Call for Paper Conference

I-SPAN'09 (Kaohsiung, Taiwan, December 14-16, 2009)
http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/

1. Keynote speakers
2. Special issues
3. Publication
4. Workshops
5. Important dates

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Keynote Speakers:
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H. J. Siegel, Fellow of IEEE and ACM, Colorado State University, USA
Sataj Sahni, Fellow of IEEE, ACM and AAAS, University of Florida, USA
Wen -Tsue Chen, Fellow of IEEE and CSMT, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA

More information: http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/speakers.html

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Special issues
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Selected papers will be invited for publication in the special issues of some international journals.
The following Journals are confirmed:

-Journal of Information and Science Engineering (JISE) (SCI)
-International Journal of Ad-Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC) (SCI)
-Journal of Internet Technology (JIT) (SCI)
-Telecommunication Systems (TS) (SCI) CFP
-Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN) (EI)

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Publication
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ISPAN'09 Proceedings will be published by IEEE CPS.
CPS produced content will be submitted for indexing
through IET INSPEC, and EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI,
as well as other indexing services.

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Workshops
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Five Workshops will be held in conjunction with ISPAN'09.

VCNA 2009 (Vehicular Communications, Networks and Applications)- http://want.cs.tku.edu.tw/VCNA2009/
GridCAT 2009 (Grid Computing, Applications and Technologies)- http://www.csie.thu.edu.tw/gridcat2009
WISH 2009 (Intelligent systems and Smart Home)- http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/WISH2009.html
GPUTA 2009 (GPU Technologies and Applications)- http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/GPUTA2009.html
IASM 2009 (Information Assurance and Security Management)- http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/IASM2009.html

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Important Dates
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Main conference:
Manuscript Due: June 30, 2009
Acceptance Notification: August 22, 2009

Workshops
Manuscript Due: July 15, 2009
Acceptance Notification: August 22, 2009

*INTERNET MULTIMEDIA MINING*

http://research.microsoft.com/IMM2009/

In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2009

December 6, Miami, Florida, USA

Aims and scopeWith the explosion of video and image data available on the Internet, online multimedia applications become more and more important. Moreover, mining semantics and other useful information from large-scale Internet multimedia data to facilitate online and local multimedia content analysis, search and other related applications has also gained more and more attention from both academia and industry. On the one hand, the rapid increase of online multimedia data brings new challenges to multimedia content analysis, multimedia retrieval and related multimedia applications, especially in scalability. Both computation cost and performance of many existing techniques are far from satisfactory. On the other hand, Internet also provides us with new opportunities to attack these challenges as well has conventional problems encountered in multimedia mining, content analysis, image/video understanding and computer vision. That is, the massive associated metadata, context and social information available on the Internet, as well as the massive grassroots Internet users, are invaluable resources that can be leveraged to solve the aforementioned difficulties.

Recently more and more researchers are realizing both the challenges and the opportunities for multimedia research brought by the Internet. This full-day workshop aims at bringing together high-quality and novel research works on "Internet Multimedia Mining".

One of the major obstacles of "Internet Multimedia Mining" research is the difficulty in forming a "good" dataset for algorithm developing, system prototyping and performanceevaluation. Together with this workshop, we release a benchmark dataset, which is based on real Internet multimedia data and real Internet multimedia search engines. Submissions to this workshop are encouraged to use this dataset, but papers/demos working on other Internet-based datasets are also welcome.

MSRA Multimedia Dataset

MSRA-MM Version 1 dataset is ready for shipping. Detailed information about the dataset can

be find at: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79942. Please contact the

dataset chair (Meng Wang: mengwang@microsoft.com) to request the data.

MSRA-MM Version 2 dataset (10 times larger with more metadata) will be ready around June 15.

Please submit your request to the dataset chair.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Internet video/image/audio annotation, classification, tagging, search ranking and reranking by combining textual description and video/image content.

* General video/image/audio annotation, classification, tagging, search ranking and reranking by exploiting Internet data and/or users. Approaches which can handle large-scale data/users are more preferred.

* Video/image/audio processing and analyses using Internet data as a knowledge base.

* Social media processing, such as online media authoring and sharing, tag recommendation, tag filtering, tag ranking, and search ranking based on image/video/audio social context.

* Knowledge mining from Internet multimedia data, such as mining semantic distance of keywords or images, mining video/image/audio copy relationships (e.g., given a video/image/audio, to find all videos/images on the Internet that have the same content with the video/image, either entirely or partially), mining trends of multimedia consuming/sharing, mining knowledge (for example, "photo encyclopedia"", from massive amount of multimedia content on the Internet, etc.

* Web-scale content-based multimedia retrieval (for example, approaches based on large-scale high-dimensional feature indexing).

* Other online multimedia mining applications, such as multimedia advertising, multimedia recommendation, as well as location/GPS/geography-enabled multimedia, multimedia sensor network over the Internet, etc.

Paper Submission

We accept two forms of submissions: regular full papers and demonstrations. Regular submissions for this workshop are required to use the same format as regular ICDM long papers (a maximum of 10 pages in the IEEE 2-column format). And demonstration submission requires a 1- or 2-page demo description. We especially encourage long-paper authors to submit a demo also. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Extended version of selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of a top journal in data mining or multimedia area.

Award

The workshop will present two awards: a best paper award and a best demonstration award, judged by a separate awards committee.

Important Dates

• * August 8 Submission of full paper
• * August 29 Submission of demo paper
• * September 8 Notification of Acceptance
• * September 28 Camera-Ready Paper Due
• * December 6 Workshop
  

http://ism2009.eecs.uci.edu

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

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In conjunction with the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2009)
Miami, USA, December 6 - 9, 2009

http://sadm09.isti.cnr.it

Knowledge Discovery is generally described as a process for the automatic extraction of interesting, useful, and previously unknown knowledge from data. It is expected that data characteristics, data semantics as well as the knowledge that already exists about the data can be directly incorporated into the knowledge discovery process. However, semantic and reasoning aspects may intervene in several steps of the discovery process, and now the question is how these aspects interact within the process and the forms that this can take. In data pre-processing, semantic aspects may help in (1) identifying source data of interest, (2) enriching the data with additional domain information, and (3) generating more meaningful and human understandable patterns, once the generated patterns are directly related to the input data. During the mining task, semantics may be used as constraints, thus allowing (1) search space reduction, (2) pattern pruning, and (3) the development of more efficient algorithms. Background knowledge may intervene in the post-processing step helping in the explanation of large amounts of patterns, typically difficult to interpret. The objective of SADM is to introduce methods which can explicitly consider data semantics, background knowledge, or reasoning in the mining process. This knowledge has to be represented/formalized in a knowledge repository, such as ontologies, conceptual schemas, knowledge bases, etc. The main aspect is that this knowledge has to be explicitly incorporated into the KDD process, where the algorithms for data preprocessing, data mining or post-processing make use of this knowledge to improve the KDD process. The key idea is to develop a more general understanding about how to exploit data semantics and background knowledge, and to create standardized procedures for designing more intelligent data mining methods. We believe that such an effort can lead to the development of the science of semantic data mining.

* Journal Special Issue*
The selected Best Paper will be recommended for publication in a special issue of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) journal edited by Springer..

* Topics of Interest*:
The workshop will seek submissions where semantic information plays an explicit role in the knowledge discovery process. The intent of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in semantic aspects in data mining from a wide range of possible data mining subareas, including: web mining, medical data mining, spatio-temporal data mining, ubiquitous knowledge discovery, and privacy-preserving data mining.

The aim of the workshop is to receive contributions in the following topics, which are not exclusive:

* Techniques to embed semantics into the discovery process
* Semantics in data pre-processing and post-processing
* Semantic-based pruning
* Knowledge-based data mining algorithms
* Semantic-based techniques for feature selection
* Ontologies and data pre-processing
* Ontology-based evaluation of discovered patterns
* Data mining query languages
* Constraint-based data mining
* Semantics for Knowledge representation, interpretation, and reasoning
* Semantics in spatial and spatio-temporal data mining
* Conceptual modeling and data mining
* Semantic-based KDD processes and frameworks
* Semantics in biological data mining
* Semantics for uncertainty handling in data mining
* Semantics in privacy-preserving data mining
* Semantics in social network data mining

* Important Dates*:
* July 17, 2009 Due date for full workshop papers
* September 8, 2009 : Notification of paper acceptance to authors
* September 28, 2009 : Camera-ready of accepted papers
* December 6, 2009 : Workshop date

*Preliminary Program Committee List *(***to be completed***):
* Luis Otavio Alvares, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
* Ronnie Alves, Institute of Developmental Biology and Cancer, Faculte des Sciences, France
* Miriam Baglioni, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy
* Jean-Francois Boulicaut, INSA, University of Lyon, France
* Toon Calders, Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands
* Ivan Janciak, University of Wien, Austria
* Jose Antonio Fernandes de Macedo, EPFL, Switzerland
* Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy
* Giuseppe Manco, ICAR CNR, Cosenza, Italy
* Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
* Stanley Oliveira, Embrapa Informatica - São Paulo, Brazil
* Solange Rezende, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
* Giuseppe Psaila, University of Bergamo, Italy
* Yannis Theodoridis, University of Pireus, Greece
* Monica Wachowicz, Wageningen University, The Netherland
* Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Submission Guidelines and Review Process:
High quality research papers in the relevant areas are solicited. Original papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful consideration. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered. All accepted workshop papers will be included in the IEEE ICDM Workshop Proceedings,
to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Therefore, at least one author of the accepted paper must register to attend the workshop. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in PDF format, in the IEEE 2-column style (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/icdm06.xml).
All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to workshop topics, originality, significance, and clarity. We will follow the double blind review process. Authors must hence not use identifying information in the text of the paper and bibliographies must be referenced to preserve anonymity. Please use the Submission Form on the ICDM'09 website to submit your paper.

In conjunction with the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2009)
Miami, USA, December 6 - 9, 2009

http://sadm09.isti.cnr.it

Knowledge Discovery is generally described as a process for the automatic extraction of interesting, useful, and previously unknown knowledge from data. It is expected that data characteristics, data semantics as well as the knowledge that already exists about the data can be directly incorporated into the knowledge discovery process. However, semantic and reasoning aspects may intervene in several steps of the discovery process, and now the question is how these aspects interact within the process and the forms that this can take. In data pre-processing, semantic aspects may help in (1) identifying source data of interest, (2) enriching the data with additional domain information, and (3) generating more meaningful and human understandable patterns, once the generated patterns are directly related to the input data. During the mining task, semantics may be used as constraints, thus allowing (1) search space reduction, (2) pattern pruning, and (3) the development of more efficient algorithms. Background knowledge may intervene in the post-processing step helping in the explanation of large amounts of patterns, typically difficult to interpret. The objective of SADM is to introduce methods which can explicitly consider data semantics, background knowledge, or reasoning in the mining process. This knowledge has to be represented/formalized in a knowledge repository, such as ontologies, conceptual schemas, knowledge bases, etc. The main aspect is that this knowledge has to be explicitly incorporated into the KDD process, where the algorithms for data preprocessing, data mining or post-processing make use of this knowledge to improve the KDD process. The key idea is to develop a more general understanding about how to exploit data semantics and background knowledge, and to create standardized procedures for designing more intelligent data mining methods. We believe that such an effort can lead to the development of the science of semantic data mining.

* Journal Special Issue*
The selected Best Paper will be recommended for publication in a special issue of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) journal edited by Springer..

* Topics of Interest*:
The workshop will seek submissions where semantic information plays an explicit role in the knowledge discovery process. The intent of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in semantic aspects in data mining from a wide range of possible data mining subareas, including: web mining, medical data mining, spatio-temporal data mining, ubiquitous knowledge discovery, and privacy-preserving data mining.

The aim of the workshop is to receive contributions in the following topics, which are not exclusive:

* Techniques to embed semantics into the discovery process
* Semantics in data pre-processing and post-processing
* Semantic-based pruning
* Knowledge-based data mining algorithms
* Semantic-based techniques for feature selection
* Ontologies and data pre-processing
* Ontology-based evaluation of discovered patterns
* Data mining query languages
* Constraint-based data mining
* Semantics for Knowledge representation, interpretation, and reasoning
* Semantics in spatial and spatio-temporal data mining
* Conceptual modeling and data mining
* Semantic-based KDD processes and frameworks
* Semantics in biological data mining
* Semantics for uncertainty handling in data mining
* Semantics in privacy-preserving data mining
* Semantics in social network data mining

* Important Dates*:
* July 17, 2009 Due date for full workshop papers
* September 8, 2009 : Notification of paper acceptance to authors
* September 28, 2009 : Camera-ready of accepted papers
* December 6, 2009 : Workshop date

*Preliminary Program Committee List *(***to be completed***):
* Luis Otavio Alvares, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
* Ronnie Alves, Institute of Developmental Biology and Cancer, Faculte des Sciences, France
* Miriam Baglioni, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy
* Jean-Francois Boulicaut, INSA, University of Lyon, France
* Toon Calders, Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands
* Ivan Janciak, University of Wien, Austria
* Jose Antonio Fernandes de Macedo, EPFL, Switzerland
* Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy
* Giuseppe Manco, ICAR CNR, Cosenza, Italy
* Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
* Stanley Oliveira, Embrapa Informatica - São Paulo, Brazil
* Solange Rezende, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
* Giuseppe Psaila, University of Bergamo, Italy
* Yannis Theodoridis, University of Pireus, Greece
* Monica Wachowicz, Wageningen University, The Netherland
* Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Submission Guidelines and Review Process:
High quality research papers in the relevant areas are solicited. Original papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful consideration. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered. All accepted workshop papers will be included in the IEEE ICDM Workshop Proceedings,
to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Therefore, at least one author of the accepted paper must register to attend the workshop. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in PDF format, in the IEEE 2-column style (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/icdm06.xml).
All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to workshop topics, originality, significance, and clarity. We will follow the double blind review process. Authors must hence not use identifying information in the text of the paper and bibliographies must be referenced to preserve anonymity. Please use the Submission Form on the ICDM'09 website to submit your paper.

will be held in Sydney, Australia from Dec 16-18th. The papers submission deadline is June 12, 2009. Pl see the web site (www.healthcom2009.org<http://www.healthcom2009.org/>) for more details.

The objective of the International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services (Healthcom2009) is to bring together interested parties around the world in the health care field from academia, research, government and industry to exchange ideas, report learning, and discuss innovation and emerging solutions addressing challenges in e-Health. Participants include clinicians, hospital administrators, IT professionals, researchers, educators, healthcare solutions vendors, and consultants. Healthcom2009 is also an important forum for e-Health topics in world bodies such as ITU, WHO and APEC, particularly Ubiquitous Healthcare Initiative for Ageing Societies. In addition to the technical papers to be selected by the Technical Program Committee, the program will include keynote speakers from different parts of the world on some of the burning topics in eHealth:

* eHealth for Ageing
* eHealth for Pandemics and Biosecurity
* eHealth for Developing Countries
* Global Developments in m-Health
* Intelligent Knowledge Management for Healthcare

The proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and EI indexed. As in the previous years, best papers from Healthcom2009 will be published in major international refereed journals such as ISI-listed Telemedicine and e-Health Journal, Journal of Healthcare Engineering, and Journal of e-Health Technology and Application.

Healthcom2009 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communication Society, IEEE NSW Section, IFMBE and AIMBE.


A/Prof Pradeep Ray

Director, Asia-Pacific ubiquitous Healthcare research Centre (APuHC),

School of Information Systems, Technology and Management,

Australian School of Business (ASB)

University of New South Wales,

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IMPORTANT DATE
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1 June 2009: Paper Submission
1 June 2009: Proposal for Special Session and Tutorial
1 Aug 2009: Notification of Acceptance
22 Aug 2009: Camera-Ready Paper


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OVERVIEW
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Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. The10th PCM conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, a vibrant South-East Asian city. The technical program will feature opening keynote addresses, invited plenary talks, tutorials, special sessions, and technical presentations of refereed papers.

Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following tracks:

1. Multimedia analysis and retrieval
2. Multimedia security rights and management
3. Multimedia compression and optimization
4. Multimedia communication and networking
5. Multimedia systems and applications.

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SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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The Proceedings of PCM2009 will be published in a book series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, by Springer. Submitted paper should not be more than 10 pages using the LNCS template.

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SPECIAL ISSUE
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Selected high quality papers will be published in a special issue of Journal of Signal Processing Systems (JSPS).

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HONORARY CHAIRS
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Chidchanok Lursinsap, Chulalongkorn University Ling Guan, Ryerson University

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CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
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Athikom Roeksabutr, Mahanakorn U. of Tech.
Xiaoou Tang, Microsoft Research Asia
Mark Liao, IIS Academia Sinica

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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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Kumazawa Itsuo, Tokyo Institute of Technology Paisarn Muneesawang, Naresuan University Feng Wu, Microsoft Research Asia

http://sadm09.isti.cnr.it/PC.html


http://www.cs.umbc.edu/ICDM09

Knowledge Discovery is in general described as a process of automatic extraction of new knowledge from data. However, the characteristics of the data, their semantics, the knowledge that already exists about the data, and the context of the application has rarely been considered in the discovery process. Semantic and reasoning aspects may intervene in several steps of knowledge discovery, but how these aspects interact within the process, and the forms that this can take, is an issue that has been given little attention so far.
In data pre-processing, semantic aspects may help in (1) identifying source data of interest, (2) enriching the data with additional domain information, and (3) generating more meaningful and human understandable patterns, once the generated patterns are directly related to the input data. During the mining task, semantics may be used as constraints, thus allowing (1) search space reduction, (2) pattern pruning, and (3) the development of more efficient algorithms. Semantics may intervene in the post-processing step, when helping in the explanation of large amounts of patterns, typically difficult to interpret.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on all context, semantic and reasoning aspects in Data Mining, developing techniques to embed semantics in the knowledge discovery process, and taking into account ontological and reasoning issues.

IMPORTANT DATES:
– Submission Deadline: 17 July 2009
– Notication acceptance: 8 September 2009
– Camera-ready: 28 September 2009
– Workshop day 6 December 2009

*BEST PAPER AWARD*

The Workshop organizers will select the best paper of the workshop. The selected Best Paper will be recommended for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), edited by Springer.
Topics of Interest:
The workshop will seek submissions where semantic information plays an explicit role in the knowledge discovery process. The intent of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in semantic aspects in data mining from a wide range of possible data mining subareas, including: web mining, medical data mining, spatio-temporal data mining, ubiquitous knowledge discovery, and privacy-preserving data mining.
The aim of the workshop is to receive contributions in the following topics, which are not exclusive:
– Techniques to embed semantics into the discovery process – Semantics in data pre-processing and post-processing – Semantic-based pruning – Knowledge-based data mining algorithms – Semantic-based techniques for feature selection – Ontologies and data pre-processing – Ontology-based evaluation of discovered patterns – Data Mining Query Languages – Constraint-based data mining – Semantics for Knowledge representation, interpretation, and reasoning – Semantics in spatial and spatio-temporal data mining – Conceptual modeling and data mining – Semantic-based KDD processes and frameworks – Techniques using semantics for domain-driven data mining – Semantics in ubiquitous data mining – Semantics in biological data mining – Semantics for uncertainty handling in data mining – Semantics in Privacy-Preserving Data Mining – Semantics in Social Network Data Mining
Organization:
Chairs:
Dr. Vania Bogorny,
Instituto de Informatica,
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
E-mail: vbogorny@inf.ufrgs.br

Dr. Hui Xiong,
Management Science and Information Systems Department,
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,
Email: hxiong@rutgers.edu

Dr. Chiara Renso,
Instituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo"
KDD Laboratory, ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy, CNR di Pisa
Via G. Moruzzi 156124 PISA -Italy
Email: chiara.renso@isti.cnr.it

Program Committee (to be completed):
1. Luis Otavio Alvares, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2. Ronnie Alves, Institute of Developmental Biology and Cancer, Faculte des Sciences, France
3. Miriam Baglioni, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy
4. Jean-Francois Boulicaut, INSA, University of Lyon, France
5. Toon Calders, Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands
6. Ivan Janciak, University of Wien, Austria
7. Jose Antonio Fernandes de Macedo, EPFL, Switzerland
8. Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
9. Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy
10. Stanley Oliveira, Embrapa Informatica -Sao Paulo, Brazil
11. Giuseppe Psaila, University of Bergamo, Italy
12. Solange Rezende, Universidade Federal de So Carlos, Brazil
13. Yannis Theodoridis, University of Pireus, Greece
14. Monica Wachowicz, UPM, Madrid, Spain
15. Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Submission Guidelines and Review Process:
High quality research papers in the relevant areas are invited. Original papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful consideration. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered.
All accepted workshop papers will be included in the IEEE ICDM Workshop Proceedings, to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Therefore, at least one author of the accepted paper must register to attend the workshop. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in PDF format, in the IEEE 2-column style (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/nal/icdm06.xml).
All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to workshop topics, originality, significance, and clarity. We will follow the double blind review process. Authors must hence not use identifying information in the text of the paper and bibliographies must be referenced to preserve anonymity. Please use the Submission Form on the ICDM'09 website to submit your paper.

Rome, Italy, December 1, 2009
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/workshops/unet/

Submission Deadline: July 17, 2009
Submit at: http://edas.info/N7753

*Motivation*

This workshop is dedicated to the debate of concepts, challenges, and opportunities concerning user-provided networking, i.e., scenarios where users cooperate by sharing wireless resources as well as Internet services.
To provide a specific example that relates to Internet Access (connectivity),
the end-user (or a community of end-users) is a micro-operator in the sense that he/she shares his/her subscribed broadband Internet access based on some form of incentive scheme. In addition, the end-user may or may not provide other network functionality such as local mobility management, or persistent storage and forwarding services. This new role is disruptive in what concerns Internet service models, since there is no distinction between what is today known as end-user device and network device: in the future, end-user devices will actively participate as part of the network. In contrast, the Internet has been up to now mostly the means for end-users to obtain some form of network service, originally related to connectivity, person-to-person communication, or information retrieval. Such user-centric provider role is also disruptive given that the regular network boundaries of trust have to be extended in a way that should mimic social behavior: there is the need to form networks of trust in order to accommodate a robust network growth, given that the key to such growth is the willingness to cooperate.

Another disruptive aspect of user-provided networking is that due to the nature of the wireless media and the way that humans move, support for intermittent connectivity as well as fast and transparent roaming between micro-operators needs to be considered. Finally, and given that user-provided networking spreads
dynamically having as network elements regular end-user devices, there is the need to
consider cases where information is opportunistically relayed instead of routed based
on topological information.

Due to the disruptive aspects mentioned, user-provided networking seem to have the potential to provide a paradigm shift in Internet communication models, given that such novel functionality allow wireless networks to operate in a completely autonomic way and also given that the end-user becomes a provider of Internet services (e.g. connectivity) based upon cooperation incentives or rewards and based
upon his/her own mobility and social patterns. Services are established on the fly, and do not necessarily imply the use of multihop technology or routing. For instance, connectivity may be, in most cases, simply relayed.

The workshop program will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers and a discussion panel with guests from industry and academia. We envision U-NET as a
forum aiming to ignite a debate concerning technical challenges and impact (negatively or positively) that user-provided networking may have on Internet communication models.

*Topics*

U-NET'09 solicits high quality technical contributions within the context of
user-provided networking. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Challenges and opportunities for access providers.
* Impact on Internet architectures.
* Internet connectivity.
* Trust models, incentives to share broadband access.
* Human behaviour and mobility patterns.
* Self-organization.
* Wireless cooperation.

Papers submitted are expected to be highly innovative and may incorporate early stage ideas; position papers (clearly identified as such) pointing to new directions and capable of generating discussion are also welcome.
Submission must be original and not already published in any other conference proceeding or journal. Proceedings of the workshop will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

*Submissions*

Submitted papers must be at most 6 (six) pages long (including figures,
tables and references) in the standard ACM double column format. All text
must use font sizes of 10 points or larger. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. The review process is single-blind. Submissions will be done via EDAS at http://edas.info/N7753.

*Important Dates*

Submissions due: July 17, 2009
Notification of acceptance: September 4, 2009
Camera ready version due: October 1, 2009
Workshop date: December 1, 2009

*Program Committee*

PC Chairs

Paulo Mendes, INESC Porto, Portugal
Olivier Marcé, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France

Technical Program Committee

Rute Sofia, INESC Porto, Portugal
André Zúquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Vassilis Kostakos, University of Madeira, Portugal
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dirk Trossen, British Telecom Innovate, United Kingdom
Prosper Chemouli, France Telecom, France
Martin May, Thomson Paris Research Laboratory, France
Karen Sollins, MIT, USA
Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA
James Kempf, Ericsson Research, USA
Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgders University, USA
Bernhard Plattner, ETH, Switzerland
George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Maria Papadopouli, FORTH/University of Creete, Greece
Anand Prasand, NEC, Japan
Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Sweden
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Marcus Brunner, NEC, Germany
Petri Mähönen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

I-SPAN'09 (Kaohsiung, Taiwan, December 14-16, 2009)
http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/
The 10th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks

Important Dates: (Main conference)

Abstract Submission: June 15, 2009
Manuscript Due: June 30, 2009
Acceptance Notification: August 15, 2009

Workshop papers - July 15, 2009

VCNA 2009 (Vehicular Communications, Networks and Applications)- http://want.cs.tku.edu.tw/VCNA2009/
GCA 2009 (Grid Computing and Applications)- http://www.csie.thu.edu.tw/gca2009
WISH 2009 (Intelligent systems and Smart Home)- http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/WISH2009.html
GPUTA 2009 (GPU Technologies and Applications)- http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/GPUTA2009.html
IASM 2009 (Information Assurance and Security Management)- http://ispan2009.comm.ccu.edu.tw/IASM2009.html

Selected papers will be invited for publication in the special issues of some international journals.
Affiliated Journals include:

-Journal of Information and Science Engineering (JISE) (SCI)
-International Journal of Ad-Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC) (SCI)
-Journal of Internet Technology (JIT) (SCI)
-Telecommunication Systems (TS) (SCI) CFP
-Computer Communications (CompComm) (SCI)
-Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN) (EI)

Confernce / Workshop Publication - IEEE CS

For Additional Information, Please send e-mail to ispan.chair@gmail.com

*The 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing*
Proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series.

Beijing, China, December 1-4, 2009.

Important dates
* Submission deadline: Jun. 1st, 2009
* Author notification: Sept. 1st, 2009
* Camera-ready manuscript: Oct. 1st, 2009
* Author registration: Oct. 1st, 2009
* Workshop proposal: May 1st, 2009

For more info: cloudcomsislab.no
http://www.CloudCom.org

Organized by the Beijing Jiaotong University
Co-organized by Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Sun Yat-sen University.
Sponsored by the IEEE Task Force on Autonomic & Trusted Computing
In Cooperation with IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and IEEE Computer Society

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* About CloudCom 2009

"Cloud" is a common metaphor for an Internet accessible infrastructure (e.g. data storage and computing hardware) which is hidden from users. Cloud Computing makes data truly mobile and a user can simply access a chosen cloudwith any internet accessible device. In Cloud Computing, IT-related capabilities are provided as services, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. Thus, many mature technologies are usedas components in Cloud Computing, but still there are many unresolved and open problems. This conference and workshop series, steered by the Cloud Computing Association ( www.cloudcom.org ), aims to bring together researchers who work on cloud computing and related technologies. Topics include but are not limited to:

* Cloud/Grid architecture
* Load balancing
* Optimal deployment configuration
* Consistency models
* Virtualization technologies
* Middleware frameworks
* Software as a Service (SaaS)
* Hardware as a Service (HaaS)
* Data grid & Semantic web
* Web services
* Security and Risk
* Fault tolerance and reliability
* Auditing, monitoring and scheduling
* Utility computing
* High-performance computing
* Peer to peer computing

Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (EI and ISTP indexed). After the conference, extended and revised versions of distinguished papers will be invited for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Computer Science and Technology (SCI-indexed)(pending). The conference workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE (pending).

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* Award
A best paper award will be sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty Ltd

* Keynote Speakers
Rajkumar Buyya - Director for GRIDS Lab, University of Melbourne, Australia
Geoffrey Fox - Director for Community Grids Lab, Indiana University, USA
Chunming Rong - University of Stavanger, Norway

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IFIP Wireless Days 2009
Paris, France
December 14-16, 2009
http://www.wireless-days.org/
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Conference Chairs:

Guy Pujolle, University of Paris 6, France
Nadjib Achir, University of Paris 13, France
Khaled Boussetta, University of Paris 13, France

Steering committee:

Khaldoun Al-Agha, University Paris 11, France
Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Boutaba Raouf, University of Waterloo
Tijani Chahed, TELECOM & Management SudParis, France
Pedro Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain
Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Ulf Korner, Lund University, Sweden

Scope:

Wireless Days Conference is a major international conference which
aims to bring together researchers, technologists and visionaries
from Academia, research labs and industry, engineers and students
to exchange, discuss and share their experiences, ideas and research
about theoretical and practical aspects of wireless networking. After
the first successful edition of Wireless Days 2008 in Dubai (UAE),
the second edition of the conference will be held in Paris (France)
next December 14-16, 2009. The conference will include presentations
of theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative wireless
systems, prototyping efforts, case studies and advances in technology
related to wireless networking and communications infrastructures.

Wireless Days Conference program will include the following four
conference tracks:

- Track 1: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
- Track 2: Broadband Wireless
- Track 3: Wireless Multimedia
- Track 4: Home Networking

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: July 12, 2009
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2009
Camera-ready version: October 15, 2009

Paper Submission:

Submissions should be original and limited to 5 double-column pages,
and should follow IEEE paper templates. Paper with more pages can be
accepted however they need to be reduced to 5 pages for publication.
Papers are to be submitted electronically on the EDAS web site of
the conference in PDF format.

Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be
available through IEEExplore (pending).

Best papers will be published in a special issue of Journals

Contacts:
Conference Chairs
- Guy Pujolle,
University of Paris 6, France (Guy.Pujolle@lip6.fr)
- Nadjib Achir,
University of Paris 13, France (Nadjib.Achir@univ-paris13.fr)
- Khaled Boussetta,
University of Paris 13, France (Khaled.Boussetta@univ-paris13.fr)

Track 1: "Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks"
- Nadjib Achir,
University of Paris 13, France (Nadjib.Achir@univ-paris13.fr)
- Khaled Boussetta,
University of Paris 13, France (Khaled.Boussetta@univ-paris13.fr)

Track 2: "Broadband Wireless"
- Sami Tabbane,
Sup'Com, Tunisia (sami.tabbane@supcom.rnu.tn)
- Llorenc Cerda-Alabern ,
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain (llorenc@ac.upc.edu)

Track 3: "Wireless Multimedia"
- Madjid Merabti,
Liverpool John Moores University, UK (M.Merabti@ljmu.ac.uk)
- David Llewellyn-Jones,
Liverpool John Moores University, UK (D.Llewellyn-Jones@livjm.ac.uk)

Track 4 : "Third International Home Networking conference"
- Stefano Galli,
Panasonic R&D Company of America, USA (SGalli@research.panasonic.com)

Local organization
- Aziza Lounis,
University of Paris 6, France (Aziza.Lounis@rp.lip6.fr)
- Pellissier Clementine,
University of Paris 6, France (Clementine.Pellissier@lip6.fr)

Sponsors:
IFIP (http://www.ifip.org/)
(pending) IEEE Technical Co-sponsorship