[Itannounce] IT-Announce Newsletter - Issue 1 April 2007

Tue Apr 10 10:41:02 EST 2007

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

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Australian International and Local Conference Announcements

  Preliminary CFP AI-07 Twentieth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  v.estivill-castro at 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

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http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#auconf.txt0

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International Conference Announcements

  CFP IJSWIS Special Issue on Mobile Services and Ontologies
  dumitru.roman at 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 at aol.com
- Birgitta König-Ries (University of Jena, Germany)
koenig at informatik.uni-jena.de
- Dumitru Roman (DERI Innsbruck, Austria)
dumitru.roman at deri.org
- Jari Veijalainen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
veijalai at cs.jyu.fi
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http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#osconf.txt0

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  CFP: 2nd Int'l WS on Service- and Process-Oriented SE
  mmrb95 at uow.edu.au

SOPOSE'07 Call for Papers (Apologies if you receive multiple
announcements)

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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
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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

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  Evolutionary Computation in Games at CEC'07 in Singapore: Extended Deadline
  p.hingston at 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
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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

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  ENASE 2007 Deadline Extension
  cesargon at 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

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Academic Positions and Scholarships

  PhD Scholarships in Programming Languages at Macquarie
  asloane at 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 at 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

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  Full Time Faculty Position Yonsei University
  yang at 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

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  Post-doctoral researchers in security and reliability University of Luxembourg
  leon.vandertorre at 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

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  PhD Scholarships in Programming Languages at Macquarie
  asloane at ics.mq.edu.au

http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~it-announce/news.htm#jobad.txt3

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  PhD Scholarship in Computer Science Griffith University
  v.estivill-castro at 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

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