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Salvatore Ruggieri | 2 May 2004 18:37
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ECML/PKDD 2004 Workshops: Call for Papers

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ECML/PKDD-2004 WORKSHOPS
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it/workshops.html
Pisa, Italy, September 20 and 24, 2004

The 15th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 8th European Conference 
on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) will be co-located 
in Pisa, Italy, September 20-24, 2004. The combined event will comprise a wide program 
of workshops, to be held on Monday and Friday, September 20 and 24, immediately preceding 
and following the main ECML/PKDD-2004 conference. 

TRACK 1: (Semantic) Web Mining and Ontologies
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Workshop SAWM
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Statistical Learning for Web Mining
September 20, 2004
http://ecmlpkdd.isti.cnr.it/SAWM04

CHAIRS

Marco Gori, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
marco@...

Michelangelo Ceci, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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Yang Xiao | 2 May 2004 21:05
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Journal Special Issue

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing 
Special Issue Announcement 

Medium Access Control for WLANs, WPANs, Ad Hoc Networks, and Sensor
Networks

http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~yxiao/IJWMC_CFP.html
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Guest Editors

Dr. Yang Xiao, The University of Memphis, USA
Email: yangxiao at ieee.org

Dr. Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada
Email: wkui at cs.uvic.ca
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The recent evolution and successful development of Wireless Local Area
Networks (WLANs), Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), Ad Hoc
Networks, and Sensor Networks have yielded a demand to improve the
Medium Access Control (MAC) Layer. The key goals of this improvement
include Quality of Service (QoS) support mechanisms, efficient channel
access mechanisms, and energy saving mechanisms, etc. The effort to
improve the MAC layer is linked with many technical challenges
including compatibility with legacy networks, complexity in
implementation, and practical values in real market, etc. The need to
address QoS support, MAC enhancement, and energy saving and provide
timely, solid technical contributions in the MAC layer of these
networks establishes the motivation behind this special issue.
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Yang Xiao | 2 May 2004 21:07
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Journal Special Issue

Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 
Special Issue Announcement 

Mobility, Paging and Quality of Service Management for Future Wireless
Networks

http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~yxiao/WCMC_CFP.html
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Guest Editors

Yang Xiao, The University of Memphis, USA
E-mail: yangxiao at memphis.edu

Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
E-mail: pan at cs.gsu.edu

Kin K. Leung, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
E-mail: kin at bell-labs.com

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Recently, the demand for wireless communications has grown
tremendously. The need for "information anywhere anytime" has been a
driving force for the increasing growth and advances in wireless
communication and portable computing devices. The field of mobile
computing and wireless computing is the merging place of these advances
in information processing and communication with the aim of providing
seamless and ubiquitous computing environment for mobile users.
Location management, mobility management, and paging management are
critical issues to provide "information anywhere anytime." Furthermore,
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Maarten de Rijke | 2 May 2004 22:16
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Three PhD Positions in Amsterdam and Delft

Three PhD Vacancies in Amsterdam and Delft
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The Adaptive Information Disclosure (AID) project is part of a
larger effort aimed at the creation of a Virtual Lab environment
for e-science (VL-E).  In the context of AID we will be building
a suite of dynamic, model driven information and knowledge
extraction tools on top of an architecture for grid-based
distributed data analysis.  Keywords are: semantic models, agent
technology, formal concept analysis, datamining, text mining,
grid mining, grammar induction, information extraction, question
answering, and the dynamic maintenance of ontologies.

Within the AID project we have three PhD positions available:

1. Operations on Ontologies (at TNO-TPD, Delft/the Free University
of Amsterdam)
2. Semantic Learning with Specific Application to Ontologies (at 
the University of Amsterdam)
3. Ontology-based Retrieval (at the University of Amsterdam)

Further information about these vacancies is available at
http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Projects/AID/index.html

Prospective candidates should apply with a cover letter, CV,
statement of research interests and accomplishments, and names
and email addresses of 3 references.  The ability to proactively
cooperate with fellow researchers and good written and oral
English language skills are prerequisites for this position.
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Laurent Amsaleg | 3 May 2004 09:53
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SIGMOD-PODS 2004: 2nd Call for Participation

			CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

		 2004 ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2004 Conference

	 Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France, June 13-18, 2004

	http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/SIGMODPODS04/

		  *The site is open for registration*

		   *Early registration ends May 10*

SIGMOD  and PODS  are  two leading  forums  for database  researchers,
theoreticians,  designers,  practitioners,  developers, and  users  to
explore  cutting-edge ideas  and  to exchange  techniques, tools,  and
experiences.   The 23rd edition  of SIGMOD  and PODS  will be  held in
Paris, France, at  "La maison de la chimie",  a prestigious conference
center  located  in  the  heart   of  Paris  close  to  the  Boulevard
Saint-Germain (http://www.maisondelachimie.com).

Few cities leave the visitor  with such vivid impressions thanks to so
many   historical  and   cultural  attractions.   The   Eiffel  Tower,
Notre-Dame, the  ancient alleyways and  cobbled lanes of  the historic
Latin  Quarter, Le Louvre,  Le musée  d'Orsay, the  sound of  blues in
atmospheric cellar bars, are  samples of many other well-known symbols
of the City of Lights.

SIGMOD/PODS HIGHLIGHTS

We have an exciting scientific program that includes:
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Sérgio Lifschitz | 3 May 2004 19:41
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SBBD: new FIRM deadlines

                       CALL FOR PAPERS
		     EXTENDED DEADLINES

        SBBD 2004 - XIX Brazilian Symposium on Databases

                      Brasília, DF, Brazil
                      October 18-20, 2004

                  http://www.unb.br/sbbd2004

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*****       SBBD 2004 NEW IMPORTANT DATES      ******

Paper registration:	May 7th
Paper submission:      	May 14th 
Authors notification:  	July 5th
Camera ready due:      	July 26th
SBBD 2004 starts:      	October 18th

Paper Submission and Registration:

http://sbbd2004.inf.puc-rio.br/WIMPE/forms/authpaper_reg.html

If you need further information, please check our conference web site.

Sérgio Lifschitz
sbbd2004@...
SBBD 2004 Program Committee Chair
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Stefano Leonardi | 3 May 2004 19:45
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Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph WAW2004


		Call for Papers & Participation
Third  Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph WAW2004
		Saturday, October 16, 2004, 
			Rome, Italy

		in conjunction with FOCS 2004

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/ravi/waw2004.html

The World Wide Web has become part of our everyday life and
information retrieval and data mining on the web is now of enormous
practical interest. Some of the algorithms supporting these activities
are based substantially on viewing the web as a graph, induced in
various ways by links among pages, links among hosts, or other similar
networks.

The aim of the 2004 Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the
Web-Graph (WAW2004) is to further the understanding of these
web-induced graphs, and stimulate the development of high-performance
algorithms and applications that use the graph structure of the web.
The workshop is meant both to foster an exchange of ideas among the
diverse set of researchers already involved in this topic, and to act
as an introduction for the larger community to the state of the art in
this area.

This is the third edition of a very successful workshop on this topic, WAW
2002, held in conjunction with the 43rd Annual IEEE Symposium on
Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2002, WAW2003, held in conjunction
with the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2003.
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Roman Vitenberg | 3 May 2004 23:31
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Deadline approaching: DISC 2004

(Apologies if you receive this message several times)

Call for Papers http://disc.epfl.ch/)
18th International Symposium on Distributed Computing
DISC 2004 (http://homepages.cwi.nl/~paulv/disc04/)
Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 4 - 8, 2004

IMPORTANT DATES
# Submission Deadline: May 15, 2004, 12PM (CET; UTC+1)
# Acceptance Notification: July 5, 2004
# Camera ready copy due: August 5, 2004

DISC, the International Symposium on DIStributed Computing, is an annual
forum for research presentations on all facets of distributed computing.
DISC 2004 is organized in cooperation with the European Association for
Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).

SCOPE

Original contributions to the theory, design, analysis, implementation,
or application of distributed systems and networks are solicited.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
# distributed algorithms and their complexity
# fault-tolerance of distributed systems
# consistency conditions and synchronization
# multiprocessor/cluster architectures and algorithms
# cryptographic and security protocols for distributed systems
# distributed programing languages
# distributed operating systems
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Laurent Amsaleg | 4 May 2004 00:04
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CVDB04. Call for Participation

		    CVDB'04 Call for Participation

   First International Workshop on Computer Vision meets Databases
			      CVDB 2004

       In cooperation with the ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2004 Conference

	  Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France, June 13, 2004

			http://cvdb04.irisa.fr

		  *The site is open for registration*

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				Scope

For  decades,  the  computer  vision  community has  been  working  on
content-based multimedia  retrieval.  Researchers from  that community
focus on  increasing the recognition power of  their image description
schemes and they usually evaluate  their strength using data sets that
fit in  main memory  because they try  to avoid the  secondary storage
management burden.

Facilitating the management of very large amounts of data and removing
this disk  burden has long been  a strong motivation  for the database
community. This is particularly crucial for multimedia databases whose
sizes grow very fast. As  such, researchers in databases have proposed
many  smart  multidimensional   indexing  schemes  with  some  elegant
algorithms to compute Nearest-Neighbor and Top-N queries.
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Myung Kim | 4 May 2004 07:20
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ACM SIGMOD/VLDB Digital Library Donation Program

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           SIGMOD/VLDB DIGITAL LIBRARY DONATION PROGRAM

               http://pike.ewha.ac.kr/sigmod-dvd

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ACM SIGMOD and the VLDB Foundation have established a joint program 
to donate database literature to universities in developing countries, 
with the goal of assisting in the expansion of the database community 
in those countries. Currently available literature includes 
SIGMOD's Silver Edition and the SIGMOD 2003 DiSC, both on DVDs. 
The Silver Edition is a comprehensive collection of 30 years of 
database research literature and related materials; the complete 
table of contents for the Silver Edition can be found at 
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/anthology.html. 
The 2003 DiSC contains the proceedings of many database research 
conferences that took place in 2002, plus database research 
journal issues from that year and other related materials; see
http://sigmod.discgenesis.net/ for the complete table of contents.

A request for a donation should be made by visiting our website
(http://pike.ewha.ac.kr/sigmod-dvd) and filling out an application 
form. An explicit designation that the applicant agrees to the 
rules is required. The rules are as follows. 

(1) The donated material is for the use by all patrons of the 
    recipient library. 
(2) The library will make the donated material available for
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