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Freitag, 24. September 2010

Special Issue on “State of the Art in Self-Adaptive Software Systems”

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Call for Papers
Special Issue on “State of the Art in Self-Adaptive Software Systems”
Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
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Modern software systems have to operate under highly dynamic and
unpredictable operating conditions. User needs may change dynamically,
availability of resources may vary, subsystems may come and go at runtime,
etc. To deal with such dynamics, systems must be self-adaptive, i.e. they
must be able to adapt themselves at runtime to optimize performance, protect
from intrusions, heal from failures, etc. During the last decade, multiple
approaches have been proposed to engineer self-adaptive systems. From these
efforts, we learned that the construction of self-adaptive systems is
significantly more challenging than traditional systems. The aim of this
special issue is to provide an overview of the state of the art in the field
of self-adaptive software systems and outline the challenges for future
research.

We invite quality submissions focusing on all aspects of self-adaptation,
with an emphasis on the engineering of self-adaptive software systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

- models and theories for self-adaptation
- formal methods for self-adaptive systems
- architectural styles and patterns for self-adaptive systems
- control loops and reflective architectures for self-adaptation
- quality of service concerns in self-adaptive systems
- mechanisms that support monitoring, analysis, planning, and execution
phases of self-adaptation
- dealing with uncertainty in self-adaptive systems
- self-adaptation versus self-organization
- verification of self-adaptive systems, including runtime verification
- methods for engineering self-adaptive systems
- evolution of self-adaptive systems
- case studies and empirical experiments involving self-adaptive systems
- validation of self-adaptation
- application of self-adaptation techniques in industrial and real world
settings
- self-adaptation in component-based system
- self-adaptation in service-oriented systems
- agent-based approaches to self-adaptation
- aspect-oriented approaches to self-adaptation
- self-adaptation in pervasive and mobile systems
- application of principles from biology, sociology, and physics to engineer
self-adaptive systems

All articles should consider the practical application of the idea through
case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons
with other approaches already in practice.

Submissions
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Papers are limited to 20 pages and have to be prepared according to the
author instructions available at:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505732/authorinstructions

All papers will be refereed by at least two reviewers knowledgeable in the
domain of self-adaptive systems.

Papers have to be submitted using the Elsevier manuscript system:
http://ees.elsevier.com/jss/

Please select the article type “Special Issue: Self-Adaptive Systems” on the
submission website.

Key Dates
=========
March 15, 2011 – Submission website open
March 31, 2011 – Submission deadline
July 31, 2011 – Final Decisions
Publication – Tentatively December 2011

Info
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Email: JSS-special-issue2010@cs.kuleuven.be
Web site:
www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505732/description#description

Guest Editors
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Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Sam Malek, George Mason University, USA
Jesper Andersson, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Pervasive Health 2011

Pervasive Health 2011 Conference 23rd-26th May, 2011 :: Dublin, Ireland 
http://www.pervasivehealth.org/


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It is with great pleasure that we announce the 5th International Conference
on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.

The overall goal of the conference remains tightly coupled with the original
aims of the field, to address a set of related technologies and concepts
that help integrate healthcare more seamlessly into everyday life,
regardless of space and time.  To achieve this, it is necessary to take a
multidisciplinary approach to Pervasive Healthcare Technology research and
development. 

The Pervasive Healthcare Community has a broad scope of research topics and
concerns: 
- identifying and understanding problems from a technological, social, and
medical perspective (with a particular emphasis on understanding and
supporting patient needs);
- design, implementation, and evaluation of supporting hardware and software
infrastructures, algorithms, and applications; and
- organisational strategies that facilitate integration of Pervasive
Healthcare Technology into the healthcare enterprise. 

The 2011 Pervasive Healthcare conference aims to gather technology experts,
practitioners, industry and international authorities contributing towards
the assessment, development and deployment of pervasive medical based
technologies, standards and procedures. 

The theme of this year’s conference is: Coping with the Challenges and
Opportunities within Pervasive E-Healthcare (COPE), with a special focus on
pervasive healthcare management and its ability to deliver timely, quality
based information to medical practitioners in providing high levels of
patient care. The challenges and opportunities within e-Healthcare are
immense. A multidisciplinary and coordinated approach is needed from 1) user
requirements, 2) technology development and 3) application integration, to
help deliver a successful pervasive healthcare management system.
Traditional healthcare environments are extremely complex and challenging to
manage, as they are required to cope with an assortment of patient
conditions under various circumstances with a number of resource
constraints. Pervasive healthcare technologies seek to respond to a variety
of these pressures by successfully integrating them within existing health
care environments. 
Technologies, standards and procedures on their own provide little and or no
meaningful service. It is essential that pervasive healthcare environments,
through a combined approach of data collection, data correlation and data
presentation, assist health care professionals in delivering high levels of
patient care, and empower individuals and their families for self-care and
health management.

 
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We welcome contributions from the following fields:
- Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health Professions
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work
(CSCW)
- Sensing Technologies and Distributed Computing
- Hardware and Software Infrastructures

We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not
limited to: 

Pervasive Healthcare Management
- Challenges surrounding data quality
- Standards and interoperability in pervasive healthcare 
- Business cases and cost issues 
- Security and privacy issues
- Training of healthcare professional for pervasive healthcare 
- Legal and regulatory issues
- Insurance payments and cost aspects
- Staffing and resource management 

Understanding Users
- User requirements 
- Identifying and addressing stakeholder conflicts: patient needs, caregiver
needs, health professional needs, organisational needs
- Usability and acceptability
- Barriers to adoption, and enablers 
- Social implications of pervasive health technology, and social inclusion
- Coverage and delivery of pervasive healthcare services 
- Patient empowerment
- Diversity: population and condition-specific requirements 
- Inclusive research and design: engaging underrepresented populations  

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Physiological models for interpreting medical sensor data 
- Activity recognition
- Fall detection
- User modelling and personalization
- Modelling of Pervasive Healthcare environment 

Technology
- Sensor-based decision support systems
- Design and evaluation of patient and ambient-related sensors 
- Wearable and implantable sensor integration 
- Data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments 
- Data mining medical patient records
- Software architectures e.g. Agent, SOA, distributed middleware
- Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Applications
- Autonomous systems to support independent living 
- Clinical applications, validation and evaluation studies 
- Telemedicine
- Chronic disease and health risk management applications 
- Health promotion and disease prevention 
- Home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring 
- Continuous vs  event-driven monitoring of patients 
- Smart homes and hospitals
- Using mobile devices in the storage, update, and transmission of patient
data
- Wellbeing and lifestyle support
- Systems to support individuals with auditory, cognitive, or vision
impairements
- Systems to support caregivers


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Pervasive Health will accept submissions in the following categories: 

1. Full papers (up to 8 pages submissions) - Full papers are submissions
describing results and original research work not submitted or published
elsewhere in one of the four main categories listed below. Full papers
should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and
clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to
the field.

2. Posters (up to 4 pages submissions) - Authors are invited to submit work
in progress whose preliminary results are already interesting to Pervasive
Health audience. The poster track will give Pervasive Health attendees a way
to learn about ongoing research initiatives and will provide presenters with
an excellent opportunity to receive invaluable direct feedback from experts.

3. Demos (2 pages submissions) - The demos track will showcase the latest
developments and prototypes related to the topics of interest of the
conference. The expected demo submissions should describe the technical
details of the demo alongside its contribution to the healthcare domain..

4. Position Papers (2 pages submissions) - Position papers are envisioned to
provide insight into the lessons learnt from current (industrial,
practitioners, government, etc.) pervasive healthcare practice. The position
papers track is envisioned to provide the view of practitioners to the
pervasive health community in order to have a more clear understanding about
the real needs of healthcare operators and in this way shorten the gap
between technologists and the every-day needs of practitioners.

5. Workshops (2 pages submissions) Several workshops will be run in
conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to
discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related
to pervasive healthcare. Proposals for workshops should be submitted
directly to the workshops co-chairs, and proposals should indicate the
preferred duration for the workshop (half/full-day).

6. Doctoral Consortium (4 pages) – We are please to announce the first
Pervasive Healthcare Doctoral Consortium. This one day event will enable
doctoral students to present and reflect on their work alongside other
doctoral students and a panel of experts. Submissions should include a
description of work done, intended future work, alongside a specific
research question or challenge that you would like to be discussed at the
consortium. 


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PUBLICATION
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All accepted submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library
(to be confirmed). 


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Workshops Proposals:           November 19th , 2010

Paper submission deadline:     February 4th, 2011
Notification of acceptance:    April 11th, 2011
Camera-ready Manuscripts:      April 25th , 2011
Conference Dates:              May 23rd – 26th, 2011 


WORKSHOPS AND DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
Please visit the Workshops and Doctoral Consortium pages for detailed
submission requirements and procedures (upcoming).


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Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and
procedures.
http://www.pervasivehealth.org


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Best Paper Award
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IOS Press will provide a prize, in the form of a free 12 months subscription
to the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, for the
authors of the best Pervasive Health 2011 Conference Paper.


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General Chairs 
John O'Donoghue, University College Cork, Ireland
Gregory O'Hare, University College Dublin, Ireland 

Technical Program Chairs 
Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster, UK
Brian Caulfield, University College Dublin, Ireland
Julie Maitland, National Research Council, Canada 

Local Arrangements Chairs 
Michael O'Grady, University College Dublin, Ireland

Workshops Chairs 
Marilyn McGee-Lennon, University of Glasgow, UK
Maurice Mulvenna, University of Ulster, UK

Demos Chair 
John Barton, CLARITY/Tyndall, Ireland 

Publications Chair 
Paul McCullagh University of Ulster, UK

North America Liason 
Patricia Brennan Project Health Design, USA 

Asia Liason 
Chi-Hung Chi Tsinghua University, China 

Australia Liason 
Gourab Sen Gupta Massey University, NZ 

Publicity Chair 
Paulo Novais University of Minho, Portugal 

Conference Coordinator Chair 
Gergely Nagy ICST 

Doctor Colloquium Chairs 
Tom O'Kane, University College Cork, Ireland
Kelly Caine, Indiana University, USA 


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e-mail:  ph2011@prevasivehealth.org
Website: http://www.pervasivehealth.org/

Freitag, 17. September 2010

Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2010)

6th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2010)
                              7 December 2010 
                       Held in Conjunction with the 
23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2010)
                              Adelaide, Australia
                   http://krr.meraka.org.za/~aow2010

AOW 2010 is the sixth in a series of workshops on ontologies held 
in the Australasian region.

The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in
the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not 
limited to:

- Ontology models and theories         
- Ontologies and the Semantic Web     
- Interoperability in ontologies      
- Ontologies and Multi-agent systems                                        
- Description logics for ontologies  
- Reasoning with ontologies 
- Ontology harvesting on the web      
- Ontology of agents and actions
- Ontology visualisation  
- Ontology engineering and management
- Ontology-based information extraction  and retrieval
- Ontology merging, alignment and integration
- Web ontology languages
- Formal concept analysis and ontologies 
- Ontologies for e-research
- Linking open data
- Significant ontology applications

The proceedings of all previous Australasian Ontology 
Workshops were published in the CRPIT Series and this 
will also be the case for AOW 2010.

Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit 
extended versions of their AOW 2010 papers as chapters in 
a forthcoming Springer book.

For the second year running, AOW 2010 will have a best paper 
award, with a prize of $250(AUD) being awarded to the 
author(s) of the best paper. 

Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: 24 September 2010
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 22 October 2010
Camera-ready copies due: 12 November 2010
AOW 2010: 7 December 2010

Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow2010

Workshop Chairs:
Thomas Meyer
Meraka Institute, South Africa
tommie.meyer@meraka.org.za

Mehmet Orgun
Macquarie University
mehmet.orgun@mq.edu.au

Kerry Taylor
CSIRO ICT Centre
Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au


Program Committee :
Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany)
Arina Britz (Meraka Institute, South Africa)
Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
Michael Compton (CSIRO, Australia)
Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
R. Cenk Erdur (Ege University, Turkey)
Aurona Gerber (Meraka Institute, South Africa)
Dennis Hooijmaijers (University of South Australia, Australia)
Bo Hu (SAP Research, UK)
Renato Iannella (NICTA, Australia)
Ken Kaneiwa (NICT, Japan)
Marijke Keet (Free University of Bolzano, Italy)
Kevin Lee (NICTA and UNSW, Australia)
Laurent Lefort (CSIRO, Australia)
Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster, UK)
Lars Moench (University of Hagen, Germany)
Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW, Australia)
Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia)
Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia)
Murat Sensoy (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Markus Stumptner (University of South Australia, Australia)
Boontawee (Meng) Suntisrivaraporn (Thammasat University, Thailand)
Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bolzano, Italy)
Nwe Ni Tun (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Ivan Varzinczak (Meraka Institute, South Africa)
Kewen Wang (Griffith University, Australia)

Event Recognition

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Special Issue on Event Recognition
Applied Artificial Intelligence Journal
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Users and organisations collect data in various structured and unstructured digital formats, but they cannot fully utilise  these  data  to  support content and  resource  management.  It is evident that the analysis  and  interpretation  of  the  available  data  needs  to  be  automated,  in  order  for  large  data volumes to be  transformed into operational  knowledge. Events are particularly important pieces of 
knowledge,  as  they represent activities  of  special  significance  both  for  users  and  organisations. Therefore, the recognition of events is of utmost importance. Consider, for example, the recognition of trends given user contributions in social Web 2.0 applications, the recognition of attacks on nodes of a computer network given the exchanged TCP/IP messages, the recognition of suspicious trader 
behaviour  given  the  transactions  in  a  financial  market,  and  the  recognition  of  various  types  of cardiac arrhythmia given electrocardiograms. 
We  invite quality submissions focusing  on various aspects of event recognition, including  analysis of video, audio, text and other sensor data, as well as recognition on fused data sources. While we place  emphasis  on  theoretical  contributions,  we  also  welcome  papers  describing  interesting applications. 

Broad topics include:
=====================
- Representation languages for event recognition
- Algorithms for real-time event recognition
- Probabilistic reasoning for event recognition 
- Machine learning for event recognition 
- Event recognition architectures 
- Benchmarks, performance evaluations, and testbeds
- Domain-specific deployments of event recognition systems 
- Multimedia and social media analysis for event recognition 
- Clustering, concept recognition and multi-modal/fusion techniques 
- User interaction and interfaces for event navigation, browsing and management

Key Dates
=========
December 1, 2010 - Submissions
July 10, 2011 - Final Decisions
Publication - November 2011

Info
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Email: events2010@iti.gr
Journal web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08839514.asp

Guest Editors
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Thomas Winkler, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Alexander Artikis, NCSR Demokritos
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH-ITI, Greece
Phivos Mylonas, NTUA, Greece

Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation

CALL FOR PAPERS

CaRR2011 :: IUI2011 Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation
Location: Palo Alto, California, USA
Date: February 13, 2011

General Information:
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Context-aware information is widely available in various ways such as interaction patterns, location, devices, annotations, query suggestions and user profiles and is becoming more and more important for enhancing retrieval performance and recommendation results. At the moment, the main issue to cope with is not only recommending or retrieving the most relevant items and content, but defining them ad hoc. Further relevant issues are personalizing and adapting the information and the way it is displayed to the user's current situation (device, location) and interests.
In this workshop we focus on the integration of context for retrieval and recommendation.
We recognize a general content context and a user-centric content context.
A general content context is a common case defined by time, weather, location and many similar other aspects. A user-centric content context is given by the content of user profiles such as language, interests, devices used for interaction, etc.

Call for Papers:
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The aim of the CaRR Workshop is to invite the community to a discussion in which we will try to find new creative ways to handle context-awareness. Furthermore, the workshop aims at improving the exchange of ideas between different communities involved in research concerning, among other machine learning, information retrieval and recommendation.
The workshop is especially intended for researchers working on multidisciplinary tasks who want to discuss problems and synergies. We are interested in ideas about creative and collaborative approaches for context-aware retrieval and recommendation.

The participants are encouraged to address the following questions:

    * Why is context-awareness in retrieval and recommendation necessary?
    * Which benefits come from context-aware retrieval and recommendation systems?
    * How do user interfaces handle context?
    * In what ways can context improve HCI?
    * How can we combine general- and user-centric context-aware technologies?
    * How should context affect the way information is presented?

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:

    * Context-aware information retrieval
    * Context-aware profiling, clustering and collaborative filtering
    * Machine learning for context-aware information retrieval and ontology learning
    * Ubiquitous and context-aware computing
    * Use of context-aware technologies in UI/HCI
    * Context-aware advertising
    * Recommendations for mobile users
    * Context-awareness in portable devices

Paper submissions and reviews will be handled electronically through the CaRR page in EasyChair (which will be made available at a later point in time).

Important dates:
* Paper submission: November 1, 2010
* Notification: December 12, 2010
* Camera-ready submission: December 19, 2010
* Workshop: February 13, 2010

Organizers and Committees:
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General Chairs (carr2011@dai-lab.de)
* Ernesto William De Luca, DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin
* Alan Said, DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin
* Matthias Böhmer, Münster University of Applied Sciences
* Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich

Industrial Chair
* Sahin Albayrak, DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin

Program Committee
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* Sarabjot Singh Anand, University of Warwick, UK
* Gernot Bauer, Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany
* Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia
* Toine Bogers, Royal School of Library Information Science, Denmark
* Gregor Broll, LMU/Docomo, Germany
* Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
* Ed Chi, PARC, USA
* Marco Degemmis, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy
* Aldo Gangemi, Italian National Research Council, Italy
* Ido Guy, IBM, Israel
* Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
* Dietmar Jannach, TU-Dortmund, Germany
* Carsten Kessler, University of Münster, Germany
* Thomas Kirste, Universität Rostock, Germany
* Antonio Krüger, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
* Michael Kruppa, DFKI, Berlin, Germany
* Neal Lathia, University College London, UK
* Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
* Johannes Leveling, Dublin City University, Ireland
* Pasquale Lops, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy
* Bernd Ludwig, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
* Stefan Mandl, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
* Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany
* Marco Pennacchiotti, Yahoo!, USA
* Till Plumbaum, DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
* Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Christoph Schlieder, Universität  Bamberg, Germany
* Edmund Schuster, MIT, USA
* Bracha Shapira, Ben Gurion University, Israel
* Armando Stellato, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
* Jesse Vig, Universtity of Minnesota, USA
* Robert Wetzker, TU-Berlin, Germany
* Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China



Best,

Ernesto William De Luca

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Dr.-Ing. Ernesto William De Luca
Director of the Competence Center Information Retrieval & Machine Learning
Technische Universität Berlin - DAI-Laboratory Sekr. TEL 14
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7
10587 Berlin / Germany
Phone:  +49 30 314 74074
Fax:    +49 30 314 74003
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Nature Inspired Distributed Computing

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                       The 14th International Workshop on 
                    Nature Inspired Distributed Computing 
                                  (NIDISC'11)
    http://nidisc2011.gforge.uni.lu/


                           held in conjunction with
                     The 25th IEEE International 
   Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium  (IPDPS'2010)
                            16-20 May 2011
                        
                         Anchorage (Alaska) USA
                          http://www.ipdps.org
**********************************************************************

Workshop Theme :
=============

Techniques based on metaheuristics and nature-inspired paradigms can
provide efficient solutions to a wide variety of problems. Moreover,
parallel and distributed metaheuristics can be used to provide more
powerful problem solving environments in a variety of fields, ranging,
for example, from finance to bio- and health-informatics. This
workshop seeks to provide an opportunity for researchers to explore
the connection between metaheuristics and the development of solutions
to problems that arise in operations research, parallel computing,
telecommunications, bioinformatics, and many others. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Nature-inspired methods (e.g. ant colonies, GAs, cellular automata,
DNA and molecular computing, local search, etc) for problem solving
environments.
* Parallel and distributed metaheuristics techniques (algorithms,
technologies and tools).
* Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed
computing and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues
(convergence, complexity, etc).
* Other algorithms and applications relating the above mentioned
research areas.

Prospective authors of high quality research contributions are invited
to submit an electronic copy of their manuscript not exceeding 8
two-column pages including figures and references in the traditional
IEEE format used in IPDPS. Please, use Postscript or PDF when
possible. In your email, please indicate paper title, author(s), and
the corresponding author.

A selected group of papers from the workshop will be invited to
submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of an
international scholarly journal. Further announcements will be made
during the workshop.

General Chair :
============
- Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney -Australia- (zomaya@it.usyd.edu.au)


Program Co-chairs :
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- Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg -Luxembourg- ( pascal.bouvry@uni.lu )
- Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences -Poland- ( sered@ipipan.waw.pl )
- El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA -France- ( talbi@lifl.fr )


Program Committee (to be completed) :
=====================================

E. Alba, University of Màlaga, Spain
M. Affenzeller, Univ. of Hagenberg, Austria
A. Al-Dubai, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
A. Al-Jumaily, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
L. Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy 
A. Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
P. Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
J. Branke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
E. Cantù-Paz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
C. Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
T. Crainic, Univ. of Montreal, Canada
B. Di Martino, Univ. of Naples, Italia
T. El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA
P. Herrero, UPM, Spain
A. Lewis, Griffith University, Australia
M. Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
N. Melab, University of Lille, France
M. D. Moore, Texas A & M - Corpus Christi, USA
S. Mostaghim, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany
A. J.Nebro, Univ. of Malaga, Spain
C. Ribeiro, Univ. of Fluminense, Brazil
H. Sarbazi-azad, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy
Z. Tari, RMIT University, Australia
M. Tomassini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
F. Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Publicity Chair:
==============================
- Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg -Luxembourg- (gregoire.danoy@uni.lu)


Papers should be submitted to:
==============================

- P. Bouvry, University of Luxembourg -Luxembourg- ( pascal.bouvry@uni.lu )
- F. Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences  -Poland- ( sered@ipipan.waw.pl )
- E-G. Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA -France- ( talbi@lifl.fr )

 
Important Dates:
================
- Submission Deadline   - December 4, 2010
- Notification of Acceptance  - January  8, 2011
- Final Copy Due     - February 1, 2010




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Gregoire Danoy, PhD
Scientific Collaborator
University of Luxembourg
FSTC - CSC - ILIAS
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Emerging Synergies of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering

===== Call for Papers ====
 
A Special Issue on "Emerging Synergies of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering"
International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
 
http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~shliu/IJSEKE/
 
** Theme:
As software engineering is requested to answer dynamic, automated, adaptive, optimal and/or large-scale demands, other computer science disciplines come to play. Artificial Intelligence is one of them that may bring software engineering into further height. Conversely, software engineering techniques also play an important role to alleviate development cost and time of AI techniques as well as assist in introducing new AI techniques. Such mutually beneficial characteristics have appeared in the past few decades and still evolved due to new challenges. Several exemplified challenges include, but not limited to, how machine learning addresses software optimization problems derived from new software approaches (e.g., model-driven engineering, service-oriented computing, and cloud computing); and conversely how these new software approaches may help develop artificial intelligence-related software environments.
 
A special issue on "Emerging Synergies of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering" of the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering will devote to the latest innovative “synergistic” AI and software engineering techniques/practices to the aforementioned challenges. Namely, we are interested in new and novel AI solutions to software engineering challenges, software engineering practices to answer AI obstacles, and techniques that could benefit these realms bi-directionally.
 
*** The special issue seeks high-quality original and unpublished papers in the following topics including but not limited to these topics:
• AI techniques for optimization, transformation, and configuration management
• AI techniques for software reuse, evolution, maintenance and refactoring
• AI techniques for ontology and other semantic aspects in software engineering
• AI techniques for business process management and business rules
• AI techniques for reverse engineering and program understanding
• AI techniques for aspect mining and pattern mining
• AI techniques for testing and quality assurance
• AI techniques for performance engineering (e.g., performance approximation, monitoring, and adaptation)
• AI techniques for software specification, design, integration and requirement engineering
• AI techniques for software analysis and validation
• AI techniques for cost analysis and risk assessment in software projects
• Agent-based software engineering
• Visual modeling and model-driven development for AI techniques
• Domain modeling and software language engineering (e.g., domain-specific languages) for AI techniques
• Service-oriented computing and Cloud computing for AI-based techniques/software
• Object-oriented and aspect-oriented frameworks to implement and evaluate AI techniques
• Formal methods for AI techniques
• Rapid prototyping and scripting for AI techniques
• Software for knowledge acquisition and representation
• Software metrics applied to AI techniques
• Search engines in AI
• User interfaces for AI techniques
 
AI techniques of interest include (but are not limited to):
• Machine Learning (unsupervised and supervised learning), Evolutionary Algorithms (e.g. GA, GP, ES), Swarm Intelligence, Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, Probabilistic Reasoning, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Petri Nets, Data Mining, Game Theory, Time Series Analysis, Logic and reasoning, Knowledge representation, AI planning, among others.
 
*** Important Dates:
Paper submission due: February 15, 2011
Notification due: June 1, 2011
Revised paper submission due: August 15, 2011
Final notification: September 30, 2011
Camera-version due: October 15, 2011
Tentative publication date: February, 2012

*** Paper Preparation and Submission Guidelines: 
Instead of using Editorial Manager (for regular IJSEKE submissions), the special issue's paper submission page is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aise11. Template and instructions of preparation of manuscripts are available at http://www.worldscinet.com/ijseke/mkt/guidelines.shtml. Manuscripts using correct template should be no longer than 20 pages. For more information, please contact the guest editors:

· Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA (jxs (at) cs (dot) umb (dot) edu)
· Shih-Hsi “Alex” Liu, California State University, Fresno, USA (shliu (at) csufresno (dot) edu)
· Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia (marjan (dot) mernik (at) uni-mb (dot) si)