Margaret Graham | 2 Sep 2005 10:25
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FW: CSIT2006

Forwarded on behalf of Conference organiser.
 
 
 

The 4th International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT 2006) will take place at Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan during April 5-7, 2006. The website for the conference is

 

http://csit2006.asu.edu.jo

 

This non-profit multiconference focuses on all areas of Computer Science and Information Technology. We invite paper submissions for this event. Paper submission deadline is Dec. 1st 2005. The best papers of the conferences will be published in a special issue of an indexed journals. After the conference, there is a free trip to the ancient city PETRA. This city is called a rose-red city, which was established sometime around the 6th century BC. It is located 2 hours from Amman.

 

For more information please contact:
CSIT2006 Chair
Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology

Applied Science Private University

Amman, Jordan, 11931

E-mail: csit2006-U2j7rlnbQjrBI1tJc+fAiQ@public.gmane.org

 


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Margaret Graham | 2 Sep 2005 10:27
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FW: 2nd Call for Papers ECIR2006

	28th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006)

	     10th - 12th April 2006, Imperial College London

We are seeking the submission of high-quality and original research papers
and posters that have not been previously published and are not under
review for another conference or journal. Submissions will be reviewed by
experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the
results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution
to the field of Information Retrieval.

Papers whose sole or main author is a young researcher and in particular,
postgraduate student or postdoc researcher are especially welcome.

Papers that demonstrate a high level of research adventure or which break
out of the traditional IR paradigms are particularly welcome.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:

IR models
    * Searching, browsing, meta-searching, data fusion, filtering and
      indexing
    * Text and content classification, mining, extraction, summarisation
    * Topic detection and tracking
    * Personalised, collaborative or user-adaptive IR, recommender
      systems,

User aspects
    * User modelling, user studies, user interaction in IR systems
    * Novel user interfaces for IR systems
    * Visualisation and presentation of queries, search results or content
    * Multimodal aspects

IR system architectures
    * Distributed and peer to peer IR
    * Parallel IR
    * Mobile IR
    * Open, interoperable and flexible
    * Compression, performance, optimisation

Content representation and processing
    * IR and structured contents, e.g. XML based
    * Unstructured contents
    * Meta information and structures

Evaluation
    * Building test collections and metrics
    * Experimental design
    * User-oriented and user-centred test and evaluation

Multimedia and cross-media IR
    * Speech retrieval
    * Image and video retrieval
    * Digital music, radio and broadcast retrieval

IR applications
    * Mobile and ubiquitous IR
    * Digital libraries
    * Semantic web
    * Geographical IR
    * Integration, database and IR technologies
    * Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and Chemical Informatics

It is intended that all accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). The
proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the Conference.

Submissions must be in English, which is the official language of the
conference. Paper submissions must not exceed 15 pages including
references and figures. Papers should be submitted as PDF files through
the conference web site. Submission templates and guidelines are available
for download at the following address:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Call for posters

Poster presentations offer researchers a unique opportunity to present
late-breaking results, significant work in progress or research that is
best communicated in an interactive or graphical format, for which there
is more time for discussion and questions than is sometimes available in a
full paper session. Poster presentations are also a good way to present
work applying information retrieval approaches and techniques to new
domains and problems. Please note, however, that posters describing work
at the proposal stage cannot be accepted. Poster submissions are welcomed
in any of the areas identified in the call for papers.

All accepted posters will be published in the conference proceedings.
Submissions must be in English and must not exceed 4 pages including
references and figures.

Posters should be submitted as PDF files through the conference web site.
Submission templates and guidelines are available for download at the
Springer authors home page.

Call for Panels: Brave new topics

We are seeking panel proposals that will provide an opportunity for
exploration of current important issues and emerging opportunities in IR.
Panel proposals should address controversial issues in IR and must be
debate-oriented rather than a series of short presentations.

The panel proposal should be a 2-pages document that includes the topic
title, a short statement about the importance and relevance of the panel
and the potential issues of controversy, a tentative list of questions
that will be posed to the panellists, a list of confirmed panellists along
with their affiliation and a short bio of each panellist. Each panellist
should have a position statement or "role" in the panel. The name of the
moderator of the panel should also be provided (in particular, if
different from the proposer).

A 2-page description of the panel will be included in the proceedings. The
panel proposal should be sent to Mounia Lalmas (e-mail:
mounia@...) in PDF or text format.

The important dates will be as follows:
Paper submission: Friday 04 November 2005
Poster submission: Monday 14th November 2005
Panel submission: Monday 21st November 2005
Review submission by referees: Wednesday 7th December 2005
PC Meeting: Wednesday 14th December 2005
Acceptance/rejection notification: Friday 16th December 2005
Submission of camera-ready copy: Monday 16th January 2006
Conference: 10th to 12th April 2006

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Taxonomies and international development

There will be a meeting at the BCS HQ in London on 16th September on
taxonomies and international development, as a contribution to the action
plan of the World Summit on the Information Society.

Participants are welcome, but I need to know names in advance for building
security.

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Andrew MacFarlane | 7 Sep 2005 08:34
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CFP: Infoscale

Sponsored by IEEE CS Society (pending approval)
30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong
http://www.infoscale.org/

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

As the data volumes continue to increase and the ways of information
dispersion across the globe continue to diversify, new scalable methods
and structures are needed for efficiently processing those distributed
and autonomous data. Grid computing, P2P technology, distributed
information retrieval technology, and networking technology all must be
merged to address the scalability concern. This forum focuses on this
key merged domain and looks for new integrated solutions for this
diversifying world of information.

Conference Scope:
	Parallel Information Retrieval
	Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval 
	Scalable Grid Information Systems
	P2P Systems
	Scalable Mobile/Sensor DB Systems
	Index Compression Methods 
	Architectures for Scalability
	Networking for Scalable Information Systems
	Scalable Information System Applications
	  (medicine, biology, military, etc.)
	Evaluation Metrics for Scalability
	VLDB
	Data Mining
	Information Security

Important Deadlines:
	Paper submission: 1 Nov 2005
	Notification: 15 Jan 2006
	Final version: 15 Feb 2006

Publications: Original and previously unpublished technical papers
are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in
the proceedings. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Press and
available online through IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be
published in journal special issues.

General Chair 
	Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong

PC Chairs 
	Abdur Chowdhury, AOL 
	Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong
	Frank Zhigang Wang, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance 
	Computing Facilities

Steering Committee Chairs
	Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet Research Consortium, Chair
	Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Co-chair

Publicity Chair
	Jinli Cao, La Trobe University

Publications Chair
	Scott Huang, City University of Hong Kong

Workshops Chair
	Niki Pissinou, Florida International University, Chair
	Tirthankar Ghosh, Vice Chair
	Hao Zhu, Vice Chair	

Local Arrangement Chair
	Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong

Program Committee
	Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, Wales 
	David Al-Dabass, University of Nottingham Trent, UK 
	Mohand Boughanem, University Paul Sabatier, France 
	Andrei Broder, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA 
	Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
	Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
	David Carmel, IBM Research, Israel 
	Jose Manuel Garcia Carrasco, University of Murcia, Spain 
	Scott Cost, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA 
	Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK 
	Arjen de Vries, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Netherlands 
	David Doermann, University of Maryland, USA 
	Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA 
	Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China 
	Galal Hassan Galal-Edeen, Cairo University, Egypt 
	Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA 
	Nazli Goharian, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA 
	Siegmar Gross, University of Applied Sciences, Germany 
	David Grossman, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA 
	David Hawking, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia 
	Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg, Germany 
	Otthein Herzog, University of Bremen, Germany 
	Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, Netherlands 
	Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada 
	George Ioannidis, University of Bremen, Germany 
	Narayana Jayaram, London Metropolitan University, UK 
	Guojun Jin, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA 
	Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK 
	Paul Kantor, Rutgers University, USA 
	Stefan Kirn, University of Hohenheim, Germany 
	Aleksander Kolcz, AOL, USA 
	Peter Komisarczuk, University of Wellington, New Zealand 
	Axel Korthaus, University of Mannheim, Germany 
	Donald Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA 
	Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary University of London, UK 
	Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, P. R. China 
	Tao Li, University of Rochester, USA 
	Andrew MacFarlane, City University London, UK 
	James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University, USA 
	Massimo Melucci, University of Padova, Italy 
	Lingkui Meng, Wuhan University, P. R. China 
	Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA 
	Greg Pass, AOL, USA 
	Yale Patt, University of Texas, USA 
	Thomas Roelleke, Queen Mary University London, UK 
	Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands 
	Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA 
	Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer Integrated Publication and information Systems Institute, Germany 
	Ingo Timm, University of Bremen, Germany 
	Anastasios Tombros, Queen Mary University London, UK 
	Pavel Tvrdik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic 
	Herman Vandermulen, AOL, USA 
	Zhichen Xu, Yahoo, USA 
	Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA 
	Jim Yip, University of Huddersfield, UK 
	Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 
	Zhu Zhang, University of Arizona, USA 

Ralf Steinberger | 9 Sep 2005 10:50
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Two post-doc positions in Language/Web Technology at the Joint Research Centre

 

SUBJECT:       Two post-doc positions at the EC's Joint Research Centre (JRC)

               (1) Automatic extraction of information from the news
                   Reference: IPSC/2005/3021, contact Ralf.Steinberger <at> jrc.it

               (2) Ontology Research for Europe Media Monitor (EMM)

                   Reference: IPSC/2005/3023, Contact Clive.Best <at> jrc.it

DEADLINE:      14 October 2005, 12:00 noon (local time)

STARTING DATE: Spring 2006

DURATION:      6-36 months

HOST:          Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

LOCATION:      Ispra, Lago Maggiore, NorthernItaly (see map)

INFORMATION:   http://ipsc.jrc.cec.eu.int/jobs.php?id=2

LANGTECH WEB:  http://www.jrc.it/langtech

 

 

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) has announced 43 Ph.D. and post-doc openings, of which two are in the field of Language Technology and Web Technology. Applicants for these two positions must hold a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, Information Technology, Political Science or related areas. The successful applicants will have programming experience, will be hands-on and like to produce working systems.

 

Interested persons should enter their online-CV into the ELSA database before 14 October 2005, 12:00 noon (local time). We recommend to avoid last-minute data entry. It is obligatory to indicate the reference of the position you are interested in. For details about eligibility criteria, salary, a draft contract, etc., go to http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/default.asp <at> sidsz=what_we_offer&sidstsz=open_calls.htm.

 

The JRC’s Web Technology group has produced the Europe Media Monitoring system EMM (http://press.jrc.it), which monitors about 800 news sites live in currently 32 languages, classifies the news and has various alert tools.

 

The JRC's Language Technology group, which is part of EMM, specialises in highly multilingual text analysis applications providing cross-lingual information access, with a focus on news analysis. The results of some of the information extraction and analysis tools are available in the NewsExplorer application (http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/).

 

Fields of interest are information extraction, named entity recognition, scenario template filling, Semantic Web applications and ontologies, terminology extraction and dictionary generation from parallel corpora, thesaurus indexing, multilingual text classification and clustering, document relevance-ranking, monolingual and cross-lingual document similarity calculation, topic detection and tracking, visualisation of textual information, etc. For more information and for scientific contacts, see http://www.jrc.it/langtech.  

 

The JRC’s five sites in Europe employ altogether 2300 persons. At the JRC’s Ispra site in Northern Italy (about one hour West of the city of Milan), 1700 international staff work in a multi-disciplinary and multilingual environment.

                      

 

 

 

Chris Jones | 22 Sep 2005 12:19
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GIR'05 Call For Participation

           Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval
                      Call for Participation
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              http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~rsp/gir-cikm/
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This is a call for participation in the Workshop on Geographic Information
Retrieval, to be held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management (CIKM) in Bremen, Germany on November 4th 2004. This
workshop is a follow-up to the successful workshop held last year in
conjunction with SIGIR 2004 in Sheffield, UK. The aim is to bring together the
growing community of researchers and practitioners working in the field of
geographic information retrieval to discuss further progress within the field
and potential future research strands.

You can find more details about the ACM CIKM conference and registration for
workshops at http://www.tzi.de/CIKM2005/
The deadline for early registration with discounted rates is 29th September
2005.

The preliminary programme is as follows:

Visualisation in GIR
Session Chair: Chris Jones(Cardiff University)

Filtering Mechanisms for the Visualization of Geo-referenced Information
  Maria Beatriz Carmo, Sergio Freitas, Ana Paula Afonso and Paula Claudio
An Evaluation of a Multidimensional Visual Interface for Geographic Information
Retrieval
  Gobe Hobona, Philip James and David Fairbairn
Geographic Information Search: Visualization and Semantic Analysis of Metadata
  Riccardo Albertoni, Alessio Bertone and Monica De Martino

Components of GIR
Session Chair: Ross Purves (University of Zurich)

Detecting Geographic Locations from Web Resources
  Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Lee Wang, Yansheng Lu and Wei-Ying Ma
Extracting Metadata for Spatially-Aware Information Retrieval on the Internet
  Paul Clough
Indexing and Ranking in GeoIR Systems
  Bruno Martins, Mario J. Silva and Leonardo Andrade

Applications of GIR
Session Chair: Mario J. Gaspar da Silva (University of Lisbon)

Automatically Filtering and Categorizing Street Maps on the Web
  Craig A. Knoblock, Yao-Yi Chiang, Kandarp Desai and Ching-Chien Chen
Finding Geodata that Otherwise Would Have Been Forgotten- GeoXChange - A
SDI-Based Portal for Sharing Free Geodata
  Sven Tschirner and Alexander Zipf
Implementing Ontology Based Service Discovery in Spatial Data Infrastructures
  Michael Lutz

New approaches in GIR
Session Chair: Paul Clough (University of Sheffield)

Geographical Partition for Distributed Web Crawling
  Jose Exposto, Joaquim Macedo, Antonio Pina, Albano Alves and Jose Rufino
Geographic Web Search based
on Positioning Expressions
  Tiago M. Delboni, Karla A.V. Borges Alberto and F. Laender
Challenges and Resources for
Evaluating Geographical IR
  Bruno Martins, Mario J. Silva and Marcirio Silveira Chaves

You can find further details of the workshop at
http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~rsp/gir-cikm/

Please forward this message to anyone whom you think may have an interest in the
workshop.

With best wishes,

Chris Jones (c.b.jones@...) and Ross Purves (rsp@...)

Christopher B. Jones
Professor of Geographical Information Systems
School of Computer Science
Cardiff University
5 The Parade
Cardiff CF24 3AA
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Henrik Nottelmann | 23 Sep 2005 13:08
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Call for participation: P2PIR 2005 workshop

                Call for Participation

                  CIKM workshop on 
  Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer-Networks (P2PIR)"

           Bremen, Germany, November 4, 2005

    http://p2pir.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/2005/

About the workshop:

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the 2th Workshop on
Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks - P2PIR 2005. This
year's workshop aims at bringing together young researchers from
Information Retrieval and Database Systems working on peer-to-peer
information systems. Both communities have their own strategies at
solving the problem of efficient and effective query routing in
peer-to-peer networks, and a closer collaboration could have a large
impact on future P2PIR research. As such, this proposed workshop
continues the efforts from an SIGIR workshop last year on the same
topic, and the primary goal is to foster the collaboration process
started there.

In addition to 6 accepted papers, the program includes two discussion
sessions in order to benefit from different views in the two research
communities. One discussion session will deal with problems and
potential solutions in evaluating large-scale peer-to-peer
networks. The topic of the second discussion session will be fixed
together with the participants.

Workshop programme:

 8:45 -  9:00:  Workshop opening

 9:00 - 10:30:  Paper Session 1: 

      Hans Friedrich Witschel, Thomas Böhme: Evaluating Profiling and
      Query Expansion Methods for P2P Information Retrieval

      Roberto Castiglion, Massimo Melucci: An Evaluation of a
      Recursive Weighing Scheme for Information Retrieval in
      Peer-to-Peer Networks

      Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Andrei Damian, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf
      Siberski: Search Strategies for Scientific Collaboration
      Networks

10:30 - 10:45:  Coffee break

10:45 - 12:00:  Discussion Session 1: 

      Problems and Potential Solutions in Evaluating Large-Scale
      Peer-to-Peer Networks

12:00 - 13:30:  Lunch break

13:30 - 15:00:  Paper Session 2:

      Gudrun Fischer and André Nurzenski: Towards Scatter/Gather
      Bowsing in a Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Network

      Felix Heine, Matthias Hovestadt, Odej Kao: Processing Complex
      RDF Queries over P2P Networks

      Haizheng Zhang, Victor Lesser: A Queueing Theory Based Analysis
      Of Agent Control Mechanism in Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval
      Systems

15:00 - 15:30:  Coffee break

15:30 - 16:30:  Discussion Session 2:

      Topic defined by participants

Registration:

It is possible to register for the workshop only.

Students who have no other funding for the workshop visit can apply
for further a reimbursement of 100 EUR for the workshop fees. Please
note that only a limited number of reimbursement grants are possible.

Registration infos are available at:
http://p2pir.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/2005/registration.html 

Organizers:

* Henrik Nottelmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
* Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
* Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany

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