[Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 2 June 2005

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Dear IT-Announce subscriber,

Welcome to issue number 2 for June, 2005. This service is sponsored by
the Australian Computer Society (www.acs.org.au). Complete news items
may be found at http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm.


Australian International and Local Conference Announcements

  Australasian Language Technology Workshop ALTW 2005 Call for papers
  2005 International Conference on Mobile Business, Crowne Plaza Darling Harbour, Sydney, July 11-13

International Conference Announcements

  CFP: International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling,Control and Automation
  CFP: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce
  CFP: Web Information Systems Quality Workshop (WISQ 2005)
  Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS06 Preliminary CFP
  Call for Papers - Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS) 2006
  cfp workshop in Tokyo on "Smart Environments and Their Applications to Cultural Heritage" with Ubicomp 2005
  INFOSCALE06:First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems
  ICSOC 2005: the site for submission is now opening

Academic Positions

  Research Fellow Position in Bioinformatics & Distributed Computing at Sydney University
  PhD Scholarships at QUT
  Postgraduate Research Study at Victoria University - School of Computer Science and Mathematics
  PhD scholarships at UNSW in Mathematical Biology

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Australian International and Local Conference Announcements

  Australasian Language Technology Workshop ALTW 2005 Call for papers
  menno at ics.mq.edu.au

      2005 Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW2005)
                     First Call for Papers

               University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

                       10 and 11 December 2005
                  Submissions due: 15 September 2005
                http://www.alta.asn.au/events/altw2005
           Workshop contact email: workshop AT alta.asn.au



PURPOSE

A two-day workshop on Natural Language Technology will be organised by
the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA).  This event
will be the third annual installment of the workshop in its
most-recent incarnation, and the continuation of an annual workshop
series that has existed under various guises since the early 90s.

It will be held in conjunction with a tutorial day, also at the ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf0

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  Call for Participation: 2005 International Conference on Mobile Business, Crowne Plaza Darling Harbour, Sydney, July 11-13
  rsteele at it.uts.edu.au

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                       Call For Participation
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        The Fourth International Conference on Mobile Business
                    IEEE Sponsored Conference
                          m-Business 2005
                         Sydney, Australia

                        July 11 - 13, 2005

           Conference URL: http://www.mbusiness2005.org
 The proceedings of ICMB05 are published by the IEEE Computer Society
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The annual, International m-Business Conference, attracts leading scholars
and industry leaders in the m-Business/ wireless space from
across the world. The m-Business 2005 Conference takes place in Sydney,
Australia, July 11-13, 2005 with the theme of Mobile Transformation -
Enterprise transformation through mobile technologies and applications.

The main aim of the m-Business 2005 Conference is to further research, ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#ausconf1

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International Conference Announcements

  CFP: International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling,Control and Automation
  masoud.mohammadian at canberra.edu.au
 CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling,
                    Control and Automation
              28 - 30 November 2005 Vienna, Austria
                         http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca05/

In co-operation with:
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Sponsored by:
European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - EUFLAT
International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy - SIGEF
Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT
Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association - TFSA
World Wide Web Business Intelligence - W3BI
Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA
University of Canberra

                             Jointly with
International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies
                         and Internet Commerce ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf0

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  CFP: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce
  iawtic at canberra.edu.au
 CALL FOR PAPERS


International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies
                         and Internet Commerce
             http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic05/                          

                             Jointly with
International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling,
                    Control and Automation
              28 - 30 November 2005 Vienna, Austria
                         http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca05/



International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2005 provides a
 medium for researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore the issues and opportunities in the area of 
intelligent agent, web technologies and Internet commerce. 

The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation 
and applications of intelligent agents, web technologies and Internet commerce.

Conference Topics Include (but not limited to):  ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf1

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  CFP: Web Information Systems Quality Workshop (WISQ 2005)
  Shonali.Krishnaswamy at infotech.monash.edu.au

Web Information Systems Quality (WISQ 2005) Workshop
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Workshop URL: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/wisq05

To be held in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Web
Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2005)

20-22 November 2005, New York City, New York, USA

Aims and Scope
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WISQ 2005 aims to continue the series of workshops held in conjunction
with WISE since 2003 with a  focus on the quality aspects of
web applications, systems and services - namely WQW 2003 and WIS
2004. This workshop will provide a forum discussion and dissemination
of research from a holistic and comprehensive perspective on quality
of web information systems including web services. This workshop aims
to promote all the areas related to the quality of the web information
systems. The topics for which submissions are solicited
include (but are not limited to):
 ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf2

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  Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS06 Preliminary CFP
  lbcao at it.uts.edu.au

CALL FOR PAPERS

            The Fifth International Joint Conference on
             AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
                             AAMAS-06

                          Hakodate, Japan
                          May 8--12, 2006

       
AAMAS-06 encourages the submission of theoretical, experimental,
methodological, and applications papers. Theory papers should make
clear the significance and relevance of their results to the AAMAS
community. Similarly, applied papers should make clear both their
scientific and technical contributions, and are expected to
demonstrate a thorough evaluation of their strengths and weaknesses in
practice. Papers that address isolated agent capabilities (for
example, planning or learning) are discouraged unless they are placed
in the overall context of autonomous agent architectures or
multiagent system organization and performance. A thorough evaluation
is considered an essential component of any submission. Authors are ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf3

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  Call for Papers - Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS) 2006
  M.Kirchberg at massey.ac.nz

                    C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
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                   Fourth International Symposium on

        Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS)

               February 14-17, 2006 -- Budapest, Hungary

                   http://foiks.massey.ac.nz/foiks06/

The goal of the FoIKS symposia, which take place once every two years,
is to bring together researchers working on the theoretical foundations
of information and knowledge systems and to attract researchers working
in mathematical fields such as discrete mathematics, combinatorics,
logics and finite model theory who are interested in applying their
theories to research on database and knowledge base theory.

FoIKS took up the tradition of the conference series Mathematical
Fundamentals of Database Systems (MFDBS), which enabled East-West
collaboration in the field of database theory. Previous FoIKS symposia ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf4

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  cfp workshop in Tokyo on "Smart Environments and Their Applications to Cultural Heritage" with Ubicomp 2005
  Tullio Salmon Cinotti

Ubicomp 2005
September 11-14, 2005 | Tokyo, Japan
The Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2005/

Workshop:
"Smart Environments and Their Applications to Cultural Heritage"

Organizers: Nick Ryan (University of Kent), Tullio Salmon Cinotti
(Università di Bologna), Giuseppe Raffa (Università di Bologna)
Url: http://smart.arces.unibo.it/

Cultural and natural heritage applications have proved to be an
attractive vehicle for ubicomp researchers. Several projects have
developed data collection tools, museum or city visitor guides as a
means of demonstrating various concepts including location and context
awareness and smart building environments. Together, these represent two
ends of the 'production'  process of bringing cultural and natural
heritage from the research environment to its consumers. The intermediate
analytical, archival and curatorial stages are less well represented,
but also provide considerable scope for ubicomp research. ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf5

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  INFOSCALE06:First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems
  j.cao at latrobe.edu.au

First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE)

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 ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf6

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  ICSOC 2005: the site for submission is now opening
  qsheng at cse.unsw.edu.au

We would like to invite you to submit papers to ICSOC'05. The site
for submission is now opening. The deadline for abstract submission
is June 24, 2005 and the deadline for full paper submission is July 1,
2005. More details can be found in the following:



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                        CALL FOR PAPERS
                           ICSOC'05

                  3rd International Conference
                  on Service-Oriented Computing

                   Amsterdam, the Netherlands
                     December 12-15, 2005
                     http://www.icsoc.org/
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The 3rd International Conference of Service Oriented Computing ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf7

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Academic Positions and Scholarships

  Research Fellow Position in Bioinformatics & Distributed Computing at Sydney University
  bbz at it.usyd.edu.au

The School of Information Technologies has a vacancy for a Research
Fellow in Advanced Network Research group. The successful applicant
will work with a research team to undertake research in the design
of efficient algorithms and the development of grid or distributed
computing systems for solving problems in bioinformatics, contribute
to existing ARC Discovery projects and develop applications for further
external funding. In addition the research fellow will provide guidance
and technical assistance to junior researchers in the team.

The position is full-time fixed term for two years, subject to the
completion of a satisfactory probation period for new appointees. There
is the possibility of further offers of employment, subject to funding
and need. Membership of a University approved superannuation scheme is
a condition of employment for new appointees.

For further information contact Dr Bing Bing Zhou on (02) 9036 9112 or
e-mail: bbz at it.usyd.edu.au Information about the School of Information
Technologies can be found at http://www.it.usyd.edu.au

Remuneration Package: $75,136 - $89,223 p.a. (which includes a base
salary Level B $63,491 - $75,395 p.a., leave loading and up to 17% ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads0

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  PhD Scholarships at QUT
  m.dumas at qut.edu.au

PhD Scholarships in Information Technology

QUT's Faculty of Information Technology is offering a number of 3 year
PhD Scholarships for students commencing in Semester 2, 2005. People with
an Australian first class honours degree (or equivalent) are eligible
to apply.

Faculty Merit Scholarships
A number of scholarships to the value of $18,837 pa (with annual CPI
adjustments) will be available for research projects that fit within
the Faculty's five broad themes:

    * Security and Trust
    * Business Process Management
    * Socio-Technical Systems
    * Complex Systems Engineering
    * Human-Centred Smart Systems

More detailed information on specific research areas is available from:
http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/research/
 ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads1

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  Postgraduate Research Study at Victoria University - School of Computer Science and Mathematics
  Gitesh.Raikundalia at vu.edu.au

Victoria University is one of Australia's largest universities, with more
than 50,000 students both in Australia and overseas and 3,000 staff. The
University has a highly diverse student population, including nearly
2,300 international students. The University has 12 campuses located
throughout Melbourne, Australia's second largest city.

The School of Computer Science and Mathematics contributes to one-sixth
of the University's total output of publications. The School is home
to the Internet Technologies and Applications Research Laboratory,
a research group and physical laboratory space dedicated to research
on Internet Technologies. The School also encompasses the Research
Group in Mathematical Inequalities and Applications that carries out
internationally recognised research on Mathematical Inequalities. Research
is conducted on the following areas:

* Internet Technologies
* Mathematical Inequalities
* Software Engineering
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Artificial Intelligence
* Computer Vision ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads2

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  PhD scholarships at UNSW in Mathematical Biology
  "Miles Davenport" <m.davenport at unsw.edu.au>

The University of New South Wales is offering up to three APA supplements
for students with a strong undergraduate record to commence a PhD in
mathematical biology. Students with a background in mathematics, statistics,
computing or engineering are sought to work on projects aimed at
understanding the three major infectious diseases of our time - HIV,
malaria, and tuberculosis.


Two groups in the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science are developing
models to understand both the dynamics of infection within infected
individuals, as well as the spread of infection through populations. The
groups work closely with a number of experimental collaborators to analyse
and model data. Current collaborations include investigation of HIV
vaccination trials in monkeys, malaria and influenza infection of mice, and
transmission of tuberculosis in humans. No prior experience in biology is
required - just strong quantitative background and a willingness to learn
new ideas.


Three supplements of $8000 p.a. to be held for up to three years are
available. Closing date for applications is 31 October 2005. ..... 
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobads3

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