[Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 September 2006
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Australian International and Local Conference Announcements
Computing The Future Symposium 2006
Advances in Modal Logic 2006. Call for Participation
HCSNet Priority Area Workshop on Next-Generation Search Technology 21-22 Sept
Australasian Information Security Workshop 2007 (Privacy Enhancing Technologies)
International Conference Announcements
Asia-Pacific Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems
ACM_NZ Bulletin: Call for Submissions
2nd International Workshop on Software for Sensor Networks Sensorware 2007
The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Life Science Computing. (BLSC07)
2nd Int. Workshop on Engineering Service Oriented Applications:Design and Composition (WESOA'06)
JSAT S.I. on Satisfiability Modulo Theories
Academic Positions
Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation, and Learning Postdoc
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Australian International and Local Conference Announcements
Computing The Future Symposium 2006
editor at slatteryit.com.au
The University of Sydney
COMPUTING THE FUTURE SYMPOSIUM 2006
Wednesday,13th September 2006
It has been 50 years since the first highspeed computer - SILLIAC - was
built at an Australian University.
Join leaders from across industry, eminent researchers and international
guest speakers as we celebrate the University of Sydney's distinguished
history in computer science, and explore future IT directions.
Keynote Speakers Include:
David Murray
Chairman, Future Fund Board of Guardians & Former CEO of Commonwealth Bank
Howard Charney
Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems & One of the four founders of 3Com
Corporation
Dr Caroline Kovac .....
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Advances in Modal Logic 2006. Call for Participation
guido at itee.uq.edu.au
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
AiML-2006
Advances in Modal Logic
25-28 September 2006, Noosa (Queensland, Australia)
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~aiml06
EARLY REGISTRATION: 28 August 2006
Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting
an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic
and its many applications. The initiative consists of a
conference series together with volumes based on the conferences.
AiML-2006 is the sixth conference in the series.
INVITED SPEAKERS
- Renate Schmidt (Manchester, UK)
Developing Modal Tableaux and Resolution Methods via
First-Order Resolution .....
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HCSNet Priority Area Workshop on Next-Generation Search Technology 21-22 Sept
diego at ics.mq.edu.au
HCSNet Priority Area Workshop on Next-Generation Search Technology
21st and 22nd September 2006
University of Melbourne
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Existing information retrieval systems effectively treat documents as
unstructured bags of words. As Google and its competitors demonstrate,
this approach works surprisingly well. At the same time, it is clear that
human processors of information make use of a much deeper understanding
of text than these systems exhibit. Humans cannot compete with machines
in terms of quantity, but their abilities far exceed those of machines
when it comes to quality.
This priority research area focuses on how we can improve search
engine technology by integrating more knowledge about the processing
and understanding of language. This knowledge comes from a range of
disciplines represented within HCSNet. Linguistics treats texts as richly
structured objects that obey complex and interacting rules about language
use, and natural language processing attempts to implement computational
models that embody these ideas: how do we add this sophistication to .....
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Australasian Information Security Workshop 2007 (Privacy Enhancing Technologies)
Chris.Steketee at cs.unisa.edu.au
The submission deadline for this workshop has been extended to 11
September 2006. Although the focus is on Privacy Enhancing Technologies,
papers in other areas of computer and information security
and privacy are also acceptable.
AISW-Pet aims at promoting research on privacy enhancing technologies
and increasing the synergy between academic and industrial
researchers working in this area. It is a one-day workshop to be
held in conjunction with the Australasian Computer Science
Conference, as part of Australasian Computer Science Week in
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 30 January - 2 February 2007.
We seek submissions from academic and industrial researchers on all
theoretical and practical aspects of privacy enhancing technologies.
Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:
Anonymity and unobservability modeling
Attacks on anonymity systems
Cryptography
Ethics, policy and law relating to privacy
Identity management and identity theft .....
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International Conference Announcements
Asia-Pacific Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems
rim at cse.snu.ac.kr
10th Asia-Pacific Workshop on
Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems
IES2006
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
25th-26th November, 2006
Following nine successful workshops in Australia, New Zealand
and Japan, the tenth APWIES is to be held in Korea in November.
Aims and Scope
To encourage in-depth technical discussions, the number of
participants of the workshop is limited to 40 or less. The
workshop will allocate ample time for discussions in addition to
paper presentations. It covers two major areas:
Intelligent and Adaptive Systems: Designing and developing
intelligent and adaptive systems using machine learning and/or
evolutionary computation techniques; other artificial
intelligence techniques will also be considered. Examples of
topics include, but are not limited to, evolutionary learning,
neural network learning, autonomous agents/robots, artificial
life, evolutionary games, hybrid learning systems, other machine
learning systems.
Optimisation with Intelligent Systems: Both numerical and
combinatorial optimisation will be considered. Examples of the .....
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ACM_NZ Bulletin: Call for Submissions
t.lin at massey.ac.nz
Call for submissions for the 2006 fourth issue of ACM_NZ Bulletin has
already commenced. The submission deadline for the issue is Sep 28, 2006.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.acm.org/chapters/acm_nz/bulletin.php
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2nd International Workshop on Software for Sensor Networks Sensorware 2007
rchell at deakin.edu.au
CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd International Workshop on Software for Sensor Networks (SensorWare)
To be held with Comsware 2007 (www.comsware.org)
8th January 2007, Bangalore India
www.sensorware.org
Advances in technology have made deployment of miniature sensors
a realistic proposition. Low-power, inexpensive smart devices with
multiple on-board sensors are connected through wireless links so as
to form a collaborative sensor network to perform a specific task. As a
result, it opens up a new paradigm of ubiquitous computing and enables
a range of applications that are previously unrealizable or too costly
to be realized. However, given the limitation of on-board hardware,
one of the key areas towards achieving superior performance is through
software implementation. The workshop is intended to bring together
industry experts and researchers to share novel techniques, algorithms
and software implementation for sensor networks, and to discuss the
current status, technical challenges, standards, fundamental issues,
and future services and applications in the form of panels and technical
presentation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the .....
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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)
http://www.laas.fr/BLSC07
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 .....
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2nd Int. Workshop on Engineering Service Oriented Applications:Design and Composition (WESOA'06)
jiri at it.uts.edu.au
2nd INT. WORKSHOP ON ENGINEERING SERVICE ORIENTED APPLICATIONS:
DESIGN AND COMPOSITION (WESOA'06)
In conjunction with the 4th Int. Conference on Service Oriented
Computing (ICSOC 2006) http://www.icsoc.org/
Chicago, USA, December 4th, 2006
WESOA Workshop Website
http://fresco-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wesoa06/
Abstract Submission Due: September 8th, 2006
OBJECTIVES
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With the growing acceptance of service-oriented computing and
increasing number of large-scale Web Services projects there is an
urgent need for the research community and industry practitioners to
combine in an effort to develop comprehensive methodologies that
support the entire life-cycle of service oriented applications. To .....
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JSAT S.I. on Satisfiability Modulo Theories
Roberto Sebastiani <rseba at dit.unitn.it>
=================== Preliminary Call for Papers ====================
Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation (JSAT)
Special Issue on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT)
http://dit.unitn.it/~rseba/jsat_smt06/
Deadline for paper submission (provisional): November 25th, 2006
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) is the problem of deciding the
satisfiability of first-order formulae with respect to some
decidable background theory (e.g., linear arithmetic, the theory of
arrays, the theory of bit-vectors).
SMT techniques are gaining increasing relevance in many application
domains, including formal verification of hardware and software,
compiler optimization, planning and scheduling.
SMT is strongly related to SAT, as most SMT tools are built on top of .....
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Academic Positions and Scholarships
Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation, and Learning Postdoc
aiia_announcements-admin at penelope.csd.auth.gr
The Artificial Intelligence & Information Analysis Laboratory at the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (www.aiia.csd.auth.gr)
and the Institute of Information Theory and Automation at the Academy
of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague (www.utia.cas.cz) offer a 17
month post-doc fellowship starting from October 1st 2006 within the
framework of the European Union Network of Excellence MUSCLE
"Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation, and Learning"
(www.muscle-noe.org). The research topic to be investigated is: Feature
subset selection and multi-sensor fusion techniques for affect recognition
and image texture analysis.
http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt0
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