victor khomenko | 1 Mar 2007 12:05
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CfP - UFO'07: Workshop on UnFOlding and partial order techniques

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		CALL FOR PAPERS

UFO'07: Workshop on UnFOlding and partial order techniques
	(a satellite event of Petri Nets 2007)
	Siedlce, Poland, June 25-26, 2007

http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/victor.khomenko/UFO07/UFO-07.htm
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		Tutorial		   

Javier Esparza		Unfolding-Based Model Checking	   
		   
		Invited talks		   

Claude Jard		Symbolic Unfoldings of Timed Models	   
Eric Fabre 		Modular Processing	   
Victor Khomenko		Merged Processes of Petri Nets	   
Maciej Koutny		Branching Processes of High-Level Petri Nets and

			Model Checking of Mobile Systems	   
Walter Vogler		Canonical Prefixes of Petri Net Unfoldings

Glynn Winskel		Event Types	 
Alex Yakovlev		Use of Partial Orders for Analysis and Synthesis
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Artur Niewiadomski | 1 Mar 2007 17:52
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ATPN2007 - Conference Program

                         ****** Petri Nets 2007 ******
                     **** Siedlce, Poland, June 25-29 ****

          http://atpn2007.ap.siedlce.pl     atpn2007 <at> ap.siedlce.pl

                        ***** Conference Program *****
			
Monday June, 25

Advanced Tutorial I,
Elasticity and Petri nets: Two paradigms for future nanoelectronics
by Jordi Cortadella (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) and Mike Kishinevsky
(Intel Corp.)

Workshops:
   1. TeaConc - Teaching Concurrency
   2. UFO - Unfolding and partial order techniques
   3. Petri Nets and Software Engineering

Tuesday June, 26

Advanced Tutorial II,
Tutorial on Stochastic Petri Nets for Discrete-Event Simulation
by Peter J. Haas (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose)

Workshops:
   1. UFO - Unfolding and partial order techniques
   2. Petri Nets and Software Engineering
   3. Petri Nets Standards
   4. Formal Approaches to Business Processes and Web Services
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Maria Pia Fanti | 1 Mar 2007 15:44
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CfP: Track of Planning, Scheduling, and Coordination for IEEE CASE 2007


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Call for Papers
on the track of
Planning, Scheduling, and Coordination
 for
3rd IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
 (IEEE CASE 2007)
http://www.ieee-case.org

The 3rd annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE), sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), will be held on September 22 to 25, 2007 in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.  CASE is an offspring of the IEEE Transactions of Automation Science and Engineering, http://www.ieee.org/t-ase. High quality CASE papers will be recommended for publication in this flagship automation journal.
 
On behalf of the organizing committee of the Track on Planning, Scheduling, and Coordination, we invite you to submit your papers to CASE 2007 describing scientific methods and technologies that address both theoretical concerns and practical needs related to different aspects of planning and scheduling problems. This track is intended to bring together theoretical and applied researchers from both the Planning and Scheduling community and the Control Theory community. Topic of interest include:
  • Integrated planning, scheduling and control algorithms
  • Control and planning of Discrete-Event Systems
  • Adaptive control vs. learning in planning
  • Mixed-initiative planning/scheduling and role of humans on the control loop
  • Distributed control vs. multi-agent planning
  • Monitoring and state estimation in control and planning

Paper Submission

Author(s) should submit full papers electronically in double column PDF format.  All papers will be peer-reviewed, and the selected ones will be published in CD-ROM. Six pages are allowed per paper, and detailed instructions for paper preparation and submission will be available on the conference web site: http://www.ieee-case.org. Please address all inquiries regarding the paper submission procedure to the IEEE CASE 2007 Program Chair, Dr. Mike Tao Zhang, at mike.zhang <at> cal.berkeley.edu

Important Dates

April 30, 2007Submission of papers (FIRM)
June 30, 2007Paper acceptance notification to authors
July 15, 2007Final camera-ready papers due

Track Co-Chairs

Prof. Maria Pia Fanti
Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica
Politecnico di Bari
Bari, Italy
fanti <at> deemail.poliba.it
 
Prof. Spyros Reveliotis
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, USA
spyros.reveliotis <at> isye.gatech.edu

Dr. Carla Seatzu
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica
Università di Cagliari
Cagliari, Italy
seatzu <at> diee.unica.it

Prof. Hideyuki Takagi,
Faculty of Design
Kyushu University
Fukuoka, Japan
takagi <at> design.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Dr. Elzbieta Roszkowska
Institute of  Computer Eng., Control, and Robotics
Wroclaw University of Technology
Wroclaw, Poland
elzbieta.roszkowska <at> pwr.wroc.pl

Prof. Bengt Lennartson
Department of Signal and Systems
Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden
bengt.lennartson <at> chalmers.se
 
 

Prof. Maria Pia Fanti
Associate professor
Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica
Politecnico di Bari
Via Re David 200- 70125 Bari - Italy
tel. +39-080-5963643
fax +39-080-5963410
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div align="center">Call for Papers <br>on the track of <br>Planning, Scheduling, and Coordination<br>
&nbsp;for <br>3rd IEEE Conference on Automation Science and
Engineering<br>
&nbsp;(IEEE CASE 2007)<br><a href="http://www.ieee-case.org/">http://www.ieee-case.org</a><br><br>
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The 3rd annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
(IEEE CASE), sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS),
will be held on September 22 to 25, 2007 in Scottsdale, Arizona,
U.S.A.&nbsp; CASE is an offspring of the IEEE Transactions of
Automation Science and Engineering,
<a href="http://www.ieee.org/t-ase">http://www.ieee.org/t-ase</a>.
High quality CASE papers will be recommended for publication in this
flagship automation journal.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
On behalf of the organizing committee of the Track on Planning,
Scheduling, and Coordination, we invite you to submit your papers to CASE
2007 describing scientific methods and technologies that address both
theoretical concerns and practical needs related to different aspects of
planning and scheduling problems. This track is intended to bring
together theoretical and applied researchers from both the Planning and
Scheduling community and the Control Theory community. Topic of interest
include:
<ul>
<li>Integrated planning, scheduling and control algorithms 
</li>
<li>Control and planning of Discrete-Event Systems 
</li>
<li>Adaptive control vs. learning in planning 
</li>
<li>Mixed-initiative planning/scheduling and role of humans on the
control loop 
</li>
<li>Distributed control vs. multi-agent planning 
</li>
<li>Monitoring and state estimation in control and planning </li>
</ul>
<h1>Paper Submission</h1>Author(s) should submit
full papers electronically in double column PDF format.&nbsp; All papers
will be peer-reviewed, and the selected ones will be published in CD-ROM.
Six pages are allowed per paper, and detailed instructions for paper
preparation and submission will be available on the conference web site:
<a href="http://www.ieee-case.org/">http://www.ieee-case.org</a>. Please
address all inquiries regarding the paper submission procedure to the
IEEE CASE 2007 Program Chair, Dr. Mike Tao Zhang, at
<a href="mailto:mike.zhang <at> cal.berkeley.edu">
mike.zhang <at> cal.berkeley.edu</a>.&nbsp; <br><br><h1>Important Dates</h1>April 30,
2007Submission of papers (FIRM)<br>June 30, 2007Paper acceptance notification to authors<br>July 15, 2007Final camera-ready papers due<br><br><h1>Track Co-Chairs</h1>Prof. Maria Pia
Fanti<br>
Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica<br>
Politecnico di Bari<br>
Bari, Italy<br><a href="mailto:fanti <at> deemail.poliba.it">fanti <at> deemail.poliba.it</a><br>
&nbsp;<br>
Prof. Spyros Reveliotis<br>
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering<br>
Georgia Institute of Technology<br>
Atlanta, USA <br><a href="mailto:spyros.reveliotis <at> isye.gatech.edu">
spyros.reveliotis <at> isye.gatech.edu</a><br><br>
Dr. Carla Seatzu<br>
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica<br>
Universit&agrave; di Cagliari<br>
Cagliari, Italy<br><a href="mailto:seatzu <at> diee.unica.it">seatzu <at> diee.unica.it</a><br><br>
Prof. Hideyuki Takagi,<br>
Faculty of Design<br>
Kyushu University<br>
Fukuoka, Japan<br><a href="mailto:takagi <at> design.kyushu-u.ac.jp">
takagi <at> design.kyushu-u.ac.jp</a><br><br>
Dr. Elzbieta Roszkowska<br>
Institute of&nbsp; Computer Eng., Control, and Robotics<br><a href="http://www.pwr.wroc.pl">Wroclaw University of
Technology</a><br>
Wroclaw, Poland<br><a href="mailto:elzbieta.roszkowska <at> pwr.wroc.pl">
elzbieta.roszkowska <at> pwr.wroc.pl</a><br><br>
Prof. Bengt Lennartson<br>
Department of Signal and Systems<br>
Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden<br><a href="mailto:bengt.lennartson <at> chalmers.se">
bengt.lennartson <at> chalmers.se</a><br>&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;<br><br><p></p>Prof. Maria Pia Fanti<br>
Associate professor<br>
Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica <br>
Politecnico di Bari<br>
Via Re David 200- 70125 Bari - Italy<br>
tel. +39-080-5963643<br>
fax +39-080-5963410 </div>
Igor Potapov | 1 Mar 2007 17:15
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CFP: WORKSHOP ON REACHABILITY PROBLEMS (July 7-8, 2007, Turku, Finland)


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     WORKSHOP ON REACHABILITY PROBLEMS, RP'07
        (July 7-8, 2007, Turku, Finland )

    http://www.math.utu.fi/projects/dlt2007/rp/ 
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The Workshop on Reachability Problems is a satellite event of the 
Developments in Language Theory Conference (DLT'07) that will take 
place at the University of Turku, Turku, Finland on July 7-8, 2007.

The Reachability Workshop is specifically aimed at gathering together 
scholars from diverse disciplines and backgrounds interested in 
reachability problems that appear in
- Algebraic structures
- Computational models
- Hybrid systems
- Verification

Invited Speakers:
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- Vincent Blondel, Louvain
- Christian Choffrut, Paris
- Javier Esparza, Stuttgart
- Oscar Ibarra, Santa Barbara

Call for papers in PDF: http://www.math.utu.fi/projects/dlt2007/rp/rp07.pdf

Submissions:
============ Papers presenting original contributions related to 
reachability problems in different computational models and systems are 
being sought. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): 
Reachability analysis in counter/ timed/ cellular/communicating 
automata; Petri-Nets; computational aspects of semigroups, groups and 
rings; reachability for infinite state systems, rewriting systems, 
dynamical and hybrid systems; predictability in iterative maps and new 
computational paradigms.

Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper with at most 12 
pages (in standard LaTeX article style 11pt A4 paper) via the 
conference web page http://www.math.utu.fi/projects/dlt2007/rp/ . 
Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an appendix to 
be read by the program committee members at their discretion. 
Submissions deviating from these guidelines risk rejection. Electronic 
submissions should be formatted in postscript or pdf. Simultaneous 
submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings 
is not allowed.

Important dates: ================
Submission: April 11, 2007
Notification: May 11, 2007
Final version: May 30, 2007
Workshop: July 7-8, 2007

The proceedings of the workshop will appear in TUCS General 
Publications Series ( http://www.tucs.fi/research/series/ ). Selected 
papers will appear in a special issue of a high quality journal.

Program Committee:
- Vincent Blondel, Louvain
- Olivier Bournez, Nancy
- Christian Choffrut, Paris
- Javier Esparza, Stuttgart
- Vesa Halava, Turku
- Oscar Ibarra, Santa Barbara
- Igor Potapov, Liverpool (chair)

Organizing Committee:
- Vesa Halava, Turku
- Igor Potapov, Liverpool

Contact: RP'07, Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, 
FIN-20014 Turku, Finland Emails: rp_at_utu.fi, vehalava_at_utu.fi, 
igor_at_csc.liv.ac.uk Web: http://www.math.utu.fi/projects/dlt2007/rp/

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CFP: Aspect-Oriented Techniques to E-Service Environments (AOTE-S) 2007

********************CALL for Papers for AOTE-S07********************** Aspect-Oriented Techniques to E-Service Environments (AOTE-S) in cooperation with TaMoCo 2007 Techniques and Applications for Mobile Commerce University of Paisley, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom 9th - 10th July 2007 URL: http://tamoco2007.paisley.ac.uk/symposium1.html Submission deadline 15.03.2007 SUBMISSION LINK: http://www.dsi.uclm.es/openconf/ Synopsis: The emerging technology of Electronic Services introduces the possibility of implementing electronic commerce and business in a loosely coupled manner. This way, new technologies and standards are being used in order to develop and provide new services to the customers. On the other hand, Aspect-Oriented Techniques provide support to encapsulate and modularize crosscutting concerns in our systems, which cannot be included normally in the logical code structure by functionality. Therefore, the loosely coupled environment provided for electronic services can be maintained and improved by using these techniques. Goals of the workshop: Accordingly, this workshop is intended to bring together e-services and aspect -oriented techniques approaches both from industry and academia. It is meant to provide an appropriate environment to discus about the benefits aspect-oriented techniques can provide in e -services systems and about problems and challenges that particularly arise during the practical combination of both fields. Topics: Research submissions on all topics related to applying aspect-oriented techniques on electronic services environments will be welcomed, including but not limited to those listed below: E-Services technology implementations and Aspect-Oriented Programming * Web Services * Grid Services * Service-Oriented Computing * Semantic Web * Security for E-Services * Middlewares for E-Services E-Services Application and Aspect Oriented Techniques * Mobile commerce * Business Processes Modeling * E-Learning * E-Goverment * Electronic Agreement and Contracts * Submission Instructions Submission: Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers. Papers should be written in English and must not exceed 8 pages in the LNCS format. Please send the Word or PDF file of your submission to the contact person (see below). You should receive a confirmation of the paer reception. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program -committee based on originality, significance, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop and the conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers are supposed to participate in the workshop as well as the conference. Key Note Speaker: Olaf Zimmermann IBM Research GmbH, Zurich Research Laboratory Olaf Zimmermann is a Research Staff Member and senior certified Executive IT Architect in the IBM Zurich Research Lab. Olaf has 17 years of IT industry experience. His research focuses on meet -in-the-middle service modeling techniques and the role of architectural decisions and model transformations during Service -Oriented Architecture (SOA) construction. Previously, Olaf was a solution architect, helping IBM clients designing enterprise-scale SOA/Web services and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) solutions on numerous services projects. He also educated practitioners around the world on emerging middleware technologies. In the beginning of his career, Olaf worked as a scientific consultant in the IBM European Networking Center (ENC) in Heidelberg, Germany, focusing on industry-specific middleware frameworks for systems and network management. Olaf is a regular conference speaker and an author of the Springer text book Perspectives on Web Services. He contributed to several IBM Redbooks such as Web Services Wizardry with WebSphere Studio Application Developer. Olaf holds an honors degree in Computer Science from the Technical University in Braunschweig, Germany. ***************Important Dates**************** Submission of papers 15.03.2007 Notice of Acceptance: 15.04.2007 Submission of Camera ready version: 30.04.2007 Program Committee: * Marco Aiello (University of Trento, Italy) * Francisco Curbera (IBM Watson, USA) * Gregorio D=92az (University of Castilla La Mancha) * Schahram Dustdar (Technical University of Vienna) * Juan Hernandez (University of Extremadura, Spain) * Heiko Ludwig (IBM Watson Research Center) * Josef Noll (Telenor R&D, Norway) * Guadalupe Ortiz (University of Extremadura, Spain) * Dumitru Roman (DERI Innsbruck, Austria) * Olaf Zimmermann (IBM Zurich) * Christian Zirpins (University College London, England) Symposium Chair: Guadalupe Ortiz University of Extremadura, Spain Email: gobellot <at> unex.es Symposium Co-Chair: Gregorio Diaz University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain Email: Gregorio.Diaz <at> uclm.es Contact Guadalupe Ortiz Email: gobellot <at> unex.es ============================================================ To contribute to SEWORLD, send your submission to <seworld <at> cs.colorado.edu>. http://www.cs.colorado.edu/serl/seworld provides more information on SEWORLD as well as a complete archive of messages posted to the list. 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********************CALL for Papers for AOTE-S07**********************

Aspect-Oriented Techniques to E-Service Environments (AOTE-S)

                    in cooperation with TaMoCo 2007
             Techniques and Applications for Mobile Commerce
        University of Paisley, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
                          9th - 10th July 2007

          URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tamoco2007.paisley.ac.uk/symposium1.html">http://tamoco2007.paisley.ac.uk/symposium1.html</a>
                     Submission deadline 15.03.2007
	   SUBMISSION LINK: <a href="http://www.dsi.uclm.es/openconf/">http://www.dsi.uclm.es/openconf/</a>

Synopsis:

The  emerging   technology  of   Electronic  Services   introduces the
possibility  of implementing  electronic commerce  and business  in a
loosely coupled  manner.  This  way, new   technologies and  standards
are  being used  in order   to develop  and provide  new   services to
the   customers.  On   the   other  hand,   Aspect-Oriented Techniques
provide support to  encapsulate and modularize crosscutting   concerns
in our systems, which cannot be included normally in the logical  code
structure  by   functionality.   Therefore,   the   loosely    coupled
environment  provided  for electronic  services can  be maintained and
improved by using these techniques.

Goals of the workshop:

Accordingly, this workshop is  intended  to bring together  e-services
and  aspect  -oriented techniques  approaches both  from industry  and
academia. It is meant  to provide an appropriate environment to discus
about  the  benefits   aspect-oriented  techniques  can  provide  in e
-services    systems   and  about   problems   and   challenges   that
particularly arise during the practical
combination of both fields.

Topics:

Research   submissions   on   all    topics   related   to    applying
aspect-oriented techniques on  electronic services  environments  will
be welcomed,  including  but not limited to those listed below:

E-Services technology implementations and Aspect-Oriented Programming

* Web Services
* Grid Services
* Service-Oriented Computing
* Semantic Web
* Security for E-Services
* Middlewares for E-Services

E-Services Application and Aspect Oriented Techniques

* Mobile commerce
* Business Processes Modeling
* E-Learning
* E-Goverment
* Electronic Agreement and Contracts
* Submission Instructions

Submission:

Authors  are  invited  to  submit  original,  previously   unpublished
research  papers. Papers should  be written  in English  and must  not
exceed  8 pages  in the LNCS  format. Please  send  the  Word or   PDF
file  of your  submission to  the contact
person (see below). You should receive a confirmation of the paer
reception.

All   submissions  will    be  peer-reviewed   by   members   of  the
international program -committee  based on  originality, significance,
and clarity  of presentation. Accepted papers will be included in  the
workshop and  the conference  proceedings. Authors  of accepted papers
are supposed to participate in the workshop as well as the conference.

Key Note Speaker:

Olaf Zimmermann
IBM Research GmbH, Zurich Research Laboratory

Olaf Zimmermann  is  a  Research Staff   Member and  senior  certified
Executive IT Architect in  the IBM  Zurich Research  Lab. Olaf  has 17
years of  IT industry  experience.  His  research   focuses   on  meet
-in-the-middle    service   modeling  techniques  and   the  role   of
architectural   decisions  and  model  transformations  during Service
-Oriented Architecture (SOA) construction.

Previously,  Olaf  was  a  solution  architect,  helping  IBM  clients
designing  enterprise-scale  SOA/Web services  and  Java 2  Enterprise
Edition  (J2EE)  solutions  on numerous  services  projects.  He  also
educated  practitioners  around  the   world  on  emerging  middleware
technologies.  In  the beginning  of  his career,  Olaf  worked as   a
scientific  consultant in  the IBM  European Networking  Center  (ENC)
in Heidelberg,   Germany, focusing   on industry-specific   middleware
frameworks  for systems and network management.

Olaf is a  regular conference speaker  and an author  of the  Springer
text book Perspectives on Web Services. He contributed to several  IBM
Redbooks  such  as  Web  Services  Wizardry   with  WebSphere   Studio
Application   Developer.  Olaf   holds an  honors  degree  in Computer
Science from the Technical University in Braunschweig, Germany.

***************Important Dates****************
Submission of papers 15.03.2007
Notice of Acceptance: 15.04.2007
Submission of Camera ready version: 30.04.2007

Program Committee:

* Marco Aiello (University of Trento, Italy)
* Francisco Curbera (IBM Watson, USA)
* Gregorio D=92az (University of Castilla La Mancha)
* Schahram Dustdar (Technical University of Vienna)
* Juan Hernandez (University of Extremadura, Spain)
* Heiko Ludwig (IBM Watson Research Center)
* Josef Noll (Telenor R&amp;D, Norway)
* Guadalupe Ortiz (University of Extremadura, Spain)
* Dumitru Roman (DERI Innsbruck, Austria)
* Olaf Zimmermann (IBM Zurich)
* Christian Zirpins (University College London, England)

Symposium Chair:
Guadalupe Ortiz
University of Extremadura, Spain
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gobellot <at> unex.es">gobellot <at> unex.es</a>

Symposium Co-Chair:
Gregorio Diaz
University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Gregorio.Diaz <at> uclm.es">Gregorio.Diaz <at> uclm.es</a>

Contact
Guadalupe Ortiz
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gobellot <at> unex.es">gobellot <at> unex.es</a>

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CFP - Deadline Extension - SPAC 2007

-The paper submission deadline has been extended to March 18, 2007

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The First IEEE International Workshop on
Software Patterns: Addressing Challenges
   ***SPAC 2007***
   Call for Papers

Beijing, China, July 24-27, 2007
(in conjunction with COMPSAC 2007)

http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/ (COMPSAC 2007 Link)
http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/workshops/SPAC (Workshop Link-1)
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad/workshops/COMPSAC07 (Workshop Link-2)
http://www.vrlsoft.com/workshops/SPAC07 (WorkshopLink-3)
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THEME OF THE WORKSHOP

As software increases in size and becomes more complex and costly, the need for
techniques to ease software development is likewise increasing. Over the last
decade, pattern community has evolved and received more interest in both
academia and industry. Developing software using patterns holds the promise to
reduce the cost and condensing the time of developing software systems, while
simultaneously maintaining the quality of these systems.

    However, the potential of using patterns in developing systems is not fully
realized and we need to address many challenges. For example, developing pattern
repositories and catalogs, from which patterns can be retrieved and reused,
still forms a challenge to software engineering, knowledge engineering and
information systems communities. In addition, the need for (semi-) automated
approaches for patterns mining and integration poses several open research
questions to the software engineering community.  Many think these challenges
and others preclude the realization of the benefit of patterns as a reuse
approach.  This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners
who are interested in resolving research challenges or who have practical
experience with the different issues of patterns reuse and integration to
discuss and advance the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice in
patterns reuse.

   Patterns have emerged as a promising reuse technique for both improving the
quality and reducing the cost and time of software development. However, there
is an immense belief that patterns have not fulfilled the expectations software
developers wanted. Nevertheless, this belief does not rebuff the fact that
patterns, as a concept, have the potential to play a key role in developing
systems in the near future.  This near future will never come unless there are
serious attempts from both developers and researchers to investigate and provide
creative solutions to current challenges that hinder utilizing patterns in
practice. Among these challenges, this workshop focuses on investigating how to
develop systems using patterns. We are sure that this topic will attract many
developers and researchers in the field to participate in this workshop.

WORKSHOP CHALLENGES

The workshop will address software patterns challenges and debate several issues
related to the following questions.  We want researchers, framework developers,
and application developers to discuss and debate the following questions related
to:

I.                    Pattern Creation and Development
a.        Leaving experience claim on the side, can you show how to create and
develop patterns?
b.        What are the bases of creating patterns?
c.        Are there guidelines, methodologies, and/or processes for pattern
creations and developments?
d.        Would you show an example or two?

II.                 Patterns Selection Process:
a.        How does one select analysis and design patterns to build any system?
b.        What is the basis for selecting these patterns?
c.        If someone would like to build a system from patterns, how does she
select patterns?
d.       What kind of patterns should one select to build a system from
patterns?
e.        Is there a guideline for the selection process?

III.              Patterns Composition
a.        How does one integrate the selected patterns to build any system? or
How does one compose any system from patterns?
b.        What are the various claims related to patterns composition? Are they
true?
c.        Are there guidelines or techniques for patterns composition? Would you
illustrate how to use them?

IV.               System of Patterns and General Reuse
a.        What do we mean when we say "systems of patterns"?
b.        Are the various claims related to building any system from patterns
reasonable?
c.        How to develop pattern repositories and catalogs, from which patterns
can be retrieved and reused?
d.        Are there automated approaches for patterns mining and integration?
e.        What other concepts will help build any system from patterns?
.
V.                  Impacts
a.        What is the impact of software stability on the above issues?

Check any of the following websites for all columns and accepted position
papers:

http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/workshops/SPAC (Main Link)
www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad//workshops/COMPSAC07 (Workshop Link 2)
www.vrlsoft.com/workshops/SPAC07 (Workshop Link 3 -- Under Construction)

PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS

Detailed instructions for electronic paper submission and review process can be
found at http://www.compsac.org/. People interested in participating in the
workshop are requested to submit a short position paper (3-5 pages) or regular
workshop paper (limited to 6 pages, double spaced, including figures)
representing views and experiences relevant to the discussion topic. The title
page should include a maximum 150-word abstract, five keywords, full mailing
address, e-mail address, phone number, fax number, and a designated contact
author. Papers will be selected depending on the originality, quality and
relevance to the workshop.  All submitted papers will be evaluated according to
its originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance. Papers
should be submitted electronically at:
 http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/2007/SPAC/ . Please follow the instructions given
by the web page. Camera Ready manuscripts must be submitted following IEEE
conference proceedings style and guidelines. We encourage authors to present
novel ideas, critique of existing work, and practical studies.

Each accepted paper must be presented in person by the author or one of the
authors.  To foster lively discussions, each author is encouraged to present
open questions and one or two main statements that will be discussed at the
workshop.  Submissions must be either MS-Word or RTF formats (please, DO NOT
compress files).

Depending on the number and spread of contributions, the scope may be narrowed
to ensure effective communication and information sharing. Accepted position
papers will be distributed to the participants before the workshop and made
generally available through the WWW and FTP.   Accepted papers will be published
in the Workshop Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Computer Software and Applications
Conference (COMPSAC 2007). At least one of the authors of each accepted paper
must register as a full participant in the workshop to have the paper published
in the COMPSAC 2007 Proceedings. The workshop selected best papers will be
published in online Journal of International Journal Of Patterns (IJOP) –
www.ijop.org

WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION

Interested in participating in the workshop without submission are requested to
fill out the participation form and e-mail to the co-chair Haitham Hamza
<hshamza <at> gmail.com>, Eduardo Segura <esegura <at> vrlsoft.com>, or to the workshop
chair M.E. Fayad <m.fayad <at> sjsu.edu>.
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PARTICIPATION FORM:
Name and Affiliation:
Position:
Address:
E-mail:
URL:
Areas of interest:
Why would you like to participate?
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Please note that registration is required in order to participate in the
workshop.  An early registration discount is available.  An overhead projector
and a flipchart will be available.

For more information please visit any of the following websites:

http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/workshops/SPAC (Main Link)
www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad//workshops/COMPSAC07 (Workshop Link 2)
www.vrlsoft.com/workshops/SPAC07 (Workshop Link 3 -- Under Construction)

You may also contact the organizers.

PROPOSED AGENDA

1. Welcome and introduction of participants. The organizers will first give a
short overview of any open issues and of the main arguments arising out of the
position papers. (Estimated time: 20-30 minutes)

2. Selected authors (representing the main trends) will be given  20 minutes to
explain how their position relates to other positions and what each sees as the
three major issues. We expect about 5-10 position papers.  (Estimated time:
120-130 minutes)

3. The organizers will propose an identification of the major issues, and the
participants will then discuss and select what they  think are the hottest
issues to be examined. (Estimated time: 10-15 minutes)

4. The participants will work for 70-95 minutes in small groups, with a
designated moderator in each group. The groups will each deal with two different
hot issues identified and will produce a summary in the form of points and
counterpoints, showing either how several views are irreducibly opposed or how
they are complementary.
The number of groups will depend on the number of participants and number of
issues selected; ideally there should be 3-5 p people in each group. (Estimated
time: 60-70 minutes)

5. Each group will be given 10-15 minutes to present its findings to the
workshop.   A closing discussion will follow. The workshop report will be
written on the basis of these findings and will include an agenda for future
exploration and cooperation; it will
be made available through the WWW and FTP. (Estimated time: 50-60 minutes for
five teams)

(Total estimated time: 285-315 minutes, i.e. about five hours +/- 15 minutes;
lunch and breaks are not included.)

IMPORTANT DATES

We will be updated based on acceptance process

Mar. 18, 2007: Full paper and short paper due
Mar. 25, 2007: Decision notification (electronic)
Apr. 30, 2007: Camera-ready copy and author registration due
July 24-27, 2007: The workshop Date

ORGANIZERS

Chair and Point of Contact:

Dr. M.E. Fayad
Professor of Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering Dept., College of Engineering
San José State University
One Washington Square, San José, CA 95192-0180
Ph: (408) 924-7364, Fax: (408) 924-4153
E-mail: m.fayad <at> sjsu.edu, me fayad <at> gmail.com
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/fayad

Co-Chairs:
Dr. H.S. Hamza (Co-Chair)
Faculty of Computers and Informatics,
Information Technology Department
Cairo University, Orman, Giza 12613 - Egypt
Ph: (02) 335-8355 (office)
E-mail: hshamza <at> gmail.com

Eduardo M. Segura
vrlSoft, Inc.
2065 Martin Ave., Suite 103
Santa Clara, CA 95050-2707
Phone/Fax: (408) 654-8972
E-mail: esegura <at> vrlsoft.com, eduardo.segura <at> sjsu.edu
http://www.vrlsoft.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Leonor Barroca              OpenUniversity, England
Sjaak Brinkkemper           UtrechtUniversity, theNetherlands
Chia-Chu Chiang             UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock, USA
Rogerio Atem de Carvalho    CEFETCampos, Brazil
Andrea D'Ambrogio           UniversityofRomaTorVergata, Italy
Issam Wajih Damaj           DhofarUniversity, Salalah-SultanateofOman
Khalil DRIRA                LAAS-CNRS, France
Islam A. M. El-Maddah       AinShamsUniversity, Egypt
M.E. Fayad                  SanJoseStateUniversity&vrlSoft, Inc., USA
Joao M. Fernandes           UniversidadedoMinho, Portugal
IanGraham                   TriremeInternationalLtd, London, England
Jiang Guo                   CaliforniaStateUniversityLosAngeles, USA
Wilhelm Hasselbring         UniversityofOldenburg, Germany
Tarek Helmy                 KingFahdUniv.ofPetroleumandMinerals, SaudiArabia
H.S. Hamza                  CairoUniversity, Egypt
Pilar Herrero               UniversidadPolitécnicadeMadrid, Spain.
Hoda Hosny                  AmericanUniversityinCairo, Egypt
Pao-Ann Hsiung              NationalChungChengUniversity, Chiayi, TAIWAN
Ali Jaoua                   UniversityofQatar, Qatar
Mohamed-Khireddine KHOLLADI UniversityofConstantine, France
Dae-Kyoo Kim                OaklandUniversity, MI, USA
Seok-Won Lee                TheUniversityofNorthCarolinaatCharlotte, USA
Jeff Lei                    UniversityofTexasatArlington, USA
Ricardo J. Machado          UniversidadedoMinho, Portugal
Ahmed Mahdy                 TexasA&MUniversity-CorpusChristi, USA
Michael Oudshoorn           MontanaStateUniversity, MT, USA
Srini Ramaswamy             UniversityofArkansasatLittleRock, USA
Gustavo Rossi               LIFIA, FacultaddeInformatica, UNLP, Argentina
Stuart Rubin                SPAWAR, SSC-SanDiego, USA
Kannamma Sampath            CoimbatoreInstituteofTechnology, India
Sanchez, Arturo             UniversityofNorthFlorida, USA
Kassem A. Saleh             AmericanUniversityofSharjah, UAE
Arno Schmidmeier            AspectSoft, Hersbruck, Germany
E.M. Segura                 SanJoseStateUniversity&vrlSoft, Inc., USA
Manolis Tzagarakis          ResearchAcademicTechnologyInstitute(RACTI), Greece
Laurence T. Yang            StFrancisXavierUniversity, Canada
I-Ling Yen                  UniversityofTexasatDallas, USA
Markus Strohmaier | 5 Mar 2007 18:34
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CfP: I-Know'07 Conference on Knowledge Management

please apologize if you receive multiple copies.

REMINDER - Call for Papers

I-KNOW 07 - 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

5 - 7 September 2007
Graz, Austria
http://www.i-know.at

Knowledge management has been called everything from innovative and
crucial to new wine in old bottles and dead. Usually, different
perceptions spring from different perspectives. The aim of I-KNOW
is to bring a broad array of these perspectives together, to learn
from each other and to jointly find promising ways ahead for
the future.
In 2007, this will be reflected by putting special emphasis on
discovering and comprehensively managing knowledge relationships,
and on service-based knowledge management solutions.

Now in its seventh year, I-KNOW has a tradition of bringing
together Europe´s leading researchers and practitioners involved
in knowledge management. Attracting more than 500 attendees,
I-KNOW is the premier conference on knowledge management in Europe.
I-KNOW provides a perfect opportunity to stay abreast of
the latest developments in the field. Both the human/organizational
perspective and the technology perspective are
covered. The novelty and the quality of the accepted contributions
are ensured by a high-calibre program committee featuring international
experts on a broad range of knowledge management topics.

Beginning in 2007, I-KNOW will be complemented by I-MEDIA
(www.i-media.tugraz.at),
the First International Conference on New Media Technology, which will be
held concurrently with I-KNOW. This extension reflects the increasing
importance and convergence of knowledge management and new media
technologies.

Submission
I-KNOW 07 invites the submission of original contributions
from academic, public and industrial/commercial sectors.
The conference focus is on application-oriented research
with emphasis on information technologies for knowledge
management and new management tools and methods.
We welcome papers which present methods, tools,
technologies best practices and case studies.

Submissions for the thematic tracks on the first conference day should
address:

        - Knowledge Organisation and Semantic Technologies
        - Integrating Working and Learning in Business
        - Task and Process Exploration and Modelling
        - Knowledge Visualization and Knowledge Discovery
        - Knowledge Sharing using Social Software

Regular paper submissions for the second and third dayof I-KNOW '07 may
include
but are not limited to:

        - Identifying Relationships between different kinds of Knowledge
Entities
        - Making Use of Knowledge Relationships
        - Service-oriented Architectures for Knowledge Management Systems
        - Service-based Knowledge Management
        - Orchestration of Knowledge Management Services
        - Distributed Knowledge Management
        - Semantic Technologies and Systems
        - Social Network Analysis
        - Knowledge Work Productivity
        - Communication and Collaboration in Knowledge Management
        - Context and Usage Pattern Identification and Management
        - Agile Approaches to Knowledge Management

Deadlines
02 April 2007: Full paper submission (4-8 pages)
21 May 2007:   Notification of acceptance
25 June 2007:  Final version (8 pages)
5-7 September 2007: I-KNOW Conference

Authors Guidelines
www.i-know.at/author_guidelines/style_guide

Conference Submissions
By upload to www.i-know.at/submission
File types: PDF (preferred), Word for Windows

Kind regards,
Klaus Tochtermann & Hermann Maurer
I-KNOW Conference Chairs

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Please accept our apologies should
you receive multiple copies of this
call from different lists.
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Markus Strohmaier | 5 Mar 2007 18:40
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CfP: I-Media'07 Conference on New Media Technology

Please apologize if you receive multiple copies.

Reminder - Call for Papers

I-MEDIA 07
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGY
5-7 September 2007
Graz, Austria

http://www.i-media.tugraz.at

Media technologies are currently facing challenges and opportunities arising
from a number of trends: Under the Web 2.0 umbrella, social aspects of
software are gaining importance, and a new focus on simplicity in user
interface design is taking hold. New display devices (e.g. e-paper) and
client software (e.g. geo-browsers) revolutionize the production and
consumption of media products such as newspapers.

At the same time, semantic technologies are maturing to the point where
their broad adoption becomes almost inevitable. In conjunction with new
media, semantic technologies and social software catalyze virtual
communities by matching people of similar interests, browsing behavior, or
geographic location.

Acknowledging these fundamental changes, I-MEDIA will bring together
traditional media companies, new media start-ups and academics to shape the
future of media technology, and to make the most of distributed text, audio
and video resources.

Possible topics for I-MEDIA 07 paper submissions include but are not limited
to:

-- Web 2.0 Applications for Content Providers
-- Business Models for New Media
-- Social Media Platforms
-- User-Generated Content
-- Semantic Technologies for New Media Technology
-- Cross-Media Content Production and Delivery
-- Cross-Media Search and Retrieval
-- Media Provision over the Internet Protocol
-- New Media Services
-- Mobile and Wearable Computing
-- Innovative Media Devices
-- Innovative User Interfaces for Media Devices
-- The Geospatial Web
-- Marketing of Products and Services via New Media
-- Societal Implications of New Media

Beginning in 2007, I-MEDIA will complement I-KNOW (www.i-know.at), the
largest conference on knowledge management of its kind in Europe. This
extension reflects the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge
management and new media technologies. This lets participants of both
conferences benefit from the synergies of both events, in particular from
the presence of different yet related expertise at the same place and time.

Submission Deadlines and Authors Guidelines
http://www.i-media.tugraz.at/style_guide.html

02  Apr 2007: Full paper submission (4-8 pages)
21  May 2007: Notification of acceptance
25  Jun 2007: Final version (8 pages)
5-7 Sep 2007: I-MEDIA Conference

Paper Upload

http://www.i-media.tugraz.at/submission
File types: PDF (preferred), MS Word

Kind regards,

Frank Kappe, Arno Scharl, Werner Haas, Klaus Tochtermann
I-MEDIA Conference Chairs

(e) i-media <at> know-center.at
(w) http://www.i-media.tugraz.at

Vadim Ermolayev | 6 Mar 2007 14:16
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Last CfP: Pi-HolS <at> HoloMAS-2007. Deadline: Mar. 10, 2007


Our apologies for possible duplicates
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Dear College,

This is a courteous reminder that the deadline 
for our special session on Performance in Industrial
Holonic Systems Pi-HolS <at> HoloMAS-2007 is just 4 
days away. The call for papers is appended
for your convenience.

Vadim and Wolf-Ekkehard

LAST CALL for PAPERS
Paper submission deadline: Mar. 10, 2007
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Special Session
Performance in Industrial Holonic Systems
http://ermolayev.com/pi-hols/
at 3rd International Conference on Industrial Applications
of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems (HoloMAS 2007)
September 3-5, 2007, Regensburg, Germany
http://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/HoloMAS/2007/
in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on
Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2007)
http://www.dexa.org/

ABOUT THE SESSION:
A Holon in a broad philosophical sense is an 
entity which is a whole and a part of the whole at the
same time. A very close paradigm of a holistic 
approach advocates for the fact that the properties
of the whole system can not be described using 
only the properties of its parts. In such a holonic
system some distinct “integral” properties 
appear. These emerging properties represent the new
qualities of the non-mechanistic union of the 
system’s constituents. The following aspects of a
holonic paradigm are of particular academic and practical interest:
- The model of an Organization capturing its 
self-configurability, self-development, and dynamic character
- Deliberate collaboration
- Ambient intelligence
One natural choice for modelling a holonic system 
and implementing software for it is the choice
of an intelligent software agent and agency 
paradigms. Another way for implementing holonic
software systems may be the use of 
self-configurable compositions of (Semantic) Web Services.
These software engineering approaches, though 
distinct, have at least one important feature in
common ­ formal shared representation of Domain semantics.
The Session solicits primarily the contributions 
related to industry. Indeed, a holon and a holonic
system are quite appropriate metaphors to be used 
in implementing and deploying intelligent
software for a vastly wide variety of industrial 
applications. The spectrum is as broad as starting
with Agile Manufacturing, e-Commerce, Traffic 
Control and ending with Engineering Design.
Holons are especially attractive in representing 
self-configuring, self-optimizing, collaborative
dynamic systems. These systems are distributed, 
reactive to the influences coming from their
environment and have adaptive structures.
Our special focus of interest in such systems is 
their performance. Performance Management
domain is a fastly growing multi-billion market 
which drastically lacks reliable means for
measuring, assessing, and optimizing the performance of industrial systems.

MAILING LIST
We maintain Pi-HolS mailing list to inform people 
about the session and the news. Please
subscribe to keep you informed. To subscribe please write an e-mail to
mailto:Pi-hols-request <at> vcad-vlab.net?Subject=subscribe 
or write to vadim at ermolayev dot com
mentioning your request to be subscribed.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
The session aims to bring together researchers 
and practitioners active in the area of holonic,
multi-agent systems, knowledge engineering, and 
performance management together with key
engineers and decision makers to share their 
views and experience in design, development,
deployment, and application of software tools for 
measuring, assessing and optimizing the
performance of industrial systems based on holonic principles.

SUBMISSION TYPES:
The following kinds of papers are solicited:
- Research papers
- Industrial Case Studies
- Strategic vision and requirements analysis papers
- Technology development and deployment papers
- Surveys of the State ­of-the-Art

SUGGESTED TOPICS:
In addition to the focus topics of HoloMAS the 
following and related themes are suggested:
- Conceptualization of holonic paradigm in industrial settings
- Models and measures of Performance
- Engineering and deployment of holonic/agent 
based software systems for industries
- Industrial applications and Use Cases for 
holonic and agent based software systems
- Software architectures based on the metaphor of a holon
- Knowledge models and knowledge representation 
frameworks for holonic systems focused on

Performance assessment
- Collaboration in holonic systems
- Ambient intelligence in holonic systems
- Modeling and simulation tools
- Visions and future trends in Performance Management based on holons

PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Authors are invited to submit research or 
industrial contributions in English. A paper should not
exceed 10 pages in its length. Formatting 
guidelines are specified by the proceedings publisher
(Springer Verlag). Authors are advised to submit their papers electronically:
- to the HoloMAS 2007 paper submission system 
(http://www.dexa.org:9005/REG-paper/index.html)
- and by e-mail to Special Session organizers 
(http://ermolayev.com/pi-hols/#j7)
The submissions are subjected to the double-blind 
review by several members of the HoloMAS
Program Committee 
(http://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/HoloMAS/2007/#j4) and session organizers. All
accepted papers will be published in the 
conference proceedings in "Lecture Notes in Computer
Science" (LNCS) series by Springer Verlag.

IMPORTANT DATES:
1. Submission deadline: 	March 10, 2007 (extended)
2. Acceptance notice: 	April 15, 2007
3. Camera-ready copies: 	May 15, 2007

SESSION ORGANIZERS:
Wolf-Ekkehard Matzke 	Cadence Design Systems, GmbH, Munich, Germany
Vadim Ermolayev		Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine

INQUIRIES:
Vadim Ermolayev
Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
e-mail:  vadim at ermolayev dot com

Wolf-Ekkehard Matzke
Cadence Design Systems, GmbH, Munich, Germany
e-mail: wolf at cadence dot com 

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[Last CfP] 2007 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'07)

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies]

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Submissions from authors who did not have time to submit an abstract  
will still
be accepted up to the final deadline (March 20th), but we ask that  
you submit a
title abstract and keywords as soon as possible to help us make  
preliminary
reviewing assignments.

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                                CALL FOR PAPERS

                   2007 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
                   and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'07)

              Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA, 22-26 September 2007

                        http://vlhcc07.eecs.wsu.edu/

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 From the beginning of the computer age, researchers and computing
practitioners have sought ways to make interactions with computers more
human-oriented. For example, visual languages have long been used to
provide effective communication between human and machine, and are
successfully employed for end-user programming, modeling, rapid
prototyping, and design by people of many disciplines including
architects, artists, children, engineers, and scientists. In addition,
visual languages and technologies are increasingly being used to
facilitate human-human communication through Internet/Web technology and
electronic mobile devices.

The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
(VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for researchers
andindustrial practitioners to discuss the theory, applications and
evaluation of technologies, visual and otherwise, that enhance the role
of humans in the computing process.

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SCOPE AND TOPIC
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We solicit original, unpublished research papers that focus on some
aspect of human-centric computing technology, whether it be visual
technology, text, sound, virtual reality, the Web, or other multimedia
technologies.

Research papers may address cognitive and design aspects, underlying
theories, formal aspects, taxonomies, implementation work, tool support,
and empirical studies. We also solicit short papers detailing work in
progress or tool demonstrations. Areas of interest include, but are not
limited to, the following:

   * Empirical Studies of human-centric software technologies
   * Languages and tools for end-user software development
   * Languages and tools for domain-specific software development
   * Multimedia systems
   * Multi-modal interaction
   * Design, theory, and application of visual programming languages
   * Software visualization and algorithm animation
   * Model-driven engineering (MDE)
   * Domain-specific languages (DSL)

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Authors are encouraged to submit:

     * standard papers reporting on research or experience,
     * short papers detailing work in progress or tool demonstrations.

Standard papers may be up to eight pages in IEEE double-column format;
short papers may be up to four pages in IEEE double-column format.
Papers must be submitted electronically. All paper submissions will be
reviewed by members of the international Program Committee.

Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of VL/HCC'07, published
by the IEEE Computer Society. The paper submission deadline is March 20,
2007.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop/Tutorial proposals: 20 February 2007
Workshop/Tutorial decision: 6 March 2007

Paper submission: 20 March 2007
Notification of decision: 22 May 2007
Camera-ready copy: 19 June 2007

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SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS
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GENERAL CHAIR
Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University, USA.

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Phil Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada.
John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA, France

WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL CHAIR
Mark Minas, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Mark Apperley, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Thomas Baar, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Alan Blackwell, University of Cambridge, UK
Paolo Bottoni, Universita di Roma, Italy
Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA
Maria Francesca Costabile, Universita di Bari, Italy
Gennaro Costagliola, Universita di Salerno, Italy
Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Peter Eades, NICTA, Australia
Gregor Engels, Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA
Andrew Fish, University of Brighton, UK
Mark Gross, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
John Grundy, University of Auckland, New Zealand
John Howse, University of Brighton, UK
Stefano Levialdi, Universita di Roma, Italy
Kim Marriott, Monash University, Australia
Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Australia
Mark Minas, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Marian Petre, Open University, UK
Emmanuel Pietriga, INRIA, France
Pablo Romero, Sussex University, UK
Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Andy Schürr, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Shin Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Steve Tanimoto, University of Washington, USA
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland
Susan Wiedenbeck, Drexel University, USA
Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

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Note to graduate students: VL/HCC'07 has applied for a grant from the  
National
Science Foundation (NSF) to cover travel expenses to attend the  
conference in
Coeur d'Alène, Idaho, USA, on September 22-26, 2007. Eligibility for  
this
funding is limited to students and other researchers from U.S.  
universities and
research institutions; however, participants from outside the U.S. are
encouraged to obtain other support to participate in this event.
Details to be announced.
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[This CfP is also available in PDF]
http://vlhcc07.eecs.wsu.edu/cfp.html#pdf

--
Emmanuel Pietriga
INRIA Futurs - Projet In Situ    tel : +33 1 69 15 34 66
Bat 490, Université Paris-Sud    fax : +33 1 69 15 65 86
91405 ORSAY Cedex FRANCE     http://www.lri.fr/~pietriga


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