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

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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
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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

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International Conference Announcements

  The International Workshop on Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agents and Data Mining (AISADM2007)
  lbcao at 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 ..... 
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  The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Life Science Computing. (BLSC07)
  bbz at 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. ..... 
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  7th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2007)
  ricky.robinson at nicta.com.au

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First CALL FOR PAPERS

DAIS 2007

7th IFIP International Conference on
Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

"Towards Sustainability"

Paphos, Cyprus 6 - 8 June 2007

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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
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http://www.discotec07.cs.ucy.ac.cy
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Academic Positions and Scholarships

  APAI PhD SCHOLARSHIP UTS
  lbcao at 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 ..... 
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  Research Associate UTS
  lbcao at 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.
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