Kamis, 29 September 2011

Accessibility, Inclusion and Rehabilitation using Information Technologies

AIRtech 2011: Accessibility, Inclusion and Rehabilitation using Information Technologies
December 13th-15th 2011
Hotel Parque Central , La Havana, Cuba

AIRtech2011 aims to establish an open exchange dedicated to the presentation and discussion about accessibility, inclusion and rehabilitation using Information Technologies. We invite researchers working in this field to participate.


As main topics are those relating to the application of information technologies in accessibility to enable people with functional limitation to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, in inclusion for people with different abilities and preferences, and in rehabilitation.


General co-chairs:

Alejandro Mesejo Chiong ‐ mesejo@matcom.uh.cu
Universidad de la Habana, Cuba

Antoni Jaume i Capó - antoni.jaume@uib.es

Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

Submission details:

Authors are invited to submit a summary in English of no more than 2 pages in the format of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pdf). Instructions regarding this format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Submissions that do not conform to this format will not be accepted.
Summary should describe objectives, methodology used, results obtained, and their significance.
Please submit the summary 3 to Alejandro Mesejo Chiong (mesejo@matcom.uh.cu) and Antoni Jaume i Capó (antoni.jaume@uib.es) no later than 15th october 2011. Please include full contact information.

Important dates:

Submission: October 15th, 2011
Notification of acceptance: November 15th, 2011
Camera-ready Copies: December 1st, 2011
Registration deadline: December 8th, 2011

More information:

http://sites.google.com/site/2011airtech/home

Venue

Hotel Parque Central, La Habana, Cuba.
http://www.hotelparquecentral.com/

Publication

Abstracts will be published at AIRtech 2011 proceedings, with ISBN.

Selected abstracts will be invited to submit an extended paper to the special collection: Accessibility, Inclusion and Rehabilitation using Information Technologies of Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JCR indexed, Impact Factor 2010: 0.205). Journal website: http://www.acs.org.au/jrpit/index.html


Notification of selected summaries: December 15th, 2011.

Submission of extended papers: March 1st, 2012.
Notification of acceptance: maximum 9 month from March 1st, 2012.

Rabu, 28 September 2011

the 4th International Conference on Wireless Information Networks & Business Information System

WINBIS'2012

On behalf of the organizing committee of the 4th International Conference on Wireless Information Networks & Business Information System ( WINBIS 2012 ), it is our pleasure to invite you to this international meeting again, which will take place at the Hotel Marshyandi, Kathmandul, Nepal from 27 th to 28th Febuary 2012. Since 2009 , Open Learning Society is organizing WINBIS and it's series every year.



WINBIS 2012 is now Well respected International Conference organized by "Open Learning Society ". Now WINBIS' is born in 4th Series held in Kathmandu Nepal.

WINBIS - 1st, 2nd and 3 rd Series was held in Kathmandu, Nepal on previous years. Due to the great success of WINBIS's previous series, Now Open Learning Society is trying to attempt 4th Series of WINBIS'11 again in Kathmandu Nepal on 27th - 28th Febuary, 2012 . WINBIS'2012 aims at bringing together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on Wireless Information, Communication technologies and Business Information.

The conference will cover research on all theoretical and practical aspects related to wireless Information network and Business Information System . The aim of this conference is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and developers with the Wireless network and Business system , and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments.

We are looking forward to seeing you for this conference in the latest trends, topics and developments within the Wireless Information Networks & Business Information System and we hope you will enjoy the stay in this wonderful place in Nepal

Important Date :
Paper Submission : 30th Oct. 2011
Acceptance Notification : 10th Nov, 2011
Authorss /Early Registration : 25th Nov. 2011
Camera Ready : 20th Jan. 2012
Late Registration : 30th Jan. 2012
Conference Date : 27-28th Feb, 2012

Accepted and registered papers will be published in the conference proceedings , in the OLS digital library & International Journals with ISSN .
http://www.win-bis.com/
ISSN No : 2091-0266

Kamis, 22 September 2011

Call of Papers EvoGames Part of EvoStar, Malaga, Spain, 11-13 April 2012

Call For Papers

Call for Papers: EvoGames 2012
Part of EvoStar, Malaga, Spain, 11-13 April 2012

Games, and especially video games, are now a major part of the finance
and software industries, and an important field for cultural
expression. They also provide an excellent testbed for and application
of a wide range of computational intelligence methods including
evolutionary computation, neural networks, fuzzy systems, swarm
intelligence, and temporal difference learning. There has been a rapid
growth in research in this area over the last few years.

This event focuses on new computational intelligence or biologically
inspired techniques that may be of practical value for improvement of
existing games or creation of new games, as well as on innovative uses
of games to improve or test computational intelligence algorithms. We
expect application of the derived methods/theories to newly created or
existing games, preferably video games. Especially papers referring to
recent competitions (e.g. TORCS, Super Mario, Pac Man, StarCraft) are
very welcome. We invite prospective participants to submit full papers
following Springer’s LNCS guidelines.
Areas of Interest and Contributions

Topics include but are not limited to:

Computational Intelligence in video games
Intelligent avatars and new forms of player interaction
Player experience measurement and optimization
Procedural content generation
Human-like artificial adversaries and emotion modelling
Authentic movement, believable multi-agent control
Experimental methods for gameplay evaluation
Evolutionary testing and debugging of games
Adaptive and interactive narrative
Games related to social, economic, and financial simulations
Adaptive educational, serious and/or social games
General game intelligence (e.g. general purpose drop-n-play Non-Player Characters, NPCs)
Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS)
Affective Computational Intelligence in Games

Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of evo*, published in a
volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, which will
be available at the Conference.

Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The
submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the
program committee. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve
their paper on the basis of the reviewers’ comments and will be asked
to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least one
author of each accepted work has to register for the conference and
attend the conference and present the work.
The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information
about the authors in the submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in
Springer LNCS format.

submission:http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps12/
page limit: 10 pages

Important Dates
submission deadline: 30 November 2011
notification to authors: 14 January 2012
camera-ready deadline: 5 February 2012
evo* event: 11-13 April 2012

Programme Chairs:
Mike Preuss, TU Dortmund, Germany
Julian Togelius, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Georgios N. Yannakakis, IT University of Copenhagen, Dennmark

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Georgios N. Yannakakis
Associate Professor
IT University of Copenhagen
Center for Computer Games Research (Room 3B02)
Addr: Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 CPH, DK

CALL FOR PAPERS on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Machine Learning and Inference Problems

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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ParLearning 2012
Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing
for Machine Learning and Inference Problems
May 25, 2012
Shanghai, China
In Conjunction with IPDPS 2012

http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_project.php?id=2591

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HIGHLIGHTS

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* Foster collaboration between HPC community and AI community

* Applying HPC techniques for learning problems
* Identifying HPC challenges from learning and inference
* Explore a critical emerging area with strong industry interest without overlapping with existing IPDPS workshops
* Great opportunity for researchers worldwide for collaborating with Chinese Academia and Industry

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished research that demonstrate a strong interplay between parallel/distributed computing techniques and


learning/inference applications, such as algorithm design and libraries/framework development on multicore/ manycore architectures, GPUs, clusters, supercomputers, cloud


computing platforms that target applications including but not limited to:


Learning and inference using large scale Bayesian Networks

Large scale inference algorithms using parallel TPIC models, clustering and SVM etc.
Parallel natural language processing (NLP).
Semantic inference for disambiguation of content on web or social media
Discovering and searching for patterns in audio or video content
On-line analytics for streaming text and multimedia content
Comparison of various HPC infrastructures for learning
Large scale learning applications in search engine and social networks
Distributed machine learning tools (e.g., Mahout and IBM parallel tool)
Real-time solutions for learning algorithms on parallel platforms

IMPORTANT DATE

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Workshop Paper Due December 19, 2011

Author Notification February 1, 2012
Camera-ready Paper Due February 21, 2012

PAPER GUIDELINES

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Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and


references.


More format requirements will be posted on the IPDPS web page (www.ipdps.org) shortly after the author notification


Authors can purchase up to 2 additional pages for camera-ready papers after acceptance. Please find details on www.ipdps.org.


All papers must be submitted through the EDAS portal. The portal will be open soon.


Students with accepted papers have a chance to apply for a travel award. Please find details at www.ipdps.org.


PROCEEDINGS

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All papers accepted by the workshop will be included in the proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing, Workshops and PhD Forum


(IPDPSW), indexed in EI and possibly in SCI.


ORGANIZATION

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General Co-chairs:

Sutanay Choudhury, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
George Chin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Yinglong Xia, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Local Chair:

Yihua Huang, Nanjing University, China

Program Co-chairs:

John Feo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Chandrika Kamath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Anshul Gupta, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Program Committee:

Yi Wang, Tencent Holdings Lt., China
Enhong Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Yihua Huang, Nanjing University, China
Weizhu Chen, Microsoft Research, China
Yangqiu Song, Microsoft Research, China
Haixun Wang, Microsoft Research, China
Edmond Chow, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Tina Eliassi-Rad, Rutgers University, USA
Lawrence B. Holder, Washington State University, USA
Yan Liu, University of Southern California, USA
Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota, USA
George Chin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Oreste Villa, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Sutanay Choudhury, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Yinglong Xia, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Jun Wang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Jatin Chhugani, Intel Corp., USA
Arindam Pal, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Lexing Xie, Australian National University, AU

kEYNOTE SPEAKER

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Haixun Wang
Microsoft Research, China

CONTACT

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Should you have any questions regarding the workshop or this webpage, please contact yxia ~AT~ us DOT ibm DOT com, or sutanay DOT choudhury ~AT~ pnnl DOT gov.

Rabu, 07 September 2011

Future Generation Computer Systems The International Journal of Grid Computing and eScience

CALL FOR PAPERS
Future Generation Computer Systems
The International Journal of Grid Computing and eScience
Special Issue on “Resource Discovery Mechanisms for P2P Systems”
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/fgcs

Scope
In the last years Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has emerged as a milestone in distributed computing. It enables large-scale aggregation of resources (e.g. files, applications, services, storage, processing cycles and services) geographically distributed and belonging to unrelated administrative domains. Despite the results obtained by many researchers, advancing in ICT poses many challenges in terms of protocols, infrastructures, secure and efficient access and allocation of resources, fault tolerance, scalability and performance. Particular interest has been expressed on resource discovery, in which important aspects are expressiveness and effectiveness of the resource selection criteria. Being able to select in efficient way a set of resources that meets specific criteria is a requirement of many systems and applications such as Cloud systems and online-gaming applications. This special issue will focus on new methods and algorithms to efficiently and effectively access data distributed over large-scale P2P overlay networks.
Papers in the following topics (non-exhaustively) are welcome.

P2P solutions for Clouds, Datacenters and Grids
Publishing, Searching and Query Processing in P2P networks
Routing and fault-tolerance in P2P systems
P2P Overlays
P2P economics
Epidemic protocols and algorithms for P2P Networks
P2P applications and systems in mobile environments
Performance, robustness, and scalability

Guest Editors:
Dr. Laura Ricci
Department of Computer Science
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Email: ricci@di.unipi.it

Dr. Ranieri Baraglia
Italian National Research Council
Information Science and Technology Institute
Pisa, Italy
Email: ranieri.baraglia@isti.cnr.it

Important Dates:
Paper submission: January, 15, 2012
Acceptance notification: April, 15, 2012
Final papers: May, 30, 2012
Publication: Late 2012

Submission Guidelines:
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select “P2P‐RDM” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/

Submission Format:
The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505611/authorinstructions.

Call For Papers Economic of Information Security (WEIS 2012) Berlin, Germany

Call For Papers

The 11th Annual Workshop on the Economic of Information Security (WEIS 2012)
Berlin, Germany, June 25-26, 2012


Information security and privacy continue to grow in importance, as threats
proliferate, privacy erodes, and attackers find new sources of value.
Yet the security of information systems and the privacy offered by them depends
on more than just technology. Each requires an understanding of the incentives
and trade-offs inherent to the behavior of systems and organizations. As
societyÕs dependence on information technology has deepened, policy-makers have
taken notice. Now more than ever, careful research is needed to
characterize accurately threats and countermeasures, in both the public and
private sectors.

The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading
forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security and privacy,
combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law,
policy, and computer science. Prior workshops have explored the role of
incentives between attackers and defenders of information systems, identified
market failures surrounding Internet security, quantified risks of personal data
disclosure, and assessed investments in cyber-defense. This workshop will build
on past efforts using empirical and analytic tools not only to understand
threats, but also to strengthen security and privacy through novel evaluations
of available solutions.


We encourage economists, computer scientists, business school researchers, legal
scholars, security and privacy specialists, as well as industry experts to
submit their research and participate by attending the workshop. Suggested
topics include (but are not limited to) empirical and theoretical studies of:

- Optimal investment in information security
- Models and analysis of online crime (including botnets, phishing, and spam)
- Risk management and cyber-insurance
- Security standards and regulation
- Cyber-security policy
- Security models and metrics
- Economics of privacy and anonymity
- Behavioral security and privacy
- Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching
- Cyber-defense strategy and game theory
- Incentives for information sharing and cooperation


Submitted manuscripts should represent significant and novel research
contributions. WEIS has no formal formatting guidelines. Previous contributors
spanned fields from economics and psychology to computer science and law,
each with different norms and expectations about manuscript length and
formatting. Advisable rules of thumb include: using past WEIS accepted papers as
templates and adhering to your community's publication standards.

A selection of papers accepted to this workshop will be invited to appear in an
edited volume targeted to policy-makers, managers, researchers, and
practitioners.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions due 24 February 2012
Notification of acceptance 13 April 2012
Final papers due 1 June 2012
Workshop 25-26 June 2012


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PROGRAM CHAIR

* Rainer Boehme - University of Muenster

GENERAL CHAIRS
* Gert G. Wagner - DIW Berlin
* Nicola Jentzsch - DIW Berlin

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Alessandro Acquisti - Carnegie Mellon University
* Ross Anderson - University of Cambridge
* Rainer Boehme - University of Muenster
* L. Jean Camp - Indiana University
* Jonathan Cave - RAND Europe
* Huseyin Cavusoglu - University of Texas at Dallas
* Nicolas Christin - Carnegie Mellon University
* Benjamin Edelman - Harvard Business School
* Michel van Eeten - Delft University of Technology
* Jeremy Epstein - SRI International
* Allan Friedman - Brookings Institution
* Neil Gandal - Tel Aviv University
* Dan Geer - In-Q-Tel
* Lawrence Gordon - University of Maryland
* Jens Grossklags - Penn State University
* Thorsten Holz - Ruhr-University Bochum
* Jean-Pierre Hubaux - EPFL Lausanne
* Nicola Jentzsch - DIW Berlin
* M. Eric Johnson - Dartmouth Tuck School of Business
* Martin Loeb - University of Maryland
* Kanta Matsuura - University of Tokyo
* Tyler Moore - Wellesley College
* Andrew Odlyzko - University of Minnesota
* David Pym - University of Aberdeen
* Brent Rowe - RTI International
* Stuart Schechter - Microsoft Research
* Bruce Schneier - BT Counterpane
* Richard Sullivan - Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
* Rahul Telang - Carnegie Mellon University
* Catherine Tucker - MIT
* Liad Wagman - Illinois Institute of Technology
Link: http://weis2012.econinfosec.org/