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Wei Jiang | 1 May 2008 04:01
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[Dbworld] 2nd-CFP: PinKDD'08 (with Revised Deadlines)

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              Second ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on
                 Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD
                              (PinKDD'08)
                 August 24th, 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA
                URL: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/pinkdd08/

       full-day workshop at ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
            Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD'08)

                         CALL FOR PAPERS

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Important dates
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o 5/30/2008:  Submission deadline
o 6/27/2008:  Author notification
o 7/07/2008:  Submission of Camera-ready papers
o 8/24/2008:  Full-day Workshop

Brief Description
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The field of computer science is evolving to incorporate intrinsically complex social, organizational,
and political environments in which computers are situated. Nowhere is this more apparent, and the
influence of data mining professionals more critical, than in the often debated arenas of privacy,
security, and trust. There is an ever-increasing demand for the incorporation of new technologies to
gather data on people for a variety of worthwhile endeavors. Data mining methodologies provide an
excellent framework to assist data holders, such as security and surveillance officials, to sort
through the data deluge and discover useful nuggets of intelligence. At the same time, the application of
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Kim mucheol | 1 May 2008 09:36
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[Dbworld] CFP:NWeSP2008+Web+IEEE Press+June14


NWeSP 2008: 4th International Conference on Next Generation of Web Services 

http://nwesp.org

October 20-22, Seoul, Korea 

Publication: IEEE Computer Society 
Additional Publication: Selected papers will be invited to IJWSP and a few other journals. 

CALL FOR PAPERS

GENERAL INFORMATION 

Topics of interest include all areas of Web Services and Web Applications. Poster
session, workshops, and cultural events are planned. 

Topics 
Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design 
Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation , merging, linking and reconciliation) 
Database Technologies for Web Services 
Web Services Security 
Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance 
User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling 
Customization, Reusability, Enhancements 
Web Services Standards 
Web Services Applications 
Web Based Applications 
Information Retrieval 
Web Services Intellectual Property
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Jie LIU | 1 May 2008 14:39
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[Dbworld] SKG 2008: Call for Papers

SKG 2008 Call for Papers
International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid 2008
December 4-5, 2008, Beijing, China 
http://www.knowledgegrid.net 

SKG is a cross-area international forum on semantic computing, knowledge networking, and grid
computing. It promotes cross-area research and pushes the development of relevant areas. Themes
include but not limited to the following: 
(1) Web Semantics and Semantic Grid 
?Semantic Web ?Semantic Search and Query ?Semantic Link Network ?Semantic Normalization ?Semantic
Interoperability ?Semantic Visualization and modeling ?Semantic Web Mining ?Semantic Brokering
?Semantic-based Interface ?Automatic Semantic Annotation ?Semantic Web Services ?Theory and Model of
Semantic Grid ?Ontology ?Web2.0 ?Semantic P2P ?Rich Media Semantics 

(2) Knowledge Web and Knowledge Grid
?Web knowledge representation and Reasoning ?Semantic Knowledge Portal ?Web Knowledge Discovery
?Knowledge Discovery ?Theory and Model of Knowledge Grid ?Large-Scale Distributed Knowledge
Management ?Ontology Information/Knowledge/Service Integration ?Knowledge Flow ?Internet-based
Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering 

(3) Advanced Networking Model
?Resource Management Model in Grid ?Internet-based Multi-agent Systems ?Nature-Inspired Computing ?
Autonomous Computing ?Internet-based Intelligent Applications ?P2P Computing ?Grid Computing
?Self-Organized Intelligence ?Service-oriented Computing ?Mobile Grid ?Social Network ?Community
Discovery 

(4) Systems, Tools and Applications
?Semantic-based Virtual Organizations ?e-culture ?e-Science ?e-Business ?e-Learning ?e-Government
?Grid Security ?Sensor networks and Grid applications
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Sabine Graf | 1 May 2008 17:47
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[Dbworld] CFP: Special Issue on Intelligent and Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems

[Apologies for cross-postings! Please forward this e-mail to people who might be interested in this
special issue.]

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

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: July 1, 2008

SPECIAL ISSUE ON INTELLIGENT AND ADAPTIVE WEB-BASED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS, 
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEB-BASED LEARNING AND TEACHING TECHNOLOGIES

Guest Editors: Fuhua Lin, Sabine Graf, Kinshuk, Rory McGreal

INTRODUCTION:
Providing learners with an environment that reacts intelligently to the usersÂ’ needs and incorporates
their individual characteristics for presenting suitable information and learning material helps to
support learners and makes learning easier for them. Such systems can incorporate, for example, the
prior knowledge, preferences, learning goals, learning styles, and cognitive abilities of learners. 

Web-based educational systems based on learning management systems (LMS) such as WebCT, Blackboard, and
Moodle are commonly and successfully used in distance learning. They provide a variety of features to
support teachers and course developers to create and manage their online courses. However, at current
stage, such environments provide very little, or in most cases, neither intelligent support nor
adaptivity at all.  

This special issue aims to focus on how intelligent support and adaptive features can be integrated in
currently used systems as well as on how intelligent and adaptive Web-based educational systems can be
improved in order to provide a better learning environment for learners. 

The need arise for smart learning environments that offer personal services in the whole cycle of
education, from counselling, to academic advising, to program planning, to collaborative learning, to
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Matt Mouley Bouamrane | 1 May 2008 21:33
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[Dbworld] ONTOLOGIES IN INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS WORKSHOP, ONTORACT'08 CFP


  FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ONTOLOGIES IN INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS
  ONTORACT'08
  https://www.cs.tcd.ie/ontoract08/

  held in conjunction with HCI 2008, 1st of September 2008, Liverpool, U.K.  
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  CALL FOR PAPER:

Scope of the workshop

The aim of ONTORACT'08, First International Workshop on using Ontologies in Interactive Systems,
is to stage a multi-disciplinary event, bringing together researchers and application developers 
from a variety of disciplines, but who all have in common the use of ontologies as an essential part of 
managing user interaction and interactive systems.

Topics of interest, include but are not limited to:

    * Ontologies for accessibility and assistive technology
    * Ontologies for digital inclusion of elderly and special need users
    * Ontologies for user modelling, adaptation and personalisation
    * Ontologies for multimodal interaction
    * Ontologies in web applications
    * Ontologies in pervasive environment
    * Ontologies in Intelligent transport systems
    * Ontologies in healthcare
    * Ontologies and tutoring and dialogue systems
    * Ontologies and recommender systems
    * Ontologies for information retrieval
    * Various applications of ontologies in interactive systems
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Nikos Manouselis | 1 May 2008 21:56
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[Dbworld] Last CfP: Special Issue on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics

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Final Call: Special Issue on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
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OVERVIEW

A common vision that may serve as an enabler for sustainable development, 
environmental preservation, and fighting hunger in the world, is the 
involvement, collaboration and coordination of activities dealing with 
the production, organisation and exchange of agricultural knowledge. 
Numerous technical and subject experts are working on related topics, 
tackling with issues such as classifications & taxonomies, controlled 
vocabularies, thesauri, authority files, glossaries, metadata 
specifications and their application profiles, as well as 
ontology-driven applications. 

The general aim of this special issue is to assess the current status 
and technologies, as well as to outline the major challenges and future 
perspectives, related to agricultural knowledge production, organization, 
and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective. It aims to provide an 
overview of the state of the art in this field, by including a wide 
range of interdisciplinary contributions. Overall, it aims to outline 
the rich potential of the agricultural knowledge domain as an 
application field for advanced metadata- and semantic-driven systems 
and services.

TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Jie LIU | 2 May 2008 00:44
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[Dbworld] Call for Papers: International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid 2008

SKG 2008 Call for Papers
International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid 2008
December 4-5, 2008, Beijing, China 
http://www.knowledgegrid.net 

SKG is a cross-area international forum on semantic computing, knowledge networking, and grid
computing. It promotes cross-area research and pushes the development of relevant areas. 
Themes include but not limited to the following: 

(1) Web Semantics and Semantic Grid 
Semantic Web
Semantic Search and Query
Semantic Link Network
Semantic Normalization
Semantic Interoperability
Semantic Visualization and modeling
Semantic Web Mining
Semantic Brokering
Semantic-based Interface
Automatic Semantic Annotation
Semantic Web Services
Theory and Model of Semantic Grid
Ontology
Web2.0
Semantic P2P
Rich Media Semantics 

(2) Knowledge Web and Knowledge Grid
Web knowledge representation and Reasoning
Semantic Knowledge Portal
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Sandra de Amo | 2 May 2008 01:09
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[Dbworld] SBBD 2008 - Extended deadline

 CALL FOR PAPERS

23rd  BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON DATABASES

 Promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)  

            Campinas / SP – Brazil

             13 - 15  October 2008

        http://sbbdes.ic.unicamp.br/

**Important Dates**

Paper Registration :    ***Extended Deadline***  May 05, 2008     https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/
Paper Submission :      ***Extended Deadline***  May 12, 2008
Authors Notification :  July 18, 2008
Camera Ready due :    August 08, 2008

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Overview
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SBBD is the official database event of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBBD). It has been the largest venue in
Latin America for presentation and discussion of research results in the database domain. In its 23rd edition,
the symposium will be held in the city of Campinas, in the state of São Paulo, Southeast of Brazil, in
October 
13-15. 

SBBD joins researchers, students and practitioners, from Brazil and abroad, for discussing problems
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Georgia Koutrika | 2 May 2008 01:32
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[Dbworld] CFP: VLDB'08 Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management and Context Awareness in DBs


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                             CALL FOR PAPERS
           First International Workshop on "Personalized Access, 
          Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases"

                              (PersDB 2008)

     in conj. with VLDBÂ’08, 24-30 August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand
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          Submission deadline:  June 01,   2008 
          Workshop date:        August 23, 2008
          URL:                  http://persdb08.stanford.edu/

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Proliferation of database-driven web sites has brought upon a plethora of applications 
where different notions of user and context information are of paramount importance. 
Monitoring and trading stock portfolios, blog aggregation and news notification, dataset 
sharing, weather tracking, and even simple search are just a few examples of applications 
that can all be personalized based on usersÂ’ individual or social profiles and can be 
affected by their operational context, which may include the location, time, and other 
features of their environment. The trend towards more user-centric, personalized, 
and context-aware database systems requires new models and techniques able to provide users 
with the 'right information' at the 'right time' in the 'right place' 
and may affect database system functionality at several levels: designing the user interface,
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Eduard Bartl | 2 May 2008 04:38
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[Dbworld] 4th Call For Papers CLA 2008

Dear Colleague, 

Please find enclosed a Call For Papers for CLA 2008, 
the Sixth International Conference on 

Concept Lattices and Their Applications. 

The CFP is also available at 
http://cla2008.inf.upol.cz/cfp.html. 

Sincerely, 
CLA 2008 Organization Commitee

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                The Sixth International Conference on

               Concept Lattices and Their Applications

                           will be held in:

                       Olomouc, Czech Republic
                         October 21-23, 2008

CLA 2008 is jointly organized by Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech
Republic and State University of New York at Binghamton, USA

What is CLA?

CLA is an international conference dedicated to formal concept
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