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Kristen LeFevre | 1 Oct 01:24
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[Dbworld] SIGMOD 2010: 2nd Call for Papers


Below is the call for papers for SIGMOD 2010.  I would especially like to call your attention to the
deadlines, which are several weeks EARLIER this year than they have been in the past!

--- CALL FOR PAPERS: SIGMOD 2010 ---

The annual ACM SIGMOD conference is a leading international forum for database researchers,
practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange
techniques, tools, and experiences. We invite the submission of original research contributions and
industrial papers, as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, and panels. 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.

--- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---

General areas of interests include but are not limited to the following:

    * New programming models and languages to extend the DBMS ecosystem beyond traditional data and query models
    * Scalable Data Management on Cloud Computing Infrastructures
    * Data-centric approaches for effective management of large-scale data-centers
    * Innovative models, architectures, and algorithms for distributed and parallel data analytics
    * Energy-efficiency and power management issues in large-scale data processing environments
    * Database Management System and Algorithm Designs for emerging harwdware architectures: Multi-core
processors, larger on-chip caches, large inexpensive RAM, and flash memory
    * Data management applications (e.g., Web mashups, social networks, scientific databases, sensor networks)
    * Performance and scalability (e.g., indexing, hardware accelerators)
    * Application of Machine-learning and Data-mining techniques for autonomic database systems
    * Other aspects of modern information systems such as security, privacy, personalization, user
interfaces, etc.
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Yanbo WU | 1 Oct 03:38
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[Dbworld] final cfp : Special Issue on RFID Technology, Systems, and Applications

Special Issue on RFID Technology, Systems, and Applications

Journal of Network and Computer Applications
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jnca

Guest Editors

Michael Sheng, Sherali Zeadally, Katerina Mitrokotsa, Zakaria Maamar

1. Scope

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been around for more than half a century. It is only in recent
years that this technology has begun to attract a lot of attention, due to the convergence of lower cost and
increased capabilities of RFID tags. Currently, RFID is emerging as an important technology for
revolutionizing a wide range of applications including supply chain management, retail,
anti-counterfeiting, baggage handling, and healthcare. Many organizations are planning or have
already exploited RFID in their main operations to take advantage of the potential of more automation,
efficient business processes, and inventory visibility. While RFID provides promising benefits such
as inventory visibility and business process automation, significant challenges on information
systems and technologies need to be overcome before these benefits can be realized.

This special issue will present the latest developments, trends, industrial applications, and research
challenges for RFID technology. This issue will explore how organizations can gain competitive
advantages by applying RFID technology in real-world settings. Submissions on studies which
demonstrate RFID
techniques for specific application problems are encouraged. Survey articles that emphasize research
and application in a particular RFID domain are welcomed. Research areas of relevance would therefore
include, but not only limited to, the following topics:

Data management issues in RFID applications
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Jian Yu | 1 Oct 05:28
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[Dbworld] 2nd CFP: WAMIS 2010 The 6th International Symposium on Web and Mobile Information Services


CALL FOR PAPERS
WAMIS 2010: The 6th International Symposium on Web and Mobile Information Services
http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~wamis2010

In conjunction with the 24th IEEE AINA Conference
http://www.aina-conference.org/2010

APRIL 25th to 27th, 2010
Perth, Australia

**Best papers from WAMIS 2010 will be considered for further publication of extended version in a
forthcoming Special issue of the World Wide Web Journal (Springer).**

Advances in the Web and mobile technologies offer new and exciting services to users in various domains
such as e-business, healthcare, entertainment, and scientific activities. With the advances in mobile
technologies, Web also gets richer in its contents and usability. In addition to its widespread
usability in the e-commerce, education, and media, it has established its roots in exchanging and
sharing information in social communities. For example, user-generated contents in the social
networks have transformed the Web into a new era or the Web2.0 - these contents comprise a wealth of
information often involving multimedia data such as audio, video, pictures and blogs.

These new developments however introduce many new challenging problems to researchers. For example, one
of the major issues is to deal with the resource scarcity in mobile environment. Though mobile devices and
wireless networks are improving their resources, they are still far behind the wired networks and
desktop PCs in terms of bandwidth, memory, processing speed and battery powers. The other major
challenge is how to effectively build mobile systems that can dynamically adjust its behavior reacting
to the changes in location, context, and variation in network bandwidth.

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Domenico Beneventano | 1 Oct 08:23
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[Dbworld] Deadline extension - Special Issue Information Systems "Semantic Integration of Data, Multimedia"

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Information Systems
"Semantic Integration of Data, Multimedia, and Services"

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Deadline extension:
Manuscripts due: October 31 2009
Notification of acceptance: January 15 2010 
Final revised manuscript: April 15 2010     

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Guest Editors:
Carlo Batini (U. of Milan "Bicocca")
Domenico Beneventano (U. of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Sonia Bergamaschi (U. of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Tiziana Catarci (Sapienza - U. of Rome)

Research on structured data, multimedia, and services has involved non-overlapping communities. 
However, from a user perspective, the three kinds of information should behave and be accessed
similarly.  This has not been the case, leading to a situation in which a user has to deal with different
tools in order to gain a complete knowledge about a domain.  There is no integrated view comprising data,
multimedia and services retrieved by the specific tools that is automatically computed.

Techniques for managing data, multimedia, and services with a unified approach could benefit large
communities of users. As a notable example, let us consider the Internet, where searching for a certain
topic piecemeal returns heterogeneous results comprising unstructured text, deep web data sources,
web services, images and other multimedia files. In this scenario, a unified approach for dealing with
different kinds of information may allow cross searches and different starting points / results in the
searching processes.
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Madhu Kumar S D | 1 Oct 08:36
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[Dbworld] ACM International Symposium on Biocomputing (ISB 2010)- Second Call For Papers

*** Apologies if you received multiple postings of this Call for Papers *** 

International Symposium on Biocomputing (ISB 2010) – Call for Papers 
15 – 17 February 2010, Calicut, Kerala, India 
http://www.isb2010.org 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

ISB 2010 
The last decade has witnessed a spurt in life science research with the advent of high throughput
instrumentation technologies. The staggering volume of data generated from different “omics”
experiments has stymied integration of experimental procedures and computational activities. In the
present global scientific arena, bioinformatics has thus evolved as a complementary tool to
biologists, assisting in interpretation of experimental data and also providing important leads for
further experimental research. 

The International Symposium on Biocomputing, in cooperation with the Association of Computing
Machinery (ACM), invites researchers from computer science, life science and statistics areas to a
common forum for exchanging ideas/hypotheses, to promote future collaborations towards the
development of improved and highly efficient bioinformatics tools. The symposium is also expected to
witness the initiation of multidisciplinary interactions, which will eventually blur the boundaries
between in vivo, in vitro and in silico analytical procedures and thus help to gain deeper understanding
of macromolecular interactions, which ultimately define any biological system. 

PAPERS 
Original, unpublished papers are invited in the following research areas, but not restricted to: 
• Gene Annotation and Sequence Analysis/ Alignment/ Pattern Searches 
• Modeling Approaches and Protein Structure Prediction 
• Comparative Genomics and Phylogenetics 
• Proteomics/ Transcriptomics/ Systems Biology and Quantitative Bioanalysis
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Akimitsu Kanzaki | 1 Oct 09:03
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[Dbworld] CFP: DMWPC2010

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      3rd. International Workshop on Data Management 
  for Wireless and Pervasive Communications (DMWPC 2010)
     http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/conf/dmwpc/2010/
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[AIM and SCOPE]
The tremendous advances in wireless communication and mobile 
computing technologies have created a new computing and 
communication environment that provides services anytime and 
anywhere for everyone. Such an environment enables users to 
access a wide range of services and applications using a large 
variety of mobile and ubiquitous devices (e.g., cell phones, 
handheld computers, and so on). In order to accelerate this 
trend in the future, further progresses of the researches on 
wireless and pervasive computing, especially on data management, 
are necessary.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and 
researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a 
forum for discussion and technical presentations on the current 
researches and future research directions related to this hot 
research area.

[TOPICS of INTEREST]
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the 
following areas:
 - Data mining for mobile applications
 - Data management for pervasive computing
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mehdi snene | 1 Oct 09:42
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[Dbworld] CFP: IESS1.0, Deadline extended 15 Oct 2009

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Services Science is not a cosmetic change of existing things. Introduced by IBM in 2002, it has now emerged
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economics etc. to address the theoretical and practical aspects of the challenging services industry
and its economy.\
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Services Science leverages methods, results and knowledge stemming from these disciplines towards the
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Thus \'d2service\'d3 must be considered in this conference with its multiple facets: economic,
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Munindar Singh | 1 Oct 12:13
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[Dbworld] Call for Bids to Host AAMAS 2010


		   CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST AAMAS-2012
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This is a call for bids to host the Tenth International Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in 2012 (AAMAS-2012). We will
consider bids from all geographical regions; however, for the 2012
conference, we particularly encourage bids from the Europe, Middle
East, and Africa region.

BACKGROUND

The initial AAMAS conference (AAMAS-2002) was held in Bologna, Italy
as a joint event comprising the 6th International Conference on
Autonomous Agents (AA), the 5th International Conference on Multiagent
Systems (ICMAS), and the 9th International Workshop on Agent Theories,
Architectures, and Languages (ATAL).

Subsequent AAMAS conferences have been held in Melbourne, Australia
(July 2003), New York, USA (July 2004), Utrecht, the Netherlands (July
2005), Hakodate, Japan (May 2006), Honolulu, USA (May 2007), Estoril,
Portugal (May 2008), and Budapest, Hungary (May 2009). AAMAS 2010 will
be held in May in Toronto and AAMAS 2011 will be held in May in
Taipei.

AAMAS is now firmly established as the largest and most influential
conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems, routinely
attracting 500-700 participants.  AAMAS brings together researchers
and practitioners in all areas of agent technology such as software
agents, multiagent systems, synthetic agents, robotic agents, and
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Jolita Ralyte | 1 Oct 14:06
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[Dbworld] CFP: IESS1.0 - International Conference on Exploring Services Science

CALL FOR PAPERS

First International Conference on Exploring Services Science 
IESS 1.0

Geneva, Switzerland, February 17-18-19, 2010

http://iess.unige.ch/

NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE 15th October 2009

OVERVIEW
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Services Science is not a cosmetic change of existing things. Introduced by IBM in 2002, it has now emerged
and matured in a true trans-disciplinary atmosphere. Encompassing disciplines not only in management
and engineering, it also draws from disciplines such as social and cognitive sciences, law, ethics,
economics etc. to address the theoretical and practical aspects of the challenging services industry
and its economy.

Services Science leverages methods, results and knowledge stemming from these disciplines towards the
development of its own concepts, methods, techniques and approaches thus creating the basis for true
trans-disciplinary gatherings and the production of trans-disciplinary results. Services Science is
building a concrete framework for trans-disciplinary purposes.

Thus “service” must be considered in this conference with its multiple facets: economic,
organizational, social, collective, ontological, regulatory, secure, etc. and also, of course,
implemented by means of informatics. Sometimes it is referred to as information services to distinguish
its restricted meanings in various disciplines like Economy or Informatics.

The goal of this first conference is to build upon this growing community to further study and understand
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Axel Polleres | 1 Oct 15:36

[Dbworld] RR2009: Call for Participation (Late Registration closes today! Only onsite registration afterwards)

Late registration deadline October 1st! 
(Only on-site registration possible afterwards)

                        Call FOR PARTICIPATION

                               RR 2009
                The Third International Conference on
                    Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
                     http://www.rr-conference.org

You are invited to RR 2009, the major forum for discussion and
dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule
Systems.  The vast scale and the diverse nature of the Semantic Web
presents numerous challenges for knowledge representation and
reasoning.  Accordingly, the program features papers on practical and
theoretical aspects of reasoning, including reasoning under
uncertainty and inconsistency, and combining reasons with actions, as
well as scalability and efficiency considerations.  Other papers
explore extensions and applications of current standards and
techniques for the Semantic Web including combining rule based systems
with ontologies and description logics, module systems for ontologies
and rules, ontology alignment, and path query languages.

Invited Talks and Tutorial

-- Robert Kowalski "Integrating Logic Programming and Production
    Systems with Abductive Logic Programming Agents"

-- Benjamin Grossof "SILK: Higher Level Rules with Defaults and
    Semantic Scalability"
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