From itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au Wed Nov 8 21:42:16 2006 From: itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@mail.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Wed Nov 8 21:47:08 2006 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 November 2006 Message-ID: <20061108104216.GA19913@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 1 for November, 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. Submit news items at http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/itpost.htm. International Conference Announcements CFP : Data Sharing, Consistency, and DSM systems Workshop, CCGrid07, May 14-17, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil CPF: IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems CFP: 7th Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications Seventh IJCAI Workshop on NONMONOTONIC REASONING, ACTION AND CHANGE NZ CS Research Student Conference 2007 - CALL FOR PAPERS Academic Positions Assistant Professor in Information Systems at Bond University Research Assistant, Multimedia Computing Research Laboratory, University of Sydney CSIRO Research Scientist Autonomous Systems ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements CFP : Data Sharing, Consistency, and DSM systems Workshop, CCGrid07, May 14-17, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil laurent.lefevre@inria.fr Call for Papers First International Workshop on Data Sharing, Consistency, and DSM systems http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/laurent.lefevre/dsc2007 Organized At IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2007) May 14-17, 2007, Rio De Janeiro http://ccgrid07.lncc.br Scope: ------ Data sharing and automatic consistency management provides ease of programming for parallel and distributed applications in cluster and grid environments. A lot of research work has been done in these research ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0 ====================================================================== CPF: IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems sjha@cse.unsw.edu.au                  =========================================                      IEEE International Conference on                  Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems                           June 18 - 20, 2007                     Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA                 =========================================                                WWW.DCOSS.ORG The 2007 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '07) will take place in Santa Fe during June 18 - 20, 2007. The first and second DCOSS conferences, held at Marina Del Rey and San Francisco respectively, featured high quality research papers and interesting invited and contributed poster/presentation sessions.  DCOSS '07 is intended to cover several aspects of distributed computing in sensor systems such as high level abstractions, computational models, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, analysis and applications. The conference will be co-located with several closely related workshops, and will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their contributions related to the above high-level aspects of distributed sensor systems. In addition to contributed papers, the meeting will also include keynote addresses by leading researchers, a panel discussion, and a poster/presentation session. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt1 ====================================================================== CFP: 7th Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications asloane@ics.mq.edu.au Call for Papers for Seventh Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications LDTA 2007 A satellite event of ETAPS 2007 March 25, 2007 in Braga, Portugal (Cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN to be confirmed) http://www.di.uminho.pt/ldta07 Scope: The aim of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry interested in the field of formal language definitions and language technologies, with a special emphasis on tools developed for or with these language definitions. This active area of research involves the following basic technologies: - Program analysis, transformation, and generation - Formal analysis of language properties - Automatic generation of language processing tools ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt2 ====================================================================== Seventh IJCAI Workshop on NONMONOTONIC REASONING, ACTION AND CHANGE Mary-Anne@it.uts.edu.au CALL for PARTICIPATION http://research.it.uts.edu.au/magic/NRAC/2007/ January 7 and 8, 2007 Hyderabad, India ntelligent 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. INVITED SPEAKERS Peter Gardenfors, Lund University Cognitive Science, Sweden Title: Bring in the forces! Modelling actions and functional properties in conceptual spaces. Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt3 ====================================================================== NZ CS Research Student Conference 2007 - CALL FOR PAPERS olena@cs.waikato.ac.nz ======================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 5th New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference NZ CSRSC 2007 ======================================= Dear all, We are now inviting submissions of full papers and short papers for the 5th New Zealand Computer Science Research Students Conference. OVERVIEW The New Zealand Computer Science Research Students Conference is intended to bring together graduate research students within Computer Science mainly throughout New Zealand, but also from overseas. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt4 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships Assistant Professor in Information Systems at Bond University gfinnie@staff.bond.edu.au Bond University, Australia's first private university, is located on the Gold Coast, about one hour's drive south of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. Bond's world-class campus offers unparalleled academic, technological and recreational facilities. Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor in Information Systems in the School of Information Technology. The position will be for a three-year contract. The preferred areas of specialization include business process management, databases, service-oriented architectures, enterprise systems and technology management, although other areas in information systems would also be considered. The ability to start in January 2007 would be an added advantage.Bond University reserves the right to make an appointment by invitation, or not to make an appointment, at its sole discretion. Qualifications Applicants should have a PhD in Information Systems or related discipline and an active record of research and publication. Teaching experience and evidence of excellent classroom performance are essential and an ability ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt0 ====================================================================== Research Assistant, Multimedia Computing Research Laboratory, University of Sydney f.zhou@usyd.edu.au Research Assistant The Multimedia Computing Research Laboratory The School of Information Technologies The University of Sydney is the first university in Australia to have a computing science department. From its inception at the forefront of the computing age, the University has always provided strong support to computing teaching and research. The Multimedia Computing Research Laboratory, a core unit within the School, is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary group of excellence. It boasts a strong research focus in the application of computer science and information technology in biomedicine, multimedia, and information visualisation. We currently have an outstanding opportunity available for a Computer Science or Software Engineering Honours graduate to be actively involved with the ARC research project, "Topological approaches for graph drawing". This is a key role which will see you be responsible for designing, ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt1 ====================================================================== CSIRO Research Scientist Autonomous Systems itannounce The CSIRO ICT Centre is building a role for Australia as a global ICT innovator by delivering leading-edge Information and Communication Technology solutions for industry and society. The Centre has over 220 researchers across Australia working on a wide range of ICT technologies and application areas. We are currently developing a new software system for anomaly detection in sensor network data, contributing to adaptive monitoring and control in distributed systems, as well as real-time risk management. Discovering and cross-correlating temporal data from multiple, spatially distributed sensors aims to uncover significant trends and enable more efficient monitoring and control of hazardous or anomalous conditions in challenging dynamic environments. This position offers the opportunity to work in a high quality research environment, with strong collaboration across disciplines. The successful applicant will be involved in both research and development aspects of the project. Position Description ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt2 ====================================================================== From itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au Mon Nov 20 12:21:31 2006 From: itannounce at mail.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@mail.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Mon Nov 20 12:26:38 2006 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 2 November 2006 Message-ID: <20061120012131.GA9735@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 2 for November, 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. Submit news items at http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/itpost.htm. International Conference Announcements The International Workshop on Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agents and Data Mining (AISADM2007) The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Life Science Computing. (BLSC07) 7th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2007) Academic Positions APAI PhD Scholarship UTS Research Associate UTS ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements The International Workshop on Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agents and Data Mining (AISADM2007) lbcao@it.uts.edu.au Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agents and Data Mining June 3-5, 2007, St. Petersburg, Russia http://space.iias.spb.su/ais07 Sponsors 1. European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, USA 2. Office of Naval Research Global, USA 3. Russian Foundation for Basic Research Organizers 1. St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) 2. St. Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences 3. Binghamton University (State University of New York) 1. Title and scope: "Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agents and Data Mining" Since early 1990, multi-agent systems (MAS) and data mining and knowledge discovery (KDD) have remained areas of high interest for the research and development in intelligent information technologies. The multi-agent system technology offered powerful metaphors for information system conceptualization, a range of new architectures, techniques, and technologies specifically focused on the design and implementation ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0 ====================================================================== The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Life Science Computing. (BLSC07) bbz@it.usyd.edu.au Call for Papers (BLSC07) The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Life Science Computing. (BLSC07) Niagara Falls, Canada May 21-23, 2007 Sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee Distributed Processing (TCDP) SCOPE The aim of this symposium is to facilitate exchange of ideas and collaborations between computer scientists and biologists by presenting cutting-edge solutions of Modeling, Computing and Learning in Biology and Life Science. We invite submissions that address conceptual and practical issues of bioinformatics and life science with an interdisciplinary character. For example, computer science and mathematical modeling papers should contain a concise description of the biological problem being solved, and biology papers should show the enhancement of computation tools. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt1 ====================================================================== 7th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2007) ricky.robinson@nicta.com.au --------------------------------------------------------------------- First CALL FOR PAPERS DAIS 2007 7th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems "Towards Sustainability" Paphos, Cyprus 6 - 8 June 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: 8 January 2007 Paper submission: 15 January 2007 Work-in-progress papers: 26 January, 2007 Author notification: 7 March 2007 Camera-ready copy: 26 March 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.discotec07.cs.ucy.ac.cy --------------------------------------------------------------------- ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt2 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships APAI PhD SCHOLARSHIP UTS lbcao@it.uts.edu.au APAI PhD SCHOLARSHIP Faculty of Information Technology Ref No: RFIT001 We invite applications for an APAI PhD Scholarship, available for three years from January 2007 or soon after at the Faculty of Information Technology of UTS. We have recently been awarded one ARC Linkage Grant for 2007-2009 with Centrelink as our partner organisation. The project title is "Data Mining of Activity Transactions to Strengthen Debt Prevention". The project summary is as follows: A national benefit from this research will be the significant analytical contribution to the prevention of incorrect payment of welfare assistance and the reduction of associated debt. Another benefit is the new technology will have application in commercial, state and federal government agencies where research into activity, event or process data can be used to improve service delivery outcomes. A further national benefit will be the development and use of frontier activity transaction mining techniques to ensure Australia a leading role in enterprise data ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt0 ====================================================================== Research Associate UTS lbcao@it.uts.edu.au RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Faculty of Information Technology Ref No: R121106 The Faculty of Information Technology has recently been awarded one ARC Linkage Grant for 2007-2009 with Centrelink as our partner organisation. The project title is "Data Mining of Activity Transactions to Strengthen Debt Prevention". An opportunity is available for a Research Associate to work on this project. The successful candidate should have a PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence or a related area. You will have good programming skills, project management experience, and experience working in a team environment. In addition research experience and a good publication record in IT related area is also required. The research will be carried out in Canberra Salary: $58,634 pa (Level A, Step 3). This position is a fixed-term position for a period of ten months. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt1 ======================================================================