2010 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2010)

2010 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2010)

August 28-30, 2010, Toronto, Canada

Homepage: http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi10
Mirror page: http://www.yorku.ca/amtbi10 

Co-organized by IEEE Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
                Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) 
Co-sponsored by York University, Toronto, Canada
                Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Brain Informatics (BI) is an emerging interdisciplinary and
multi-disciplinary research field that focuses on studying the
mechanisms underlying the human information  processing system (HIPS). 
BI investigates the essential functions of the brain, ranging from
perception to thinking, and encompassing such areas as multi-
perception, attention, memory, language, computation, heuristic
search, reasoning, planning, decision-making, problem-solving,
learning, discovery, and creativity.  One goal of BI research is to
develop and demonstrate a systematic approach to an integrated
understanding of macroscopic and microscopic level working principles
of the brain, by means of experimental, computational, and cognitive
neuroscience studies, as well as utilizing advanced Web Intelligence 
(WI) centric information technologies.  Another goal is to promote
new forms of collaborative and interdisciplinary work.  New kinds
of BI methods and global research communities will emerge, through
infrastructure on the wisdom Web and knowledge grids that enables high
speed and distributed, large-scale analysis and computations, and
radically new ways of data/knowledge sharing.

The series of Brain Informatics Conferences started with
The First WICI International Workshop on Web Intelligence meets 
Brain Informatics (WImBI'06), held at Beijing, China, December 
15-16, 2006.  The second conference, Brain Informatics 2009, was 
held again in Beijing, China, October 22-24, 2009.  The Brain
Informatics Conferences provide a leading international forum to bring
together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as
computer science, information technology, artificial intelligence, Web
intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience, medical science, life
science, economics, data mining, data and knowledge engineering,
intelligent agent technology, human computer interaction, complex
systems, and system science, to explore the main research problems in
BI lie in the interplay between the studies of human brain and the
research of informatics.  On the one hand, one models and
characterizes the functions of the human brain based on the notions of
information processing systems. WI centric information technologies
are applied to support brain science studies.  For instance, the
wisdom Web and knowledge grids enable high-speed, large-scale
analysis, simulation, and computation as well as new ways of sharing
research data and scientific discoveries.  On the other hand,
informatics-enabled brain studies, e.g., based on fMRI, EEG, MEG
significantly broaden the spectrum of theories and models of brain
sciences and offer new insights into the development of human-level
intelligence on the wisdom Web and knowledge grids.

Brain Informatics 2010 will be jointly held with the 2010
International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2010).  
The two conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend workshops, sessions, exhibits and demonstrations across the two
conferences.

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Topics of Interest
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CONFERENCE TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO

- Thinking and perception-centric investigations of HIPS:

* Human reasoning mechanisms 
  (e.g., principles of human deductive/inductive reasoning, 
   common-sense reasoning, decision making, and problem solving)
* Human learning mechanisms 
  (e.g., stability, personalized user/student models)
* Emotion, heuristic search, information granularity, and autonomy 
  related issues in human reasoning and problem solving
* Human higher cognitive functions and their relationships
* Human multi-perception mechanisms and visual, auditory, 
  and tactile information processing
* Methodologies for systematic design of cognitive experiments
* Investigating spatiotemporal characteristics and flow in HIPS and
  the related neural structures and neurobiological process 
* Cognitive architectures; their relations to fMRI/EEG/MEG
* HIPS meets complex systems
* Modeling brain information processing mechanisms
  (e.g., neuro-mechanism, mathematical, cognitive and computational models 
   of HIPS).

- Information technologies for the management and use of brain data:

* Human brain data collection, pre-processing, management, and analysis
* Databasing the brain and constructing data brain models
* Data brain modeling and formal conceptual models of human brain data
* Multi-media brain data mining and reasoning
* Multi-aspect analysis in fMRI/EEG/MEG activations
* Simulating spatiotemporal characteristics and flow in HIPS
* Developing brain data grids and brain research support portals
* Knowledge representation and discovery in neuroimaging
* Multimodal information fusion for brain image interpretation
* Statistical analysis and pattern recognition in neuroimaging

- Applications

* Neuro-economics and neuro-marketing
* Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) 
* Brain/Cognition inspired artificial systems
* Wisdom Web systems based on new cognitive and computational models
* MCI and AD diagnosis 
* e-Science, e-Health and e-Medicine

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all BI related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive review. 
All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical
quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. 

The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a
volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI). (Pending for approval.)

Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI 
manuscript submission guidelines (available at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) 
for their initial submissions (a maximum of 12 pages in Springer 
LNCS/LNAI style file).  All papers must be submitted electronically 
in PDF format only, using the conference management tool. 

We will also have poster, demonstration, and late breaking result 
paper sessions. More detailed instructions and a paper submission 
form can be found the BI'10 Web page at
http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi10/

A selected number of the best papers from BI'10 will be expanded
and revised for possible inclusion in "Knowledge and Information Systems:
An International Journal" (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) by Springer
and "Cognitive Systems Research: An International Journal"
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13890417) by Elsevier. 

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Awards
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BI 2009 best paper awards and student paper awards will be conferred
on the authors at the conference.  

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Important Dates
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Electronic submission of full papers 
(12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file): 
*** 31 March 2010 *** 

Notification of paper acceptance: June 1, 2010
Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 24, 2010
Conference:  August 28-30, 2010

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Conference Organization
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Conference General Chairs:
 * Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
 * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

Program Chairs:
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
 * Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Organizing Chair:
 * Jimmy Huang, York University, Toronto, Canada

Publicity Chairs:
 * Jian Yang, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China
 * Daniel Tao, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

IEEE-CIS-TFBI Chair
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

WIC Advisory Board:
 * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
 * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
 * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
 * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Technical Committee:
 * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
 * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
 * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
 * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
 * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
 * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
 * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
 * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
 * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
 * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
 * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

*** Contact Information ***

Email: Yiyu Yao 
       Jimmy Huang 

UniDL'10 - First International Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics

                          UniDL'10
First International Workshop on Uncertainty in Description Logics
             co-located with IJCAR 2010 at FLoC 2010

                        July 20, 2010

                        Edinburgh, UK


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During the recent decade, handling uncertainty has started to play an
important role in ontology languages, especially in application areas
like the Semantic Web, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence.  For
this reason, there is currently a strong research interest in
description logics (DLs) that allow for dealing with uncertainty. The
subject of the workshop is how to deal with uncertainty and
imprecision in Description Logics (DLs).  This encompasses approaches
that enable probabilistic or fuzzy reasoning in DLs, but the workshop
is also open for approaches based on other uncertainty formalisms. The
workshop focusses on the investigation of reasoning problems and
approaches for solving them, including especially tractable ones. For
classical DL reasoning problems such as subsumption and
satisfiability, algorithms that can handle uncertainty exist, but they
are still less well-investigated than in the case of standard DLs
without uncertainty. For novel reasoning services, such as query
answering, computation of generalizations, modules, or explanations,
it is not yet clear how to realize them in DLs that can express
uncertainty.


SPONSOR

UniDL is sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ)


INVITED SPEAKER

Ralf Moeller,  Hamburg University of Technology


TOPICS OF INTEREST

include but are not limited to:

    * Modeling of uncertain knowledge in DLs
    * Different formalisations of uncertainty for DLs
    * Formal semantics for uncertain information in DLs
    * Extensions of DL reasoning problems to uncertainty
    * Reasoning algorithms for DLs with uncertainty, in particular
    * Tableau algorithms for probabilistic DLs or fuzzy DLs
    * Tractable DLs with uncertainty
    * Complexity of uncertain reasoning
    * System descriptions for implemented reasoning algorithms
      in uncertain DLs
    * Novel applications of DLs with uncertainty
    * Open and future problems


IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: March 25, 2010
       Notification: April 28, 2010
      Final version:   May 18, 2010 **Updated**
           Workshop:  July 20, 2010


SUBMISSION DETAILS:

The workshop welcomes submissions in pdf format in Springer's LNCS
style. Submissions can be
- technical papers not exceeding 10 pages,
- system descriptions not exceeding 6 pages, or
- position papers on work in progress not exceeding 3 pages
in LNCS. Submissions exceeding these limits will not be
reviewed. Submissions are via EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unidl10 .


WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

- Thomas Lukasiewicz,    Oxford University, UK
- Rafael Penaloza,       TU Dresden, Germany
- Anni-Yasmin Turhan,    TU Dresden, Germany


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

- Eyal Amir,   University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Fernando Bobillo,  University of Zaragoza
- Simona Colucci,  Technical University of Bari
- Fabio G. Cozman,  University of Sao Paulo
- Manfred Jaeger,  Aalborg University
- Pavel Klinov,  University of Manchester
- Ralf Moeller,  Hamburg University of Technology
- Mathias Niepert,  University of Mannheim
- Stefan Schlobach,  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Luciano Serafini,  IRS Trento
- Giorgos Stoilos,  Oxford University
- Umberto Straccia,  ISTI-CNR
- Guilin Qi,  Southeast University, China

Special Session on Robot Locomotion 9th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, CONTROLO 2010

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Session on Robot Locomotion
9th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, CONTROLO 2010 ====================================================
Dear colleagues,

We would like to kindly invite you to submit a manuscript to the Special Session on Robot Locomotion that will take place within the CONTROLO 2010 Conference.

The ability to traverse a wide variety of terrains while moving is a basic requirement for performing useful tasks in our human centric world. Robot locomotion is a challenging task that involves several relevant subtasks, not yet completely solved, which must be addressed by robotics research.

The purpose of this session is to discuss mobile robots in general, focusing on their locomotion skills. For such robots to function autonomously, advanced sensing and algorithms are needed, for instance, to do localization, path planning, control, learning and decision making. The session will also focus on the materials, actuators, sensors and the design and construction of mobile robots in order to have the mobility necessary to fulfill its purpose.

The session also aims at providing a venue where researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world can present and discuss the latest achievements, future challenges and exciting applications that will enable to improve the locomotion skills of future robots.

Submissions should follow the guidelines for CONTROLO 2010 (please check www.controlo2010.org)

Important Dates:
October 19, 2009 – Submission site for contributions opens
March 31, 2010 – Submission of full Draft Papers and Invited Sessions
May 15, 2010 – Notification of acceptance/rejection of submitted contributions
May 30, 2010 – Early registration – mandatory for authors
June 15, 2010 – Final Manuscripts Submission
July 30, 2010 – Final Program
September 8 to 10, 2010 – Controlo 2010 Conference

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Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering

5th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering

                        Website: http://www.enase.org

                             July 22 - 24, 2010 
                                Athens, Greece


ENASE 2010 will be held in conjunction with ICSOFT 2010
Hosted by the University of Piraeus
Proceedings indexed by THOMSON REUTERS - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Awaiting confirmation of indexation)

Let me kindly inform you that ENASE 2010 is now welcoming the submission of position papers, whose deadline is set to March 29th. ENASE will be held in Athens, Greece, during 22 - 24 July 2010. The deadlines are:

> Position Paper Submission: March 29, 2010
> Authors Notification (position papers): April 26, 2010
> Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: May 3, 2010

A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".
 
Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and CD-ROM support. 
We are still awaiting the confirmation of indexation by INSPEC, DBLP, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index and EI.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes on Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) Series.
 
You may obtain further information at the conference Website (http://www.enase.org/). 
 
Don't hesitate to contact me should you have any questions.
 
Best regards,
Monica Saramago


ENASE Secretariat
Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2 esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5433
Email: enase.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.enase.org

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CALL FOR POSITIONS
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CONFERENCE TOPICS OF INTEREST

    * agile software development
    * software development methodologies
    * aspect-oriented software development
    * agent-oriented software engineering
    * multi-agent systems
    * model-driven engineering
    * component-based software engineering
    * meta programming systems and meta-modeling
    * Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) systems
    * knowledge management and engineering
    * architectural design and meta architectures
    * business process management, engineering and reengineering
    * process-centric paradigms
    * service-oriented architectures
    * service science, management and engineering
    * application integration technologies
    * enterprise integration strategies and patterns
    * e-business technologies
    * requirements engineering frameworks and models
    * collaborative requirements management systems
    * business and software modeling languages
    * software quality management
    * software change and configuration management
    * geographically distributed software development environments
    * cross-feeding between data and software engineering
    * design thinking as a paradigm for software development
    * formal methods
    * software process improvement

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Loucopoulos, Peri     Loughborough University, U.K.
Maciaszek, Leszek A.     Macquarie University ~ Sydney, Australia and University of Economics ~ Wroclaw, Poland

 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Peri Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, U.K.
Stephen J. Mellor, Freeter, UK
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, The Heritage Laboratory (LaPa), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain


SATELITE EVENTS
 
- WORKSHOPS 

  - 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Service Management - ISM
 (http://www.enase.org/ISM.htm)

  - 1st International Workshop on Implementing the ISO Software Engineering Metamodel for Collaboration and Traceability Tools - ISOMeta/CTT
 (http://www.enase.org/ISOMeta_CTT.htm)
 
  - 4th International Workshop on Metamodelling - Utilization in Software Engineering - MUSE
 (http://www.enase.org/MUSE.htm)

  - 2nd International Workshop on Model-Driven Architecture and Modeling Theory-Driven Development - MDA & MTDD
 (http://www.enase.org/MDA_MTDD.htm)

  - 1st International Workshop on The Role of Business Process Management in Software Engineering - BPM/SE 
 (http://www.enase.org/BPM_SE.htm)


- Research Students Forum (RSF)

Research Students Forum (RSF) Chair:
Gonzalez-Perez, Cesar     The Heritage Laboratory (LaPa), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain Web 

ENASE 2010 will feature the Research Students Forum (RSF). The forum will accept papers authored by students, most likely PhD students. Papers will be evaluated along the usual conference criteria and must clearly address the evaluation spirit of the conference, focusing on the appraisal or assessment of a novel approach to software engineering or on a critique of a popular approach.

  RSF Important Dates
  Regular Paper Submission: April 06, 2010
  Authors Notification: May 04, 2010
  Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 19, 2010

3rd International Workshop on Logics, Agents, and Mobility (LAM'10)

3rd International Workshop on Logics, Agents, and Mobility (LAM'10)

http://www.dur.ac.uk/lam.10

15 July 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

organised as satellite workshop at the Twenty-Fifth Annual IEEE Symposium on
LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2010), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
(part of FLoC 2010)



Workshop Purpose:

The aim of this series of workshops is to bring together active researchers in the areas of logics and other formal frameworks that can be used to describe and analyse dynamic or mobile systems. The main focus is on the field of logics and calculi for mobile agents, and multi-agent systems. 

Many notions used in the theory of agents are derived from philosophy, logic, and linguistics (belief, desire, intention, speech act, etc.), and interdisciplinary discourse has proved fruitful for the advance of this domain. The workshop intends to encourage discussion and work across the boundaries of the traditional disciplines.

Outside of academia, distributed systems are a reality and agent programming is beginning established itself as a serious contender against more traditional programming paradigms. For example, the deployment of large-scale pervasive infrastructures (mobile ad-hoc networks, mobile devices, RFIDs, etc.) raises a number of scientific and technological challenges for the  modelling and programming of such large-scale, open and highly-dynamic distributed systems. The agent and multi-agent systems approach seems particularly adapted to tackle this challenge, but there are many issues remaining to be investigated. For instance, the agents must be location-aware since the actual services available to them may depend on their (physical or virtual) location. The quality and quantity of resources at their disposal is also largely fluctuant, and the agents must be able to adapt to such highly dynamic environments. Moreover, mobility itself raises a large number of difficult issues related to safety and security, which require the ability to reason about the software (e.g. for analysis or verification). 

Logics and type systems with temporal or other kinds of modalities (relating to location, resource and/or security-awareness) play a central role in the semantic characterisation and verification of mobile agent systems. In the past two or three years, some logics have been proposed that would be able to handle certain aspects of these requirements, but there are still many open problems and research questions in the theory of such systems. The workshop is intended to showcase results and current work being undertaken in the areas outlined above with a focus on logics and other formalisms for the  specification and verification of dynamic, mobile systems.


Scopes of Interest:

The main topics of interest include
- specification and reasoning about agents, MAS, and mobile systems
- modal and temporal logics
- model-checking 
- treatment of location and resources in logics
- security
- type systems and static analysis
- logic programming
- concurrency theory with a focus on mobility or dynamics in agent systems.


Previous Workshops:

LAM'08: 4--8 August 2008 at ESSLI in Hamburg, Germany 
LAM'09: 10 August 2009 at LICS in Los Angeles, USA


Format of the Workshop:

The workshop will be held as a one day event after LICS. There will 
be a short introduction and brief survey of the field by the 
organiser as an introduction to the workshop.

The workshop will contain invited talks, contributed talks, and a 
discussion session. The latter is will give the participants a 
chance to discuss informally research directions, open problems, and 
possible co-operations.


Submission details:

Authors are invited to submit a full paper of original work in the 
areas mentioned above. The workshop chair should be informed of 
closely related work submitted to a conference or journal in advance 
of submission. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to 
present it at the LAM'10 workshop. Submissions should not exceed 15 
pages, preferably using LaTeX and a suitable class for the proceedings. 
The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS. 

Please send your submission electronically via
EasyChair 
by the deadline listed below. The submissions will be reviewed by 
the workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers. 
Accepted papers will appear in electronic proceedings (probably in  EPTCS) 
and authors will be encouraged to re-submit papers to formal proceedings 
to be published as a separate publication, e.g. as a special journal issue.


Invited Speakers:

David Pym (University of Bath and HP)
TBA


Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 9 April 2010
Notification: 1 May 2010
Workshop: 15 July 2010


Programme Committee:

Thomas Agotnes, Bergen, Norway
Matteo Baldoni, Torino, Italy
Marina De Vos, Bath, UK
Louise Dennis, Liverpool, UK
Jürgen Dix, Clausthal, Germany
Berndt Farwer (chair), Durham, UK
Michael Fisher, Liverpool, UK
Didier Galmiche, Nancy, France
James Harland, Melbourne, Australia
Andreas Herzig, Toulouse, France
Wojtek Jamroga, Clausthal, Germany
Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, Hamburg, Germany
João Leite, Lisbon, Portugal
Alessio Lomuscio, London, UK
Dale Miller, INRIA, France
Frederic Peschanski, Paris, France
Vladimiro Sassone, Southampton, UK
Wamberto Vasconcelos, Aberdeen, UK


Further Information:

About the workshop: http://www.dur.ac.uk/lam.10
About LICS: http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics10/

Call for participation to the Tutorial Programming Multi-Agent Systems @ AAMAS 2010.

Call for participation to the Tutorial Programming Multi-Agent Systems @ AAMAS 2010.
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With the significant advances in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems in recent years, promising technologies have emerged as a sensible alternative for the design of systems that can operate in complex and dynamic scenarios. However, in order for this technology to become accessible to the multi-agent research community in Academia and practitioners in Industry, it is necessary that programming languages and tools that are appropriate for developing such systems become widely known and thoroughly understood. This course aims at introducing novices, researchers, and developers (from both Academia and Industry) who already have basic notions of multi-agent systems to some of the languages, techniques, and tools that are currently available to support the effective implementation of multi-agent systems. The course will have a practical part where participants will learn and practice basic programming skills in the agent programming language GOAL.

The full day Tutorial will be held on Monday, May 10th as part of the AAMAS 2010 conference.

Please see: http://mmi.tudelft.nl/~koen/ProMASTutorial2010.html for more information.

Note that the AAMAS early registration deadline is March 12th, and that students qualify for a discounted registration fee.

ProMAS Tutorial Organizers,
Mehdi Dastani, Koen Hindriks, Joao Leite

Please contact: k.v.hindriks@tudelft.nl if you have any questions.

22th International IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (IEEE-ICTAI'10)

IEEE-ICTAI'10

22th International IEEE  Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence

                 October 27-29, 2010, Arras, France

          45 mn from Charles de Gaulle Paris 
International Airport by direct train
                               or
              50 mn from downtown Paris by direct train


                   http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/ictai10/

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Important Dates

Paper submission: June 6, 2010
Paper notification: July 15, 2010
Camera ready paper: August 31, 2010

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Aim & Scope
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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 technical 
aspects of specifying, developing and
evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and 
applied mechanisms of the AI based components
of computer tools (i.e. algorithms, architectures and languages).

Topics (not limited to)
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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
AI in Medicine
AI in Multimedia Systems
AI in Real-time & Embedded Applications
AI in Robotics
AI in Software Engineering
Case-Based Reasoning
Cognitive Modelling
Constraint Programming
Collaborative Software Agents
Reasoning Under Fuzziness or Uncertainty
Evolutionary Computing
Hybrid Intelligent Systems
Information Retrieval
Intelligent Tutoring/Training Systems
Intelligent Internet Agents
Intelligent Interface Agents
Knowledge-based Systems
Knowledge Extraction
Knowledge Management and Sharing
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing and Understanding
Neural Networks
Ontologies
Planning and Scheduling
Qualitative Reasoning
Search and Heuristics, SAT, CSP, QBF
Semantic Web-Techniques & Technologies
Speech Processing and Understanding
Vision/Image Processing & Understanding

Paper Submission
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The submissions should contain original, high 
quality, not submitted or published elsewhere
work. Papers should be submitted electronically 
(through ICTAI 2010 web site) in pdf format
and should conform to IEEE specifications 
(single-spaced, double-column, 10-point font size,
up to 8 pages).

Paper Presentation
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Each accepted paper should be presented by one of 
the authors and accompanied by at least
one full registration fee payment, to guarantee 
publication in the proceedings. All accepted
papers will be included in proceedings of ICTAI 
2010, which will be published by the IEEE.

IJAIT special issue
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Extended versions of the best papers of the 
conference will be invited for publication in a
special issue of the International Journal on 
Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI
Indexed).

Further Information
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Éric Grégoire (PC Chair)
CRIL UMR 8188 CNRS
Université d'Artois
rue Jean Souvraz SP18
F-62307 Lens, FRANCE

Email: gregoire [at] cril [dot] univ-artois [dot] fr

Steering Committee
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Nikolaos Bourbakis, (Chair)
Chittoor V. Ramamoorthy
Jeffrey Tsai
Benjamin W. Wah
Farokh B. Bastani
Soon Chung
Despina Kavraki
Ioannis Hatziligeroudis

Co-general chairs
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Naohiro Ishii (Asian liaison)
Phil Sheu (USA liaison) 
Youssef Hamadi (European liaison)

Program Committee Chair
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Éric Grégoire

Area Chairs
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Shyi-Ming Chen
Diane Cook
Alfredo Cuzzocrea
Jin-Kao Hao
Vasant Honavar
Nobuhiro Inuzuka
Daniel Kayser
Taghi Khoshgoftaar
Vasile Palade
Luigi Portinale
Henri Prade
Marie-Christine Rousset
Andreas-Georgios Stafylopatis
Karl Tombre
Zhi-Hua Zhou
Du Zhang
Sotirios Ziavras

Program Committee
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Hamid Aghajan
Charles Anderson
Spyros Angelopoulos
Asa Ben-Hur
Antonio Berlanga-de-Jesus
Philippe Besnard
Harry Bunt
Philippe Chatalic
Nicolae Constantin
Aaron Crandall
Belen Diaz Agudo
Xin Geng
Malik Ghallab
Francois Goasdoué
Jose Juarez Herrero
Yin-Tong Hsiao
Thomas R. Ioeger
Yuji Iwahori
Fabrice Jouanot
Hyunju Kim
Helge Langseth
Huey-Ming Lee
Giorgio Leonardi
Yung-Ho Leu
Xiaoou Li
Yanjun Li
Dan Lopresti
Congnan Luo
Tony R. Martinez
Bertrand Mazure
Stefania Montani
Naoto Mukai
Tsuyoshi Nakamura
Mehmet Orgun
Jeng-Shyang Pan
John Paxton
Jun Peng
Vir Phoha
Cedric Piette
Parisa Rashidi
Marek Reformat
Lorenza Saitta
Erik Sandewall
Lakhdar Saïs
Vincent Schmidt
Jianqiang Shen
Victor R. L. Shen
Marina Sokolova
ChewLim Tan
Alexandre Termier
Douglas Vieira
Toby Walsh
Marcel Worring
Ioannis Zaharakis
Daoqiang Zhang

Financial Chair Manuel Demont
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Registration Chair  Nadine Kucharski
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Publication Chair Bertrand Mazure
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Webmaster Fabien Delorme
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Local Arrangements Committee
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Assef Chmeiss
Jean-Luc Coquidé (chair)
Tiago de Lima
Anne Parrain
Cédric Piette
Lakhdar Saïs
Sébastien Tabary

2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10)

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         IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2010 
                  CALL FOR PAPERS
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2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10)

August 31 - September 3, 2010, York University, Toronto, Canada

http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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# Papers Due: *** March 26, 2010 ***
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
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WI 2010 will provide a leading international forum of scientific
research and development to explore the fundamental interactions
between AI-engineering and Advanced Information Technology 
(e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and
data/knowledge grids), and their role on the next generation of
Web-empowered products, Web systems and services.  AI-engineering
refers to a new area, slightly beyond traditional AI, which encompasses:
brain informatics, human level AI, intelligent agents, social network
intelligence, knowledge engineering, representation, planning, data
mining and discovery.

WI 2010 will be jointly held with the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-10).  The two
conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend workshops, sessions, tutorials, panels, exhibits and
demonstrations across the two conferences. We are also planning a
joint panel, joint paper sessions, and a doctoral mentoring program to
discuss common problems in the two areas.

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Topics of Interest
+++++++++++++++++++

We invite submissions in all WI related areas. Areas of interest include, 
but are not limited to:

* WI Foundations
 - Brain Informatics for WI 
 - Human Level WI 
 - New Cognitive Models and Computational Models for WI 
 - Granular Computing (GrC) for WI 
 - Soft Computing for WI
 - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI
 - Human-Inspired WI Computing

* World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
 - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation 
 - Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML) 
 - Search of Best Means and Ends 
 - Goal-Directed Services Support 
 - Distributed Resources Optimization 
 - Service Self-Aggregation 
 - Web Inference Engine 
 - Information and Knowledge Markets 
 - New Social Interaction Paradigms 
 - Social and Psychological Contexts Regularities and Laws of W4

* Web Information Retrieval and Filtering 
 - Web Information Retrieval in context
 - Multimedia Indexing 
 - Personalization
 - Location-based Information Retrieval
 - Geographic information retrieval
 - Content-based Information Filtering
 - Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation 
 - Hybrid Recommendation sem
 - Clustering-Based Recommender Systems 
 - Information Retrieval Models and Evaluations 
 - Web Information Categorization 
 - Ranking Techniques
 - Proxy and Cache Techniques 
 - Web Prediction and Pre-fetching 
 - Distributed Web Search 
 - Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process 
 - Web Crawling Systems 
 - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines

* Semantics and Ontology Engineering
 - Semantic Web
 - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval 
 - Ontology-Based Web Mining 
 - Web-Based Ontology Learning 
 - Web Scale Reasoning
 - Commonsense Knowledge Processing on the Web 
 - Unifying Search and Reasoning

* Web Mining and Farming
 - Text Mining 
 - Data Stream Mining 
 - Multimedia Data Mining 
 - Web Content Mining 
 - Web Log and Usage Mining 
 - Context Sensitive Web Mining 
 - Web Information Clustering 
 - Web Page Clustering and Mining 
 - Data Warehousing 
 - Web Farming and Warehousing

* Social Networks and Ubiquitous Intelligence
 - Social Networks Theory, Models, and Mining 
 - Web Site Clustering 
 - Web 2.0
 - Link Topology and Link Analysis
 - Theories of Small-World Web 
 - Virtual and Web Communities 
 - Web-Based Cooperative Work 
 - Knowledge Community Formation and Support 
 - Ubiquitous and Social Computing 
 - Intelligent Wireless Web 
 - Entertainment
 - Social Media
 - Human Computation and Social Games
 - Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
 - Social Monetization and Computational Advertising

* Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
 - Semantic Grids 
 - Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery 
 - On-Demand Planning and Routing 
 - Brokering and Scheduling 
 - Middleware Architectures and Tools

* Web Agents
 - Global Information Foraging 
 - Distributed Problem Solving 
 - Coordination 
 - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms 
 - Self-Organization and Reproduction 
 - Agent Networks and Topologies 
 - Mobile Agents 
 - Macroscopic Behavior Modeling 
 - Trust Models for Web Agents

* Web Services
 - Service-Oriented Computing 
 - Matchmaking 
 - Web Service Reconfiguration 
 - Web Service Workflow Composition 
 - Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services 
 - Grid Services

* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
 - Adaptive Web Interfaces 
 - Context-Aware Computing
 - Emotional Factor 
 - Learning User Profiles 
 - Multimedia Representation 
 - Personalized Interfaces 
 - Personalized Websites 
 - Remembrance Agents
 - Smart Digital Media
 - Cyberpsychology for HCI
 - User Interests and User Modeling
 - Visualization of Information and Knowledge 
 - Social and Psychological Issues

* Web Support Systems
 - Information Retrieval Support Systems 
 - Web Site Navigation Support Systems 
 - Recommender Support Systems 
 - Web-Based Decision Support Systems 
 - Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, 
   evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing) 
   and Uncertainty Management for WI

* Intelligent e-Technology
 - Business Intelligence 
 - Intelligent Enterprise Portals 
 - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM 
 - Web-Based EDI 
 - Digital Libraries 
 - e-Publishing 
 - e-Business and e-Commerce 
 - e-Things and e-Activities
 - e-Finance 
 - e-Learning 
 - e-Medicine and e-Health
 - e-Science 
 - e-Government 
 - e-Community 
 - Decentralized Community Communication Techniques 
 - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. 
Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in 
the IEEE 2-column format. 
The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers
(see the Author Guidelines at
http://www.ieeeconfpublishing.org/cpir/AuthorKit.asp?Community=CPS&Facility=CPS_Dec&ERoom=WI%2DIAT+2008).  
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee 
on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. 

Note that WI'10 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in 
PDF format. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'10
website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is
indexed by EI.

Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 8 pages in the
proceedings and accorded oral presentation in the main conference. 
Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4
pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at
the conference than regular papers.

All co-authors will be notified for the submission,
notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper
to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted,
at least one author should attend the conference to present the
paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published
on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification. 

Papers receiving outstanding review scores from WI'10 will be 
invited for possible inclusion, in an expanded/revised form, 
in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal 
(http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html). Those that are recommended by 
reviewer(s) to the Journal will also be considered.

The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the
authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
best application paper award. 

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form will be
found on the WI'10 homepage: 
http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/contributors.php

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Workshops
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An important part of the conference is the workshop program which will
focus on new research challenges and initiatives.  All papers accepted
for workshops will be allocated 4 pages and will be included in the
Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that
are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops. Detailed
information is available at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee
(i.e., conference registration covers everything).

Accepted Workshops:

The Third WI-IAT Doctoral Workshop (WI-IAT DW)
http://roughsets.home.pl/www/WI-IAT2010/DoctoralWS.html

First International Workshop on the Adaption of Web Services (AWS)
http://www.uc.rnu.tn/aws2010.html

Second International Workshop on Collaborative Agents - 
Research and development (CARE)
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~xtg/CARE2010/

Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence: Agent Technology, 
Human-Oriented Knowledge, and Applications (HAI)
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tbosse/HAI10/

Service Intelligence and Engineering (SIE)
http://166.111.68.103/WI-SI2010/

Service-Oriented Computing for Collective Intelligence (SOC4CI)
http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~melania/SOC4CI2010.html

Third Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 
(WLIAMAS)
http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/conferences/wliamas10/

3rd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and 
Social Networks (CISWSN)
http://resources.smile.deri.ie/ciswsn2010/

4th International Workshop on Intelligent E-government and 
Emergency Management (IEEM)
http://management.dlut.edu.cn/IEGEM10/index.htm

International Workshop on Computational Social Networks (IWCSN)
http://arg.vsb.cz/iwcsn2010/

International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI)
http://ymd.ex.nii.ac.jp/ws/iwi/10/

10th International Workshop on Meta-synthesis and Complex Systems (MCS)
http://meta-synthesis.iss.ac.cn/mcs2010/

Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering (NLPOE)
http://nlpoe2010.pqpq.net/

First International Workshop on Opinion Mining for Business Intelligence (OMBI)
http://www.yorku.ca/xhyu/OMBI10/

2nd Workshop on Soft Approaches to Information Access on the Web (SAIAW)
http://scdmir.ugent.be/node/16

Trust and Recommender Systems for Social Search and Web Logs Analysis (TReSSS)
http://www.tresss.org/public/

International Workshop on Web-scale Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, 
and Reasoning (Web-KR3)
http://www.wici-lab.org/wici/web-kr3-2010/

3rd International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems (WIRSS)
http://uxlab.cs.mun.ca/wirss2010/

Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WebPRES)
http://www.webpres-workshop.com/

Optimization-based Data Mining and Web Intelligence (ODMWI)
http://www.feds.ac.cn/kxyj/WI-IAT2010.htm

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Tutorials
++++++++++

WI'10 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'10 will include tutorials
providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest
to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half
day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the
main conference technical program. Detailed information is available
at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

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Industry/Demo-Track
++++++++++++++++++++

We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.

(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
    the research track.
(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
    That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
    specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
    demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
    process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.

For options (1) and (2), more detailed instructions will be found at
the homepage: http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/participants.php

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Important Dates
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 * Electronic paper submission (8 pages): March 26, 2010
 * Tutorial proposal submission: March 26, 2010
 * Workshop paper submission: April 16, 2010
 * Author notification: May 28, 2010
 * Conference dates: August 31-September 3, 2010

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Conference Organization
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Conference General Chair:
  * Nick Cercone, York University, Toronto, Canada 

Program Chair:
  * Jimmy Huang, York University, Toronto, Canada

WI Program Co-Chairs:
  * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA 
  * Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  * Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland 

IAT Program Co-Chairs:
  * Takahira Yamaguchi, Keio University, Japan 
  * Ali A. Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
  * Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France 

Organizing Co-Chairs:
  * Aijun An, York University, Toronto, Canada 
  * Thomas Lynam, York University, Toronto, Canada 
  * Marshall Walker, York University, Toronto, Canada 

Workshop Co-Chairs:
  * Orland Hoeber, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
  * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 

Industry-Demo Co-Chairs: 
  * Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Canada 
  * Tony Abou-Assaleh, GenieKnows.com, Canada 

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
  * Sourav Saha Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
  * Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK 

Publicity Co-Chairs: 
  * Vlado Keselj, Dalhousie University, Canada 
  * Markus Kirchberg, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore 
  * Jianhan Zhu, University College London, UK

IEEE-CS-TCII Chair:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

ACM-SIGART Chair
 * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong 

WIC Advisory Board: 
 * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
 * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
 * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
 * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
 * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
 * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
 * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
 * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
 * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
 * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
 * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
 * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
 * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
 * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
 * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

*** Contact Information ***

Jimmy Huang (Conference General Program Chair)
Email: wiiat10@yorku.ca 

The WIC Office
Email: wi10@wi-consortium.org

e-SMART CONFERENCE

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e-SMART CONFERENCE      
September 22-24, 2010 - Sophia Antipolis French Riviera     
www.e-smart.eu

In the framework of SMART EVENT'10     
The Innovation Forum for Mobility and Trusted Technologies & Services    
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CALL FOR PAPERS - SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS MARCH 15th, 2010        

e-Smart originating from the year 2000 Eurosmart Smart Card Security Conference and Java Card Forum Summer University is ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL CONFERENCES IN THE GLOBAL SMART CARD AND DIGITAL SECURITY INDUSTRY. 

SCOPE     
******   
Established to focus on Smart Card technology innovations e-Smart has over the past few years ENLARGED ITS SCOPE TO ALSO COVER SMART SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES. Topics addressed include the ubiquitous cryptology domain, semiconductors for portable appliances, secure embedded software, trusted computing, high-level language programming such as Java Card, security design, implementation, testing and evaluation methodologies, TCP/IP based communication protocols and wireless technologies security.       

This ensures that e-Smart reflects novel Industry trends and remains at the cutting edge of security technologies development. In particular the conference is now open to, and collecting world-class security and technology experts from the wireless and contactless industry leaders, research laboratories and universities, industry associations, international standardization organizations and governmental bodies.        

The e-Smart Program Committee is expecting proposals from issuers, manufacturers, mobile operators, editors, academics, researchers, standardization bodies, professional institutions, end-users, consultants, analysts, lawyers...    
e-Smart Program Committee:        
www.smart-event.eu/10/e-smart/program-committee.htm 

TOPICS     
******
Submissions covering a broad range of topics related to smart cards and other digital security disciplines are encouraged. They may address one or more of the below mentioned topics, or others that authors believe to be of great interest to the audience.    

HARDWARE COMPONENTS & EMBEDDED SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES

> Smart Cards & Smart Secure Devices: 

  - Smart Secure Devices, Secure Mass Storage Cards, Trusted Personal Devices 
  - Mobile Trusted Computing & TPMs 
  - Innovative terminals and Trusted Appliances: Mobile Terminals & Equipments, PC, PDA, GPS,  etc.            

> Embedded SW Components & Technologies: 

  - Secure Operating Systems 
  - Trusted Virtual Platforms: Languages, Rapid Application Development) 
  - Java Card / 3.x & Next Generations      

SUSTAINING TECHNIQUES & INDUSTRY COOPERATION ORGANIZATIONS 

> Micro & nano Electronics and Emerging Semiconductor Technologies for Embedded Systems   
> Microprocessors & Crypto processors, Memories; other Secure Mass Storage Technologies      
> Smart Architectures: 

  - Innovations in Smart Cards and Trusted Personal Devices security       
  - Innovations in Security Specification, Testing and Evaluation Methods    
  - Cryptology & Cryptographic Implementations, Hardware & Software Advanced Ubiquitous Cryptography 
  - Formal Development Methods & Tools, Formal modeling of environments and Application 
  - Smart Packaging, Innovative Micro-Packaging    

> Smart Connectivity: Trusted Technologies & Protocols for Wireless, NFC & Contactless, RFID & Sensors Networks, USB Wireless, etc. Efficient Connectivity     
> Internet Secure Protocols on Mobile and Portable Appliances     
> Smart Security for WiMAX/LTE /4G systems and other Future Telecom & Networks implementations     
> Security Evaluation & Certification Criteria, Methods & Schemes    
> International Cooperative R&D Projects and Platforms   
> Standardization and Industry Associations' contribution    

INTERESTED IN SUBMITTING?     
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All detailed information on this call for papers including the submission procedure available at:     
www.smart-event.eu/10/e-smart/calls.htm

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e-SMART, as well as the SMART MOBILITY and WORLD e-ID CONFERENCES, are part of the SMART EVENT, 
THE INNOVATION FORUM FOR MOBILITY AND TRUSTED TECHNOLOGIES & SERVICES    

--> More on Smart Event'10: www.smart-event.eu    

Should you be interested in submitting in the other 2 co-located conferences:    
- SMART MOBILITY, Building trusted mobile applications:     
www.smart-event.eu/10/smart-mobility/calls.htm
- WORLD e-ID, The next generation of e-ID management technologies and services:    
www.smart-event.eu/10/worlde-id/calls.htm
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Thank you to forward this Call for Papers to your colleagues that might be interested in these topics.    

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Workshop on Adaptation, Personalization and REcommendation in the Social-semantic Web (APRESW 2010)

1st International Workshop on Adaptation, Personalization and REcommendation
in the Social-semantic Web (APRESW 2010) 
30 or 31 May 2010 | Heraklion, Greece
http://ir.ii.uam.es/apresw2010/

In conjunction with the
7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) 
http://www.eswc2010.org/

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Important dates
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   * Paper submission:                           7 March 2010
   * Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: 5 April 2010
   * Camera-ready copies of accepted papers:     18 April, 2010
   * APRESW 2010 Workshop:                       30 or 31 May 2010

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Motivation
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During the last years, researchers and practitioners of the Semantic Web
have progressively consolidated a number of very important achievements.
Formal languages have been standardized to define ontology-based knowledge
representations, logic formalisms and query models. Ontology engineering
methodologies and tools have been proposed to ease the designing and
populating of ontological knowledge bases. Reasoning engines have been
implemented to exploit inference capabilities of ontologies, and
semantic-based frameworks have been built to enrich the functionalities of
Web services. These achievements are the pillars to deal with the complex
challenge of bringing semantics to the Web.

The above gives a new ground to extend the focus of the Semantic Web by
engaging it in other communities, where semantics can play an important
role. The available semantic knowledge bases can be used to enrich and link
additional repositories, ontology engineering techniques can be utilized to
properly design and build ontologies in further real-world domains, and
inference and query mechanisms can enhance classic information management
and retrieval approaches.

Among these communities, this workshop aims to attract the attention of
students and professionals both from academia and industry who take benefit
of semantic-based techniques and technologies in within-application
Adaptation, Personalization and Recommendation approaches. In parallel to
the progress made in the Semantic Web research topics, there have been
appearing works in the above areas that use ontologies to model the user’s
preferences, tastes and interests, and exploit these personal features
together with meta-information about multimedia contents in order to provide
the user with adaptation and personalization capabilities for different
purposes such as information retrieval and item recommendation.

Moreover, with the advent of the Web 2.0 (also called the Social Web), the
potential study and development of those approaches have increased
exponentially. Social networks allow people to provide explicit
relationships with others, and find out implicit user similarities based on
their profiles. Social tagging services offer the opportunity to easily
create and exploit personal knowledge representations. Wiki-style sites
represent an environment where the community contributes and shares
information, and blogs are media in which users express subjective opinions.
In all of these scenarios, adaptation, personalization and recommendation
are core functionalities. However, the understanding and exploitation of the
semantics underlying user and item profiles are still open issues.

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Topics of interestco
++++++++++++++++++

The workshop will focus on establishing user/usage models for adaptation,
personalization and recommendation approaches for the Social-semantic Web.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the exploitation of the
Web of Data, the identification of semantics underlying social annotations
of multimedia contents, and the application of semantic-based techniques and
technologies in research fields related to:

   * Personalized access to multimedia content
   * Content-based recommendation and collaborative filtering
   * Adaptive exploration of multimedia content
   * Adaptive user interfaces for multimedia content browsing and searching
   * Community extraction and exploitation
   * Social networks analysis for collaborative recommendation
   * User profile construction based on social tagging information
   * Context-aware multimedia content access and delivery
   * Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia content access and delivery

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Organizing Committee
++++++++++++++++++++

   * Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
   * Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Spain
   * David Vallet, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
   * José C. Cortizo, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain
   * Francisco M. Carrero, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain

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Program Committee
+++++++++++++++++

   * Sofia Angeletou, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
   * Ching-man Au Yeung, NTT Communication Science Labs, Japan
   * Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
   * Manuel Cebrián, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
   * Rosta Farzan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
   * Miriam Fernández, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
   * Enrique Frías, Telefónica I+D, Spain
   * Ana García-Serrano, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia,
Spain
   * Andrés García-Silva, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
   * Tom Heath, Talis, UK
   * Frank Hopfgartner, University of Glasgow, UK
   * Ioannis Konstas, University of Edinburgh, UK
   * Estefanía Martín, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
   * Phivos Mylonas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
   * Daniel Olmedilla, Telefónica I+D, Spain
   * Carlos Pedrinaci, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
   * Jérôme Picault, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
   * Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
   * Sergey A. Sosnovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
   * Martin Szomszor, City University London, UK
   * Marc Torrens, Strands, Spain
   * Paulo Villegas, Telefónica I+D, Spain

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Organizers
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   * Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, http://www.uam.es/
   * Yahoo! Research, http://research.yahoo.com/
   * Universidad Europea de Madrid, http://www.esp.uem.es/gsi/

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Sponsors
++++++++

   * Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España (CENIT-2007-1012),
https://i3media.barcelonamedia.org/
   * Consorcio MAVIR, http://www.mavir.net
   * Sistema Madri+d, http://www.madrimasd.org

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Contact information
+++++++++++++++++++

Dr. Iván Cantador
Departamento de Ingeniería Informática
Escuela Politécnica Superior
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
E-mail: ivan.cantador@uam.es
Phone: +34 91 497 2358

RTSOABIS - International Workshop on Recent Trends in SOA Based Information Systems

The paper submission deadline for RTSOABIS (International Workshop on Recent Trends in SOA Based Information Systems "http://www.iceis.org/Workshops/rtsoabis/rtsoabis2010-cfp.htm") was extended to the 22nd of March. We hope this extension may be helpful and we look forward to receiving a paper submission from you in a couple of weeks.

RTSOABIS is one of the satellite workshops of the ICEIS-2010 Conference (www.iceis.org), to be held in Funchal, Madeira - Portugal next June. ICEIS 2010 will be organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM SIGART), the ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems (ACM SIGMIS), the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers / Special Group on Software Interprise Modeling (IEICE SWIM).

The proceedings will be indexed by major international indexers, including INSPEC, DBLP and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. We are also waiting the confirmation of indexation by EI.

All published papers will be also available at the SciTePress Digital Library, which is available at http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/

For more details, please take a look at the workshop website available at: http://www.iceis.org/Workshops/rtsoabis/rtsoabis2010-cfp.htm


Dr. Wathiq Mansoor, Workshop Co-Chair
Professor of Computer Engineering
American University in Dubai
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International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)

International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)
***SIXTH and SEVENTH ISSUES***

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: March 31 2009 (sixth issue), June 30, 2010 (seventh
 issue)

Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
www.igi-global.com/IJARAS

Editor-in-Chief: Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerp/PATS & 
IBBT, Ph.D.

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

International Editorial Review Board

Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp / PATS & IBBT, Belgium
Gabriella Caporaletti, EICAS automazione, Italy
Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Spain
Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, University of Naples
Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy
Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium
Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil
Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy
Eija Kaasinen, VTT, Finland
Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Gianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, Italy
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa, Italy
Andrew M Tyrrell, University of York, UK
Josef Van Vaerenbergh, Center for Multidisciplinary Approach and Technology, Belgium
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Lab, Norway

 MISSION OF IJARAS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems. The primary objective of IJARAS is to provide worldwide readership to high quality, novel, effective approaches to design, develop, maintain, evaluate, and benchmark adaptive-and-dependable systems, i.e. devices and services that are built to sustain quality of service and quality of experience despite the occurrence of potentially significant and sudden changes or failures in their infrastructure and the surrounding environments.

IJARAS has multiple focuses, ranging from conceptual models and paradigms to technological aspects. IJARAS builds upon a core mission statement and research direction:

The awareness of today's urgent need to structure our computer systems as adaptive systems constantly re-optimizing in view of changes both exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (pertaining to internal assets). It introduces a problem, which implies a research direction --- a thesis. The truth about this statement is drastically reverberating through several domains, and in so doing several seemingly unrelated research domains such as cross-layer adaptation for mobile devices and business process re-engineering are regarded as special cases of a larger theory of systems. This vision paves the way to cross-fertilization; and through that, IJARAS aims at becoming apowerful tool to steer novel ideas and inject new research directions in this area.

 RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
 

* Mechanisms, both general and special-purpose, to model, design, express, and develop adaptive, autonomic and resilient systems;
* Analytical and simulation tools to measure a system's ability to withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new environments;
* Conceptual models and paradigms to express change tolerance;
* Methods, models, and architectures to manage and express strategies and provisions for cross-layer adaptation;
* Design-time / run-time methods and tools to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between energy consumption, performance, safety, and security;
* Scalable, maintainable, cost-effective provisions, located at all system levels, to achieve adaptability and dependability;
* Resilience engineering;
* Autonomic business process execution;
* Adaptive service-oriented computing;
* Evolutionary and embryogenic approaches to autonomic computing, resilience, and adaptive systems;
* Recovery-oriented computing;
* Methods focusing on optimizing quality of experience e.g. adaptive user interfaces;
* Adaptive fault-tolerance;
* Adaptive fault-masking;
* Adaptive data integrity;
* Autonomous and adaptive systems in robotics;
* Adaptive and context-aware multimedia;
* Personalization;
* Adaptive data mining;
* Adaptive fault models;
* Adaptive system models;
* Adaptive routing;
* Autonomic applications;
* Agents;
* Architecture-based adaptation;
* Self-* systems.

SUBMITTING TO IJARAS:

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at  

http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.pdf
PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to vincenzo.deflorio@ua.ac.be
 

PUBLISHER:

The International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the 'Information Science Reference' (formerly Idea Group Reference) and 'Medical Information Science Reference' imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:

Vincenzo De Florio
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems
E-mail: vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be
www.igi-global.com/IJARAS

Data Mining in Cloud Computing

Special Session on "Data Mining in Cloud Computing"
Brief Description
     The ‘Data Mining in Cloud Computing Session’ of the Fifth International Conference on Rough Set and Knowledge Technology (RSKT 2010) invites the submission of original high-quality research papers. The goal of this session is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of Cloud computing, Data mining and Knowledge Technology together to addresses the problems and emerging opportunities about Cloud Computing in the era of Knowledge Technology. Submissions will be in Springer LNCS style. Accepted and registered papers will be included in the Springer LNAI proceedings available at the conference. Extensions of selected papers from the RSKT2010 proceedings will be considered for publication in special issues of some international journals, such as Fundamental Informatics (EI, SCI indexed), International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (SCI indexed), etc.
Scope and Topics
   Topics of interest include but not limited to:
   * Knowledge technology in cloud computing
   * Compute and storage cloud architectures and implementations
   * Data intensive scalable computing
   * Distributed data intensive computing
   * Service models
   * Programming models
   * Charging models
   * Virtual appliance management and composition
   * Models, frameworks and systems for cloud security
   * New applications on cloud
Important Dates
   Full paper submission due: March 20, 2010
   Paper acceptance/rejection notification: May 20, 2010
   Camera ready submission and registration: July 6, 2010
Instructions for Authors
   Articles should be submitted electronically. PDF format are acceptable and submissions should be according to the instruction for authors (see http://rskt2010.bjtu.edu.cn/paper.htm). Please specify that the paper is for the Knowledge Technology meet Cloud Computing session, and send an electronic copy of paper in PDF format in English to cqupt.yangyong@gmail.com. Same electronic copy must also be submitted online at EasyChair Login Page for RSKT 2010（https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?a=a03a9c904a6d;iid=19053）.
Special Session Cochairs
   Prof. Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R.China
   Prof. Dr. Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R.China
   Prof. Dr. Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
   Dr. Yong Yang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R.China

1st Int'l Conf. on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking

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*                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION and                 *
*                         CALL FOR POSTERS                      *
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*                         e-Energy 2010                         *
* 1st Int'l Conf. on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking  *
*               http://www.e-energy-conf.org/                   *
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*              In cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM                  *
*        Technically co-sponsored by: IFIP TC6, Euro-NF         *
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*                University of Passau, Germany                  *
*                       April 13-15, 2010                       *
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*      Poster submission deadline (EXTENDED): March 17, 2010    *
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We are pleased to announce e-Energy 2010, the First
International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and
Networking and invite you to attend and to contribute to the
scientific program by submitting a poster proposal.

* GENERAL INFORMATION
e-Energy 2010 serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the
discussion and exchange of information on the research,
development, and applications on all energy-related topics which
address the fields of servers and communication infrastructures,
services in data centers, end-systems in home and office
environments, sensor networks, and future networks such as the
Future Internet.

* PROCEEDINGS AND PROGRAM
e-Energy 2010 will feature 29 papers presenting new and
visionary ideas how to make computing and networking more
energy-efficient. Keynote lectures will be given by Manfred
Immitzer (CIO, Nokia Siemens Networks) and Prof. Paul Kuehn
(University of Stuttgart, Germany). Please visit
http://www.e-energy.uni-passau.de/program/ to learn more about
the conference program.

******************** POSTER SUBMISSIONS *********************

POSTER SUBMISSION DEADLINE (extended): March 17, 2010, 11:59pm CET
POSTER NOTIFICATION DEADLINE (extended): March 19, 2010.

We solicitate poster submissions of areas of interest similar
to those listed in the technical call for papers. Posters do not
need to describe completed work, but they should give an overview
on research, best providing also preliminary results. We especially
encourage submissions of new visionary ideas. Final posters will be
displayed during all breaks facilitating discussions among the
conference participants and will be listed on the Web-site. We will
provide a table and a board on which to tack posters.

Information about areas of interest can be found at:
http://www.e-energy.uni-passau.de/call-for-papers.html

* FORMAT OF POSTER SUBMISSIONS
Poster proposals should be submitted as PDF files with no more than 3
pages (ACM style; same formatting instruction as applicable for
e-Energy paper submissions). The first two pages should contain an
extended abstract that explains the research content of the poster.
Additionally, the title, authors, institutional affiliations and
email addresses of the authors should be contained on the first page. The
third page should contain a draft of the poster content itself.

The final maximum poster dimensions are 30" by 40", with poster
contents mounted on rectangular poster board that will be provided along
with the needed mounting materials. The choice of using
multiple sheets of paper or a monolithic large piece of poster
paper is up to the authors.

Information about ACM stylesheets can be found at:
http://www.e-energy.uni-passau.de/call-for-papers.html

* POSTER SUMBISSION PROCESS
Please submit your poster proposal as a PDF e-mail attachment to

eenergy@fim.uni-passau.de

using the subject line "e-Energy Poster Submission". Any questions
concerning the posters should also be directed to this address.
Poster submissions will be reviewed and authors will be notified
about the acceptance.


We are looking forward to seeing you in Passau and receiving your
poster submissions!

General Co-Chairs:
Randy Katz, UC Berkeley (USA)
David Hutchison, Lancaster University (UK)

TPC Co-Chairs:
Hermann de Meer, Passau University (Germany)
Suresh Singh, Portland State University (USA)
Torsten Braun, Bern University (Switzerland)

Publicity Chair:
Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna (Austria)

Int. Conference on Wireless Communications, Network and Mobile Computing (WiCOM2010)

Paper Submission Deadline Has Been Extended to April. 6, 2010. ============================================================== The 6th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Network and Mobile Computing (WiCOM2010) http://www.wicom-meeting.org/2010 Chengdu, China     September 23-25, 2010 ==============================================================

The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE, all the accepted papers will be indexed by EI Compendex and ISTP.

The technical areas to be covered in this conference include: Wireless Communications Network Technologies Services and Application

Special track within WiCOM2010: Signal and Image Processing (SIP)

Full papers will be due by April 6, 2010.

For more information, please contact: wicom@scirp.org

WiCOM Organizing Committee

SoftNet 2010

===== Call for Submissions =======

SoftNet 2010, August 22-27, 2010 - Nice, France

see: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/SoftNet10.html

SoftNet 2010 is a federated event focusing on advances topics concerning the networks, software engineering, testing, validation, and simulation. SoftNet 2010 continues the tradition of well-established conferences ICSEA and ICSNC, while complementing the topics with CENTRIC, VALID, and SIMUL.

Submission (full paper) new deadline: March 20, 2010.

Submissions must be electronically done using the 'Submit a Paper' link on the entry page of each conference.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: 
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html.

For details on the each conference's topics, see the individual Call for Papers for each conference.

Unpublished high quality contributions in terms of Regular papers and Posters or Work in Progress are welcome. Workshop proposals and Panel proposals on challenging topics are encouraged.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA on-line Journals (http://www.iariajournals.org) and in Special issues of different journals mentioned on the entry page of each conference.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE Computer Society Press, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed via all the IEEE indexing agreements.

All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions.

-- ICSEA 2010, The Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICSEA10.html

-- ICSNC 2010, The Fifth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICSNC10.html

-- CENTRIC 2010, The Third International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CENTRIC10.html

-- MultiA-Pro 2010, The First International Workshop on User Profiles in Multi-application Environments 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/MultiAPro.html

-- EuroCAT 2010, 4th Workshop on Combining Context with Trust, Security, and Privacy 
http://www.cat10.uni.lu/index.html

-- VALID 2010, The Second International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/VALID10.html

-- SIMUL 2010, The Second International Conference on Advances in System Simulation 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/SIMUL10.html


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