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William Michener | 1 Apr 01:28
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[Dbworld] Job Ad: Director, Information Technology; University of New Mexico (DataONE)


Job Ad:

Director, Information Technology

The University of New Mexico -- DataONE (Observation Network for Earth)

The Office of the Vice President for Research seeks highly qualified candidates for the position of
Director of Information Technology for DataONEÑa distributed global data center for earth
observations, supporting the biological, environmental and earth sciences. The Director provides
overall leadership for the design of system architecture, cyberinfrastructure implementation, and
operations for the global data network. 

Applicants must possess an M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Library and Information Science, or the
Biological, Environmental, or Earth Sciences, plus demonstrated senior-level management experience
and outstanding knowledge of information system architecture and operation. Expertise in software and
systems engineering, Linux, modern programming languages, and open source development approaches is
essential. 

Salary is commensurate with experience, and a complete benefits package (including retirement,
health/dental/life/long-term care insurance, etc.) is available. A detailed announcement including
mandatory qualifications and application procedures can be obtained at the UNM Jobs website:
https://unmjobs.unm.edu.  Questions on application procedures may be addressed to The University of
New Mexico Human Resource Department at (505) 277-6947. 

A letter of interest (including a statement addressing the qualifications requirements), CV, and three
references must be received by close of business May 01, 2009.

The University of New Mexico is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.
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Yunmook Nah | 1 Apr 07:11

[Dbworld] EDB 2009 Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

The First International Conference on Emerging Databases (EDB 2009)

BEXCO Convention Center,  Busan, Korea, August 27-28, 2009.

Important Dates

May  15, 2009: 	Paper submission due date
June 26, 2009:	Decision Notification (electronic) 
July 24, 2009: 	Camera-ready copy due date & pre-registration due
Aug.  27-28, 2009: 	EDB 2009

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* Goals

The Emerging Database Conference series is an annual forum for exploring research, development, and 
novel applications of emerging database technologies. Using this forum, researchers and practitioners 
can exchange current issues and challenges and new technologies, and solutions. 

The First International Conference on Emerging Databases (EDB 2009) will be held at the BEXCO 
Convention Center in Busan, Korea. The EDB 2009 is organized by the Korea Database Society of 
KIISE(the Korean Institutes of Information Scientists and Engineers). The theme of EDB 2009, 
"Data Collecting, Intelligent & Real-time Responding, and Seamless Synchronized Services", 
marks the continued progress in database theory and practice, leading to greatly improved applications
in ubiquitous computing area.

Authors are invited to submit original and research papers addressing technical issues, solutions, 
and technologies in emerging database systems. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the
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Richard CHBEIR | 1 Apr 09:46
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[Dbworld] Postdoctoral position in Web-based and XML information retrieval


########################### Call For PostDoc Position ##########################

The Information and Image Based System Management research group at the
Laboratoire LE2I-CNRS (http://www.le2i.com)
is seeking excellent post doctoral candidates with strong background in
Web-based Technologies and/or distributed information systems
for a one year appointment starting by October 2009.

The prospective candidates must:
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* have a PhD (5 years or less) in Computer Science or equivalent degree.
* not have the French citizenship and have never worked in France
* have knowledge in the theoretical aspects of one or more of the following:
    - Web and XML databases
    - information retrieval and indexing

* have well-developed social skills directed to work in a team;
* have a good command of English (some knowledge of French is desirable, but not
required)

The position offers:
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* a full time (non renewable) appointment for a period of 12 months, starting by
October 2009
* about 2000 euros net monthly salary
* health and social security package (married candidate must seek extra heath
coverage for
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Alfredo Cuzzocrea | 1 Apr 11:11
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[Dbworld] Last CFP: 11th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2009)

DEADLINES EXTENDED: Due to numerous requests, the abstract and paper submission deadlines of DaWaK 2009 
are extended by 2 weeks until April 3, and April 10, respectively. 
These are hard deadlines and no more extensions will be given.

Call for Papers: 11th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2009)
Linz, Austria. Aug. 31 to Sept. 4, 2009 
http://www.dexa.org/dawak 

Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery has been widely accepted as a key technology for enterprises and
organisations 
to improve their abilities in data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge
from data. 
With the exponentially growing amount of information to be included in the decision making process, the
data to be 
considered becomes more and more complex in both structure and semantics. Consequently, the process of
retrieval and 
knowledge discovery from this huge amount of heterogeneous complex data builds the litmus-test for the
research in the area.
During the past years, the International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK)
has become one 
of the most important international scientific events to bring together researchers, developers and
practitioners to 
discuss latest research issues and experiences in developing and deploying data warehousing and
knowledge discovery 
systems, applications, and solutions. This year’s conference (DaWaK 2009), builds on this tradition of
facilitating 
the cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas, experience and potential research directions. DaWaK 2009
seeks to 
introduce innovative principles, methods, algorithms and solutions to challenging problems faced in
the development of
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Shyamanta M Hazarika | 1 Apr 12:23
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[Dbworld] Call For Chapters


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CALL FOR CHAPTERS

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Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15, 2009
Full Chapters Due:  May 30, 2009

Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Representation and Reasoning:
Trends and Future Directions

A book edited by Dr. Shyamanta M. Hazarika, Tezpur University, India

Introduction
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning is fast becoming an area of
increased focus within Computer Science research. While encoding
knowledge, one needs to appreciate that everyday spatial reasoning is
driven through qualitative abstractions rather than complete quantitative
knowledge a priori. This has led to the emerging discipline of Qualitative
Spatial Information Theory within Artificial Intelligence.
Space and time are inextricably linked. Reasoning about space often
involves reasoning about change in spatial configurations. Qualitative
Spatial Information Theory encompasses spatial as well as temporal
representation and reasoning. Qualitative spatio-temporal representation
and reasoning in general and formalizing spatial change in particular is
increasing becoming a core issue within Mobile Computing, GIS / Spatial
Information Systems, Databases, Computer Vision as well as Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining. The present book will give an overview of
current research in Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Representation and
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Dietmar Jannach | 1 Apr 13:30
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[Dbworld] CfP WI/IAT'09 Wks on Explicit Knowledge Models for Web Personalization and Adaptation

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     2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 

     WI/IAT'09 Workshop on Explicit Knowledge Models for
     Web Personalization and Adaptation 

     September, 15, 2009 - Milano, Italy
     http://ls13-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/kmwp09/
     Submission Deadline:  April 30, 2009

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In personalized web applications, different strategies for implementing 
the desired adaptive behavior are possible. Personalization can either be 
achieved by self-adaptation and learning based strategies, or through the 
interpretation of explicit knowledge models (for instance personalization 
rules or constraints).   

Learning-based and collaborative approaches are most widely used, 
especially in the Web context. However, in some domains the second 
option is more appropriate, for instance when initially not enough 
interaction data is available for learning, when the desired personalized 
behavior is too complex to be learned or when the personalization 
behaviour needs to be exhaustively validated. 

In the past, several forms of describing (or modeling) knowledge required 
for personalizing applications along the dimensions content, presentation, 
and structure have been proposed. Common techniques include rule-based 
systems, knowledge-based selection of predefined personalization 
strategies, finite-state automata and dialogue grammars for modeling
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Maurice van Keulen | 1 Apr 14:58
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[Dbworld] CFP 3rd VLDB workshop on Management of Uncertain Data (MUD)

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                      Call for Papers           
               3rd International Workshop
                           on
               Management of Uncertain Data
                          (MUD)

                 http://mud.cs.utwente.nl

               in conjunction with VLDB 2009
                 August 2009, Lyon, France

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         Submission deadline:  June 1st 2009
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The aim of the workshop on Management of Uncertain Data
is to provide a forum to share original ideas as well as
research results and practical development experiences
among researchers and application developers. In this
workshop we want to explore the various aspects of
uncertainty in data as well as techniques how to handle
them in the domain of databases. In particular, we are
interested in discussing the different kinds of uncertainty,
different models for uncertainty representation in databases,
techniques for querying and updating data involving uncertainty,
and the varying application areas in which handling uncertain
data is involved.

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Ioana Manolescu | 1 Apr 15:23
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[Dbworld] EDBT 2010 Preliminary Call for Papers

Preliminary call for papers

EDBT 2010 (13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology)

March 22-26, 2010
Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland
http://lbd.epfl.ch/EDBTICDT/

General Chair: 

Stefano Spaccapietra, EPFL, Switzerland
stefano.spaccapietra@...

Program Chair: 

Ioana Manolescu, INRIA, France
ioana.manolescu@...

Important Dates

Abstract submission     Sep. 8, 2009
Paper submission        Sep. 15, 2009
Demo paper submission   Sep. 15, 2009
Industrial paper submission     Sep. 15, 2009
Notification to Authors Dec. 8, 2009
Camera ready copy due   Jan. 10, 2009

Conference      March 22-26, 2010
Workshops       March 22, 2010
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Giuseppe Psaila | 1 Apr 16:55
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[Dbworld] FlexDBIST-09 Call for Papers: New Deadlines

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* Abstract Submission: April 16, 2009
* Paper Submission:    April 20, 2009
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Call for Papers

DEXA 2009 Fourth International Workshop on

Flexible Database and Information Systems Technology
(FlexDBIST-09)

Linz, Austria, August 31 - September 4, 2009

Workshop Web Site: http://flexdbist.unibg.it/

Aim and Scope
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Information systems are nowadays designed to deal with an incredible amount of data,
concerning every aspect of real life. Data are managed by heterogeneous (ibrid)
systems, i.e. systems employing diversified  techniques matured in distinct disciplines such as
information retrieval, data bases, spatial and geographical databases; concern heterogeneous
application domains from the most specialistic ones to the general purpose,
are structured in
heterogeneous data formats and hetherogeneous media; furthermore, distributed and semi-structured
(XML) or unstructured (textual) documents and geographic data are becoming important data sources for
enterprises and organizations .
Enterprises and organizations need to deal with such heterogeneous and
often very large volumes of data, which may also be uncertain, imprecise
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Mykola Pechenizkiy | 1 Apr 18:16
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[Dbworld] Final CFP (deadline extended Apr 8) KDDSB09: Knowledge Discovery and Decision Systems in Biomedicine

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (submission deadline extended: April 8, 2009)
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KDDSB09: Special Track on Knowledge Discovery and Decision Systems in Biomedicine (http://www.unicampus.it/KDDSB09/)

at IEEE CBMS 2009: 22th IEEE International Symposium on COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS

August 3-4, 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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The vast amount of data generated by biomedical devices or retrieved from archives motivates the
development of tools that are able to effectively and 
efficiently handle, analyse and make use of this data.

On the one side, data mining has become a popular and effective way of discovering new knowledge from large
and complex data sets, and particularly, 
medical data sets. Advances in data mining research and technology have made it possible to solve many
interesting problems in medical diagnostics and 
healthcare.

On the other side, computer-based systems supporting the medical decisions have attracted many research
efforts. These systems can pursue different 
objectives, such as pre-selecting the cases to be examined, serving as a second reader or working as a tool
for training and education of specialized 
medical personnel.
Currently, the development of versatile systems applicable to different working scenarios is a major
issue. Indeed, they call for careful design of 
data processing methods as wells as the definition of decision rules. To the same extent, the definition of
performance evaluation criteria is
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