frank Valencia Mark Wallace Web Master: Raffaele Cipriano Local Arrangements Committee: Alberto Casagrande Elisabetta De Maria Luca Di Gaspero Carla Piazza ---------------------------------------------------- For further information: iclp08 at cs.nmsu.edu http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it From secretary at icseng.info Mon Mar 3 20:02:49 2008 From: secretary at icseng.info (ICSEng 2008) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:02:49 -0800 Subject: [ecoop-info] [ICSEng'08] ICSEng 2008, Submission deadline extended to March 16, 2008 Message-ID: <1173064265.20080303110249@icseng.info> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can see a part of the presentations already defined on the AXMEDIS conference web site: http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2008/ http://www.axmedis.org/com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=165&Itemid=79 http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2008draft/openconf/openconf.php AXMEDIS 2008 will be a significant and exciting event on cross-media, content production GRID, content protection, interoperable DRM (digital rights management), multimedia terminals, multiple-play, multichannel, multi devices, MPEG-21 terminal and tools, authoring tools, digital media, P2P, OMA, multi-channel delivery, content modeling, business models, security and distribution, digital signature, legal aspects, accessibility, transaction models, social network, semantic modeling, multimedia music, workflow, and much more. The AXMEDIS2008 International Conference is a perfect occasion to get the state of the art and beyond, on the above mentioned technologies and developments and to meet the most relevant industrial leaders, leading researchers, experts and practitioners from both industrial and research institutes, including European digital content providers, integrators, distributors, technology providers, market leaders and prestigious research institutions, social networks. AXMEDIS is supported by more than 45 sponsors: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, University of Florence, ICSRiM, University of Leeds, EPFL, EUTELSAT, FHG-IGD, Giunti ILABS, HP, BBC, SDAE, TISCALI, SIAE, AFI, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, SEJER, University of Reading, Pekin University, TEO (telecom Lithuania), KTU, ELION, VRS Grupe, ACIT, Telecom Italia, Strategica, EXITECH, XIM, the MUSICNETWORK International Association, the European Commission and many more. See http://www.AXMEDIS.org/axmedis2008/ Please feel free to forward and redistribute this email to everyone who may be interested in this event and to all relevant mailing lists. Please do not hesitate to inform us if this email has not been of your interest. Best regards, Paolo Nesi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CALL for papers, AXMEDIS2008 4th International Conference Automated solutions for Cross Media Content and Multi-channel Distribution HTTP://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2008 Submission due: 1 April 2008 Conference date: 17th-19th Nov. 2008 Conference venue: Florence, Italy AXMEDIS2008 aims to explore all subjects, latest developments, future trends, of technologies and their applications. With a particularly attention to new concepts, requirements, prototypes, research ideas, and findings which could contribute to cross fertilization and convergence of research and industrial communities. This is the 4th conference of a series pressed by IEEE and FUP with high level papers and large audience and distribution. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - formats and models for multi-channel content distribution and interoperability - automated content production, collection, crawling, composition, formatting - cultural heritage content and solutions - solutions and tools for e-commerce, education entertainment - content processing languages and tools - GRID and distributed systems for content production - collaborative/cooperative models and tools, CSCW - social network and models - content distribution: streaming and downloading - digital libraries and distributed systems - systems and approaches for content production/distribution on demand - multimedia middleware - multimedia software engineering - mobiles technologies for content distribution and optimisation - intelligent content, semantic content and models - interactive multimedia models - P2P solutions and architectures - workflow management systems Web services and web portals for content distribution - Digital Rights Management (DRM) models, tools, and DRM interoperability - multimedia standards: MPEG-7, MPEG-21, MXF, SMIL, HTML, News, etc. - multimedia and packaging formats - distributed games and serious games - Quality of Service, QoS, control and planning - user profiling, and behaviour - agents and autonomous systems - legal aspects related to digital content - context awareness and solutions - distribution of computer graphics and 3D content - distributed information retrieval - synchronisation technologies and solutions - accessibility and multimodal user interfaces - e-conference, e-medicine and e-lecture - distributed virtual environment, virtual school, virtual university, and virtual learning - content monitoring technologies - watermarking and fingerprinting techniques - audio and video fingerprinting and recognition and all related topics, do not hesitate to contact the chairs if you have a proposal for the conference. Applications and Industrial Presentations and Demos: Proposals for presentations of applications and tools, including case studies and reports on the application and/or utilization of tools, industrial practices and models, or tool/system demonstrations: Long papers up to 8 pages, Short papers up to 4 pages, Demo: up to 2 pages. Workshops and Panels: The Conference will hold Workshops and Panels consisting of research and industry position papers on specific topics. Research and Development projects of EC or other organizations are invited to propose workshops or panels. For these proposals please contact the general chair: Paolo Nesi (University of Florence) at nesi at dsi.unifi.it providing topics, speakers, and aims. All submissions and proposals must be in English and submitted in PDF or Microsoft Word format using the submission portal on the conference web site no later than 1 April 2008. http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2008draft/openconf/openconf.php Document style is available at the conference website. http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/docs/instruct.pdf http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/docs/instruct.doc http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/docs/instruct.ps http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/docs/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Compo. Soc. thanks for your patience and interest from AXMEDIS 2008 Chairs http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2008 past conferences: http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2007 http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2006 http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005 consortium site http://www.axmedis.org - - - - - - - - - From liqian at microsoft.com Tue Mar 4 02:56:06 2008 From: liqian at microsoft.com (Liqian Luo) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:56:06 -0800 Subject: [ecoop-info] ACM SenSys 2008 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <715287EC0AFFA842B30C3431B73D1AE14EC98DE7C5@NA-EXMSG-C105.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message! ************************************************************* Paper Submissions Deadline: *April 14, 2008* ************************************************************* Call for Papers ACM SenSys 2008 The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems November 5 - 7, 2008 Raleigh, NC http://sensys.acm.org/2008/ ************************************************************* The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) is a highly selective, single-track forum for the presentation of research results on systems issues in the area of embedded, networked sensors. Distributed systems based on networked sensors and actuators with embedded computation capabilities enable an instrumentation of the physical world at an unprecedented scale and density, thus enabling a new generation of monitoring and control applications. This conference provides an ideal venue to address the research challenges facing the design, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of these systems. Sensor networks require contributions from many fields, from wireless communication and networking, embedded systems and hardware, distributed systems, data management, and applications, so we welcome cross-disciplinary work. We particularly encourage papers that extend the scope of the conference beyond wireless mote-class sensor networks and we seek contributions from a broad range of sensing-related fields, such as actuator networks, RFID applications, mobile ad-hoc networks, camera networks, and others. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Sensor network architecture and protocols - Sensor network algorithms such as localization, routing, time synchronization, clustering, topology control, and coverage control algorithms - Rich sensor systems leveraging RFID, mobile devices (e.g., cell phones), cameras, robotics, etc. - Failure resilience and fault isolation - Analysis of real-world systems and fundamental limits - Energy management - Sensor network planning, provisioning, calibration and deployment - Data, information, and signal processing - Deployment experience and testbeds - Data storage and management - Experimental methods, including measurement, simulation, and emulation infrastructure - Distributed actuation and control - Programming methodology - Applications - Operating systems - Security and privacy - Integration with back-end systems such as web-based information systems, process control, and enterprise software Program Co-Chairs ************************************************************* Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin Sponsored by ************************************************************* ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS and SIGBED; with support from NSF. Important dates ************************************************************* - Paper Registration and Abstract: April 7, 2008, 5pm US Eastern Time - Paper Submission Deadline: April 14, 2008, 5pm US Eastern Time - Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 18, 2008 - Camera Ready Paper Copy: August 25, 2008 All deadlines are firm; we will not honor extensions. Papers must be original, unpublished work not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format, fitting length and formatting guidelines as directed on the submission webpage. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. The review process is double-blind and hence, all submissions must be anonymized. Selected papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. For submission details, see the conference web site at http://sensys.acm.org/2008/ Demos ************************************************************* Demonstrations showing innovative research and applications are solicited. SenSys is very interested in demonstrations of technology, platforms, and applications of sensor systems. Abstracts of accepted demos will be published in the SenSys conference proceedings. Submissions from both industry and academia are encouraged. For submission details, see the conference web site. A call for demos with submission dates, etc., will be posted at a later point. Posters ************************************************************* Posters showing exciting early work on sensor systems are solicited. Areas of interest are the same as those listed in the technical call for papers. While the poster need not describe completed work, it should report on research for which at least preliminary results are available. For submission details, see the conference web site. A call for posters with submission dates, etc., will be posted at a later point. Workshops ************************************************************* Workshop proposals are highly encouraged in emerging areas related to sensor networks. A call for workshop proposals will be posted on the SenSys website. Organization ************************************************************* General Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Program Co-Chairs: Margaret Martonosi (Princeton) Adam Wolisz (TU Berlin) Poster Co-Chairs: Philippe Bonnet (U. Copenhagen) Tian He (U Minnesota) Demo Co-Chairs: Kamin Whitehouse (U Virginia) Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Local Arrangements Chair: Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University) Publicity Co-Chairs: Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science) Liqian Luo (Microsoft Research) Yoshito Tobe (Tokyo Denki University) Sponsorship Chair: Matt Welsh (Harvard) Web Chair: Ying Zhang (PARC) Registration Chair: Peter Corke (CSIRO ICT Centre) Finance Chair: Jie Liu (Microsoft Research) Workshop Chair: Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth) Student Award Chair: Sam Madden (MIT) Publication Chair: Joe Polastre (Sentilla) Steering Committee Chair: Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth) Technical Program Committees: Margaret Martonosi, Princeton Univ, PC co-chair Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin, PC co-chair Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State Mark Corner, Umass Rick Han, Colorado Adam Dunkels, SICS Deepak Ganesan, UMass Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Wiliam Kaiser, UCLA Ralph Kling, Crossbow Koen Langendoen, TU Delft Sam Madden, MIT Lama Nachman, Intel Research Joe Polastre, Sentilla Ram Ramjee, Microsoft Research Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich Paolo Santi, Pisa Andreas Savvides, Yale Univ. 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In the last decade, novel modeling and simulation languages, (e.g. Modelica, gPROMS, Chi, Verilog-AMS, and VHDL-AMS) based on acausal modeling using differential algebraic equations (DAEs) have appeared. Using such languages, it has become possible to model complex systems covering multiple application domains at a high level of abstraction through reusable model components. In the last couple of years the name equation-based object-oriented (EOO) language has been introduced to denote modeling languages within this category. The EOOLT Workshop addresses the current state of the art of EOO modeling languages as well as open issues that currently still limit the expression power, correctness, and usefulness of such languages through a set of full-length presentations and forum discussions. The workshop is concerned with, but not limited to, the following themes: * Acausality and its role in model reusability. * Component systems for EOO languages. * Database lookup and knowledge invocation. * Discrete-event and hybrid modeling using EOO languages. * Embedded systems. * EOO language constructs in support of simulation, optimization, diagnostics, and system identification. * EOO mathematical modeling vs. UML modeling. * Equation-based languages supporting DAEs and/or PDEs. * Formal semantics of EOO related languages. * Multi-resolution / multi-scale modeling using EOO languages. * Numerical coupling of EOO simulators and other simulation tools. * Parallel execution of EOO models. * Performance issues. * Programming / modeling environments. * Real-time simulation using EOO languages. * Reflection and meta-programming. * Reuse of models in EOO languages. * Table lookup and interpolation. * Type systems and early static checking. * Verification. CONTRIBUTIONS Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit full-length research papers (up to 10 pages) for consideration by the program committee. Papers are welcome that offer presentations and discussions of existing tools, their capabilities and limitations; reports on practical experience; demonstrations of tools, ideas, and concepts; positions related to relevant questions; and discussion topics. PUBLICATION If a paper has been accepted, the authors should present the paper at the workshop and also have the paper published in electronic proceedings (and a local conference paper version) at Link?ping University Electronic Press. The best of these papers will be selected and the authors will be asked to resubmit an extended version for review and to be possibly published in the SIMPRA journal. Important Dates * Submission deadline: April 30 * Author notification: May 26 * ECOOP Early Registration: June 1 * Camera-ready: June 9 * Workshop in Cyprus: July 8 Organizing Committee * Peter Fritzson (Chair) * Fran?ois Cellier (Co-Chair) * David Broman (Co-Chair) * Loucas Louca (Local Organizer), University of Cyprus For questions regarding the workshop, please send an email to the organizing committe: 2008 at eoolt.org. Program Committee (incomplete) Peter Fritzson, Link?ping University, Sweden; Chair Fran?ois Cellier, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Co-Chair David Broman, Link?ping University, Sweden; Co-Chair Bernhard Bachmann, University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany Bert van Beek, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Gilad Bracha, Cadence Design Systems, USA Felix Breitenecker, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Jan Broenink, University of Twente, Netherlands Peter Bunus, Link?ping University, Sweden Ernst Christen, Lynguent, Inc., Portland, OR, USA Sebasti?n Dormido, National University for Distance Education, Madrid, Spain Olaf Enge-Rosenblatt, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Dresden, Germany Peter Feiler, SEI, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Stefan J?hnichen, Fraunhofer FIRST and TU Berlin, Germany Petter Krus, Link?ping University, Sweden Loucas Louca, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Jakob Mauss, QTronic GmbH, Berlin, Germany Pieter Mosterman, MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA, USA Ramine Nikoukhah, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Martin Otter, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Chris Paredis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA C?sar de Prada, University of Valladolid, Spain Juan Jos? Ramos, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Peter Schwarz, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Dresden, Germany Paul Strooper, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Michael Tiller, Emmeskay, Inc., Plymouth, MI, USA Martin T?rngren, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden Alfonso Urqu?a, UNED, Madrid, Spain No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.4/1309 - Release Date: 2008-03-03 18:50 From roberto at zicari.de Tue Mar 4 10:16:13 2008 From: roberto at zicari.de (Roberto Zicari) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:16:13 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] ETH New ODBMS Lecture Series on ODBMS.ORG Message-ID: <47CD135E.5A1FAA86@zicari.de> NEWS RELEASE 2/19/2008 ETH Zurich Releases New ODBMS Lecture Series on ODBMS.ORG ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, has today exclusively published on its portal the most up-to-date and comprehensive lecture series on object databases, devised for the 2007/08 class by the renown Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. The new lecture series was prepared by ODBMS.ORG expert panel member Michael Grossniklaus, lecturer and senior researcher at the Institute for Information Systems at ETH. It consists of 12 lectures, which are now available for free download: http://www.odbms.org/about_news_20080219.html Lecture 1: 035.01 Introduction Lecture 2: 035.02 Object Persistence Lecture 3: 035.03 db4o Part1 Lecture 4: 035.04 db4o Part2 Lecture 5: 035.05 ODMG Standard Lecture 6: 035.06 Objectstore Objectivity Lecture 7: 035.07 Storage and Indexing Lecture 8: 035.08 Version Models Lecture 9: 035.09 The OM Data Model Lecture 10: 035.10 Object Model Language: OML Lecture 11*: 035.11 Avon Implementation Lecture 12: 035.12 Support for Context Aware Data Management ## From tanja.bruetting at isqi.org Tue Mar 4 12:53:19 2008 From: tanja.bruetting at isqi.org (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Tanja_Br=FCtting?=) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:53:19 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CONQUEST 2008: Call for Papers - 28 days left to submit! Message-ID: <6A61C865A2948A429200C8F55F1806A0015BC6F4@server.asqf.de> CONQUEST 2008 11th International Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology 24-26 September 2008, Potsdam, Germany http://www.conquest-conference.org/ REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS 28 days left to submit! Today we would like to remind you again not to forget the deadline for the submission of papers and tutorials: 31 March 2008!!! As it is very important to attract the attention of a wide public, we would like to ask you to support us by forwarding the Call for Papers to people who you believe might be interested in a conference submission. Important Dates Submission of papers and tutorials: 31 March 2008 Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2008 Submission of final papers: 07 July 2008 Submission of tutorial and paper slides: 01 September 2008 Scope and Objectives Since 1997, CONQUEST is the platform for software professionals bringing together the software engineering community to discuss software quality aspects, to see how quality engineering methods and techniques are used in both industrial and research environments, to see the latest tools, to share experiences on projects and representative case studies, and to hear about future directions. CONQUEST 2008 will feature tutorials and presentations of invited speakers and from members of the quality and software engineering community. It provides a full picture of software quality in theory and practice: * first-hand information on the practical use and further development of quality engineering methods and techniques; * user experience in introducing, implementing and operating software quality engineering; * specific real-life case studies with detailed quality analysis and evaluation; and * capabilities and availability of quality engineering tools. CONQUEST 2008 welcomes original work in the broad field of constructive and analytical methods for software and system quality, on engineering processes for software-based systems, lifecycle management etc. Discussions of quality aspects in realm of service-orientation, of security and safety requirements for software-based systems are appreciated. CONQUEST 2008 is organized by iSQI. It is supported by the SIG on Testing, Analysis, and Verification of Software of the German Society for Informatics (GI TAV). Submission Details Contributions may cover any quality related aspect of software engineering, but should be classified by choosing the topics below, which characterize the contribution best: * Service-Oriented Architecture * Business Processes Engineering * Secure and Safe Software-Based Systems * Secure Software Development * Model Driven Engineering * Requirements Engineering * Verification and Validation * Testing * Metrics and Measurements of System Quality and of Development Processes, Analytical Models of Software Engineering * Project Management * Configuration Management Contributions related to industrial experiences are particularly welcomed. Proposals should be submitted electronically to the Program Committee by March 31, 2008. We differentiate between * Original research papers of 12-16 pages which must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings * Industrial (experience) reports of 6-8 pages which may report the application of known methods in industry or the extension of methods and tools in new application fields Papers of smaller size than the targeted minimum will be rejected without any consideration. The conference proceedings will be published in printed form by dpunkt.verlag. The best paper and the best presentation will be selected by the program committee and the conference participants, respectively. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The presenting author gets free access to the conference for the day of presentation. A paper submission must include a title, the name(s) of the author(s) and a contact address of the author(s). Please add the e-mail address as well as a short biography (at most 100 words) of the author(s) if you want them published in the conference proceedings. Paper submissions (in pdf format) should be submitted through the submission form at http://manage.conquest-conference.org/author/submit.php . Please choose a subject classification from the list above. A template for paper submissions can be downloaded from: http://www.isqi.org/en/conferences/conquest/2008/call-for-papers/ Program Committee Girts Baltaisbrencis, Exigen Services, Latvia Manfred Broy, Technical University Munich, Germany Wim Demey, Sogeti, Belgium Winfried Dulz, University of Nuremberg-Erlangen, Germany Karol Fr?hauf, INFOGEM, Switzerland Stephan Goericke, iSQI, Germany, Organizing Chair Georg Heidenreich, Siemens, Germany Bernard Hom?s, TESSCO Group, France Anne Mette Jonassen Hass, DELTA, Denmark Dehua Ju, ASTI Shanghai, China Dieter Landes, University of Applied Sciences Coburg, Germany Peter Liggesmeyer, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Alon Linetzki, SELA Group, Israel Patricia McQuaid, California Polytechnic State University, USA Pedro Merino, University of Malaga, Spain Ludger Meyer, Siemens, Germany Joanna Nowakowska, Oracle, Poland Mohammad Nuruzzaman, Daffodil International University, Bangladesh Barbara Paech, University of Heidelberg, Germany Sachar Paulus, SAP, Germany Helmut Pichler, ANECON, Austria Klaus Pohl, University of Essen, Germany Sergii Riapolov, Ukrainian Scientific Center for Development of Information Technologies (ITDEV) under Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Ukraine Ita Richardson, University of Limerick, Ireland Bj Rollison, Microsoft, USA Alexander Rudolph, Ecolab, Austria Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany, Conference Chair Achim Schmidt, Beta Systems, Germany Kurt Schneider, University of Hannover, Germany Andreas Spillner, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, Germany Maria Stefanova-Pavlova, CITT Global, Bulgaria Angela Vozella, CIRA, Italy Mario Winter, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany Walter Wintersteiger, Management & Informatik, Austria Peter Zimmerer, Siemens, Germany Local Organization Tanja Br?tting, iSQI iSQI GmbH - International Software Quality Institute Am Weichselgarten 19, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Tel +49 9131 91910-0 mailto:info at isqi.org Fax +49 9131 91910-10 http://www.isqi.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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SBLP provides a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in the fundamental principles and innovations in the design and implementation of programming languages and systems. SBLP 2008 invites authors to contribute with Technical Papers and Tutorial Proposals related (but not limited) to: * Programming language design and implementation * Formal semantics of programming languages * Theoretical foundations of programming languages * Design and implementation of programming language environments * Object-oriented programming languages * Functional programming * Aspect-oriented programming languages * Scripting languages * Domain-specific languages * Programming languages for mobile, web and network computing * New programming models * Program transformations * Program analysis and verification * Compilation and interpretation techniques Contributions can be written in Portuguese or English. Papers should have at most 14 pages. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Selected papers will appear in a Special Issue of the Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). Only papers written in English are eligible to be published in JUCS. Papers should be presented in the language of submission. Tutorial submissions must be in the form of an extended abstract with at most 10 pages. The final version of accepted tutorials should contain at most 30 pages. This final version will be distributed to attendees. An abstract of the tutorial (1-2 pages) will be included in the conference proceedings. Detailed submission guidelines are available at http://www.lia.ufc.br/sblp2008. IMPORTANT DATES Paper abstract submission (15 lines): March 28, 2008 Full paper submission: April 4, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 6, 2008 Final papers due: June 30, 2008 GENERAL CHAIR Francisco Heron de Carvalho Junior, UFC PROGRAMME CHAIRS Marco Tulio Valente, PUC Minas Peter Mosses, Swansea University PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Alberto Pardo, Univ. de La Republica Alex Garcia, IME Alfio Martini, PUC-RS Alvaro Freitas Moreira, UFRGS Andre Rauber Du Bois, UCPel Andre Santos, UFPE Carlos Camarao, UFMG Christiano Braga, Univ. Comp. de Madrid Cristiano Damiani, UFPEL David Naumann, Stevens Tech Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio Eric Tanter, Univ. of Chile Francisco Heron de Carvalho Junior, UFC Isabel Cafezeiro, UFF Johan Jeuring, Utrecht Univ. Joao Saraiva, Univ. do Minho Jose Guimaraes, UFSCAR Jose E. Labra Gayo, Univ. of Oviedo Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Univ. of Leicester Lucilia Figueiredo, UFOP Luis Soares Barbosa, Univ. do Minho Luis Carlos Meneses, UPE Marcelo A. Maia, UFU Mariza A. S. Bigonha, UFMG Martin A. Musicante, UFRN Nabor Mendonca,UNIFOR Nick Benton, Microsoft Research Noemi Rodriguez, PUC-Rio Paulo Borba, UFPE Rafael Dueire Lins, UFPE Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio Ricardo Massa Lima, UPE Roberto S. Bigonha, UFMG Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo, UNICAMP Sandro Rigo, UNICAMP Sergio de Mello Schneider, UFU Sergio Soares, UPE Sergiu Dascalu, Univ. of Nevada Simon Thompson, Univ. of Kent Varmo Vene, Univ. de Tartu Vitor Santos Costa, UFRJ Vladimir Di Iorio, UFV ORGANIZATION Brazilian Computer Society and Federal University of Ceara From bernardo at sti.uniurb.it Tue Mar 4 14:45:15 2008 From: bernardo at sti.uniurb.it (Marco Bernardo) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:45:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: [ecoop-info] SFM-08:Bio -- last call for participation Message-ID: ************************************************* * * * 8th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON * * FORMAL METHODS FOR THE DESIGN OF * * COMPUTER, COMMUNICATION AND SOFTWARE SYSTEMS: * * COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS BIOLOGY * * (SFM-08:Bio) * * * * IN MEMORY OF NADIA BUSI * * * * 2-7 June 2008 * * * * Bertinoro Univ. Residential Center - Italy * * * *===============================================* * http://www.sti.uniurb.it/events/sfm08bio/ * *===============================================* * Call for Participation * * (deadline: 17 March 2008) * ************************************************* GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT SFM ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Formal methods are emerging in computer science as a prominent approach to the rigorous design of computer, communication and software systems. The aim of the SFM series is to offer a good spectrum of current research in foundations as well as applications of formal methods, which can be of interest for graduate students and young researchers who intend to approach the field. This year SFM is devoted to computational systems biology and covers computational models, calculi and logics for biological systems, and verification and simulation methods. COURSES AND LECTURERS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The school features the following ten regular lectures: * "Quantitative Methods in Systems Biology" by Stephen Gilmore (University of Edinburgh, UK) * "Pathway Logic" by Carolyn Talcott (SRI, USA) * "Automated Verification of Biological Systems" by Francois Fages (INRIA Paris Rocquencourt, France) * "Hierarchical Specification of Biological Systems" by Adelinde Uhrmacher (University of Rostock, Germany) * "Simulation Methods in Systems Biology" by Daniel Gillespie (Gillespie Consulting, USA) * "Membrane Computing" by Gheorghe Paun (Romanian Academy, Romania) * "Petri Nets for Systems and Synthetic Biology" by Monika Heiner (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany) * "Calculi for Biological Systems" by Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh, UK) * "Using Beta-Binders for Systems Biology" by Corrado Priami (University of Trento and CoSBi, Italy) * "Self-Assembly of DNA Structures" by Natasha Jonoska (University of South Florida, USA) and the following six talks from the BISCA project: * "ViCe: A Virtual Prokaryote" by Pierpaolo Degano (University of Pisa, Italy) * "The Calculus of Looping Sequences" by Roberto Barbuti (University of Pisa, Italy) * "Bisimulations for Biological Calculi" by Paola Quaglia (University of Trento, Italy) * "Hybrid Systems and Biology" by Alberto Policriti (University of Udine, Italy) * "A pi-Based Process Calculus for the Implementation of Compartimentized Bio-Inspired Calculi" by Cristian Versari (University of Bologna, Italy) * "Expressiveness Issues in Calculi for Artificial Biochemistry" by Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, Italy) All the participants will receive a copy of a tutorial book published by Springer as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. LOCATION ^^^^^^^^ SFM-08:Bio will be held in the medieval hilltop town of Bertinoro. This town is in Emilia Romagna, about 70 km south-east of Bologna, at an elevation of about 230 m. It can be reached in a couple of hours from the international airport "G. Marconi" of Bologna by shuttle (from the airport to the railway station) + train (from Bologna to Forli`) + bus (from the railway station to Bertinoro). The closest airport is the "L. Ridolfi" airport of Forli`, which is 13 km away. Bertinoro is close to many splendid locations such as Urbino, Gradara, San Leo, and the Republic of San Marino, as well as some less well-known locations like the thermal springs of Fratta Terme. Bertinoro can also be a base for visiting some of the better-known Italian locations such as Bologna, Ravenna, Ferrara, Venezia, Padova, Verona, Firenze, Pisa, and Siena. Bertinoro itself is picturesque, with its narrow streets and walkways winding around the central peak. The school will be held at the Centro Residenziale Universitario (CRU), an ex-episcopal fortress that has been converted by the University of Bologna into a modern conference center with computing facilities and Internet access. From the fortress it is possible to enjoy a beautiful vista stretching from the Apennines to the Adriatic coast and the Alps over the Po Valley. ORGANIZATION ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Scientific directors: * Marco Bernardo (University of Urbino - Italy) * Pierpaolo Degano (University of Pisa - Italy) * Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna - Italy) Secretary: * Monica Michelacci (CRU Bertinoro - Italy) Webmaster: * Alessandro Aldini (University of Urbino - Italy) APPLICATION ^^^^^^^^^^^ Prospective participants should send by 17 March 2008 the application form, available on the school web site, to the two e-mail addresses below: Marco Bernardo bernardo AT sti.uniurb.it Monica Michelacci mmichelacci AT ceub.it by specifying in the form whether a grant is requested to cover part of the registration fee (no grant can be requested to cover the accommodation fee or the travel expenses). The registration fee is 550 euros and includes the school material. The accommodation fee is 350 euros and covers the period June 1-8 (7 nights) in double room (to share with another participant), half board (breakfast and lunch, dinner of June 1 included, lunch of June 8 excluded). The reduced accommodation fee for the participants who do not need a room is 100 euros and covers the period June 2-7 (6 lunches). Notification of accepted/rejected applications and grant requests will be communicated by March 18. Registration to the school is due by March 31. No refund is possible for cancellation after April 30. SPONSORSHIPS ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sponsorship for this event was kindly provided by the University of Bologna under the International Summer School Programme. From mopy at labs.mot.com Tue Mar 4 19:42:26 2008 From: mopy at labs.mot.com (Shivajit Mohapatra) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:42:26 -0600 Subject: [ecoop-info] [ACM Middleware 2007] WoWMoM 2008 Poster and Demo Sessions [Submission deadline : Mar 15] Message-ID: <47CD9812.2020204@labs.mot.com> Sorry, if you received multiple copies of this email. ___________________________________________________________________ IEEE WoWMoM 2008: Call for Demos and Posters -- Submission deadline: March 15th, 2008 (23:59:59 PST) (Extended) -- Acceptance notification: March 31st, 2008 (by email) -- Camera-ready version due: April 15th, 2008 WoWMoM 2008 solicits proposals for live demonstrations and posters of novel technology, platforms and applications in mobile computing. Posters and demonstrations will be presented at a reception during the conference. The demo session presents an excellent opportunity for authors to present early protoypes of new or ongoing research and interact directly with the conference attendees. Abstracts of accepted demos will be published in the conference proceedings. A BEST DEMO AWARD sponsored by Elsevier will also be presented during the conference. We strongly encourage submissions from both the industry and universities. Submission Instructions: All submissions must include an extended abstract and should be no longer than three pages in standard two column IEEE format, including all figures, tables and references. The authors should clearly describe what they intend to demonstrate. All submissions must include infrastructure requirements and the author list, including affiliations. Submissions must be made electronically (in PDF format) in a single email message to the Demo Chair at with the subject as "WoWMoM 2008 DEMO SUBMISSION". IEEE WoWMoM 2008 DEMO CHAIR: Shivajit Mohapatra (Motorola Labs) _______________________________________________ Middleware2007 mailing list Middleware2007 at mailman.ics.uci.edu https://mailman.ics.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/middleware2007 From David.Pearce at mcs.vuw.ac.nz Tue Mar 4 20:43:33 2008 From: David.Pearce at mcs.vuw.ac.nz (David Pearce) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:43:33 +1300 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Papers: 9th Annual ACM SIGCHI_NZ Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Message-ID: <47CDA665.3020900@mcs.vuw.ac.nz> Hello, This is the second call for papers for CHINZ 2008. Please forward this email on to anyone who might be interested. Call for Papers - CHINZ 2008 ---------------------------- The 9th Annual ACM SIGCHI_NZ Conference on Human-Computer Interaction will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners involved with Human Computer Interaction in New Zealand or other parts of the world. The aim of this symposium is to bring together people interested in HCI, to allow them to exchange views, share experiences, and learn from one another. We welcome full length research papers in all areas of HCI, as well as work-in-progress, case-studies, industrial perspectives, student work and system demonstrations. In particular, we strongly encourage submissions by academics and practitioners involved in computer graphic design and research, on the topics of its applications or implications for human-computer interaction and user interface design. Important Dates --------------- 31st March 2008 - All submissions due. 19th May 2008 - Response to authors. 3rd June 2008 - Final submissions due. Submissions ----------- Full paper submissions are invited in all areas of Computer-Human Interaction. We also welcome proposals for posters and system demonstrations. Submissions should report original work, and will be reviewed. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference, published in the conference proceedings, and the ACM Digital Library. Papers should be no more than 8 pages in length and submitted as PDF files. Submissions will be made through the EasyChair conference system, and a submission link will be available by March. Graduate Students Workshop -------------------------- The conference will also include a two-day HCI Graduate Students' Workshop. There is likely to be some limited funding available to assist selected students in attending this workshop and the conference. Students interested in attending the workshop are required to submit a one-page summary of their research by the due date for conference submissions. Programme --------- The conference will take place over four days. The Graduate Students' Workshop will be held on 30 June - 1 July. This will be followed by the technical paper sessions and invited talks on 2-3 July. Contact ------- CHINZ2008 School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600 Wellington New Zealand Tel: (+64) 4 463 6730 Fax: (+64) 4 463 5045 Email: stuart at mcs.vuw.ac.nz URL: www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/events/CHINZ2008 Conference Chair: Stuart Marshall Programme Chairs: James Noble, Stuart Marshall -- Lecturer in Computer Science, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand. Office: Cotton 231 Telephone: +64 (0)4 463 5833 Mobile: +64 (0)210374371 URL: http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~djp From Herve.Rivano at sophia.inria.fr Wed Mar 5 11:55:38 2008 From: Herve.Rivano at sophia.inria.fr (Herve Rivano) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:55:38 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] AdHocNow 2008 -- Deadline imminent Message-ID: <200803051055.m25Atcac013451@mascotte.inria.fr> (Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7th International Conference on AD-HOC Networks & Wireless ( AdHocNow'08 ) Sophia Antipolis, France, September 10-12, 2008 http://www-sop.inria.fr/mascotte/adhocnow ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <<<<<<<<<<<< SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN >>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<< CHECK ON THE WEBSITE >>>>>>>>>>> Ad-Hoc networks are wireless, self-organizing systems formed by cooperating nodes within communication range of each other that form temporary networks. Their topology is dynamic, decentralized, ever changing and the nodes may move around arbitrarily. The last few years have witnessed a wealth of research ideas on ad-hoc networking that are moving rapidly into implemented standards. Following previous Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless conferences in Morelia, Mexico (2007), Ottawa, Canada (2006), Cancun, Mexico (2005), Vancouver, Canada (2004), Montreal, Canada (2003), and Toronto, Canada (2002), the 7th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless will take place at INRIA Sophia Antipolis Mediterranee, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 10-12, 2008. Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submissions Due: March 10, 2008 Paper Submissions Due: March 15, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: May 20, 2008 Camera Ready Versions Due: June 15, 2008 Author Registration Deadline: June 15, 2008 Early Registration Deadline: August 1, 2008 Conference: September 10-12, 2008 Workshops: September 13, 2008 Topics of Interest ------------------ We are interested in work in progress, experimental and theoretical research in Wireless Sensor, Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Mesh Networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to research papers in any of the following areas: * Access Control * Ad-Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems * Algorithmic Issues * Analytic Methods and Modeling for Performance Evaluation * Application for Ad-Hoc Networks * Architectures of Ad-Hoc Networks * Distributed Algorithms for Ad-Hoc Networks * Energy Efficiency * Geometric Graphs * Location Discovery and Management * Mobile Ad-Hoc Computing Platforms, Systems and Testbeds * Quality-of-Service * Routing Protocols (Unicast, Multicast, etc.) * Secure Services and Protocols * Sensor Networks * Self-Configuration * Service Discovery * Timing Synchronization * Wireless Internet * Wireless Mesh Networks Invited Speakers ---------------- * Srdjan Krco, Ericsson, Ireland * Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada * Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Associated Workshops: September 13 2008 -------------------- * 1st International Colloquium on Foundations of Mobile Systems Security and Reliability (MOSAR). http://www2.lifl.fr/MOSAR2008/ * 1st International Workshop on Ad-hoc Ambient Computing. http://www-sop.inria.fr/mascotte/adhocnow/AC/ * PhD Workshop on AdHOC and Wireless Networks (PhD-NOW). http://www.senzations.net/phd-nowworkshop Proceedings ----------- The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (pending approval). Papers should have a length of up to 14 pages following the Springer LNCS format; for more information contact the Springer website at http://www.springeronline.com/lncs/ Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Ad-Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks, an International Journal. http://www.oldcitypublishing.com/AHSWN/AHSWN.html Paper Submissions ----------------- Papers should be submitted using EasyChair conference management system http://www.easychair.org/ . We seek original contributions which must not be submitted in parallel to any other conference. Papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions at the LNCS website, which provides general formatting instructions and templates/style files for many commonly used word processors (LaTeX, Word, Framemaker, etc.). The manuscript should not exceed 14 LNCS pages (including text, figures and references). Authors should submit PDF version of their papers. Prepare your submission to include the topic, three keywords and the name of a contact person with e-mail address. All papers will be reviewed for technical merit. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, provided at least one author of the paper registers to present the paper at the conference. LNCS is published, in parallel to the printed books, in full-text electronic form at http://www.springerlink.com . Authors of accepted papers therefore need to submit all the electronic files, most importantly the source files, of all parts of the manuscript as advised in the instructions on the LNCS website. More instructions will be sent to authors of accepted papers after the reviewing and acceptance decisions are taken. Call for demo ------------- Ad HOC-NOW highly solicits demonstrations of ad hoc and wireless systems showing real-systems prototypes at work, thus stimulating discussions among the attendees. Demonstrations from both academia and industry related to the topics included in the AD HOC - NOW conference CFP are encouraged. Demo proposals must be limited to 3 pages (conference template) and should include the following: Goals of the demo and the basic idea that it supports. Any related publications or technical reports. Equipment to be used for the demo. Space needed. Setup time required. Additional facilities needed including power and Internet/wireless access. Indicate a URL with any extra information, if needed. Proposals should be sent via email as PDF file to the Demo/poster session Co-chairs. Please indicate "AD HOC-NOW 2008 Demo Proposal Submission" as the subject of the email. All demo proposals will be reviewed by the AD HOC - NOW 2008 Poster and Demo committee. General chair ------------- * David Coudert, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France Program co-chairs ----------------- * David Simplot-Ryl, INRIA, Lille, France * Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Birmingham, UK Poster and demonstration Chairs ------------------------------- * Srdjan Krco, Ericsson, Ireland * Michel Syska, I3S(CNRS/UNSA), France Publicity chair --------------- * Herve Rivano, CNRS, Nice, France Submission chair ---------------- * Xu Li, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Webmaster --------- * Christelle Molle, DGA/CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France Local organizing committee -------------------------- * Cristiana Gomes, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France * Florian Huc, CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France * Corinne Jullien, CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France * Patricia Lachaume, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France * Ignasi Sau Valls, CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France Financial Chair --------------- * Corinne Jullien, CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France Program committee ----------------- * Eitan Altman, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France * Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, SUNY, Binghamton, USA * Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China * Edgar Chavez, Univ. Michoacana, Mexico * Costas Constantinou, Univ. Birmingham, UK * Mieso Denko, Univ. of Guelph, Canada * Mischa Dohler, Orange Labs, France * Eric Fleury, ENS Lyon, France * Hannes Frey, Univ. Southern Denmark * Holger Karl, Univ. Paderborn, Germany * Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton Univ., Canada * Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan Univ., USA * Thomas Kunz, Carleton Univ., Canada * Xiang-Yang Li, IIT, USA * Weifa Liang, The Australian National Univ., Australia * Hai Liu, Univ. Ottawa, Canada * Cecilia Mascolo, Univ. College of London * Lata Narayanan, Concordia Univ., Canada * Ioanis Nikolaidis, Univ. Alberta, Canada * Jaroslav Opatrny, Concordia Univ., Canada * Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers Univ., Sweden * Paolo Penna, Univ. Salerno, Italy * Pedro M. Ruiz, Univ. of Murcia, Spain * Chun Tung Chou, Univ. New South Wales, Australia * Qing-An Zeng, Univ. Cincinnati, USA Steering Committee ------------------ * Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton Univ., Canada * Michel Barbeau, Carleton Univ., Canada * S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA * Ioanis Nikolaidis, Univ. Alberta, Canada * Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State Univ., USA * Thomas Kunz, Carleton Univ., Canada Colocated Events ---------------- The two conferences AdHoc-NOW 2008 and IEEE PIMRC 2008 give you an opportunity to have a fruitful and exciting stay in French Riviera. After the 7th International Conference on AD-HOC Networks & Wireless (AdHoc-NOW 2008) in Nice (September 10-12, 2008), the 19th annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2008) will be held in Cannes (September 14-18, 2008). AdHoc-NOW 2008: http://www-sop.inria.fr/mascotte/adhocnow/ IEEE PIMRC 2008: http://www.pimrc2008.org/ Prior to AdHoc-NOW 2008, the AEOLUS workshop will take place on the same site, September 7-9 2008. For more informations: http://aeolus.ceid.upatras.gr/ Do not forget to check hosted workshops on our website. ---- Herve Rivano AdHoc Now 2008 Publicity chair http://www-sop.inria.fr/mascotte/adhocnow/ From oscar at iam.unibe.ch Wed Mar 5 16:47:18 2008 From: oscar at iam.unibe.ch (Oscar Nierstrasz) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:47:18 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] Postdoc in Reverse engineering and quality assurance of J2EE applications Message-ID: <074C5EA9-E888-45F4-A6C5-2B8826865801@iam.unibe.ch> Postdoc in Reverse engineering and quality assurance of J2EE applications Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland is seeking candidates for a postdoctoral position in the area of reverse engineering and quality assurance of legacy J2EE applications. The postdoc will work on providing a unified meta-model for J2EE applications and on devising new techniques (e.g., metrics, visualizations, clustering) to reverse engineer and analyze the quality of such applications. More details about the project can be found at: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Research/Hasler07/index.html The ideal candidate has a PhD in Computer Science, possesses good English speaking and writing skills, and has research interests backed up by a strong publication record in the following areas: - reverse engineering - program comprehension - software visualization - software quality assurance - meta-modeling - software evolution The project is being carried out in the context of the Moose reengineering environment, and applicants are expected to produce tools as support for their research. Moose being mostly developed in Smalltalk, strong knowledge of Smalltalk is a plus. The postdoc position is funded by the Hasler Foundation, Switzerland and will run for 13 months (Sept 1, 2008 - Sept 30 2009): To apply, please send an email to Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz (oscar.nierstrasz at iam.unibe.ch ) by April 15, 2008. The application must include: - A letter of intent stating your specific interest, motivation and qualification in the position - Your full CV - The complete list of your publications - Letters of recommendation or references of at least three scientific researchers --- Prof. Dr. O. Nierstrasz -- Oscar.Nierstrasz at iam.unibe.ch Software Composition Group -- http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg University of Berne -- Tel/Fax +41 31 631.4618/3355 vcard: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~oscar/oscarNierstrasz.vcf From ss.datics at gmail.com Thu Mar 6 02:02:23 2008 From: ss.datics at gmail.com (SS DATICS) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 01:02:23 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] 2nd CFP: DATICS 2008 - Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems Message-ID: <1a9944e10803051702l79e17a18jf50e44c0b15cafab@mail.gmail.com> Apologies for any multiple copies received. We would appreciate it if you could distribute the following call for papers to any relevant mailing lists you know of. 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS =============================================================================== Special session: Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems DATICS 2008 July 22-24, 2008 (Crete Island, Greece) http://digilander.libero.it/systemcfl/datics =============================================================================== Aims and Scope -------------- The main target of the Special Session: DATICS 2008 of the WSEAS CSCC multi-conference (http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/greece/icc/) is to bring together software/hardware engineering researchers, computer scientists, practitioners and people from industry to exchange theories, ideas, techniques and experiences related to all areas of design, analysis and tools for integrated circuits (e.g. digital, analog and mixed-signal circuits) and systems (e.g. real-time, hybrid and embedded systems). The special session also focuses on the field of formal methods and low power design methodologies for integrated circuits. Topics ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * digital, analog, mixed-signal designs and test * RF design and test * design-for-testability and built-in self test methodologies * reconfigurable system design * high-level synthesis * EDA tools for design, testing and verification * low power design methodologies * network and system on-a-chip * application-specific SoCs * specification languages: SystemC, SystemVerilog and UML * all areas of modelling, simulation and verification * formal methods and formalisms (e.g. process algebras, petri-nets, automaton theory and BDDs) * real-time, hybrid and embedded systems * software engineering (including real-time Java, real-time UML and performance metrics) Industrial Collaborators ------------------------ DATICS 2008 is partnered with: * CEOL: Centre for Efficiency-Oriented Languages "Towards improved software timing", University College Cork, Ireland ( http://www.ceol.ucc.ie) * International Software and Productivity Engineering Institute, USA ( http://www.intspei.com ) * Intelligent Support Ltd., United Kingdom (http://www.isupport-ltd.co.uk) * Minteos, Italy (http://www.minteos.com) * M.O.S.T., Italy (http://www.most.it) * Electronic Center, Italy (http://www.el-center.com) DATICS 2008 is sponsored by: 1. LS Industrial Systems, South Korea (http://eng.lsis.biz) 2. Solari, Hong Kong (http://www.solari-hk.com) Technical Program Committee --------------------------- * Prof. Vladimir Hahanov, Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine * Prof. Paolo Prinetto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy * Prof. Alberto Macii, Politecnico di Torino, Italy * Prof. Joongho Choi, University of Seoul, South Korea * Prof. Wei Li, Fudan University, China * Prof. Michel Schellekens, University College Cork, Ireland * Prof. Franco Fummi, University of Verona, Italy * Prof. Jun-Dong Cho, Sung Kyun Kwan University, South Korea * Prof. AHM Zahirul Alam, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia * Prof. Gregory Provan, University College Cork, Ireland * Dr. Emanuel Popovici, University College Cork, Ireland * Dr. Jong-Kug Seon, Telemetrics Lab., LG Industrial Systems Co. Ltd., South Korea * Dr. Umberto Rossi, STMicroelectronics, Italy * Dr. Graziano Pravadelli, University of Verona, Italy * Dr. Vladimir Pavlov, International Software and Productivity Engineering Institute, USA * Dr. Jinfeng Huang, Philips & LiteOn Digital Solutions Netherlands, Advanced Research Centre, The Netherlands * Dr. Thierry Vallee, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA * Dr. Menouer Boubekeur, University College Cork, Ireland * Dr. Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, Austria * Dr. Sergio Almerares, STMicroelectronics, Italy * Ajay Patel (Director), Intelligent Support Ltd, United Kingdom * Monica Donno (Director), Minteos, Italy * Alessandro Carlo (Manager), Research and Development Centre of FIAT, Italy * Yui Fai Lam (Manager), Microsystems Packaging Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Important Dates --------------- March 31, 2008: Deadline for submission of completed papers May 1, 2008: Notification of acceptance/rejection to authors Please visit our web-site for further information on the hosting conference of DATICS, submission guidelines, proceedings and publications and international technical reviewers. 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URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20080306/dd6dd357/attachment-0001.htm From A.Beckmann at swansea.ac.uk Thu Mar 6 12:17:42 2008 From: A.Beckmann at swansea.ac.uk (Arnold Beckmann) Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:17:42 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] CiE 2008 - accepted papers, informal presentations, participation Message-ID: <20080306111742.A50EBDAF2B@cs-svr1.swan.ac.uk> [Apologies for multiple copies] **************************************************************** Computability in Europe 2008: Logic and Theory of Algorithms University of Athens, June 15-20 2008 http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/ CONTENTS: 1) List of accepted papers 2) Call for informal presentations 3) Call for participation 1) Accepted papers The list of accepted papers can be found at http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/give-page.php?18 2) Informal Presentations There is a remarkable difference in conference style between computer science and mathematics conferences. Mathematics conferences allow for informal presentations that are prepared very shortly before the conference and inform the participants about current research and work in progress. The format of computer science conferences with pre-produced proceedings volumes is not able to accommodate this form of scientific communication. Continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, also this year's CiE conference endeavours to get the best of both worlds. In addition to the formal presentations based on our LNCS proceedings volume, we invite researchers to present informal presentations. For this, please send us a brief description of your talk (between one paragraph and half a page) before 30 April 2008. Please submit your abstract via our Submission Form, now online at: http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/cie08/abstract-submission.php You will be notified whether your informal presentation has been accepted before 15 May 2008. Let us remind you that there will be three post-conference publications of CiE 2008, see http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/cie08/publications.php All speakers, including the speakers of informal presentations, are eligible to be invited to submit a full journal version of their talk to one of the post-conference publications. 3) Registration for CiE 2008 is now open: http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/registration.php The early registration deadline is 4 May 2008. You can also use the registration process to book accommodation. Please note that the current prices as listed on our website http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/accommodation.php are only guaranteed until 31 March 2008. From Andrew.Fish at bton.ac.uk Thu Mar 6 12:51:37 2008 From: Andrew.Fish at bton.ac.uk (Andrew.Fish at bton.ac.uk) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:51:37 -0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] Final Call for Papers: Diagrams 2008 Message-ID: <19975A316C67744D9720DD2F6AB1FC6605D41125@EXCHANGE1.university.brighton.ac.uk> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ========================================================= Final Call for Papers: Diagrams 2008 Germany September 19 - 21, 2008 www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/diagrams2008 Abstract deadline: 20th March 2008 Paper/Tutorial deadline: 1st April 2008 Poster deadline: 11th April 2008 =============================================================== Diagrams 2008: 5th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams Diagrams is an international and interdisciplinary conference series, covering all aspects of research on the theory and application of diagrams. Recent technological advances have enabled the large-scale adoption of diagrams in a diverse range of areas. Increasingly sophisticated visual representations are emerging and, to enable effective communication, insight is required into how diagrams are used and when they are appropriate for use. The pervasive, everyday use of diagrams for communicating information and ideas serves to illustrate the importance of providing a sound understanding of the role that diagrams can, and do, play. Research in the field of diagrams aims to improve our understanding of the role of diagrams, sketches and other visualisations in communication, computation, cognition, creative thought, and problem solving. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrams. The study of diagrammatic communication as a whole must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavour. Diagrams 2008 is the fifth event in this conference series, which was launched in Edinburgh during September 2000. Diagrams attracts a large number of researchers from virtually all related fields, placing the conference as a major international event in the area. Diagrams is the only conference that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: for example, architecture, artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. For the first time in its history, Diagrams will be co-located, running in conjunction with the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing and the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization as part of Visual Week. This co-location will provide a lively and stimulating environment, enabling researchers from related communities to exchange ideas and more widely disseminate research results. Cross-conference participation is encouraged and the program will include joint keynote speakers. Diagrams 2008 will consist of sessions including presentations of refereed papers, posters and tutorial sessions. We invite submissions of long research papers (15 pages) short research papers (7 pages) posters (3 pages) tutorial proposals (1 page; see the conference web page for full details) that focus on any aspect of diagrams research. Long papers should present original research results. Short papers and posters should present original research contributions, position or problem statements, summarise software to support the use of diagrams, or integrate results published elsewhere which are of interest to the Diagrams community. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, www.springer.com/lncs. Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/diagrams2008. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: applications of diagrams computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagram design of diagrammatic notations diagram understanding by humans or machines diagram aesthetics and layout educational uses of diagrams graphical communication heterogeneous notations involving diagrams history of diagrammatic notations information visualization using diagrams novel uses of diagrams psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production of diagrams reasoning with diagrams software to support the use of diagrams theoretical aspects of diagrams including, for example, classification and formalization usability issues concerning diagrams Important Dates Abstract submission 20th March 2008 Paper and tutorial submission 1st April 2008 Poster submission 11th April 2008 Notification for papers/tutorials 16th May 2008 Notification for posters 23rd May 2008 Camera ready copies due 13th June 2008 Visual Week 15th - 21st September 2008 Diagrams conference 19th - 21st September 2008 Organisation General Chair Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, UK Program Chairs John Howse, University of Brighton, UK John Lee, University of Edinburgh, UK Local Chair Mark Minas, Universit?t der Bundeswehr, Germany Publicity Chair Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, UK Web Site Aidan Delaney, University of Brighton, UK Program Committee Gerard Allwein (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA) Dave Barker-Plummer (Stanford University, USA) Alan Blackwell (Cambridge University, UK) Dorothea Blostein (Queen's University, Canada) B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University, USA) Peter Cheng (University of Sussex, UK) Phil Cox (Dalhousie University, Canada) Richard Cox (University of Sussex, UK) Frithjof Dau (University of Wollongong, Australia) Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA) Stephanie Elzer (Millersville University, USA) Yuri Engelhardt (University of Amsterdam) Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK) Jean Flower (Autodesk, UK) David Gooding (Bath University) Corin Gurr (University of Reading, UK) Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Mateja Jamnik (Cambridge University, UK) Yasuhiro Katagiri (Future University, Japan) Hans Kestler (University of Ulm, Germany) Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) Oliver Lemon (University of Edinburgh, UK) Stefano Levialdi (University of Rome - "La Sapienza", Italy) Richard Lowe (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) Grant Malcolm (University of Liverpool) Kim Marriott (Monash University, Australia) Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia) Nathaniel Miller (University of Northern Colerado, USA) N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University, USA) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ) Jesse Norman (University College London, UK) Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh) Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico, Mexico City) Helen Purchase (Glasgow University, UK) Thomas Rist (Fachhochschule Augsburg) Peter Rodgers (University of Kent, UK) Frank Ruskey (University of Victoria, Canada) Atsushi Shimojima (Doshisha University, Japan) Sun-Joo Shin (Yale University, USA) John Sowa (VivoMind Intelligence Inc.) Keith Stenning (University of Edinburgh, UK) Nik Swoboda (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain) Gabi Taentzer (Technical University of Berlin) Susan Trickett (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, USA) From A.Beckmann at swansea.ac.uk Thu Mar 6 13:14:05 2008 From: A.Beckmann at swansea.ac.uk (Arnold Beckmann) Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:14:05 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] CiE 2008 - grants Message-ID: <20080306121405.30372DAF2B@cs-svr1.swan.ac.uk> [Apologies for multiple copies] **************************************************************** Computability in Europe 2008: Logic and Theory of Algorithms University of Athens, June 15-20 2008 http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/ Call for Grant Applications Deadline: 15 APRIL, 2008 A number of grants are available for attenting CiE 2008. They are intended for students, post-docs and persons with limited means. Also, student members of the ASL may apply for travel funds. For more details see our website http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/cie08/grants.php From reussner at ipd.uka.de Thu Mar 6 15:54:03 2008 From: reussner at ipd.uka.de (Ralf Reussner) Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:54:03 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP Industrial Experience Report Track at COMPARCH Message-ID: <47D0058B.6070603@ipd.uka.de> Call for Papers COMPARCH 2008 Industrial Experience Report Track Jointly with CBSE, QoSA, CBHPC (formerly CompFrame) and the COMPARCH 2008 Industrial Day Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, October 14th-17th, 2008 http://comparch2008.ipd.uka.de/ Today, a system's software quality plays an increasingly important role. It is commonly accepted that crucial quality attributes including performance metrics, scalability or availability, but also maintainability are heavily influenced by the software architecture. However, a systematic and comprehensive understanding of how architectural design decisions affect the system's quality is lacking. Nevertheless, to treat software design as an engineering discipline rather than an art, we need the ability to address the quality of the software architecture directly on the model level, not simply as it is reflected in the implemented system. Therefore, in the Industrial Experience Track of COMPARCH we explicitly ask for reports on projects where the architecture plays or should play a central role for software quality or is used in the development process to control the quality. The goal of the Industrial Track is exchanging experience in the role of software architectures of existing or currently built systems Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Software Architectures * Software Development Processes * Quality of Software * Evolution of Software Experience reports are up to 4 pages LNCS style. Accepted contributions will be published in the COMPARCH conference volume. All Papers must be written in English and are to be prepared according to Springer's LNCS style (guidelines are available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Paper submission is possible via email: experience-reports at ira.uka.de Deadline is the May 05th 2008. Program Commitee: Ivica Crnkovic, Real Time Research Centre, Maelardalen, SWE Ian Gorton, Pacific North West National Laboratory, USA George Heineman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Sven Overhage, Oversoft, GER Ralf Reussner, FZI Karlsruhe, GER Heinz Schmidt, RMIT University, AUS Judith Stafford, Tufts University, USA Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, USA -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Ralf Reussner - Chair Software-Design and -Quality Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization Faculty of Informatics, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH) Am Fasanengarten 5, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Office 327, Main Computer Science Building (50.34) Tel. +49 721 608 5993, Fax. +49 721 608 5990 http://sdq.ipd.uka.de -------------------------------------------------------------- From ictai2008 at yahoo.com Thu Mar 6 20:44:25 2008 From: ictai2008 at yahoo.com (ICTAI 2008) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:44:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ecoop-info] Int'l Conf. on Tools with AI (ICTAI 2008): 1st CFP Message-ID: <396684.3409.qm@web45902.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students The 20th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on TOOLS with ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ICTAI 2008) November 3-5, 2008 Dayton, Ohio, USA Conference Web site: http://dblab.cs.wright.edu/ictai2008/ 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, and languages). TOPICS OF INTEREST include (but are not limited to) the following: AI Algorithms AI in Bioinformatics AI in Computer Security AI in Databases and Data Mining AI in E-commerce AI in Games AI in Information Assurance 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