From itannounce at pop.it.usyd.edu.au Tue Apr 10 10:41:02 2007 From: itannounce at pop.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@pop.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Tue Apr 10 10:49:11 2007 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 April 2007 Message-ID: <20070410004102.GA29249@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 1 for April, 2007. 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. Australian International and Local Conference Announcements Preliminary CFP AI-07 Twentieth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence International Conference Announcements CFP IJSWIS Special Issue on Mobile Services and Ontologies CFP: 2nd Int'l WS on Service- and Process-Oriented SE Evolutionary Computation in Games at CEC'07 in Singapore: Extended Deadline ENASE 2007 Deadline Extension Academic Positions PhD Scholarships in Programming Languages at Macquarie Full Time Faculty Position Yonsei University Post-doctoral researchers in security and reliability University of Luxembourg PhD Scholarships in Programming Languages at Macquarie PhD Scholarship in Computer Science Griffith University ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements Preliminary CFP AI-07 Twentieth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence v.estivill-castro@griffith.edu.au Preliminary Call for Papers and Participation Twentieth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2nd-6th December 2007 Gold Coast, Queensland The AI 2007 Program Committee invites submission of papers for the 20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The purpose of the conference is to promote research in AI and scientific interchange among AI researchers and practitioners. The conference is hosted by the Griffith University School of Information Communication and Technology and the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems and will be co-located with the Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007) and the Third Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL '07) at the Holiday Inn Hotel. A pdf version of this call for papers can be downloaded from: http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/conferences/austai/AI07_CFP.pdf ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt0 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements CFP IJSWIS Special Issue on Mobile Services and Ontologies dumitru.roman@deri.org Call for Papers International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?ID=4625 Special Issue on Mobile Services and Ontologies Submission Deadline: May 31, 2007 Guest Editors - Christoph Bussler (Cisco Systems, Inc., USA) chbussler@aol.com - Birgitta König-Ries (University of Jena, Germany) koenig@informatik.uni-jena.de - Dumitru Roman (DERI Innsbruck, Austria) dumitru.roman@deri.org - Jari Veijalainen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) veijalai@cs.jyu.fi ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0 ====================================================================== CFP: 2nd Int'l WS on Service- and Process-Oriented SE mmrb95@uow.edu.au SOPOSE'07 Call for Papers (Apologies if you receive multiple announcements) ***************************************************************************************************************************** 2nd International Workshop on Service- and Process-Oriented Software Engineering (SOPOSE-07) To be held in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE Services Congress, incoporating the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007) and IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, July 9-13, 2007(http://conferences.computer.org/services/2007/). WORKSHOP WEBPAGE: http://www.dsl.uow.edu.au/sopose ***************************************************************************************************************************** THEME: It is now widely recognized that service-oriented computing will be the dominant computing paradigm for at least the next decade. Businesses are also increasingly committing to a process-oriented approach in Business Process Management (BPM), which requires careful modelling, ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt1 ====================================================================== Evolutionary Computation in Games at CEC'07 in Singapore: Extended Deadline p.hingston@ecu.edu.au Dear Evolutionary Computation/Games Researcher, This email is a further reminder about the special session on evolutionary computation in games to be held at the upcoming IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'07). CEC'07 will be held in Singapore from 25-28 September 2007. PAPER SUBMISSION IS SCHEDULED TO CLOSE ON 31 MARCH 2007. Special session on: Evolutionary Computation in Games ===================================================== Games have proven to be an ideal test domain for the study of evolutionary algorithms as not only are they fun to play and interesting to observe, but they provide competitive and dynamic environments that model many real-world problems. Evolutionary techniques have successfully been applied to many different kinds of games, however a number of research questions still remain. This special session aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss recent advances and explore future directions in this field. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt2 ====================================================================== ENASE 2007 Deadline Extension cesargon@verdewek.com ENASE 2007 2nd International Working Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering 23-25 July, Barcelona, Spain Dear colleague, As you may have seen from the conference web site (http://www.enase.org), the submission deadline for ENASE 2007 has been extended to April 11th. We would like to encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity and submit a paper to ENASE 2007 and visit one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Please also consider two important ENASE-related events and publication opportunities: - The Advocatus Diaboli forum - http://www.enase.org/Advocatus.htm ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt3 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships PhD Scholarships in Programming Languages at Macquarie asloane@ics.mq.edu.au The Programming Languages Research Group at Macquarie University is actively recruiting PhD students for projects in a variety of areas, including high-level software generation, correctness of language implementations and domain-specific languages. Macquarie University has competitive scholarships available for excellent local and international students. One particular scholarship in Programming Languages avaiable at the moment is detailed below, but please contact us if you are interested in pursuing PhD study in any area of Programming Languages. Tony Sloane asloane@ics.mq.edu.au http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/~asloane http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/plrg/ PhD Scholarship in Programming Languages Closing Date: 24 April 2007 A full-time PhD Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarships ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt0 ====================================================================== Full Time Faculty Position Yonsei University yang@cs.yonsei.ac.kr A Full Time Faculty Position -High Proficiency in English is Required- Yonsei University's Department of Computer Science has a full time tenure or non-tenure track position (short-term or long-term) at all professional levels beginning Sept. 1, 2007. Applicants in Software fields in Computer Science or Engineering are encouraged to apply, although we will consider strong candidates in all areas of computer science. Applicants have either a strong potential or demonstrated success for excellence in research, teaching, external funding, and leadership. Especially, high proficiency in oral/written English is required. Responsibilities include: teaching one undergraduate and one graduate courses teaching per semester; supervising graduate student research; developing and directing a funded research program; publishing research results in leading journals and conferences; and participating in department, college, university, professional and public service. Applicants must have earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science or in a closely related field and have at least one year-experience in the computer ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt1 ====================================================================== Post-doctoral researchers in security and reliability University of Luxembourg leon.vandertorre@uni.lu The University of Luxembourg is looking within the Computer Science and Communication Research Unit of its Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, for 2 Post-doctoral researchers (M/F) in security and reliability ( Ref:F1-070021/F01-070022) - 2-year contract, renewable 24 months maximum - 40 hours/week. Security and reliability is the first strategic priority of the University of Luxembourg. We welcome applications in all areas of security and reliability, including the following ones: * Foundations of information security * Practical aspects of security * Dependability, reliability issues * Society and security Profile : * PhD in computer science (or equivalent) on the topic of security ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt2 ====================================================================== PhD Scholarships in Programming Languages at Macquarie asloane@ics.mq.edu.au http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt3 ====================================================================== PhD Scholarship in Computer Science Griffith University v.estivill-castro@griffith.edu.au Ph.D. Scholarships in Computer Science We are seeking a highly motivated student to work on a project titled "Using extremal structures and kernelization rules in parameterized complexity analysis ". The project involves developing techniques and methods for a suite of hard problems and determine practical approaches to address them using parameterized complexity techniques. The student will be enrolled in the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems at Griffith University. Applicants must hold a Masters degree, First Class Honours or equivalent. The full-time scholarship is available to outstanding students with a background in Machine Learning, Complexity Theory, Algorithm Design, Algorithm Engineering, Algorithm Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Computer Graphics, or a related discipline. Experience in the use of computer models, programming and knowledge of analytical tools is highly desirable. Scholarship funding of $22,283 p.a. is available for three years to support full-time Ph.D. study commencing July 2007. Candidates who demonstrate one-year equivalent progress towards a Ph.D. in another academic institution may transfer to Griffith University but scholarship funding will be for 2 years, with possible 6-month extension. Scholars ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt4 ====================================================================== From itannounce at pop.it.usyd.edu.au Wed Apr 11 08:27:58 2007 From: itannounce at pop.it.usyd.edu.au (itannounce@pop.it.usyd.edu.au) Date: Wed Apr 11 08:34:05 2007 Subject: [Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 April 2007 Message-ID: <20070410222758.GA30604@flexal3.cs.usyd.edu.au> Dear IT-Announce subscriber, Welcome to issue number 1 for April, 2007. 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. Australian International and Local Conference Announcements Preliminary CFP AI-07 Twentieth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence International Conference Announcements CFP IJSWIS Special Issue on Mobile Services and Ontologies CFP: 2nd Int'l WS on Service- and Process-Oriented SE Evolutionary Computation in Games at CEC'07 in Singapore: Extended Deadline ENASE 2007 Deadline Extension Academic Positions Full Time Faculty Position Yonsei University Post-doctoral researchers in security and reliability University of Luxembourg PhD Scholarships in Programming Languages at Macquarie PhD Scholarship in Computer Science Griffith University Research Fellow (in Grid Computing) opportunity opening at Melbourne University ====================================================================== Australian International and Local Conference Announcements Preliminary CFP AI-07 Twentieth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence v.estivill-castro@griffith.edu.au Preliminary Call for Papers and Participation Twentieth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2nd-6th December 2007 Gold Coast, Queensland The AI 2007 Program Committee invites submission of papers for the 20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The purpose of the conference is to promote research in AI and scientific interchange among AI researchers and practitioners. The conference is hosted by the Griffith University School of Information Communication and Technology and the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems and will be co-located with the Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007) and the Third Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL '07) at the Holiday Inn Hotel. A pdf version of this call for papers can be downloaded from: http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/conferences/austai/AI07_CFP.pdf ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt0 ====================================================================== International Conference Announcements CFP IJSWIS Special Issue on Mobile Services and Ontologies dumitru.roman@deri.org Call for Papers International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?ID=4625 Special Issue on Mobile Services and Ontologies Submission Deadline: May 31, 2007 Guest Editors - Christoph Bussler (Cisco Systems, Inc., USA) chbussler@aol.com - Birgitta König-Ries (University of Jena, Germany) koenig@informatik.uni-jena.de - Dumitru Roman (DERI Innsbruck, Austria) dumitru.roman@deri.org - Jari Veijalainen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) veijalai@cs.jyu.fi ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0 ====================================================================== CFP: 2nd Int'l WS on Service- and Process-Oriented SE mmrb95@uow.edu.au SOPOSE'07 Call for Papers (Apologies if you receive multiple announcements) ***************************************************************************************************************************** 2nd International Workshop on Service- and Process-Oriented Software Engineering (SOPOSE-07) To be held in conjunction with the 2007 IEEE Services Congress, incoporating the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007) and IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, July 9-13, 2007(http://conferences.computer.org/services/2007/). WORKSHOP WEBPAGE: http://www.dsl.uow.edu.au/sopose ***************************************************************************************************************************** THEME: It is now widely recognized that service-oriented computing will be the dominant computing paradigm for at least the next decade. Businesses are also increasingly committing to a process-oriented approach in Business Process Management (BPM), which requires careful modelling, ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt1 ====================================================================== Evolutionary Computation in Games at CEC'07 in Singapore: Extended Deadline p.hingston@ecu.edu.au Dear Evolutionary Computation/Games Researcher, This email is a further reminder about the special session on evolutionary computation in games to be held at the upcoming IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'07). CEC'07 will be held in Singapore from 25-28 September 2007. PAPER SUBMISSION IS SCHEDULED TO CLOSE ON 31 MARCH 2007. Special session on: Evolutionary Computation in Games ===================================================== Games have proven to be an ideal test domain for the study of evolutionary algorithms as not only are they fun to play and interesting to observe, but they provide competitive and dynamic environments that model many real-world problems. Evolutionary techniques have successfully been applied to many different kinds of games, however a number of research questions still remain. This special session aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss recent advances and explore future directions in this field. ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt2 ====================================================================== ENASE 2007 Deadline Extension cesargon@verdewek.com ENASE 2007 2nd International Working Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering 23-25 July, Barcelona, Spain Dear colleague, As you may have seen from the conference web site (http://www.enase.org), the submission deadline for ENASE 2007 has been extended to April 11th. We would like to encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity and submit a paper to ENASE 2007 and visit one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Please also consider two important ENASE-related events and publication opportunities: - The Advocatus Diaboli forum - http://www.enase.org/Advocatus.htm ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt3 ====================================================================== Academic Positions and Scholarships PhD Scholarships in Programming Languages at Macquarie asloane@ics.mq.edu.au The Programming Languages Research Group at Macquarie University is actively recruiting PhD students for projects in a variety of areas, including high-level software generation, correctness of language implementations and domain-specific languages. Macquarie University has competitive scholarships available for excellent local and international students. One particular scholarship in Programming Languages avaiable at the moment is detailed below, but please contact us if you are interested in pursuing PhD study in any area of Programming Languages. Tony Sloane asloane@ics.mq.edu.au http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/~asloane http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/plrg/ PhD Scholarship in Programming Languages Closing Date: 24 April 2007 A full-time PhD Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarships ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt0 ====================================================================== Full Time Faculty Position Yonsei University yang@cs.yonsei.ac.kr A Full Time Faculty Position -High Proficiency in English is Required- Yonsei University's Department of Computer Science has a full time tenure or non-tenure track position (short-term or long-term) at all professional levels beginning Sept. 1, 2007. Applicants in Software fields in Computer Science or Engineering are encouraged to apply, although we will consider strong candidates in all areas of computer science. Applicants have either a strong potential or demonstrated success for excellence in research, teaching, external funding, and leadership. Especially, high proficiency in oral/written English is required. Responsibilities include: teaching one undergraduate and one graduate courses teaching per semester; supervising graduate student research; developing and directing a funded research program; publishing research results in leading journals and conferences; and participating in department, college, university, professional and public service. Applicants must have earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science or in a closely related field and have at least one year-experience in the computer ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt1 ====================================================================== Post-doctoral researchers in security and reliability University of Luxembourg leon.vandertorre@uni.lu The University of Luxembourg is looking within the Computer Science and Communication Research Unit of its Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, for 2 Post-doctoral researchers (M/F) in security and reliability ( Ref:F1-070021/F01-070022) - 2-year contract, renewable 24 months maximum - 40 hours/week. Security and reliability is the first strategic priority of the University of Luxembourg. We welcome applications in all areas of security and reliability, including the following ones: * Foundations of information security * Practical aspects of security * Dependability, reliability issues * Society and security Profile : * PhD in computer science (or equivalent) on the topic of security ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt2 ====================================================================== PhD Scholarships in Programming Languages at Macquarie asloane@ics.mq.edu.au http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt3 ====================================================================== PhD Scholarship in Computer Science Griffith University v.estivill-castro@griffith.edu.au Ph.D. Scholarships in Computer Science We are seeking a highly motivated student to work on a project titled "Using extremal structures and kernelization rules in parameterized complexity analysis ". The project involves developing techniques and methods for a suite of hard problems and determine practical approaches to address them using parameterized complexity techniques. The student will be enrolled in the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems at Griffith University. Applicants must hold a Masters degree, First Class Honours or equivalent. The full-time scholarship is available to outstanding students with a background in Machine Learning, Complexity Theory, Algorithm Design, Algorithm Engineering, Algorithm Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Computer Graphics, or a related discipline. Experience in the use of computer models, programming and knowledge of analytical tools is highly desirable. Scholarship funding of $22,283 p.a. is available for three years to support full-time Ph.D. study commencing July 2007. Candidates who demonstrate one-year equivalent progress towards a Ph.D. in another academic institution may transfer to Griffith University but scholarship funding will be for 2 years, with possible 6-month extension. Scholars ..... http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt4 ====================================================================== Research Fellow (in Grid Computing) opportunity opening at Melbourne University raj@csse.unimelb.edu.au The University of Melbourne has an opening for a Research Fellow at PostDoc Level in the area of Grid Computing to work on a DEST funded International Science Linkage Project. A summary of project is enclosed below. Details on how to apply for this position can be found at: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=307232 Due to funding body's condition, the candidate has be an Australian citizen or Permanent resident visa holder. Currently the position is advertised as 1 year position, but it has potential to be extensible upto 2.5 years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Science Linkage Project: funded by Australian Department of Science, Education and Training Project Title: The Utility Grid Project: Autonomic and Utility-Oriented Global Grids for Powering Emerging e-Research Applications. Project Duratin: 3 years (from 2007-2009) Project Summary: Grid computing is emerging as an enabler for the creation of global Cyberinfrastructure for e-Research applications and is recognised as one of the top five emerging technologies that will have a major impact on the quality of science and society over the next 20 years. This project will link Australian researchers with international researchers through two EU FP6 projects: CoreGrid and CatNets. The project is aimed at enhancing the scope and depth of Australian R&D in Grid computing and e-Research; establishing linkages to enable the leveraging of the capabilities and resources of both Australian and international partners; and developing grid technologies that improve agility and utility of national and international Cyberinfrastructure powering e-Research applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================