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The 11th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2010)
jueves, 18 de marzo de 2010
The 11th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2010)
Tuscany Suites & Casino, Las Vegas, USA
August 4-6, 2010
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri2010/
Tuscany Suites & Casino, Las Vegas, USA
August 4-6, 2010
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~
The increasing volumes and dimensions of information have dramatic
impact on effective decision-making. To remedy this situation,
Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) seeks to maximize the reuse
of information by creating simple, rich, and reusable knowledge
representations and consequently explores strategies for integrating
this knowledge into legacy systems. IRI plays a pivotal role in the
capture, representation, maintenance, integration, validation, and
extrapolation of information; and applies both information and
knowledge for enhancing decision-making in various application
domains. This conference explores three major tracks: information
reuse, information integration, and reusable systems. Information
reuse considers optimizing representation methodologies; information
integration studies strategies for creatively applying models in
novel domains; and reusable systems focus on ontological
opportunities for deploying models and corresponding processes.
The IEEE IRI conference serves as a forum for researchers and
practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present,
discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with
real-world solutions. The conference feature contributed and
invited papers. Theoretical and applied papers are both included.
The conference program will include special sessions, open forum
workshops, and keynote speeches. A forum will be conducted with
the intent of bridging IRI and Systems of Systems and why the future
of intelligent computing - including computing applications - will
lie at the juxtaposition of these two topical areas.
The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed
below:
- Large Scale Data and System Integration
- Component-Based Design and Reuse
- Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies
- Database Integration
- Structured/Semi-structured Data
- Middleware & Web Services
- Reuse in Software Engineering
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- Sensory and Information Fusion
- Reuse in Modeling & Simulation
- Automation, Integration and Reuse across Various Applications
- Information Security & Privacy
- Survivable Systems & Infrastructures
- AI & Decision Support Systems
- Heuristic Optimization and Search
- Knowledge Acquisition and Management
- Fuzzy and Neural Systems
- Soft Computing
- Evolutionary Computing
- Case-Based Reasoning
- Natural Language Understanding
- Knowledge Management and E-Government
- Command & Control Systems (C4ISR)
- Human-Machine Information Systems
- Space and Robotic Systems
- Biomedical & Healthcare Systems
- Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering
- Multimedia Systems
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems
- Information Integration in Grid Computing Environments
- Information Integration in Mobile Computing Environments
- Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
- Systems of Systems
- Semantic Web and Emerging Applications
- Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in
Collaborative Environments
Instructions for Authors:
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining
to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts
must be in English of length 4 to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column
template). Submissions should include the title, author(s),
affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and
postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted at
the conference web site: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~
submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment
via email to either of the Program Chairs (mailing address available
on the conference website) on or before the deadline date of
March 28, 2010. The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or
word.doc format. The subject of the email must be
"IEEE IRI 2010 Submission."
Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness,
significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should
certify that their papers represent substantially new work and are
previously unpublished. Paper submission implies the intent of at
least one of the authors to register and present the paper,
if accepted.
Important Dates
January 24, 2010 Workshop/Special session proposal
March 28, 2010 Paper submission deadline (11:59 PM, PST)
May 21, 2010 Notification of acceptance
June 18, 2010 Camera-ready paper due
June 18, 2010 Presenting author registration due
July 30, 2010 Advance (discount) registration for general public
and other co-author
July 30, 2010 Hotel reservation (special discount rate)
closing date
August 4-6, 2010 Conference events
The 6th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '10)
domingo, 21 de febrero de 2010
The 6th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '10)
Will take place at the UC Santa Barbara Conference Center in Santa Barbara, California, USA during Monday, June 21 - Wednesday, June 23, 2010. DCOSS '10 is intended to cover several aspects of distributed computing in sensor systems such as high level abstractions and models, systematic design methodologies, signal and information processing, algorithms, analysis and applications.
DCOSS 2010 colocates with the following Workshops on special topics of sensor networks research:
- Fourth International Workshop on Localized Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (LOCALGOS)
Chair: Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Second International Workshop on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery from Sensors and Streams
Chair: Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
- First International Workshop on Interconnections of Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSN-10)
Co-Chairs:
Djamel Djenouri, Centre for Research on Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST), Algiers, Algeria.
Jianguo Ding, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Abdelouahid Derhab, Centre for Research on Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST), Algeria.
- First International Workshop on Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks (MobiSensor'2010)
Co-Chairs:
Damianos Gavalas, University of the Aegean, Greece
Grammati Pantziou, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece
Charalampos Konstantopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece
All Workshops papers will be included in the IEEE Digital Library and a hardcopy Proceedings Volume.
For more information, please visit the Workshops page at http://www.dcoss.org/
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International Workshop on Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization
viernes, 19 de febrero de 2010
International Workshop on Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization
in Conjunction with
The Twenty-Second International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2010)Hotel Sofitel. San Francisco Bay, USA , July 1– July 3, 2010
(URL: http://www.ksi.edu/seke/
Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute, U.S.A.
THEME
For decades software systems suffer from poor reliability. Billions of dollars and even lives are lost annually due to software errors. According to the report by NIST in 2002, poor software quality costs 60 billion dollars yearly to US economy, and 22 billion dollars can be regained by improving infrastructure for detecting errors using testing closer to the development phase. With the quick increase of software complexity and scale, test automation is becoming an emerging and effective solution in software quality assurance to meet tight project schedules with quality.
Today, there are many published research papers addressing software test automation issues and solutions, numerous test automation tools are available for quality assurance engineer. However, there are many open issues, obstacles, and challenges in software test automation, practice, and standardization. Moreover, there is an emerging need in software test automation standardization to reduce test automation efforts by increasing standardization of test process, test design, and test tools. This workshop is set up to meet these emerging needs.
GOALS
This international workshop on software test automation, practice, and automation brings together software test automation researchers and industry practitioners to exchange innovative ideas, practical solutions, and test automation tools to cope with practical issues and challenges in the real world. Moreover, this workshop is set-up to provide an effective forum for researchers and industry practitioners to discuss the diversity of test automation standards in software projects, test automation standardization needs, challenges, and importance. Furthermore, this workshop provides a great platform for engineers and researchers to report innovative software test automation solutions, and tools, and share practical project experience and lessons, as well as, exchange well-defined test automation standards.
TOPIC OF INTEREST
This international workshop seeks original papers, which propose new test automation ideas, solutions and tools, report practical experience in test automation projects, discuss new test automation processes, standards, models, and test criteria. The typical scope includes different perspectives in test automation, including auto-test infrastructure, standards, models, test generation, test execution, test management, and test coverage analysis and measurement. In addition, it also seeks practice reports that present the current issues, challenges, experience and lessons on software test automation projects.
The topics for submissions include but are not limited to the followings:
1. Auto-test solutions and tools:
* Software test automation tools and solutions for unit testing (black-box/white-box)
* Automatic techniques and tools for testing software production lines, such as installation testing, and configuration testing
* Automatic software regression test techniques and tools
* System load testing tools and performance evaluation tools for non-functional requirements and features
* Software simulation and tools for software auto-testing
* Software security testing techniques and tools
* User-oriented and requirements-based test automation approaches and tools
* Program-based software test automation methods, tools, and experience
* Language-based software test automation techniques and tools
* Software test automation cost analysis and complex evaluation tools
* Innovative software test languages, scripting techniques, and tools
* Automatic software test coverage analysis and monitoring tools
2. Test automation standardization:
* Test automation standardization issues, challenges, motivations, and needs
* Test automation standards in test processes, test models, test languages, coverage criteria, and documentation
* Test automation standards for test planning, design & analysis, test generation and scripting, test complexity and cost evaluation, and tools
* Test automation techniques, experience, lessons and case studies
* General and domain-specific standardization for test automation and tools
3. Emerging test automation methods and tools:
* Automatic validation techniques and technology for emerging software technologies
* SOA-based software test automation methods, techniques, and tools
* Model-based software test automation methods, techniques, and tools
* Component-based software test automation methods and tools
* Web-based and agent-based software test automation methods and tools
* Wireless-based software test automation approaches and tools
4. Test automation management and practice:
* Issues, challenges, and needs in software test automation and practice
* Test-driven-development techniques and project experience
* Software test automation case studies and empirical studies
* Software test automation project issues, experience and lessons learned
IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper submission due: March 2, 2010
* Notification of acceptance: April, 15, 2010
* Camera-ready copy: May 10, 2010
* Workshop and conference date: July 1-3, 2010
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (Postscript, PDF, or MS Word format) of the full paper should be submitted using the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/seke2010/
PAPER REVIEW, WORKSHOP PROGRAM, AND PUBLICATION
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop PC committee and SEKE2010 program committee. The accepted papers will be published in the SEKE2010 conference proceedings. The workshop program will be set up as a part of SEKE 2010 Conference Program.
The best papers and their extended versions will be recommended for the publication on a special issue on Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization in International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering in 2010.
3rd Workshop on Assessment of Contemporary Modularization
miércoles, 17 de junio de 2009
3rd Workshop on Assessment of Contemporary Modularization Techniques (ACoM.09)
26th October 2009, Orlando, Florida, USACo-located with: 24th ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems
and Applications (OOPSLA 2009)
Workshop Web-site: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/
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Motivation
========
Numerous modularization techniques have been developed to cope with complexity
and increasing scale of software systems, such as Aspect-Oriented Software
Development (AOSD) and Feature-Oriented Programming (FOP). Using these advanced
modularization techniques, designers intend to achieve better changeability and
adaptability through improved modularity. However, it remains unclear to what
extent these new techniques have improved software productivity and
maintainability in practice. It is even more challenging to determine their
impact on closely-related emerging domains such as collaborative software
engineering, ultra-large systems, cyber-physical systems and cloud computing.
This workshop emphasizes the need for improving and pushing the boundaries on
the assessment of modern modularization techniques, especially in the emerging
domains of software development.
The purpose of this workshop is to (i) stimulate innovative ideas of new and more
effective modularity assessment methods to better evaluate contemporary
modularization techniques; (ii) solicit experience reports from practitioners
that help to better understand the impact of modularity assessment; (iii) discuss
the potential impact of assessment techniques; (iv) improve our understanding on
issues such as how to effectively differentiate the applicability of assessment
techniques in different circumstances; and (v) foster a collaborative environment
for both practitioners and researchers interested in the effective modularity
assessment from different levels and in different domains.
Goals
========
The main goal of this workshop is to put together researchers and practitioners
with different backgrounds in order to discuss open issues on the assessment of
contemporary modularization techniques, such as:
1. Do contemporary modularization techniques have a role to play in emerging
system domains? Can their benefits be assessed? How does the application of
contemporary modularization techniques to these domains affect assessment
strategies?
2. What attributes of these complex systems need to be measured and assessed?
3. Are current conventional metrics sufficient to assess software quality in
such domains? How can the validity of such metrics be measured?
4. What new assessment mechanisms are necessary to assess contemporary
heterogeneous modularization techniques in emerging system domains and to
accommodate the associated development practices?
5. What new modularization techniques or improvements to existing ones are
suggested by previous assessment results?
6. What resources and benchmarks are necessary to enable the effective and
efficient assessment of modularization techniques in emerging domains? How can
repeatability of studies be achieved over such complex domains?
The workshop also aims at: (i) bringing the attention of the software engineering
community the importance of rigorous evaluation of emerging modularization
techniques; (ii) motivating the expansion of research and practice associated with
assessment of emerging modularization technologies; and (iii) fostering a
collaborative environment for both practitioners and researchers interested in
effective assessment of new development techniques.
Topics of Interest
========
The workshop is intended to cover a wide range of topics, from theoretical
foundations to assessment frameworks and empirical studies involving contemporary
software modularity techniques. Topics of interest include the following
(but not limited to):
* Lessons learned from assessing new modularization techniques
* Assessment of emerging systems
* Empirical studies and industrial experiences
* Comparative studies between new modularization techniques and conventional ones
* Assessment frameworks
* Software metrics and estimation models
* Validation of assessment techniques and mechanisms
* Assessment techniques, methods and tools to different phases of the software lifecycle
* Development of predictive models of defect rates and reliability from real data
* Infrastructure issues, such as measurement theory, experimental design, and analysis approaches
* Improvement of modularization techniques based on assessment.
Workshop Format and Submissions
========
ACoM is a one-day long workshop and is strongly focused on discussion. Authors who
plan to contribute with a paper are requested to submit a position paper in PDF format.
The paper format must follow the ACM SIGPLAN (10pt) style guidelines. Papers must
be written in English and please see the workshop website
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/
accepted papers will be published on the website
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/
We are soliciting the submission of two categories of position papers:
1. Traditional position papers (up to 6 pages) related to workshop topics.
2. Very short position statement (1-2 pages), where the authors describe their
"innovative thoughts", lessons learned, or points of view with respect to one
or more workshop topics.
Papers in the category (1) will be refereed by at least three reviewers, and should
describe work that is not yet advanced enough for a full conference paper.
They are expected to have a more solid idea, even though it does not require strong
validation ingredients. Papers in the category (2) will be mainly reviewed for
topicality, i.e. checked if they fit into the workshop topics, including some
feedback from reviewers. Moreover we especially encourage authors to present their
experience and/or novel ideas on how to assess new modularization techniques
(shorter paper format).
Important Dates
========
Abstract Submission Deadline: 21st August 2009
Paper Submission Deadline: 28th August 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 1 week before OOPSLA early-registration cut-off
Camera-ready: 2nd October 2009
Workshop: 26th October 2009
11th International Conference on Software Reuse
11th International Conference on Software Reuse
September 27 – 30, 2009Falls Church, VA, USA
Call for Tools Demos
We invite proposals for tool demonstrations on any topics related to
software reuse. All selected tools will be presented during the
conference in a specific session and there will be another session for
the demos themselves. The demo session will be in an open session to
allow individual interaction with the participants.
Submissions should not exceed four pages in proceedings format. The
submission deadline for demos is June 22, 2009. Proposals for tool
demonstrations should be sent to Claudia Werner (werner at cos.ufrj.br).
Demo papers will not appear in the ICSR Proceedings, but all papers
and presentations will be made available from the ICSR 11 web site at
http://icsr11.isase.org.
Important Dates
* Tool Demo Submission Deadline: June 22, 2009 (NEW!!!)
* Notifications of Acceptance: July 15, 2009
* Conference begins on Sunday: September 27, 2009
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia
lunes, 15 de junio de 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2009)
Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina
San Diego, California, USA
December 14-16, 2009
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2009)
Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina
San Diego, California, USA
December 14-16, 2009
http://ism2009.eecs.uci.edu
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2009) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing.
The technical program of ISM2009 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions.
Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but are not limited to:
- Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications
- Multimedia networking and QoS
- Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming
- Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV
- Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems
- Architecture specification languages
- Software development using multimedia techniques
- Multimedia signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding
- Visualization
- Virtual Reality
- Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval
- Multimedia collaboration
- Rich media enabled E-commerce
- Computational intelligence including neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms
- Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis
- Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems
- Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption
- Mobile Multimedia Systems and Services
- Multimodal Interaction, including Human Factors
- Multimodal User Interfaces: Design, Engineering, Modality-Abstractions, etc.
- Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing
There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award competition. The award winners will be announced at the conference banquet.
SUBMISSIONS
The written and spoken language of ISM2009 is English.
Authors should submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available on the ISM2009 web page.
Only electronic submission will be accepted. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and be available for online access via IEEEXplore.
A number of the papers presented at the conference will be selected for possible publications in journals.
ISM2009 will include a few workshops dedicated to focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops of emerging areas are invited. Papers from Workshops will be presented at ISM2009, and included in the Proceedings. Submissions of proposals on panels and demonstrations are also encouraged.
Panel summary articles may also be included in the conference proceedings.
Prospective authors are also invited to submit papers to the Industry Program, which will be included in the proceedings.
A main goal of this program is to present research work that exposes the academic and research communities to challenges and issues important for the industry. Please refer to the Industry Program link for submission details.
IMPORTANT DATES
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April 20, 2009 Submission of workshop proposals due
May 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals
July 12, 2009 Submission of main conference papers due (extended)
July 12, 2009 Submission of proposals on panels due (extended)
July 12, 2009 Submission of industry program papers due (extended)
August 10, 2009 Submission of demonstration proposals due
August 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance of main conference papers
August 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance of demonstration proposals
August 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance of industry program papers
September 25, 2009 Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due
Onward! 09 The conference for new ideas in Software
miércoles, 10 de junio de 2009
Onward! 09 The conference for new ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on everything to do with programming and software.
Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN in cooperation with SIGSOFT
Co-located with OOPSLA 2009
Orlando, Florida October 25-29 2009
http://www.onward-conference.
*** Deadline approaching ***
June 26, 2009 Submission of short research papers
July 2, 2009 Submission of films
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Onward! is a place for highly original ideas about how technological advances and new applications are going to shape computational fabrics of the future. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to not so well proven but well argued ideas. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming languages and software engineering research. Onward! takes a broad and inclusive view of computation and seeks contributions from all fields represented at OOPSLA and other software conferences. Onward! particularly encourages contributions influenced by other disciplines such as art, philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, biology,
economics, communities, politics, ethics, or any other human endeavor.
Anything to do with programming and software can be submitted. Anything!
Onward! is innovative not only with regard to its topics and ideas but also to the contribution formats. This year, we seek high quality submissions in one of the following categories:
*** RESEARCH PAPERS (Due June 26, 2009) ***
While regular research papers tell what work has been done and validated in recent years, Onward! papers show what exciting work is being done right now. Onward! accepts papers that talk about innovative research work that is early in its life or is not in the mainstream. We request submissions of position papers that propose bold directions of research and advocate nontraditional methodologies. An Onward! paper does not need to contain a fully worked out theory or implemented system, but must be well-thought-out and compelling in its vision or uniqueness of thinking.
Papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the OOPSLA 2009 Proceedings, and will appear in the ACM Digital Library.
*** FILMS ***
Years ago, sophisticated software systems had to be constructed by highly trained programmers who understood the ins and outs of software development. Today, with the advent of new mashup technologies and service architectures, these barriers have been lowered. The goal of this track is to explore new developments in how film and other narrative multimedia technologies can be used to enrich the software development process. Descriptions of accepted films will be published in the OOPSLA 2009 Companion, and will appear in the ACM Digital Library.
*** ESSAYS (submission closed) ***
*** WORKSHOPS (submission closed) ***
*** HOW TO SUBMIT ***
Electronic submission is required through the Onward! homepage. Text submissions must follow the standard ACM SIGPLAN format. Research papers should not exceed 8 pages. Submissions must not have been previously published, and must not be concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere (including journals and formal proceedings of conferences and workshops). Violation of this policy will result in desk-rejection of the submission.
*** GENERAL CHAIR ***
Bernd Bruegge, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
*** PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***
Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada (chair)
Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dilma Da Silva, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Maja Dhondt, IMEC, Belgium
Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Eclipse Foundation, USA
Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Bruce Horn, Powerset, USA
Gail Kaiser, Columbia University, USA
Caitlin Kelleher, Washington University St. Louis, USA
Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Rick McGeer, HP Labs, USA
Linda Northrop, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Nuno Jardim Nunes, University of Madeira, Portugal
Dirk Riehle, SAP Research, Germany
Christa Schwanninger, Siemens, Germany
*** FILM COMMITTEE ***
Martin Purvis, University of Otago, New Zealand (chair)
Roberto Bisiani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Oliver Creighton, Siemens, Germany
Ralph Guggenheim, Allegator Planet, USA
Andrew Long, University of Otago, New Zealand
International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing
jueves, 4 de junio de 2009
M-MPAC 2009
International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing
International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing
http://www.smartlab.cis.
A Workshop of Middleware 2009
Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA
November 30 - December 4, 2009
Problem Space
Building on the success of the previous editions of MPAC and MobMid, this event combines the thematic areas of the two workshops and aims to develop a research roadmap on essential middleware abstractions and platforms for pervasive mobile and embedded systems.
In recent years, the rise of relatively powerful mobile communication devices like mobile phones, mobile Internet devices, and netbooks, as well as several types of embedded devices, like TV set-top boxes, iPods, Kidle, etc, has enabled a wide spectrum of novel pervasive applications, such as healthcare monitoring, sport tracking, context-aware collaborative computing, etc. Moreover, with the rise of cloud computing infrastructures developers have also started exploring the possibility of empowering resource-constrained mobile devices with such infrastructures offering unlimited storage and computing resources.
Developing practical applications for this kind of devices is still in most cases a complex and time-consuming process. Many of the existing applications have been built in an ad-hoc manner and without any possibility for code reuse. As the number and type of mobile and embedded devices, and pervasive applications increases, so does the need to enable interoperability among them. Identifying appropriate middleware abstractions and organizing successfully used protocols, algorithms, and software modules into generic middleware platforms can facilitate application development, foster software reuse, and enable rapid prototyping of pervasive applications.
It is unclear and in many respects still an unexplored research area to what extent traditional middleware services can be provided on these devices. Porting existing middleware architectures to these new computing platforms turns out to be often infeasible. Instead, a thorough reconsideration of middleware abstractions and their supporting infrastructure is needed to allow applications to make effective use of the available computational power, memory, communication technologies, integrated sensors, etc. An ideal middleware platform should be capable of handling the resource constraints of these devices but at the same time exploit their unique features such as availability of location information, embedded sensors, mobility, spontaneous interaction, context-awareness, etc.
Topics
The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Device platforms
Virtualization technologies and applications
Distributed ensembles
Interaction paradigms and protocols
Emerging mobile platforms (e.g., Android) Virtual machines (J2ME, .NET, etc.)
* Networking
Emerging wireless technologies and platforms
Experiences or case studies with new technologies (WiMax, WiBree, LTE, etc) and devices (MIP, UMPC, wearables, etc)
Multi-link scenarios: WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular network
Quality of service and network selection
* Data issues
Data formats and encoding
Availability and durability of data in personal networks
Synchronization of personal devices with other consumer electronics such as cameras, iPods, etc.
Data portability
* Adaptability
Context-awareness, location monitoring
Resource management, cyber foraging, and energy-awareness
Using cloud infrastructures for computing-intensive tasks and data storage
Autonomics and self-* properties
* Security and Privacy
Privacy preservation and identity management for device-to-device interactions
Security architectures balancing risk and utility
Trust management in device ensembles
Mobile device data security
* Mobile Web
Web architectures (REST, Ajax) in pervasive computing
Context adaptation and management in pervasive computing
Mobile web scalability and reliability in access
Content adaptation on mobile devices
* Applications
Healthcare, entertainment, games, mobile TV, smart spaces, etc.
Mobile phones in sensor and ad hoc networks
Application development on mobile and embedded devices
Programming models
* Experiences and case studies
Lessons from deployments
User experiences Performance studies
Submission
Submissions should not exceed 6 pages and should be formatted using the ACM proceeding style (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/
Papers should present a view of the state of the art in a particular sub-problem area, identify specific middleware challenges, and suggest potential avenues for exploration by proposing models, abstractions and infrastructure components addressing these challenges. Approximately two thirds of the workshop will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of these papers, while the remaining third of the time will be devoted to the development of the research roadmap.
Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. The review process will be based upon identifying the relevance and potential of the position statement to contribute to the elaboration of the roadmap and to stimulate discussion.
All accepted papers will appear in a special workshop proceedings volume in the ACM Digital Library. The publication of the best workshop submissions and the research roadmap in the style of previous events is under investigation.
Important Dates
* Paper submission deadline: August 1 2009
* Notification of acceptance: September 15 2009
* Final camera ready papers due: October 1 2009
* Workshop date: November 30 2009
Program Committee
Paolo Bellavista, Università di Bologna, Italy
Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK
Cristian Borcea, NJIT, US Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Dan Chalmers, University of Sussex, UK
Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy
Didier Donsez, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I, France (Publicity Chair)
Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
Fabio Kon, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Rene Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan
Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, US
Oriana Riva, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Workshop Co-Chair)
Luís Rodrigues, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Romain Rouvoy, Université Lille 1, Fance
Patrick Stuedi, Microsoft Research, US Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK (Workshop Co-Chair)
Venu Vasudevan, Motorola Labs, US
Luis Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (Proceedings Chair)
Lin Zhong, Rice University, US
3rd Workshop on Assessment of Contemporary Modularization Techniques
3rd Workshop on Assessment of Contemporary Modularization Techniques (ACoM.09)
26th October 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA
Co-located with: 24th ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems and Applications (OOPSLA 2009)
Workshop Web-site: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/ACoM.09/
26th October 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA
Co-located with: 24th ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems and Applications (OOPSLA 2009)
Workshop Web-site: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/
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Motivation
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Numerous modularization techniques have been developed to cope with complexity and increasing scale of software systems, such as Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD)
and Feature-Oriented Programming (FOP). Using these advanced modularization techniques, designers intend to achieve better changeability and adaptability through improved modularity.
However, it remains unclear to what extent these new techniques have improved software productivity and maintainability in practice. It is even more challenging to determine their impact on emerging application domains such as collaborative software engineering, ultra-large systems, cyber-physical systems and cloud computing. This workshop emphasizes the need for improving and pushing the boundaries on the assessment of modern modularization techniques, especially in the context of emerging software domains.
The purpose of this workshop is to (i) stimulate innovative ideas of new and more effective modularity assessment methods to better evaluate contemporary modularization techniques; (ii) solicit experience reports from practitioners that help to better understand the impact of modularity assessment; (iii) discuss the potential impact of assessment techniques; (iv) improve our understanding on issues
such as how to effectively differentiate the applicability of assessment techniques in different circumstances; and (v) foster a collaborative environment for both practitioners and researchers interested in the effective modularity assessment from different levels and in different domains.
Goals
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The main goal of this workshop is to put together researchers and practitioners with different backgrounds in order to discuss open issues on the assessment of contemporary modularization techniques, such as:
1. Do contemporary modularization techniques have a role to play in emerging system domains? Can their benefits be assessed? How does the application of contemporary modularization techniques to these domains affect assessment strategies?
2. What attributes of these complex systems need to be measured and assessed?
3. Are current conventional metrics sufficient to assess software quality in such domains? How can the validity of such metrics be measured?
4. What new assessment mechanisms are necessary to assess contemporary heterogeneous modularization techniques in emerging system domains and to accommodate the associated development practices?
5. What new modularization techniques or improvements to existing ones are suggested by previous assessment results?
6. What resources and benchmarks are necessary to enable the effective and efficient assessment of modularization techniques in emerging domains? How can repeatability of studies be achieved over such complex domains?
Topics of Interest
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The workshop is intended to cover a wide range of topics, from theoretical foundations to assessment frameworks and empirical studies involving contemporary software modularity techniques. Topics of interest include the following (but not limited to):
* Lessons learned from assessing new modularization techniques
* Assessment of emerging systems
* Empirical studies and industrial experiences
* Comparative studies between new modularization techniques and conventional ones
* Assessment frameworks
* Software metrics and estimation models
* Validation of assessment techniques and mechanisms
* Assessment techniques, methods and tools to different phases of the software lifecycle
* Development of predictive models of defect rates and reliability from real data
* Infrastructure issues, such as measurement theory, experimental design, and analysis approaches
* Improvement of modularization techniques based on assessment.
Workshop Format and Submissions
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ACoM is a one-day long workshop and is strongly focused on discussion. Authors who plan to contribute with a paper are requested to submit a position paper in PDF format. The paper format must follow the ACM SIGPLAN (10pt) style guidelines. Papers must be written in English and please see the workshop website http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/
We are soliciting the submission of two categories of position papers:
1. Traditional position papers (up to 6 pages) related to workshop topics.
2. Very short position statement (1-2 pages), where the authors describe their "innovative thoughts", lessons learned, or points of view with respect to one or more workshop topics.
Papers in the category (1) will be refereed by at least three reviewers, and should describe work that is not yet advanced enough for a full conference paper. They are expected to have a more solid idea, even though it does not require strong validation ingredients. Papers in the category (2) will be mainly reviewed for topicality,
i.e. checked if they fit into the workshop topics, including some feedback from reviewers. Moreover we especially encourage authors to present their experience and/or novel ideas on how to assess new modularization techniques (shorter paper format).
Important Dates
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- Abstract Submission Deadline: 21st August 2009
- Paper Submission Deadline: 28th August 2009
- Notification of Acceptance: 1 week before OOPSLA early-registration cut-off
- Camera-ready: 2nd October 2009
- Workshop: 26th October 2009
cfp: 3rd Workshop on Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics
martes, 26 de mayo de 2009
3rd Workshop on Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics
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Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina
San Diego, California, USA
December 14-16, 2009
https://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.
The 3rd Workshop on Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics will be a one-day workshop to be held during the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM’09, http://ism2009.eecs.uci.edu/). It will take place in Dec. 2009 in San Diego, USA.
Objectives
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Information is increasingly becoming ubiquitous and all-pervasive, with the World-Wide Web as its primary repository. The rapid growth of information on the Web creates new challenges for information retrieval. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the investigation and
development of the next generation web – the Semantic Web.
Multimedia information has always been part of the Semantic Web paradigm, but, in general, has been discussed very simplistically by the Semantic Web community. We believe that, rather than trying to discover a media object’s hidden meaning, one should formulate ways of managing
media objects so as to help people make more intelligent use of them. The relationship between users and media objects should be studied. Media objects should be interpreted relative to the particular goal or point-of-view of a particular user at a particular time.
Content-based descriptors are necessary to this process. At the same time, such descriptions are definitely not sufficient. Context is also important, and should be managed. The area of emergent multimedia semantics has been initiated to study the measured interactions between
users and media objects, with the ultimate goal of trying to satisfy the user community by providing them with the media objects they require, based on their individual previous media interactions.
The arrival of Web 2.0 has added new paradigms to the media mix. Such concepts as folksonomies, a form of emergent semantics, introduce a collaborative, dynamic approach to the generation of ontologies and media object semantics. That such an approach results in a stable
semantics, though surprising, has been recently demonstrated.
As one can see, the field of multimedia semantics is in great flux at the present time. Approaches which seek to unify these disparate disciplines are especially necessary.
This will be a one-day workshop to be held during ISM’09. Besides the standard research contributions, there will also be a poster session and a session devoted to the presentation of results from current Ph.D. students, as well as a keynote talk. Based on last year’s workshop, the
keynote will include discussions of necessary research agendas which will bring together important subsets of the research communities working on multimedia semantics, the Semantic Web, and Web 2.0. Best papers of this workshop will be published in IEEE Multimedia.
List of Topics
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We welcome all papers relevant to topics in multimedia semantics, including those at the confluence of multimedia information management, the Semantic Web, and Web 2.0, such as,
* Computational semiotics
* Conceptual clustering
* Emergent semantics in the social web
* Event representation and detection
* Folksonomies in social media sharing
* Genre detection
* Industrial use-cases and applications
* Intelligent browsing and visualization
* Media ontology learning
* Media mining in the social web
* Modeling and recognition of visual objects and actions
* Multimedia management and consumption in communities
* Multimedia extraction and social annotation
* Multimedia ontologies for the social web
* Multisensory data integration and fusion for decision making
* Perception and cognition in the context of Web 2.0
* Semantic metadata for mobile applications
* Semantics enabled multimedia applications (including search, browsing, retrieval, visualization) for the social web
* Social networking
* Spectral methods
* Standards for the social web
* User interfaces
Important Dates
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* 11:59 PM EST, July 20, 2009 — Submissions due
* August 20, 2009 — Acceptance notification
* September 25, 2009 — Camera-ready papers due
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2009)
lunes, 25 de mayo de 2009
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2009)
Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina
San Diego, California, USA
December 14-16, 2009
Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina
San Diego, California, USA
December 14-16, 2009
http://ism2009.eecs.uci.edu
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
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The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2009) is
an international forum for researchers to exchange information
regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of
multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging
research topics and define the future of multimedia computing.
The technical program of ISM2009 will consist of invited talks,
paper presentations, and panel discussions.
Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or
on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but are
not limited to:
* Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications
* Multimedia networking and QoS
* Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming
* Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems
including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and
digital TV
* Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating
systems
* Architecture specification languages
* Software development using multimedia techniques
* Multimedia signal processing including audio, video,
image processing, and coding
* Visualization
* Virtual Reality
* Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval
* Multimedia collaboration
* Rich media enabled E-commerce
* Computational intelligence including neural networks,
fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms
* Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation,
distribution, and analysis
* Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and
systems
* Multimedia security including digital watermark and
encryption
* Mobile Multimedia Systems and Services
* Multimodal Interaction, including Human Factors
* Multimodal User Interfaces: Design, Engineering,
Modality-Abstractions, etc.
* Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing,
editing, and browsing
There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper
Award competition. The award winners will be announced at the
conference banquet.
SUBMISSIONS
The written and spoken language of ISM2009 is English. Authors should submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and
affiliations, and a short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available on the ISM2009 web page. Only electronic submission will be accepted. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and be available for online access via IEEEXplore. A number of the papers presented at the conference will be selected for possible publications in journals.
ISM2009 will include a few workshops dedicated to focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops of emerging areas are invited. Papers from Workshops will be
presented at ISM2009, and included in the Proceedings. Submissions of proposals on panels and demonstrations are also encouraged. Panel summary articles may also be included in the conference proceedings.
Prospective authors are also invited to submit papers to the Industry Program, which will be included in the proceedings. A main goal of this program is to present research work that
exposes the academic and research communities to challenges and issues important for the industry. Please refer to the Industry Program link for submission details.
IMPORTANT DATES
April 20, 2009 Submission of workshop proposals due
May 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals
June 10, 2009 Submission of main conference papers due
June 10, 2009 Submission of proposals on panels due
June 10, 2009 Submission of industry program papers due
August 10, 2009 Submission of demonstration proposals due
August 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance of main conference papers
August 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance of demonstration proposals
August 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance of industry program papers
TBA Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due
AdMIRe: International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research 2009
domingo, 24 de mayo de 2009
AdMIRe: International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research 2009
http://www.cp.jku.at/
In Conjunction with the
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2009
San Diego, California, USA
December 14-16, 2009
The International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe) 2009
will serve as a forum for theoretical and practical discussions of cutting edge research in
the fields of Web mining for music information extraction, retrieval, and recommendation as
well as in mobile applications and services. Research on multimodal extraction, retrieval,
and presentation with a focus on the music and audio domain is especially welcome.
So are submissions addressing concrete implementations of systems and services by both
academic institutions and industrial companies.
Workshop papers will be official publications of IEEE, which will be included in IEEEXplore
and also be printed as part of the conference proceedings.
Motivation:
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Music information retrieval (MIR) as a subfield of multimedia information retrieval has been
a fast growing field of research during the past decade. In traditional MIR research, music-
related information were extracted from the audio signal using signal processing techniques.
These methods, however, cannot capture semantic information that is not encoded in the audio
signal, but nonetheless essential to many consumers, e.g., the meaning of the lyrics of a
song or the political motivation or background of a singer.
In recent years, the emergence of various Web 2.0 platforms and services dedicated to the
music and audio domain, like last.fm, MusicBrainz, or Discogs, has been providing novel
and powerful, albeit noisy, sources for high level, semantic information on music artists,
albums, songs, and others. The abundance of such information provided by the power of the
crowd can therefore contribute to MIR research and development considerably. On the other
hand, the wealth of newly available, semantically meaningful information offered on Web 2.0
platforms also poses new challenges, e.g., dealing with the huge amount and the noisiness of
this kind of data, various user biases, hacking, or the cold start problem.
Another recent trend, not at last addressable to platforms like Apple's iPhone or Google's
Android, are intelligent user interfaces to access the large amounts of music usually
available on today's mobile music players and the corresponding services. Mobile devices that
offer high speed Web access allow for even more music to be consumed via Web services.
Dealing with these vast amounts of music requires intelligent services on mobile devices that
provide, for example, personalized and context-aware music recommendations. The current
emergence and confluence of these challenges make this an interesting field for researchers
and industry practitioners alike.
Topics of Interest:
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Music Information Systems
Multimodal User Interfaces
Context-aware Music Applications
User Modeling and Personalization
Social Networks and Collaborative Tagging in the Music and Audio Domain
Web Mining and Information Extraction in the Music Domain
Combination of Web-based and Signal-based Information Extraction Methods
Music Recommendation
Semantic Web, Linking Open Data and Open Web Services for the Music and Audio Domain
Ontologies, Semantics and Reasoning in the Music and Audio Domain
Evaluation, Mining of Ground Truth and Data Collections
Music Indexing and Retrieval Techniques
Exploration and Discovery in Large Music Collections
Multimodal Semantic Content Analysis
Organizers:
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Markus Schedl Department of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Òscar Celma Barcelona Music and Audio Technologies, Barcelona, Spain
Peter Knees Department of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Tim Pohle Department of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Program Committee:
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Jean-Julien Aucouturier Temple University, Japan Campus, Tokyo, Japan
Luke Barrington University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Stephan Baumann German Research Center for AI, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Gijs Geleijnse Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Emilia Gómez Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Fabien Gouyon Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Paul Lamere the echonest, Davis Square, Somerville, MA, USA
Elias Pampalk last.fm, London, UK
Jeremy Pickens FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Yves Raimond BBC Audio & Music Interactive, London, UK
Andreas Rauber Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Dominik Schnitzer Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria
Douglas Turnbull Department of Computer Science, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Gerhard Widmer Department of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Important Dates:
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Full Paper Submission Deadline: July 20, 2009
Notification of Results: August 30, 2009
Camera Ready Submission: September 25, 2009
CfParticipation Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '09)
jueves, 21 de mayo de 2009
DCOSS '09
5th IEEE International Conference on
Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '09)
June 8 - 10, 2009
5th IEEE International Conference on
Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '09)
June 8 - 10, 2009
http://www.dcoss.org
Marina Del Rey, California
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The 5th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '09) will take place on Marina Del Rey, California, USA during Monday, June 8 - Wednesday, June 10, 2009.
DCOSS 2009 is a highly selective conference and features a single track of 26 papers reporting on state-of-the-art research on:
- Algorithms and Analysis
- Applications and Systems
- Signal Processing and Information Theory
The advance program includes the schedule and titles of each presented paper.
http://www.dcoss.org/program.
Please see http://www.dcoss.org/ for detailed information on the keynote addresses to be presented at DCOSS'09. Keynote addresses to be presented at DCOSS'09 include:
"Compressive Sensing: an Overview",
Emmanuel J. Candes, Calfornia Institute of Technology
"Smart Grid - Convergence for a Future Energy Transmission and Distribution
System with Wireless communications, Sensors/Monitors, RFID and I.T."
Rajit Gadh, University of California at Los Angeles
The conference is co-located with seven closely related workshops, which will be held Wednesday, June 10:
- Third International Workshop on Localized Algorithms and Protocols for
Wireless Sensor Networks (LOCALGOS)
- Second International Workshop on Sensor Network Engineering (IWSNE)
- Second Workshop on Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WEWSN)
- Third International Workshop on Information Theory for Sensor Networks (WITS)
- International Workshop on Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks
- First International Workshop on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery from
Sensors and Streams
- International Workshop on Integration of the Real World and the Future
Internet (RWI)
More workshop information is available at: http://www.dcoss.org/
The DCOSS program includes a poster session, a demo session, and a work-in-progress session, at 6pm on Monday, June 8.
A government funding session will be led by Anita J. La Salle, Program Director, Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS), Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), at the National Science Foundation. This session will be held 5:00pm - 6:30pm on Tuesday, June 9, 2008.
The conference will be held at the MARINA DEL REY MARRIOTT. Discount conference
rates are available through:
http://www.dcoss.org/
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