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Ki-Joune Li | 1 Dec 01:12

[Dbworld] [Deadline Extended to Dec. 14, 2008] Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness

Call for Papers - ISA 2009
The First International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness
in conjunction with MDM 2009
http://stem.cs.pnu.edu/isa2009
May 18, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan
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With the rapid progress of location based services, GIS, and 
ubiquitous computing technologies, the space that we are dealing 
with is no longer limited to outdoor space but being extended 
to indoor space. Indoor spaces has some differences from outdoor 
space, therefore to provide integrated spaces and seamless services, 
it is required to establish new theories, data models, and systems. 
For this reason, research has begun to extend the scope of LBS 
and GIS to indoor space for the applications such as indoor navigation 
services, indoor LBS and indoor GIS. This workshop is therefore 
intended to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners 
carrying out research and development related to the topic of indoor 
spatial awareness and to provide a forum for interdisciplinary 
discussions in all aspects of indoor spatial awareness.

Topics of Interest: The topics of workshop include (but not limited) 
the following:
 - indoor spatial data models,
 - handling moving objects in indoor space,
 - tracking and navigation in indoor space,
 - indexing and query processing of indoor spatial databases,
 - construction of indoor spatial databases,
 - context-awareness in indoor space,
 - indoor space analysis,
 - indoor spatial data mining,
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Dion Goh | 1 Dec 01:41
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[Dbworld] PhD Scholarships Available

PhD Scholarships Available

Applications are invited for PhD scholarships in mobile information sharing research at the Wee Kim Wee
School of Communication & Information at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Successful
candidates will have the opportunity to work on a cutting-edge mobile interactive digital media project
that involves gameplay and information sharing. Potential areas of research include:

* Mobile game design and development for information sharing
* User interface design and evaluation
* Modeling mobile information seeking
* Mobile data management
* Information retrieval and mining techniques
* Mobility and management of information systems
* Social, psychological and organizational impact studies

Ideal candidates would have a good Master's degree in computer science, information systems,
information science, or fields relevant to the above research areas. They should have good
communication skills in English and be motivated to carry out research in one or more of the above areas.
They should also preferably have some mobile applications development and/or data analysis
experience. GRE scores are also required for candidates whose degrees are not awarded from a
Singapore-based university.

Scholarships are available for the August 2009 semester. Successful candidates will be awarded a
four-year scholarship plus a monthly stipend. For more information about the graduate programs at the
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, please visit: http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/sci/graduate/grad_programmes.html

Potential applicants should send a CV with publication list and academic transcripts to Dr Dion Goh at ashlgoh@...

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Guilin Qi | 1 Dec 09:57
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[Dbworld] 2nd CFP: AMAI Special Issue on Commonsense Reasoning for the Semantic Web

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2nd Call for paper
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Journal of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI)
Special Issue on Commonsense Reasoning for the Semantic Web
(https://logic.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/wiki/AMAI_special_issue_on_commmonsense_reasoning_in_the_semantic_web)
Editor-in-Chief: Martin Charles Golumbic (University of Haifa,
Israel)

Guest Editors

Frank van Harmelen, Vrije University Amsterdam (Frank.van.Harmelen@...)
Andreas Herzig, IRIT-CNRS (herzig@...)
Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe (hitzler@...)
Guilin Qi, University of Karlsruhe (gqi@...)

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Semantic Web Technologies provide concepts, architectures, and tools
for interconnected vocabularies and applications. One of the declared
goals of Semantic Web research is to enable intelligent software
agents to reason about information and knowledge which is pervaded on
the Web. To achieve this goal, a challenging and important problem is
to represent commonsense knowledge on the Web and to reason with it.
Indeed, commonsense reasoning is a central part of human behaviour,
and how to endow computers with common sense capabilities is one of
the major long-term goals of Artificial Intelligence research and is
therefore also relevant to the realization of the ambitious Semantic
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Georg Peters | 1 Dec 10:02
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[Dbworld] Business and Industrial Applications of Rough Sets

Call for Book Chapters

Business and Industrial Applications of Rough Sets

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Since its introduction by Pawlak in the early 1980's Rough Set
Theory has gained increasing attention among academics and in
industry. Today Rough Sets has become an important concept in
the fields of Granular and Soft Computing.

The objective of the book Business and Industrial Applications
of Rough Sets is to provide a comprehensive state-of-the-art
survey of applications of Rough Sets in industry and business.

The target audiences are industry people who are interested in
the potential of Rough Sets to support their businesses.
Therefore, the book will be written in an industry like style
that is backed by sound theory. It is planned that the book
should consist of about ten chapters of roughly 20 pages each.

Possible topics and fields of applications of Rough Sets
include but are not limited to:

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Foundations of Rough Sets
Business and Management Science
  - Business Process Management
  - Data Warehousing
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MILTIADIS LYTRAS | 1 Dec 11:04
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[Dbworld] 1st CFP: 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society - Submissions open

SECOND WORLD SUMMIT ON THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/summit.htm

SUBMISSIONS OPEN: 
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=wsks2009

For regular updates join our group: 
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=36329664439&ref=nf

Important Dates

Submission of papers for LNCS/CCIS Springer Proceedings: 12th February 2009

Notification to authors: 10th March 2009

Camera ready papers: 24th April 2009

Conference Days: 16-18 September 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

All the papers selected for publication in the Main Track and the relevant minitracks will be 
invited for extended version publications to Special Issues with identical special theme in 
one of 17 SPONSORING INTERANTIONAL FULL PEER REVIEWED Journals (10 NON ISI AND 7 
ISI SCI/SSCI LISTED JOURNALS]

TRACK 1: Information Technologies - Knowledge Management Systems - E-business & 
Business, Organizational and Inter-organizational Information Systems for the Knowledge 
Society
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Francesco Bonchi | 1 Dec 12:07
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[Dbworld] WSDM'09: ten student grants available

WSDM'09 Gold Supporters are offering 10 grants for students willing to attend 
to the  conference next February in Barcelona. 

The 10 grant winners will receive:
* free registration for the conference and the satellite workshops
* 250 USD cash

All Ph.D. students interested in Web Search and Data Mining can apply.

To apply send, no later than December 15th, an e-mail to 
contact@... 
containing:
* your CV, containing your research topic, advisor, list of publications, etc.
* 1-page statement about why you wish to attend WSDM'09 

The winners will be notified by e-mail and their names published on the 
conference webpage.
We're looking forward to receive your applications.
Please find below the conference call for participation.

                           Call For Participation

		   Second ACM International Conference on 
                   Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2009
    		   February 9-12, 2009, Barcelona, Spain

	   Co-Sponsored by ACM SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGMOD and SIGWEB 

               *Early registration deadline: 7th January 2009*
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Jia Hu | 1 Dec 12:13

[Dbworld] CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2009 (Milano, Italy)

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         IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2009
                  CALL FOR PAPERS
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2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-09)

September 15-18, 2009, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy

http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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# (Papers Due: *** 10 April 2009 ***
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
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WI 2009 will provide a leading international forum of scientific
research and development to explore the fundamental interactions
between AI-engineering and Advanced Information Technology 
(e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and
data/knowledge grids), and their role on the next generation of
Web-empowered products, Web systems and services.  AI-engineering
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Christian Kop | 1 Dec 12:27
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[Dbworld] Call for Papers: ONTOSE 2009

I apologize if you receive this message more than once!
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ONTOSE 2009 

Workshop on Ontology, Conceptualization and Epistemology for 
Information Systems, Software Engineering and Service Science

June 8, 2009, Amsterdam

(in conjunction with CAiSE 2009)

http://conf.ifit.uni-klu.ac.at/ontose/

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline:  February 16, 2009  
Notification of authors:  March 23, 2009  
Camera ready papers:  April 10, 2009  

AIMS, SCOPE AND TOPICS

In our society which has already turned to a service providing society, the technical aspects as well as the
human, social and economic aspects must be considered together. This has already resulted in
considerable research on these aspects that are related to disciplines like Information Systems,
Software Engineering and Service Science, as for example, how empirical research should be conducted,
what are the conditions for "valid" knowledge, and which the scope of theories in these fields are. These
are elements that are of interest from perspectives as diverse as philosophy, engineering and
technology. For example, the material and temporal entities that are dealt with in the field are a matter
of ontology, and the conditions for credibility of statements and research methods are a matter of
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Flavius Frasincar | 1 Dec 13:20
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[Dbworld] CFP: WISM 2009 <at> CAiSE 2009 Sixth International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling

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Paper submission                 15 February 2009
Author notification              15 March 2009
Camera-ready paper submission    01 April 2009
Workshop date                    08 June 2009

Theme of the Workshop
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Matteo Golfarelli | 1 Dec 13:40
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[Dbworld] 2nd CFP: miproBIS - Business Intelligent Systems

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS (miproBIS)

(in conjunction with 32st International Convention MIPRO)

May 25 – 29, 2008
Opatija, Adriatic Coast, Croatia

The term Business intelligence (BI) refers to applications and technologies used to gather, provide
access to, and analyze data and information about company operations in order to help them to have a more
comprehensive knowledge of the factors affecting their business. BI systems usually lean on data
warehouses (DWs) to guarantee an easy and quick access to information. The widespread deployment of
these systems is making users more and more demanding in terms of applications, types of analysis and
performances; on the other hand ten years of research in the data warehousing field paved the way for new
applications that goes beyond traditional OLAP analysis and concern real-time, spatiotemporal as well
as distributed data. Furthermore, BI research is now dealing with the integration of BI with Corporate
Performance Management (CPM), balanced scorecards, and Business Process Management (BPM).

Like the previous successful editions, miproBIS 2008 provides an international forum where both
researchers and practitioners can share their findings and practical experiences in the field of BI. In
particular, besides submissions in traditional DW and OLAP topics, we encourage papers concerning
emerging research topics and applications in the DW, OLAP and BI area. 

The SCOPE of the conference includes, but is not limited to:

- Data warehouse design and schema evolution
- Multidimensional modelling and queries
- Data warehousing consistency and quality
- Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
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