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Matt Duckham | 1 Jun 05:29
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[Dbworld] Call for papers: Journal Special Issue on Privacy-Aware and Location-based Mobile Services (PALMS)

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Call for Papers
Journal of Location Based Services
Special Issue on Privacy-Aware Location Based Mobile Services

Deadline for papers: July 30th, 2007

Guest editors:	Matt Duckham (University of Melbourne, Australia)
		Mohamed Mokbel (University of Minnesota, USA)
		Silvia Nittel (University of Maine, USA)

Journal homepage: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17489725.asp
This flyer: http://www.geosensor.net/papers/jlbsflyer.pdf
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The combined functionality of location-aware devices, wireless networks, 
and mobile computing is enabling a new era of location-based mobile 
services. Examples of such services include location-aware emergency 
services, elder care, navigation and wayfinding, location-based 
marketing, and location-based gaming. While location-based services 
promise increased safety and convenience, inappropriate use of an 
individual's location information presents threats to personal privacy 
and security. Recent social studies show that as people become more 
privacy-aware as they tend to avoid using location-based services in 
order to maintain their location privacy. As a result, there is a real 
concern that the privacy issues are becoming a barrier to more 
widespread development and use of location-based services.
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Bing Bing Zhou | 1 Jun 09:56
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[Dbworld] The 7th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies

The 7th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies
APPT’07 (http://appt07.gdut.edu.cn)
Nov. 22-23, 2007
Guangzhou, China

Sponsored by 
Architecture Professional Committee of China Computer Federation
National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China
Guangdong University of Industry, China
University of New South Wales, Australia

In cooperation with 
IEEE TCPP, IEEE-HK, Guangdong Computer Federation of CCF

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APPT’07 will be the 7th bi-annual conference on parallel processing technologies aimed at providing an
exciting platform and paradigm attracting professionals of different communities such as industry and
academic. Although the original objective is to share the experience in the area of the parallel
processing technology with the underlying theories and applications, more and more work will be focused
on state-of-the-art research and projects due to the tremendous advances in wireless networks, mobile
computing, sensor networks, distributed computing, and novel computing model and technologies. 
APPT’07 will provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers and engineers alike to present
their latest research in parallel processing technologies and extensive fields. APPT’07 will also
feature industry exhibits and demonstrations.
The official language of the Conference is English.

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Youakim BADR | 1 Jun 16:07
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[Dbworld] First CFP: ACM SAC 2008 Special Track on Web Technologies

Special Track on Web Technologies of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
                March 16 – 20, 2008, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
            http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~dbenslim/sac2008-wt.html

Published by ACM
			
Overview : 

The increasing popularity and advances in Web technologies (XML, Web services, semantic Web, etc.) are 
enabling the development of new classes of applications and new trends in the design of Information Systems.
This track focuses on emerging Web technologies, architectures, and methodologies for building and 
managing advanced Web information systems. The Internet and the related technologies have created an 
interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively,
communities of users with similar interests can be formed to achieve efficiency and improve performance, 
while security threats are present more than ever before.

The goal of this track is to bring together researchers from academia and industry who are actively engaged 
both in theoretical and practical aspects of Web Technologies. It will present an opportunity for researchers
to get together and share recent developments and techniques in order to identify the critical problems
and 
the most promising research avenues. This track addresses the challenging Web technologies issues
focusing 
on exploring novel methods, techniques, and trends to build up and manage information systems. 

Topics : 

We solicit original research and industrial papers in the area of web-based information technologies
with a 
special interest in the following topics: 
•	Emerging Web Technologies (e.g., Web 2.0 and AJAX)
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Laurent Amsaleg | 1 Jun 17:22
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[Dbworld] CVDB'07: Call for participation

		 CVDB'07 Call for Participation

                Third International Workshop on
                Computer Vision meets Databases
                           CVDB 2007

                         June 10, 2007 
		        Beijing, China

                      http://cvdb07.irisa.fr

             colocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2007
                       Sponsored by ACM

	      *The site is open for registration*

* Registration fee:
    - ACM members:    $25
    - Non-ACM members:   $55
    - Students (ACM or not):   $15

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* Keynote Speech 1:

	Edward Chang, director of research at Google/Beijing

	      Challenges of and Remedies for Large-scale 
		   Multimedia Information Retrieval
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Francesco Guerra | 1 Jun 17:37
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[Dbworld] Call for papers - DBISP2P 2007 - Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing

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***** CALL FOR PAPERS ******

Fifth International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems 
and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P 2007)

http://dbisp2p.ingce.unibo.it/

to be held at VLDB 2007
33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases

24 September 2007 
University of Vienna, Austria

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THE SCOPE

The aim of the workshop is to explore the promise of P2P to offer exciting new possibilities in distributed
information processing and database technologies. The realization of these promises lies
fundamentally in the availability of enhanced services such as structured ways for classifying and
registering shared information, verification and certification of information, content distributed
schemes and quality of content, security features, information discovery and accessibility,
interoperation and composition of active information services, and finally market-based mechanisms
to allow cooperative and non cooperative information exchanges. The P2P paradigm lends itself to
constructing large scale complex, adaptive, autonomous and heterogeneous database and information
systems, endowed with clearly specified and differential capabilities to negotiate, bargain,
coordinate and self-organi
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Xingquan Zhu | 1 Jun 20:19
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[Dbworld] CFP: KDD 2007 Workshop on Mining MultipleInformationSources (MMIS)


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Last Call for Papers

 KDD 2007 Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS)
 http://www.cse.fau.edu/~xqzhu/mmis/kdd07_mmis.html

Manuscript Submission: June 4, 2007

The aim of this workshop is to bring together data mining experts to revisit the problem of pattern
discovery from multiple information sources, and identify and synthesize current needs for such
purposes. Representative questions to be addressed include but are not limited to:

+ Mining from heterogeneous information sources
+ Data integration and data warehousing
+ Multiple information sources management
+ Local pattern analysis and fusion
+ Global pattern synthesizing and assessment
+ Inter pattern discovery and comparison
+ Distributed and high-performance data mining
+ Stream data mining algorithms
+ Mining domain specific multiple information sources
+ Security and privacy issues in multiple information sources
+ Interactive data mining systems

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Paper Types
We solicit two types of papers: Regular paper and Short paper (4 pages for short paper and about 8 pages for
regular papers inclusive of all references and figures, however, papers up to 12 pages will also be
reviewed and included in proceedings).
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Erik Duval | 1 Jun 22:53
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[Dbworld] WWWrong: What Went Wrong? What Went Right?

WWWrong: What Went Wrong? What Went Right?
Exchanging Experiences in Technology Enhanced Learning

Call for Participation
17 or 18 September 2007, Crete, Greece
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/mediawiki/index.php/What_Went_Wrong07

To be held at EC-TEL 2007
2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, (http://www.ectel07.org/)

You are invited to submit a position papers of 3 to 6 pages or a full paper of no more than 10 pages.

DEADLINES
Initial submission: 8th July 2007.
Notification of acceptance: 18th July 2007.
Final Submission: 8th August 2007.

WORKSHOP SCOPE
Underlying this workshop is our belief that:
* Learning from our mistakes is essential if we are to benefit from hard learned lessons. 
* Unexpected benefits found in the jaws of failure may only emerge if we engage in risky behaviors.
* Risky behavior implies that sometimes, some things will go wrong.
* Communal wisdom needs to be shared, not just the good things, but also the pitfalls

What Went Wrong?
Most conferences and workshops report on success stories only. Make your contribution to our collective
wisdom by sharing tales and analysis of problems and pitfalls. This workshop is designed to be an
opportunity for learning, sharing and collective problem solving. If the Technology Enhanced Learning
(TEL) community is to flourish and make progress then we need to be prepared to share tales of our
disasters, how we recovered from them, and how to avoid repeating our mistakes in the future.
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Martin Ester | 2 Jun 01:34
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[Dbworld] SIGMOD 2008 in Vancouver, Canada

ACM SIGMOD Conference: Vancouver, 2008

The annual ACM SIGMOD conference is a leading international forum for database researchers,
practitioners, developers, and users to exchange ideas and results. We invite submissions of original
research contributions, case studies, and industrial papers, as well as proposals for demonstrations
and tutorials.  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.

SIGMOD 2008 will be hosted in Vancouver, Canada from June 9 - 12, 2008. The conference website has just gone
live and provides all detailed information at http://www.sigmod08.org.

Areas of Interest

Benchmarking and performance evaluation 
Case studies that reveal research challenges 
Data quality, semantics and integration 
Database monitoring and tuning 
Data privacy and security 
Data mining and machine learning 
Database tuning 
Decision support on large data sets 
Embedded, sensor and mobile databases 
Indexing 
Managing uncertain and imprecise information 
Novel/Advanced applications, systems, and platforms 
Peer-to-peer and networked data management 
Personalized information systems 
Query processing and optimization 
Replication, caching, and publish-subscribe systems 
Semi-structured data
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Taro Tezuka | 2 Jun 05:03
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[Dbworld] [Deadline approaching] CFP: Web and Wireless GIS 2007 (W2GIS07)

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W2GIS 2007 Call for Papers

7th International Symposium on 
Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems 

http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/w2gis2007

November 28 - 29, 2007
University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, UK

The recent advances on the developments of Wireless and Internet technologies have generated increasing
interest in the diffusion and processing of geo-referenced data. Wireless and Internet devices also
offer new ways of accessing and analyzing geo-spatial information. Consequently, new challenges and
opportunities have been provided to the GIS research community.

This Symposium is intended to provide an up-to-date review of advances in recent development of Web and
Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS). It is the 7th in a series of successful events
beginning with Kyoto 2001, with the most recent event held in Hong Kong 2006. We invite submissions that
address both theoretical and technical issues of W2GIS. Reports on implementations are particularly
welcome.  Suggested topics include, but are not limited to as long as they address issues related to W2GIS: 

*	Conceptual and logical models for W2GIS 
*	Data management and data retrieval methods 
*	Geographical search engines and web services
*	Digital geographical libraries 
*	W2GIS query languages and interfaces 
*	2D and 3D information visualization 
*	Exploratory cartography and interfaces
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Markus Kirchberg | 2 Jun 05:56
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[Dbworld] APCCM 2008: Call for Papers


                     C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
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          Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling

                             (APCCM 2008)

      January 22-25, 2008 -- Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

                        http://2008.apccm.org/

The Asia-Pacific Conferences on Conceptual Modelling provide an annual
forum for disseminating the results of innovative research in
information modelling and related areas.
The fifth conference of the series will be held in early 2008 as part
of the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2008), which also
includes the following conferences, symposia and workshops:

    * The Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC);
    * The Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE);
    * The Australasian Database Conference (ADC);
    * Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium (CATS);
    * The Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC);
    * The Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and Research
      (AUSGRID);
    * The Australasian Workshop on Health Knowledge Management
      Discovery (HKMD); and
    * The Australasian Information Security Workshop (AISW).
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