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George Bebis | 1 Oct 2004 01:57

[Dbworld] International Symposium on Visual Computing


		    International Symposium on Visual Computing

			             ISVC05

                                Lake Tahoe, Nevada
				December 5-7 2005

                              http://www.isvc05.net

Call for Papers
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Over the last two decades, considerable progress has been achieved in the
broader area of visual computing, mainly as a result of the exponential
growth of processor speed and memory capacity as well as the rapid explosion
of multimedia and the extensive use of video and image-based communications
over the World Wide Web (WWW). Real time access and sharing of digital 
information including text and sound but also powerful realistic or simulated
visuals are now within our capacity, enabling truly interactive 
multiparticipant, multimodal and multimedia communication. 

The purpose of the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) is 
to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and 
practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, 
ideas, developments and applications in the broader area of visual computing.  
The symposium will consist of invited and contributed presentations dealing
with all aspects of visual computing. In addition to the nain technical
program, the symposium will include several keynote speakers, posters
sessions, and special tracks. Proposals for special tracks are currently
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Makoto Takizawa Prof. | 1 Oct 2004 07:06
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[Dbworld] Call for Papers: ICPADS-2005

Call For Papers

The 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems 
(ICPADS-2005)
URL http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/icpads/2005/

July 20 (Wed.) to 22 (Fri.), 2005
at Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Fukuoka, Japan

Co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society TCDP and TCPP, and Fukuoka Institute of
Technology (FIT).

In cooperation with Fukuoka City, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of
Japan) SIGDPS, IEEE Taipei Section, IEEE HonKong Section, SCAT, and AOARD/AOR

PURPOSE AND SCOPE
The 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 
2005) provides an international forum for scientists, engineers, and users to 
exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results 
on all aspects of parallel and distributed systems.  All papers accepted for 
ICPADS-2005 conference and workshops will appear in the Proceedings of 
ICPADS 2005, which is to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. 
Awards will be given to the best papers. 

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
- Parallel and Distributed Systems 
- Parallel and Distributed Applications and Algorithms 
- Distributed Operating Systems
- Distributed Database Systems 
- Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing
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Louiqa Raschid | 1 Oct 2004 07:57
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[Dbworld] ACM SIGMOD Conference 2005 Call for Papers

		ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2005 Conference
		      Baltimore, Maryland
			June 14-16,2005 
		http://cimic.rutgers.edu/sigmodpods05

  24th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
			Call For Papers

The annual ACM SIGMOD conference is a leading international forum for 
database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore 
cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and 
experiences.  We invite the submission of original research contributions 
and industrial papers, as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, 
and panels.  We encourage submissions relating to all aspects of data 
management defined broadly, and particularly encourage work on topics of 
emerging interest in the research and development communities.

Important Dates
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November 17, 2004, 8:59 PM PST: Research & industrial papers due (no 
   abstract submission); demonstration, tutorial, and panel proposals due.
February 16, 2005: Notification of acceptance.
March 23, 2005:    Camera-ready copies.

Submission
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All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled
electronically.

* Research paper submission requirements are available at
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Indrajit Ray | 1 Oct 2004 16:53
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[Dbworld] CFP: 1st Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics


CALL FOR PAPERS

First Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics

National Center for Forensic Science
Orlando, Florida, USA
February 14-15, 2005

The IFIP Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics is an active international community of scientists,
engineers and 
practitioners dedicated to advancing the state of the art of research and practice in the emerging field of
digital 
forensics.  The First Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics will provide a
forum for 
presenting original, unpublished research results and innovative ideas related to the extraction,
analysis and 
preservation of all forms of electronic evidence.   Papers and panel proposals are solicited.  All
submissions will be 
refereed by a program committee comprising members of the Working Group.  Papers and panel submissions
will 
be selected based on their technical merit and relevance to IFIP WG 11.9.  The conference will be limited to
fifty 
participants to facilitate interactions between researchers and intense discussions of critical
research issues.  
Preliminary conference proceedings will be distributed at the conference.  Keynote presentations,
revised papers and 
details of panel discussions will be published as an edited volume - the first in a series entitled Research
Advances 
in Digital Forensics (Springer) in the fall of 2005.   Revised and/or extended versions of selected papers
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Stefan Manegold | 1 Oct 2004 17:34
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[Dbworld] MonetDB, query processsing at light speed

TITLE: MonetDB 4.4 released

WHAT:
MonetDB is an open source high-performance database system developed by 
CWI, the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science Research of The 
Netherlands. It was designed to provide high performance on complex 
queries against large databases, e.g. combining tables with hundreds of 
columns and multi-million rows. As such, MonetDB is able to be used in 
application areas that performance-wise are no-go areas for
traditional database technology in a real-time manner. MonetDB has been 
successfully applied in high performance applications for data mining, 
OLAP, GIS, XML Query, and text and multimedia retrieval.
MonetDB achieves this high performance using innovations at all layers of a DBMS: a 
storage model based on vertical fragmentation, a modern CPU-tuned 
vectorized query execution architecture that often gives MonetDB a more 
than 10-fold raw speed advantage on the same algorithm compared with a 
typical interpreter-based RDBMS. MonetDB is one of the first database 
systems to focus its query optimization effort on exploiting CPU caches. 
MonetDB also features automatic and self-tuning indexes, run-time query 
optimization, a modular software architecture, etc. In-depth 
information on the technical innovations in the design and 
implementation of MonetDB can be found in our digital library.

AUDIENCE:
MonetDB is of particular interest to researchers, system developers
and students, interested in developing novel query-dominant applications
on a  flexible database engine. Database application developers find
a mature SQL implementation with common interfaces (JDBC,ODBC,php...)
to port their software.
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Jose Cordeiro | 1 Oct 2004 17:50

[Dbworld] CFP - ICEIS 2005 - 7th Int'l Conf on Enterprise Information Systems

From: "Jose Cordeiro" <jcordeiro@...>
Subject: CFP - ICEIS 2005 - 7th Intl Conf on Enterprise Information Systems
Date: sexta-feira, 30 de Julho de 2004 0:17

Call for Papers

                               ICEIS 2005

ICEIS 2005 - 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

                       ( http://www.iceis.org )

Co-organized by:

Florida International University, in collaboration with INSTICC.

To be held in:
                       Miami,  Florida,  USA

                           24-28 May, 2005

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MAIN TOPIC AREAS / CONFERENCE TRACKS (please check detailed topic list
below):
1. Databases and Information Systems Integration
2. Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
3. Information Systems Analysis and Specification
4. Software Agents and Internet Computing
5. Human-Computer Interaction
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Lei Yu | 1 Oct 2004 19:45
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[Dbworld] CFP: SIAM (SDM-05) Workshop on Feature Selection for Data Mining

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International Workshop on Feature Selection for Data Mining - Interfacing Machine Learning and
Statistics 

in conjunction with 2005 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, April 23, 2005, Newport Beach, California

The workshop website: http://enpub.eas.asu.edu/workshop

Knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) is a multidisciplinary effort to mine nuggets of knowledge from
data. The increasingly large data sets from many application domains have posed unprecedented
challenges to KDD; in the meantime, new types of data are evolving such as Web, text, and microarray data.
Research in computer science, engineering, and statistics confront similar issues in feature
selection, and we see a pressing need for the interdisciplinary exchange and discussion of ideas. We
anticipate that our collaborations will shed new lights on research directions and approaches, and lead
to breakthroughs. 

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines and further the
collaborative research in feature selection. Feature selection is an essential step in successful data
mining applications. Feature selection has practical significance in many areas such as statistics,
pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining (including Web, text, image, and microarrays).
The objectives of feature selection include: building simpler and more comprehensible models,
improving data mining performance, and helping to prepare, clean, and understand data. Some
representative workshop topics and associated research issues are, but not limited to, the following. 

Feature ranking
Subset selection
Dimensionality reduction
Feature construction
Improving data mining performance
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Sergio Alvarez | 1 Oct 2004 20:51
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[Dbworld] Clare Boothe Luce Professorship in Bioinformatics


Clare Boothe Luce Professorship in Bioinformatics
Computer Science Department
Boston College

The Computer Science Department at Boston College invites applications 
for the Clare Boothe Luce Professorship in Bioinformatics. The position 
is limited to women applicants at the assistant professor level.  Boston 
College and the Luce Foundation are providing a highly competitive 
startup package for this position. The ideal candidate would have a PhD 
in computer science with training in bioinformatics. We would welcome a 
colleague with areas of interest in computational genomics, genomic data 
mining, systems biology (biological networks), structural biology or 
protein and RNA structure determination. Other areas of computational 
biology and bioinformatics will also be considered. The successful 
candidate will train both undergraduate and graduate students and will 
establish a vigorous externally funded research program.

Boston College is committed to expanding the role of computer science 
at the university.  The Computer Science Department expects to move into 
a new facility in 2006 and to establish a doctoral program starting in 
2007. The Biology Department currently has two bioinformatics faculty 
with postdoctoral associates and is conducting a separate search in 
bioinformatics this year. A new interdepartmental center for 
bioinformatics research is planned. 

Applicants should prepare a curriculum vitae, a statement of present and 
future research plans as well as a teaching statement. Applicants should 
also request three letters of reference. The preferred method of submission 
is to send the documents as email attachments to
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Samson Tu | 2 Oct 2004 00:59
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[Dbworld] Announcing Protege Short Course

Announcing the inaugural Protégé Short Course
(Please re-distribute to those who may be interested)

When: January 18th - 21st, 2005
Where: Stanford Medical Informatics, Medical School Office Building
        Stanford, California
How: Register at http://protege.stanford.edu/screg.html
Early registration fee (valid until November 1, 2004): $1600
Course website: http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse.html

The Protégé short course provides an in-depth introduction to the field 
of ontology engineering. The course will be taught by the developers of 
Protégé at the Stanford Medical Informatics lab facility located in the 
Stanford Medical Center. Enrollment in the course will be limited in 
order to ensure a small class size.

Who should attend: Beginning or intermediate developers and project 
managers who wish to gain an in-depth understanding of how to develop 
ontologies and knowledge-based applications using Protégé.

Course Content:

- Getting started:
     - What are ontologies and knowledge-based systems
     - Developing frame-based ontologies
     - Developing a frame-based knowledge base
- Extending and managing ontologies and knowledge bases:
     - Tasks involved in developing and maintaining knowledge bases
     - Methodologies for evaluating ontologies
     - Analysis of large-scale ontologies
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Richard McClatchey | 3 Oct 2004 20:49
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[Dbworld] HealthGrid'05 conference Oxford, UK April 07-09 2005

Healthgrid 2005				
Oxford, 7th-9th April 2005					 

Call for Papers

Healthgrid 2005 (http://oxford2005.healthgrid.org) will provide a forum for GRID projects in the
medical, 
biological and biomedical domains as well as for grid projects that seek to integrate these. With an 
emphasis on results, it is hoped that functionality being developed within such projects will be 
demonstrated. The overall objective is to reinforce and promote the awareness of the deployment of grid 
technology in health. Participation is encouraged across the spectrum of bio/medical informatics from 
technology developers and researchers through research network representatives and regional health 
authorities to healthcare clinicians and administrators.

This will be the third annual Healthgrid conference.  The first conference, held in January 2003 in 
Lyon (http://lyon2003.healthgrid.org), reflected the need to involve all actors - physicians, 
scientists  and technologists - who might play a part in the application of grid technology to health, 
whether  health care or bio-medical research. The second conference, held in Clermont-Ferrand in 
January 2004,  (http://clermont2004.healthgrid.org) reported research and work in progress from a 
large number of projects. It is intended that the third conference will report on results of current 
grid projects in  health care, will indicate the outcome of field tests and will identify deployment 
strategies for prototype applications in health care. In addition outstanding problem areas and 
technological challenges will be identified and new solutions to these issues will be proposed. At 
Clermont-Ferrand a considerable number of active projects demonstrated early working systems and 
the third conference will provide greater scope for the demonstration of real grid systems in action. 
As a consequence, this conference is expected to be much more focused on concrete results and 
exchanges of experience and will therefore be of more immediate interest to active health care 
providers whose participation in Healthgrid 2005 is encouraged.

The conference will include a number if high profile keynote presentations complemented by a set of
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