[Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 2 July 2006

Wed Jul 19 17:26:57 EST 2006

Dear IT-Announce subscriber,

Welcome to issue number 2 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

  Preliminary CFP: Asia Pacific Symposium on Visualisation (APVIS) 2007
  NICTA Systems Verification Workshop Aug 7/8
  Workshop on MOdel Driven Development for Middleware (MODDM)at Middleware
  AusWIT 2006 - 10th Australian Women in IT Conference
  ACSC07 The Thirtieth Australasian Computer Science Conference
  The Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2006), 4 or 5 Dec 2006, Hobart, Australia

International Conference Announcements

  World Congress on Intellectual Capital (WCIC)
  NRAC at IJCAI: Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action and Change
  SAC'07 - ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - Prog Lang Track
  ICQNM 2007 || ICDS 2007 || Guadeloupe,  January 2-7,  2007.
  Stanford Spring Symposium Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive
  AISWORLD Information Systems World Network
  EuroSys 2007 2nd European Conference on Computer Systems

Academic Positions

  PhD Postgraduate Scholarship in Data Mining: Macquarie University Computing
  PhD Scholarship in Multi-Agent Systems, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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Australian International and Local Conference Announcements

  Preliminary CFP: Asia Pacific Symposium on Visualisation (APVIS) 2007
  Richard.Webber at nicta.com.au

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Preliminary Call for Papers
Asia Pacific Symposium on Visualisation
5-7 February, 2007
Sydney, Australia
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~visual/apvis2007/
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APVIS2007 is the sixth symposium (formerly known as Invis.au) for
visualisation researchers in the Asia-Pacific region. Authors are
invited to submit papers describing original and unpublished research
or practical applications in any area of Information Visualisation or
Scientific Visualisation.

* Scope

Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
- Theoretic foundations of visualisation
- Usability and human-factors
- Visual models and representations
- Visual knowledge discovery ..... 
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  NICTA Systems Verification Workshop Aug 7/8
  gerwin.klein at nicta.com.au

Call for Participation:

International Workshop on System Verification
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National ICT Australia (NICTA), Formal Methods Program
Aug 7/8 2006
Sydney, Australia

This workshop is a merger of the 3rd Annual NICTA Formal Methods
Workshop and the 2nd International Workshop on Operating Systems
Verification. There currently exist a number of academic and
industrial projects on the security and reliability of systems level
software (OS kernels, services, drivers etc) employing techniques from
automatic static analysis and model checking to interactive theorem
proving. It is the aim of this workshop to bring together researchers
in this area to foster collaboration and provide an overview of the
state of the art.

Presentations are by invitation only. Post workshop proceedings will ..... 
http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#cfp.txt1

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  Workshop on MOdel Driven Development for Middleware (MODDM)at Middleware
  Liming.Zhu at nicta.com.au

Call for Papers

Workshop on MOdel Driven Development for Middleware (MODDM)at Middleware
2006

November 27, 2006 at MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~limingz/middleware2006/

held in conjunction with ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware
Conference ( http://2006.middleware-conference.org/)

This workshop will bring together academic researchers, MDD tool builders
and MDD practitioners, especially those targeting middleware platforms
such as J2EE/.Net/CORBA/Web Services, WS-* frameworks, Enterprise Service
Bus (ESB), Message bus, Web Service Management (WSM) platforms, workflow
infrastructure, and EAI frameworks.

**Important Dates**

Paper Submission: 31, July, 2006 ..... 
http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#cfp.txt2

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  AusWIT 2006 - 10th Australian Women in IT Conference
  jenny at it.uts.edu.au

AusWIT 2006: partICipaTion one year on

10th Australian Women in IT Conference
December 4 & 5, 2006
Adelaide, South Australia

http://www.auswit.org/

One year on from the Federal Government's partICipaTion Summit we invite
industry representatives, academics, researchers and students involved
in women in information technology to meet and share programs, discuss
strategies and assess progress.

The Summit was held in Sydney, 22 September 2005 ;
http://www.dcita.gov.au./ict/events_and_forums/participation_summit

AusWIT has a mission of informing, sharing, community building, and
re-energising those involved in the recruitment and retention of women
in information technology.
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  ACSC07 The Thirtieth Australasian Computer Science Conference
  jenny at it.uts.edu.au

The Thirtieth Australasian Computer Science Conference
29th January to 2nd February, 2007 --- Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
http://www.se.auckland.ac.nz/acsc07/
The Australasian Computer Science Conference is an annual forum for
exploring research, development, and novel applications in Computer
Science. The Thirtieth Australasian Computer Science Conference, ACSC
2007, will be held at the University of Ballarat as part of the
Australasian Computer Science Week. Registration to the Australasian
Computer Science Conference enables delegates to attend sessions in any
conference participating in the Australasian Computer Science Week.
Key Areas
ACSC 2007 solicits contributions in all fields of Computer Science
research. Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are:
Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Communications and Networks
Compilers
Computer Architecture
Computer Vision
Computational Geometry
Concurrency ..... 
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  The Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2006), 4 or 5 Dec 2006, Hobart, Australia
  mehmet at comp.mq.edu.au

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2006)
Held in Conjunction with the 19th Australian Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AI'06)
December 4 or 5, 2006, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Advances in Ontologies:

The use of formal ontologies in knowledge systems has many advantages. It
allows for an unambiguous specification of the structure of knowledge in a
domain, enables knowledge sharing and, as a result, makes it possible to
perform automated reasoning about ontologies. In recent years there has
been a worldwide increase in the use of ontologies, both in industry and
in research laboratories. There is a growing community of researchers in
Australia and New Zealand, working on various aspects of ontologies. The
primary aim of this workshop is to bring together ontology researchers
in the region.

Workshop website:
http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/conferences/aow/
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International Conference Announcements

  World Congress on Intellectual Capital (WCIC)
  choi at it.usyd.edu.au

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Call for Papers

World Congress on Intellectual Capital (WCIC)
Korea KM Society, COEX Convention Center, Seoul, Korea 21-22 Sept. 2006
http://WCIC.KMSK.OR.KR

As our society makes a gradual transition from agricultural and industrial
economies into the modern global age, where knowledge has become the key
to competitive advantage, more and more organizations are focusing on
creating and effectively managing their organization's intellectual
capital (also called intellectual property or knowledge assets).  To date,
most of Knowledge Management (KM) research and implementation evolved
around the creating and sharing of explicit knowledge through the use of
enterprise wide Knowledge Management System (KMS). However, for KM
initiatives to become a truly strategic organizational infrastructure,
they need to expand their scope from tangible, document oriented knowledge
objects to intangible, people oriented knowhow, process,
technology/patents, and relationships that comprise the organization's
comprehensive intellectual capital.
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http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0

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  NRAC at IJCAI: Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action and Change
  Mary-Anne.Williams at uts.edu.au

IJCAI Workshop Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action and Change

URI: http://research.it.uts.edu.au/magic/NRAC/2007/

Intelligent agents exploring complex and dynamic physical and information
rich landscapes require sophisticated capabilities for perception,
reasoning and planning. The abilities to reason nonmonotonically, to
reason about actions, and to change one's beliefs, have been identified
as fundamental high-level cognitive functions. Underlying these functions
is the need to manage inconsistent, uncertain, incomplete and changing
information.

GOOGLE BEST STUDENT PAPER PRIZE US$5K
Google Inc is sponsoring the Best Student Paper Prize and Student Travel
support to NRAC-07. Thank you Google!

INVITED SPEAKER
Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University Cognitive Science, Sweden
Title: Bring in the forces! Modelling actions and functional properties
in conceptual spaces.
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  SAC'07 - ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - Prog Lang Track
  asloane at ics.mq.edu.au

CALL FOR PAPERS

SAC'07 - ACM 2007 SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING
March 11 - 15, 2007
Seoul, Korea
Technical Track on "Programming Languages"

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (PL) TRACK
A technical track on Programming Languages will be held at SAC'07. It will
be a forum for engineers, researchers and practitioners throughout
the world to share technical ideas and experiences relating to
implementation and application of programming languages. Original papers and
experience reports are invited in all areas of programming languages. Major
topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Compiling Techniques, Domain-Specific Languages, Formal Semantics
and Syntax, Garbage Collection, Language Design and Implementation, New
Programming Language Ideas and Concepts, New Programming Paradigms,
Practical Experiences with Programming Languages, Program
Analysis and Verification, Program Generation and Transformation, Programming
Languages from All Paradigms (Agent-Oriented, Aspect-Oriented, Functional,
Logic, Object-Oriented, etc.), Visual Programming Languages. ..... 
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  CFP: ICQNM 2007 || ICDS 2007 || Guadeloupe,  January 2-7,  2007.
  pdini at cisco.com

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Place: Guadeloupe, French Caribbean
Date: January 2-7, 2007

Important deadlines:
Paper submission     August 15, 2006
Notification		   September 10, 2006
Registration		  September 30, 2006

ICQNM 2007, TheFirst International Conference on Quantum, Nano, and
Micro Technologies
General: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICQNM07.html
CFP: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/CfPICQNM07.html
January 2-4, 2007, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean

includes NBR 2007: The First International Workshop on Nano and Bio
Robotics
CFP: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/NBR.html ..... 
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  Stanford Spring Symposium Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive
  Mary-Anne.Williams at uts.edu.au

AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium Series
Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems

URI: http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/CoMe/

Stanford University, California March 26-28, 2007

Deadlines:
Symposium submissions:	October 6th, 2006
Notification of acceptance: November 3rd, 2006
Camera-ready copies of contributions: January 26th, 2007

Although spatial knowledge processing as well as control mechanisms
in information processing have thus been considered in close detail,
they have been considered only independently of each other. Therefore,
results about and conceptions of control mechanisms in spatial knowledge
processing are hardly available. For example, at the moment it is unclear
how the construction of the spatial representations is controlled in
natural cognitive systems and, likewise, how the construction ideally
should be controlled in artificial cognitive systems. Moreover, in
the light of the numerous different representations proposed so far, ..... 
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  AISWORLD Information Systems World Network
  Vijay Khatri <vkhatri at eller.arizona.edu>

The Sixteenth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems
(WITS'06) (http://www.indiana.edu/~wits06) will be held in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, USA, on December 9-10, 2006, just prior to the International
Conference on Information Systems. The purpose of the workshop is to
provide a forum for discussion and interaction among scholars with
research interests in the cutting edge issues of information technology
and systems. The theme of the conference will be "Developing and Using
Next Generation Systems in a Global Economy."

We solicit condensed research papers addressing issues concerning the
theory, design, development, evaluation, and application of advanced
information and communication technologies and systems. Of particular
interest are papers that leverage inter-disciplinary research methods
to address these issues. In addition, we also solicit research prototype
demonstrations at the workshop.

Research topics include, but are not limited to:

- Agent-based Systems and Autonomous Computing
- Authentication and Trust
- Collaboration Systems ..... 
http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt5

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  EuroSys 2007 2nd European Conference on Computer Systems
  Thomas R.Gross

CALL FOR PAPERS

EuroSys 2007, the European Conference on Computer Systems, seeks papers
on all aspects of computer systems, especially ones that cross the divide
between areas and address:

+ All areas of operating systems and distributed systems
+ Systems aspects of:
- Programming language support	  - Databases
- Parallel and concurrent computing	  - Distributed algorithms
- Mobile and pervasive computing	  - Middleware
- Sensor nets and tiny devices	  - Clusters and grids
- Novel uses of information technology  - Novel user interfaces
- Dependable computing		  - Storage
- Management, measurement, monitoring   - Security
- Real-time and embedded computing	  - Continuous media
+ Experience with existing systems
+ Reproduction of previous results
+ Negative results
+ Early ideas
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Academic Positions and Scholarships

  PhD Postgraduate Scholarship in Data Mining: Macquarie University Computing
  mehmet at ics.mq.edu.au

Postgraduate PhD Research Scholarship
Division of Information and Communication Sciences
Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

A postgraduate research scholarship is available in the Department of
Computing at Macquarie University. The title of the project is Data
Minining and Constraint Satisfaction in aid of Decision Support Systems.

This project will investigate ways to incorporate data mining and
knowledge discovery techniques in decision support systems.

Applicants should have completed, or expect to complete within the year,
a four year undergraduate degree in Science with first class honours,
or an equivalent qualification with a background in some of the following
areas: computing, statistics, mathematics.

The successful applicant if an Australian citizen/permanent resident, or
a New Zealand citizen, would receive a RAACE award; other International
applicants would receive an iMURS award. The
stipend for the award is currently $18,837 per annum, tax exempt, and
the tenure is 3 years full time subject to satisfactory progress. ..... 
http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt0

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  PhD Scholarship in Multi-Agent Systems, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  mehmet at ics.mq.edu.au

Postgraduate PhD Research Scholarship
Division of Information and Communication Sciences
Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

A postgraduate research scholarship is available in the Department of
Computing at Macquarie University. The title of the project is Stability
of Coalition Structures and Multi-agent Systems. This project will
investigate, particularly in the context of multi-agent
systems, the conditions under which coalition structures will remain
stable, even while the preferences of the agents undergo change.

Applicants should have completed, or expect to complete within the year,
a four year undergraduate degree in Science with first class honours,
or an equivalent qualification with a background in some of the following
areas: computing, economics, mathematics.

The successful applicant if an Australian citizen/permanent resident, or
a New Zealand citizen, would receive a RAACE award; other International
applicants would receive an iMURS award. The
stipend for the award is currently $18,837 per annum, tax exempt, and
the tenure is 3 years full time subject to satisfactory progress. ..... 
http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt1

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