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Piers Campbell | 1 May 2007 09:28
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[Dbworld] IIT'07 - Dubai - CFP


Call For Papers
Fourth International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology
Dubai, 18-20 November 2007

The annual conference, Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), 
is a premier forum for the presentation and discussion of technology 
advances and research results in the field of Information Technology (IT). 
Held in Dubai, a dynamic and vibrant city rich in contrast and color, 
IITÂ’07, is the fourth in the series that has been held since 2004. 
The conference brings together leading engineers, scientists, 
researchers and academics in IT from around the world. The latest research
advances in fields ranging from traditional Computer Science to evolving Web
technologies and applications are explored in IIT technical sessions.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
•	Advanced Network Technologies
•	Network Design & Planning
•	VoIP, Multimedia Systems & Protocols 		
•	Next Generation Mobile Networks	
•	Heterogeneous Networks	
•	Ad-Hoc & Sensor Networks
•	Wireless Networks: WiFi, WiMax, Cellular, 3G/4G
•	Mobility Management and Mobile Computing
•	Quality of Service Issues
•	Network Security and Privacy

WEB APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES
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Ullas Nambiar | 1 May 2007 12:06
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[Dbworld] IIWeb 2007: Call for Participation and Preliminary program

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C A L L   F O R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N

 Sixth International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb-07)

     July 23, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada

      (colocated with AAAI 2007)

     http://research.microsoft.com/users/znie/iiweb07/ 

     Sponsors: Microsoft Research, Yahoo!
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IIWeb 2007, is being held as a 1-day workshop at AAAI 2007. The day long workshop will consist 
of presentations (12 full and 6 short), invited talk and/or panel discussion. 

Workshop attendance is open to the public. 

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*** Early Registration:  until May 25, 2007  (Workshop Only registration feasible)
*** Online Registration: https://www.aaai.org/Forms/aaai-registration-form.html (Fees quoted in
US dollars)

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Michela Bertolotto | 1 May 2007 12:50
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[Dbworld] SeCoGIS: deadline approaching

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      First International Workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues 
             in Geographic Information Systems (SeCoGIS 2007)

                http://cs.ulb.ac.be/conferences/secogis07/

                        in conjunction with the 
   Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2007) 
               Auckland, New Zealand, November 05-09, 2007
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The recent advances in remote sensing, positioning systems, and mobile 
technologies have increased the production, collection, and diffusion of
geo-referenced data, thus requiring the rapid development and the wide
deployment of multiple geographic information systems. With the popularity
of the World Wide Web and the diversity of GISs on the Internet, geographic
information can now be available via personal devices anytime and anywhere.
Nowadays GIS is emerging as a common information infrastructure, which
penetrates into more and more aspects of our society, and converges with 
most areas in the IT scenario, such as office automation, workflow, digital
libraries, Web searching, and virtual reality. This has given rise to new
challenges in order to accommodate new users requirements for new 
applications. Conceptual modeling and semantic web technologies provide 
complementary solutions for these issues. They allow to elicit and capture 
user requirements as well as the semantics of the target application domain.

The workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues for GIS combines together 
two successful series of workshops, Conceptual Modeling for Geographic 
Information Systems (CoMoGIS), held in 2004, 2005, and 2006, and
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Mingjun Xiao | 1 May 2007 13:30
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[Dbworld] The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering

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The aim of this conference is to provide an international forum for researchers,
professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly
growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous WISE
conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore
(2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), and
Wuhan, China (2006).
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Andrew MacFarlane Mr | 1 May 2007 14:30
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[Dbworld] Final Reminder: Search Solutions 2007, London, May 23

		** Apologies for cross postings **

Search Solutions 2007

Wednesday 23rd May
BCS London HQ, Covent Garden

Search Solutions is a special one-day event focused on the latest
innovations in information search and retrieval. The format of the day will
be series of talks and discussions in which invited speakers present and
share opinions, case studies and expertise. The event should appeal to
search engine designers, developers and end users, or indeed anyone who
wants to see the latest developments in web and enterprise search.

Programme

	

Search 2.0: The Future of Search 
Gora Sudindranath, FAST Search and Transfer 

Delivering Relevant Search Results on a Global Scale 
Thomas Hoffman, Google 

Meaning Based Computing: Beyond the Hype of 2.0
Fernando Lucini, Autonomy

MyYahoo - personalising the web
Nick Cox, Yahoo
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Doina Caragea | 1 May 2007 16:40

[Dbworld] CFC: Computational Methodologies in Gene Regulatory Networks

CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Submission Deadlines: proposals due on June 15, 2007, full manuscripts due on December 15, 2007

COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGIES IN GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS
URL: www.ksu.edu/cmgrn  	
Email: cmgrn@... 
A book edited by Doina Caragea, Sanjoy Das, W. H. Hsu, Stephen M. Welch, Kansas State University, USA.
(The list of authors is in alphabetical order)

INTRODUCTION
Recent advances in gene sequencing technology are shedding light on the complex interplay between genes
that elicit phenotypic behavior characteristic of any given organism. It is now known that in order to
mediate external as well as internal signals, an organism's genes are organized into complex signaling
pathways. Unfortunately, unraveling the specific details about how these genetic pathways interact to
regulate development, life histories, and respond to environmental cues, is proving to be a daunting
task. A wide variety of models depicting gene-gene interactions, that are commonly referred to as gene
regulatory networks (GRNs), have been proposed. A wide variety of computational tools are available for
modeling gene regulatory networks.

OVERALL OBJECTIVES
A gene regulatory network (GRN) must be able to mimic experimentally observed behavior and also be
computationally tractable. Under these circumstances, model simplicity is an important trade-off for
functional fidelity. Modeling approaches taken by researchers are wide and disparate. Some gene
regulatory networks are modeled entirely using non-parametric approaches such as Bayesian or neural
networks, while some others represent genes in very physically realistic differential equation
formats. The book will focus on the computational methods widely used in modeling gene regulatory
networks, including structure discovery, learning and optimization. Both research and survey papers
are welcome.

TARGET AUDIENCE
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Andrea Pugliese | 1 May 2007 17:44
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[Dbworld] Deadline approaching - Scalable Uncertainty Management 2007

Call for Papers

International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM-2007)

Oct 10-12, 2007
Washington DC area

http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sum2007/

There is now intense interest in both the Artificial Intelligence
community and in the Database community on managing uncertainty and
inconsistency in databases. However, researchers in AI may not
necessarily be aware of database concerns and conversely, database
researchers may not always be aware of AI concerns and past
contributions. The Scalable Uncertainty Modeling conference aims to
bring all those interested in the management of large volumes of
uncertainty together, irrespective of whether they are in databases
or in AI. Papers are solicited in all areas of massive uncertainty
including, but not restricted to, the topics listed below.

  * probability logic
  * semantics of uncertain data
  * formal models of uncertain data
  * reasoning with inconsistent and uncertain information
  * fuzzy logic
  * annotated logic
  * Bayesian models
  * Markov models
  * paraconsistent logic
  * uncertain DB algebras
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Kerem Tomak | 1 May 2007 18:51
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[Dbworld] Deadline extended: Special Issue of IJEC on Click Fraud

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of 
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
 on
CLICK FRAUD

GUEST EDITORS
Mohammad Mahdian, Research Scientist, Yahoo Research Labs,  mahdian <at> yahoo-inc.com
Jan Pedersen, Chief Scientist, Search and Marketplace, Yahoo! Inc, jpederse <at> yahoo-inc.com
Kerem Tomak, Principal Research Scientist, Search and Marketplace, Yahoo! Inc, Kerem@...

OVERVIEW
One of the current and widely used revenue models for online advertising involves charging for each click
based on the popularity of a particular keyword and the number of competing advertisers. This
pay-per-click model leaves room for a number of individuals, organized groups or even rival companies to
generate “false” clicks. They click on links on self-owned or competitor-owned web sites with no
intention to “convert” - meaning following the click, make a purchase or sign up for services etc. - but
still either get paid themselves or force others to pay since they generated traffic by doing so. This
activity is called “click fraud.” Yahoo defines click fraud as, "clicks arising for reasons other than
the good-faith intention of an Internet user to visit a Web site to purchase goods or services or to obtain
information," while Google has a more specific definition "invalid clicks is defined as any method used
to artificially and/or maliciously generate clicks or page impre!
 ssions."  
As a recent cover story by Business Week suggests that  although it is not clear how significant a problem
click fraud is, it still is shadowing the growth of the online advertising market. This is clear from the
announcement by Google CEO Eric Schmidt who told the advertising community that click fraud is a Google
AdWords reality and that advertisers should just plan on allocating 20-30% of their total spend to
fraudulent click activity. 
Necessity to define click fraud,-forced the online advertising industry to establish Click Measurement
Working Group as part of an Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) with the participation of major search
providers such as Google and Yahoo.  The purpose of this group is to “provide the detailed definition of
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates | 1 May 2007 18:51
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[Dbworld] Postdoc positions at Yahoo! Research Barcelona

Yahoo! Research opened in 2006 a research lab in Barcelona, under the
direction of Ricardo Baeza-Yates, hiring several researchers. For 2007 we
have open several postdoc positions in the areas of Web Search and Mining,
and more generally in the areas of information retrieval, machine learning,
data mining, algorithms, collaborative filtering, multimedia systems, social
network analysis, and distributed systems. Salary conditions are competitive
within Spain and will depend on qualifications.

While working for Yahoo! Research you will have access to formidable
computing power and humongous amounts of data. We are an open research
environment and you will be encouraged to talk to other people, publish, and
share your knowledge with the academic community. Working in Barcelona, you
will have the chance to work in collaboration with the different labs of
Yahoo! Research (research.yahoo.com), contribute to Yahoo!'s new products
and services, and be an active participant of your scientific community. You
will also enjoy one of the best places to live in Europe!

Please send your CV and/or direct any further enquires to:

                   research-jobs-europe@...

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Shaun Dai | 1 May 2007 19:35
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[Dbworld] CFP the 3rd IEEE DASC'07

The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on 
Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC¡¯07)
25-27 September, 2007
Loyola College Graduate Center, Columbia, MD, USA

http://www.DASC-conference.org/ 

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: 10 May, 2007
Notification of acceptance: 15 June, 2007
Final manuscript due: July 1st, 2007
Symposium: 25-27 September, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS
As computer systems become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability, Security and Autonomy
play critical role at supporting next-generation science, engineering, and commercial applications.
These systems consist of heterogeneous software/hardware/network components of changing
capacities, availability, and in varied contexts. They provide computing services to large pools of
users and applications, and thus are exposed to a number of dangers such as accidental/deliberate
faults, virus infections, malicious attacks, illegal intrusions, and natural disasters etc. As a
result, too often computer systems fail, become compromised, or perform poorly and therefore
untrustworthy. Thus, it remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the
dependability and security for a trusted computing environment. Trusted computing targets computing
and communication systems as well as services that are autonomous, dependable, secure, privacy
protect-able, predictable,!
  traceable, controllable, assessable and sustainable. 

The scale and complexity of information systems evolve towards overwhelming the capability of system
administrators, programmers, and designers. This calls for the autonomic computing paradigm, which
meets the requirement of self-management by providing self-optimization, self-healing,
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