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SABU m thampi | 1 Aug 07:04
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[Dbworld] CFP -IWAP2PT'09


International Workshop on Advances in 
Peer-to-Peer Technology - IWAP2PT’09
(http://www.iwap2pt09.org)

Co-located with 

Third International Conference on Internet Multimedia Systems Architecture and Applications
(IMSAA-09) 
(http://www.imsaa.org)

Technically sponsored by 

IEEE COMSOC Bangalore Chapter

Dates: 9-11 December 2009, Bangalore

Call for Papers

    The enduring digital insurrection has brought on the appearance of new network applications intended to
speed up worldwide sharing of information. The applications have embraced the well-known peer-to-peer
(P2P) technology in innovative ways, eternally altering the world of personal computing. P2P
systems—an alternative to conventional client–server systems— mostly support applications that
offer file sharing and content exchange like music, movies, etc. The concept has also been effectively
employed for high performance computing, Internet-based telephony etc. The unanticipated growth in
popularity of P2P systems has raised a number of significant problems. This situation has led
academicians and industry people towards stupendous research in the field. 

     The objective of International Workshop on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Technology - IWAP2PT’09 is to bring
together researchers and practitioners in the areas of P2P computing, and to provide an opportunity to
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Isabel Cruz | 1 Aug 23:01
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[Dbworld] Postdoctoral position in data management and security at UIC

Postdoctoral Research Associate
ADVIS Lab, Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago

The ADVIS Lab in the Department of Computer Science at the University
of Illinois at Chicago has a Postdoctoral Research Associate position
starting as early as September 1, 2009.

Candidates should have a strong research record in data management
with publications in highly competitive venues. Candidates with data
security background are especially encouraged to apply.

For further information and online application instructions, see: 

http://www.cs.uic.edu/bin/view/Advis/Positions

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Haipeng Wang | 2 Aug 07:52
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[Dbworld] smart home, healthcare, pervasive computing

                Apologies for multiple copies of this CFP
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                       C A LL   F O R   P A P E R S

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         Second International Workshop on Smart Homes for Tele-Health             
              website- http://myweb.dal.ca/naslam/smartel-09             

In conjunction with The 8th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and
          Computing (PICOM 2009), Chengdu, China, December 12-14, 2009                 
                      www.cs.iupui.edu/~ydai/Picom09/
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Important Dates
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Submission deadline	August 30, 2009
Authors Notification	September 30, 2009
Final Manuscript	October 15, 2009

Description
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Due to recent advancement in electronics industry, our homes can be equipped with 
smart devices that can monitor a patient's vital signs and other useful information. 
The patient information can be locally processed and automatically transmitted to 
the relevant health-care staff, or they can be handled locally in the homes. These 
smart devices can assist in knowledge extraction and filtering the unwanted data. 
The quality of current health care system can be significantly improved by using 
these smart devices.

Topics
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Prasenjit Mitra | 2 Aug 09:07
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[Dbworld] Postdoctoral Position at the Pennsylvania State University Intelligent Information Systems Laborator

Postdoctoral Position at the Pennsylvania State University 
	Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory
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The Pennsylvania State University is seeking outstanding postdoctoral candidates to join the
Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory (http://iis.ist.psu.edu/) at the College of Information
Sciences and Technology. The position is available immediately and will remain so until filled. The
researcher will be involved in pursuing research and mentoring students in the ChemXSeer project
(http://chemxseer.ist.psu.edu/) funded by the National Science Foundation.  The project involves
research on information and knowledge extraction, indexing and mining from text and images, mediated
information integration, database systems and ontology-based interoperation, social network
analysis, and knowledge management for chemistry and chemists and related areas. 

Required skills for all positions include a strong record of technical excellence and achievement as
demonstrated through publications, presentations at national and international meetings, and
research in relevant discipline like database systems, data and text mining, information retrieval,
web information systems, machine learning, digital libraries, natural language processing, pattern
recognition, semantic web, document analysis and processing, computational linguistics, etc. The
applicant must possess prior experience in software development and the ability to design and perform
experiments to validate research hypotheses. The applicant must have demonstrated strong written
communication skills. The candidate must be self-directed and have the ability and willingness to
mentor Ph.D. students working in the project. Prior experience in a team-oriented technical research
atmosphere is desirable. 

The position does fully focuses on research with no expectation of teaching. The objective of this
position is to enhance the researcher’s skills and record for a placement in a leading university or
research laboratory at the end of the post-doctoral fellowship (typically in two years) 
Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related
area.
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Symeon Retalis | 2 Aug 09:30
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[Dbworld] Participate to the ECTEL'09 IdSpace workshop - Registration Open

Workshop on 
Methods & Tools for Computer Supported Collaborative Creativity Process: Linking creativity & informal
learning 

Nice, September 29-30, 2009 

within the EC-TEL 2009 conference

The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from R&D groups that work in the area of computer
supported collaborative creativity process, and want to contribute to the discussion, validation, and
dissemination of useful methods and tools in this area. Selected papers by known researchers will be
presented that address one or more of the following relevant topics: 

* Design of collaborative creativity support tools that are based on methods and strategies that help
distributed group members collaborate for developing innovative products (e.g. SCAMPER, Six Hats,
Jigsaw) 

* Research methods to evaluate the usability of collaborative creativity support tools 

* Computer supported creativity processes in specific domains 

* Assessment framework of collaborative creativity processes. 

The main emphasis in this workshop will be given to plenary discussion about the maturity of the processes,
the tools as well as about what is needed for supporting creativity and innovation in industrial
environments. 

Register now to participate to this workshop!

The workshop is organised as part of the idSpace project on Tooling and Training for collaborative product
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Dimka Karastoyanova | 3 Aug 15:16
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[Dbworld] CfP: Workshop on Monitoring, Adaptation and Beyond (MONA+09) at ICSoC&ServiceWave 2009

            CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
            
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  Workshop on Monitoring, Adaptation and Beyond (MONA+09)

  A Workshop held at the Joint ICSOC&ServiceWave 2009 Conference
                 23 or 24/11/2009
                 Stockholm, Sweden
        http://www.s-cube-network.eu/MONA2
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Objectives
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The advances in modern technology and the constantly evolving requirements implied by dynamic business
and operational environments impose new challenges for engineering and provisioning Service Based
Applications (SBAs). SBAs have to become drastically more flexible; they should be able to operate and
evolve in highly dynamic environments and to adequately identify and react to various changes in these
environments. In such a setting, adaptation becomes a key capability of SBAs as it enables these
applications to continuously change themselves in order to satisfy new requirements and demands
dictated by the environment. The ability of the application to adapt relies on the presence of monitoring
mechanisms and facilities to identify, detect, and even predict critical events and situations that
occur in the SBA environment.

A variety of approaches and techniques addressing different forms of monitoring and adaptation have been
proposed to date. Still, for delivering robust, dependable, and highly adaptable SBAs the definition of
holistic approaches is crucial. This requires the integration of the efforts of researchers from
various disciplines and research areas. More specifically, this requires the integration across the
different layers of an SBA, including the business layer, the service layer, the infrastructure layer,
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Yuki Arase | 3 Aug 10:06
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[Dbworld] FCP: 3rd International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Information Retrieval (MoMIR2009)

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline Extended)

Third International Workshop on ?Mobile Multimedia Information Retrieval  (MoMIR 2009),
December 14-16, 2009?. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
In conjunction with 7th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2009)
http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~tjondron/MoMIR2009.html

Abstract
The rapid expansion of digital multimedia data delivered on new generation mobile devices, such as PDA,
smart phones, and portable audiovisual player, has created new challenges for more effective content
retrieval anywhere at anytime.

MoMIR workshop is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Mobile Computing and
Multimedia. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an international forum for researchers,
students, professionals, and experts from academia and industry to present new research results,
exchange ideas, and discussion on future challenges in multimedia information retrieval on mobile and
wireless platforms.

Topics of interest
We are soliciting original papers that address a range of issues in multimedia information retrieval on
mobile and wireless platforms including, but not limited to:
* Content-based indexing, search and retrieval of multimedia data, particularly for mobile applications.
* Retrieval models, query language and query processing for mobile multimedia access.
* Summarization, content representation, and visualization of multimedia content for pervasive devices.
* Emerging architecture to enable seamless, smooth, and reliable multimedia streaming over wireless network.
* Interaction design (HCI) and user modeling in mobile multimedia settings.
* Personalization of multimedia contents for mobile contexts.
* Security issues and solutions for mobile multimedia retrieval.
* Multimedia data compression techniques to enable faster multimedia delivery in small and limited bandwidth.
* Emerging applications in mobile multimedia retrieval and collaboration.
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Michael Böhlen | 3 Aug 16:51
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[Dbworld] Faculty Position at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

The  Faculty of Computer Science  at the  Free  University  of  Bozen-
Bolzano (Italy)  invites applications  for a  Computer Science faculty
position. The position is at the level of full or associate professor,
starting  academic year  2010/2011.  The following  areas  of Computer
Science  will be  considered:  database systems,  foundations of data-
bases, data mining, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence,
computational logic, information search and retrieval.

The Faculty of Computer Science puts a strong emphasis on foundational
and  applied research,  on experience  in the development  of scalable
systems,  and  on  the co-operation  with  national and  international
research institutions and companies.  Candidates  should have a strong
research background and a commitment to teaching excellence,  and they
are  expected  to teach  both  introductory  and  advanced courses  in
Computer Science;  management skills  and  a strong record  of project
funding  from companies  and  other organisations  are desirable.  The
teaching language for the Computer Science courses is English.  Salary
and support  are negotiable  and  highly competitive  at  the European
level.

Only candidates that already hold at a university outside of Italy  an
academic position  equivalent  to  the one  they are applying for  may
express interest for the position - according to the Italian law about
"chiamata diretta".

The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano  was  founded in 1997  as a free,
state-recognised  university. As  a central-European,  internationally
oriented  educational establishment  it  acts  as an important  bridge
between the German and Italian  cultural and economic spheres. Most of
the teaching staff have an international professional background.  The
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Sriram Chellappan | 3 Aug 17:29
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[Dbworld] Call for Participation - SRDS 2009

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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                                 SRDS 2009
        28th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
          September 27-30, 2009, Niagara Falls, New York, USA.
                    http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/srds2009/

                    Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society
In Cooperation with: Microsoft Research, and University at Buffalo The State University of New York

                EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE:  August 31, 2009
    Register online at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/srds2009/registration.html

            CUT-OFF DATE FOR HOTEL AT THE CONFERENCE RATE: September 5, 2009
             Link to hotel: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/srds2009/travel.html

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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1. Simone Fischer-Huebner (Karlstad University, Sweden)
2. Yi-Min Wang (Microsoft Research, USA) 
3. Sajal Das (National Science Foundation, USA)

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WORKSHOPS
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James Joshi | 3 Aug 16:37
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[Dbworld] CollaborateCom '09 EXTENDED deadline

                   CollaborateCom 2009
  The 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing:
           Networking, Applications and Worksharing
              Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, 
     Create-Net and the Institute for Computer Sciences, 
	Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

   Crystal City, Washington D.C., USA, November 11-14, 2009

		EXTENDED DEADLINE: AGUST 7, 2009

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Awards: Best Paper Award / Student Travel Support
Special Issues: Special journal Issue in Springer MONET / Int'l
Journal of Cooperative Information System (IJCIS) (pending approval)
Proceedings: IEEE - inclusion in IEEE Xplore
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Over the last two decades, many organizations and individuals have
relied on electronic collaboration between distributed teams of
humans, computer applications, and/or autonomous robots to achieve
higher productivity and produce joint products that would have been
impossible to develop without the contributions of multiple
collaborators.  Technology has evolved from standalone tools, to open
systems supporting collaboration in multi-organizational settings, and
from general purpose tools to specialized collaboration grids. Future
collaboration solutions that fully realize the promises of electronic
collaboration require advancements in networking, technology and
systems, user interfaces and interaction paradigms, and interoperation
with application-specific components and tools.
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