[Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 July 2006

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Dear IT-Announce subscriber,

Welcome to issue number 1 for July, 2006. 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

  CCATS 2007 Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium
  IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce
  PRACTICAL COGNITIVE AGENTS and ROBOTS
  Open Source Developers' Conference - Melbourne - December 2006

International Conference Announcements

  Service Composition Workshop, 2nd edition (sercomp'06), December 18, 2006, Hong Kong
  CFP: Intl Conf on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2006)
  CfP: 6th Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling at OOPSLA
  IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2006
  (Deadline extended) IFIP SWWS 2006 - due July 10
  The AVISPA Tool - v1.1

Academic Positions

  Open positions: R&D Software Engineer and APAI PhD Scholarship
  Two PhD scholarships available for ARC Discovery Project
  PhD Scholarship University of NSW
  PhD Scholarship on Relationships in OOP
  PhD Scholarship in Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Swinburne University
  PhD Postgraduate Scholarship in Data Mining: Macquarie University Computing

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Australian International and Local Conference Announcements

  CCATS 2007 Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium
  Joachim Gudmundsson

CALL FOR PAPER

CATS 2007 Computing: The Australasian Theory Symposium
January 29 - February 2, 2007, Ballarat, Australia
http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~cbj/cats0

CATS is the premier theoretical computer science conference i
Australasia. It is held annually as part of Australasian Compute
Science Week (ASCW) which comprises many other conferences and i
overseen by the Computer Research and Education Associatio
(CORE)

CATS 2007 will be the thirteenth time that CATS has been held. Th
symposium will consist of invited talks and formal pape
presentations. All papers will be fully refereed with proceeding
published by CRPIT

Papers are invited on all aspects of Theoretical Computer Science
Some representative, but not exclusive, topics include th
following
   logic and type system ..... 
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  IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce
  iawtic at canberra.edu.au


                            CALL FOR PAPER
       International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologie
                         and Internet Commerc
             http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic06

                              Jointly wit

 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling
                       Control and Automatio
                    28 November to 1 December 200
                         Sydney , Australi
               http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca06


Honorary Chair
Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, US
Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, US


Important Dates ..... 
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  PRACTICAL COGNITIVE AGENTS and ROBOTS
  Mary-Anne.Williams at uts.edu.au

International Symposium on PRACTICAL COGNITIVE AGENTS and ROBOT
   --- Celebrating 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence  --

                    CALL FOR PAPER
            http://agents.csse.uwa.edu.au/pcar
          *Paper Submission: September 30, 2006 
         27- 28 November, 2006 (Perth, Australia

*INVITED SPEAKERS*

 Masahiro Fujita*- /General Manager, Chief Distinguished Researcher
 Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory, Information Technologie
 Laboratories, Sony Corporation/, /Japan. Technical leader of Sony'
 entertainment robot AIBOand humanoid QRIO

 *Patrick Doherty* - /Professor of Computer Science, Department o
 Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, and  Directo
 for LinkLab, a center for Future Aviation Systems, which is a join
 venture between Saab Aero Systems and Linköping University.

Mobile autonomous robots can perform complex tasks in unstructured an ..... 
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  Open Source Developers' Conference - Melbourne - December 2006
  debbiep-osdc at futzle.com
       http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/cfp06.html

There are two and a half weeks to go to get your paper in for one of th
best Australian conferences this year

        The deadline for proposals is 12th July 2006

The Open Source Developers' Conference is an Australian conferenc
designed for developers, by developers. It covers numerous programmin
languages across a range of operating systems.  We're seeking papers o
Open Source languages, technologies, projects and tools as well as  topic
of interest to Open Source developers

The conference will be held in Melbourne, Victoria (Monash University'
Caulfield Campus) from the 6th to the 8th of December, 2006.  Each da
includes three streams of talks, social events and is full
catered with buffet lunch and morning, afternoon teas

For a list of conference presentations from last year visit

        http://osdc2005.cgpublisher.com/proposals

If you have any questions, or have never submitted a paper proposa ..... 
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International Conference Announcements

  Service Composition Workshop, 2nd edition (sercomp'06), December 18, 2006, Hong Kong
  dumitru.roman at deri.org

*** First Call for Papers **

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International Workshop on Service Composition, 2nd editio
(sercomp'06
http://events.deri.at/sercomp2006

at the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligenc
(WI 2006
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi0

December 18, 2006, Hong Kon
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GENERAL OVERVIE

Composition of services in dynamic environments has received muc
interest for its potential to support Business-to-Business (B2B) o
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). One of such dynami
environments is the World Wide Web, which makes available a hug ..... 
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  CFP: Intl Conf on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2006)
  kinshuk at ieee.org

Dear colleague

Deadline for submissions: 17 July 2006 (for all contributions


                         IADIS International Conference o
            Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2006
                          December 8-10, 2006 - Barcelona, Spai
                             (http://www.iadis.org/celda2006)* Importan
                             Dates
17 July 2006        - Submission Deadlin
11 September 2006   - Notification to Author
16 October 2006     - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registratio


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed)
Professor David Merrill, Brigham Young University Hawaii, US
Professor Begoña Gros, Universidad de Barcelona, Spai

* Invited Talk (confirmed)
Dr Marco Marsella, European Commission, DG Information Society ..... 
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  CfP: 6th Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling at OOPSLA
  jpt at metacase.com

C A L L   F O R   P A P E R 
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The 6th OOPSLA Workshop on Domain-Specific Modelin

October 22, 200
Portland, Oregon, US

http://www.dsmforum.org/events/DSM0

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Call for Position Papers

Domain-Specific Modeling raises the level of abstraction beyon
programmin
by specifying the solution directly using domain concepts. In many cases
final products can be generated automatically from these high-leve
specifications. This automation is possible because both the language an
generators need fit the requirements of only one company and domain

Industrial experiences of DSM consistently show it to be 5-10 times faste ..... 
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  IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2006
  hujia0601 at sina.com

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         IEEE/WIC/ACM  WEB INTELLIGENCE 200

                  CALL FOR PAPER

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2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM  International Conference o
Web Intelligence (WI'06

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China
18-22 December 2006

Sponsored B
IEEE Computer Societ
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM

Co-Organized Wit
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU ..... 
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  (Deadline extended) IFIP SWWS 2006 - due July 10
  IFIP SWWS 2006

CALL FOR PAPER

**NEW Deadline** Paper Submission due - July 10, 2006

Second International IFIP WG 2.12 / 12.4 Workshop on Web Semantics (SWW
'06
with special tracks on Security & Trust, Fuzzy models and Regulator
Ontologie

Oct 29 - Nov 3, 2006, Montpellier, Franc
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=swws2006cf

In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'06
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedcon

Proceedings will be published by Springer LNC


Motivatio
The IFIP Working Group 2.12 & 12.4 on Semantic We
(http://www.ceebi.curtin.edu.au/IFIP/) is a timely active internationa ..... 
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  The AVISPA Tool - v1.1
  Laurent.Vigneron at loria.fr

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We are happy to announce the availability of a new version of th
AVISPA Tool, a push-button tool for the Automatic Validation o
Internet Security-sensitive Protocols and Applications.  The AVISP
Tool v1.1 is available a ..... 
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Academic Positions and Scholarships

  Open positions: R&D Software Engineer and APAI PhD Scholarship
  rkowalczyk at ict.swin.edu.au

R&D Software Engineer/Research Assistant, an
APAI PhD Scholarship (Australian Postgraduate Award Industry

Two positions are available in a research project on Agent-Enabled Socia
Networks (AESN). The project is supported by a substantial researc
grant awarded by the Australian Research Council's Linkage Program i
collaboration with the industry partner Everyday Interactive Networks

For more information please visi
http://www.it.swin.edu.au/centres/ciamas

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Prof Ryszard Kowalczy
Director, Centre for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent System
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologie
Swinburne University of Technolog
PO Box 218 Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australi
http://www.it.swin.edu.au/centres/ciama
Email: rkowalczyk at it.swin.edu.a
Phone: +61 3 9214 5834 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EW10
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  Two PhD scholarships available for ARC Discovery Project
  liyan at usq.edu.au

Two PhD scholarships funded by ARC Discovery Projec

Stipend of $23,886 p.a. (tax free) (2006-2008

Application close: Open until  fille

Contact: Dr Yan L
Department of Mathematics and Computin
The University of Southern Queensland
QLD 4350, Australia
Email: liyan at usq.edu.a
URL: http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/liya

Research Areas

Biomedical Engineering (EEG or MRI), Artificial Intelligence and Networke
Real-time Syste

Prerequisites

A  Honours, Masters degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Electroni ..... 
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  PhD Scholarship University of NSW
  jxue at cse.unsw.edu.au

A PhD scholarship funded by an ARC grant is available. The intereste
student please consult the following URL link for detail

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~jxue/xue06.htm

--- Jingling Xu
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  PhD Scholarship on Relationships in OOP
  david.pearce at mcs.vuw.ac.nz

Applications are invited for a targeted PhD scholarship with th
Software Engineering Group at Victoria University of Wellington, Ne
Zealand.  The topic is "First-Class Relationships for Object-Oriente
Programming Languages" (description below), to be supervised by Dr
David J. Pearce and Professor James Noble

The Scholarship is valued at $20,000 per annum, plus a contribution t
tuition fees.  International students will only pay domestic fees

The deadline for applications is 17th July, 2006.  More information can b
found at: www.vuw.ac.nz/scholarships.  Enquiries about the proposed topi
should be directed to Dr. David J. Pearce on david.pearce at mcs.vuw.ac.n
or +64 (0)4 463 583

Project Description

Object-Oriented programming languages, such as Java, use objects as th
fundamental building blocks for representing the world.  While thi
approach enables rich representation of the properties and behaviou
of objects, it provides surprisingly limited support for representin
relationships in ad-hoc ways, which results in needless errors, cod ..... 
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  PhD Scholarship in Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Swinburne University
  rkowalczyk at swin.edu.au

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PhD Scholarship in Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent System
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A new PhD Scholarship is available in Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agen
Systems at the Swinburne Centre for Information Technology Research
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburn
University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Potential candidates interested in PhD research in the areas o
qualitative decision-making, argumentation and learning mechanism
for multi-agent negotiation and coordination are encourage
to apply. Preference will be given to the candidates with stron
mathematical, game-theoretical, soft computing, artificial intelligenc
and/or relevant computer science background and interests. Bot
Australian and international candidates are encouraged to apply. Preferre
commencement in 2006

For further information and application forms, please contact Pro
Ryszard Kowalczyk with the following details
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  PhD Postgraduate Scholarship in Data Mining: Macquarie University Computing
  mehmet at ics.mq.edu.au

PhD Postgraduate Scholarship: Macquarie University Computin

APAI: Prediction and Classification Modelling for Debt Payment Risk for ATO Client

URL: http://www.ro.mq.edu.au/HDRU/forms_scholar/ICSAPAIATO.pd

The Computing Department, Macquarie University are offering one Australia
Postgraduate Awards (Industry) Scholarship (APAI). The Australia
Taxation Office (ATO) and Macquarie University have gained funding unde
the ARC Linkage Projects (LP0561985) to support a research program fo
the optimisation of tax collections by improving the prediction an
classification of taxpayer debt payment risk

Predictive models for financial distress and insolvency risk will b
developed in this project. These models will be used to contribute to th
understanding taxpayers; circumstances and the choice of appropriat
collection actions. The successful applicant (PhD student) will conduc
research in Macquarie's Intelligent Systems Group and collaborate wit
the Analytics team in the Office of the Chief Knowledge Officer at th
ATO. The student will spend time at the ATO being briefed by domai
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