From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Tue Jan 13 14:07:49 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:07:49 -0800 Subject: [sage-announce] Project on improving performance analysis in IT administration Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, in our research project, we are trying to automate the process of analyzing performance anomalies. We therefore try to understand why the measured performance in a system varies and how we can use performance monitoring to generate robust performance models for certain applications. Our goal is to help both application developers and system administrators. We want to help developers by reporting to them the top-k performance problems in the field. Common questions we aim to answer are: * What are the worst-k performing instances of my application? Return a "performance signature" that allows me to replicate the problem. * How do the worst-k performing instances differ from the best-k performing instances? Is the problem related to hardware constraints (few resources) or a misconfiguration? In connection with this project, we are carrying out a small survey that aims to help us understand the problems and state-of-the-art solutions to performance problems that are currently employed by system administrators and software developers. This is why we would appreciate if you could give us 10 minutes of your time to answer the questions at http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~doebel/survey/admins.php The results of the survey will be shared with the community through a scientific publication. All participants of the survey will get the chance to take part in a lottery for a 50 EUR Amazon gift card. Thanks a lot for helping us with that. Kind regards, Eno Theresa, MS Research Cambridge/UK Bjoern Doebel, TU Dresden, Germany -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkltDbkACgkQP5ijxgQLUNmvIACeI5GicQhNQYlNpcLTWslkwhtn UBQAoIYAwe6UnEYJRIqiQp7aZv1dKTYi =u3kM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sat Jan 17 19:50:12 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:50:12 -0500 Subject: [sage-announce] ICAC'09 Paper Submission Deadline is Extended to Jan. 25 Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A5619FE78@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings!] Dear All, Due to a large number of requests, the deadline for submitting papers to ICAC'09 has been extended to Jan. 25. Please note that papers still have to be registered by Monday, Jan. 19. ICAC 2009 will be held in Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing, particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different areas of research or report on prototype systems or experiences. Below this email, please find a copy of the Call for Papers. We look forward to receiving one or more papers from you and your colleagues and having you join us in Barcelona next year! Best regards, Masoud Sadjadi ICAC'09 Publicity Co-Chair ----------------------------------------------------------------- Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009 Sponsored by IEEE CS (Pending) and in cooperation with ACM (Pending) http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/ Call for papers SCOPE To deal with the increasing complexity of large-scale computing systems, computers and applications must learn to manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance from humans - a vision that has been referred to as autonomic computing. Meeting the grand challenges of autonomic computing requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software and system architectures that support the effective integration of the constituent technologies. The purpose of the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC-09) is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing all aspects of self-management in computing systems and applications. In doing so, we hope to further build and nurture a community that can work together to realize the vision of large-scale self-managing systems. The conference builds on previous highly influential meetings in New York, Seattle, Dublin, Jacksonville and Chicago. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing, particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different areas of research or report on prototype systems or experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Autonomic computing systems or prototype systems that exhibit self-monitoring, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and/or self-protection. * Fundamental science of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behavior, fault-tolerance, machine learning, control theory, predictive methods and their use to automate manual operations and enforce behavior. * Software engineering principles and architectures for self-managing systems, based on interoperable Grid Services, agent-based systems, Web Services, model-based systems or novel paradigms such as biological, economic or social. * System-level technologies, middleware or services that entail interactions among two or more components of self-managing systems in standalone, distributed, cluster, and Grid computing environments (e.g., health monitoring, dependency analysis, problem localization or remediation, workload management, and provisioning). * Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler technologies for building self-managing components, systems or applications. * Specific self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, data center or specific application elements. Emphasis should be placed on techniques or lessons that may generalize to other components. * Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level agreements, negotiation/conversation support, behavior enforcement, etc., tie in with IT governance, and interaction with legacy systems. * Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user interfaces, interfaces for monitoring and controlling behavior, techniques for defining, distributing, and understanding policies. * Experiences with autonomic system or component prototypes: measurements, evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user studies, experiences with large-scale deployments of self-managing systems or applications. * Applications of autonomics to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. PAPER/POSTER SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing as indicated above. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference themes. Submitted papers must include original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. They should also not be under review or be submitted to another forum during the ICAC-09 review process. Authors should submit full papers or posters electronically (PDF or postscript) via EDAS using the link on the ICAC-09 conference web site. Formatting instructions will also be posted at the web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings published by ACM (to be confirmed), which will be distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted papers/poster are expected to present their work at the conference. WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION ICAC-09 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on specific topics of general interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that may not be properly addressed in the main scientific program. ICAC-09 will also feature a demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a separate subcommittee led by the demo/exhibit chair. INDUSTRY SESSION A singular value of ICAC is the confluence of top researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry. ICAC-09 will provide a readout of various technologies currently in play from product perspectives. Among the areas to be addressed are core enablers for autonomic capabilities to be realized, such as frameworks, protocols and autonomic engines in production systems. The industry session also will address current areas of difficulty that present direct opportunities for both academic and corporate research. Topics will be relevant to entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users. Papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives are especially encouraged and can be submitted as described above. STUDENT AWARDS A student best paper award will be presented, consisting of a commemorative plaque, complimentary student registration to the conference and an honorarium that will partially cover travel & hotel costs. (A student paper is defined as one in which the principal (not sole) author is a student.) The student will be required to present the paper to receive the award. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals: September 25, 2008 Full paper submission: 11:59 EST, January 19, 2009 Author notification: March 9, 2009 Hot Topics submission: 11:59 EST, March 20, 2009 Demo/Exhibit proposals: March 20, 2009 Final manuscripts due: April 06, 2009 ORGANISATION GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE STEERING COMMITTEE Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE Jos? Fortes Univ. of Florida, US Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, US Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research, US Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US Brent Miller, IBM, US Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, US John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE John Wilkes, Google, US Mazin Yousif, Avirtec, US PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa, IL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE The ICAC 2009 programming committee is an internationally recognized group of leading researchers covering a broad range of topics related to the conference themes. DEMO/EXHIBIT CHAIR Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE WORKSHOP CHAIR Omer Rana, Cardiff Univ., UK PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, US James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, South Korea Dave Lewis, Trinity, IE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Joan Serrat, UPC, Barcelona, ES FINANCE/INDUSTRY CO-CHAIRS Brent Miller, IBM Corporation, US Michael Nunez, Sun Microsystems, US Jose A. Lozano, Telef?nica, ES HOT TOPICS CHAIR Fabi?n E. Bustamante, Northwestern Univ., US DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIR Jian Zhang, Microsoft, US Andres Quiroz Hernandes, Rutgers Univ., US CYBER CHAIR Ming Zhao, FL Intl. Univ., US SPONSORS (PENDING) IEEE Computer Society and ACM INFORMATION WWW: www.autonomic-conference.org E-mail: icac at autonomic-conference.org From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sat Jan 24 09:02:51 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:02:51 -0500 Subject: [sage-announce] ICAC'09 Final Reminer & Workshops! Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A5619FF37@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings!] Dear All, This is a final reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to ICAC'09 has been extended to Jan. 25. Also, please note that this year, ICAC will be hosting workshops on the days before and after the main conference (June 15 and June 19). All conference attendees are welcome to attend any of the workshops for no additional fee. Papers are solicited for submission to these workshops. More details can be found in the workshop websites: http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/workshop.shtm June 15: Workshop Grids Meets Autonomic Computing (GMAC'09) 6th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2009) 3rd International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC 2009) 4th Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing (HotAC IV) Workshop on Deeper Automated Reasoning within Autonomic Systems (DARAS) June 19: 2nd International Workshop on Agents for Autonomic Computing (AAC 2009) Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems (BADS 2009) Workshop on Automated Control for Datacenters and Clouds (ACDC) The year ICAC 2009 will be held in Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing, particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different areas of research or report on prototype systems or experiences. Below this email, please find a copy of the Call for Papers. We look forward to receiving one or more papers from you and your colleagues in the main conference or in one or more of the workshops and having you join us in Barcelona next year! Best regards, Masoud Sadjadi ICAC'09 Publicity Co-Chair ----------------------------------------------------------------- Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009 Sponsored by IEEE CS (Pending) and in cooperation with ACM (Pending) http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/ Call for papers SCOPE To deal with the increasing complexity of large-scale computing systems, computers and applications must learn to manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance from humans - a vision that has been referred to as autonomic computing. Meeting the grand challenges of autonomic computing requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software and system architectures that support the effective integration of the constituent technologies. The purpose of the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC-09) is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing all aspects of self-management in computing systems and applications. In doing so, we hope to further build and nurture a community that can work together to realize the vision of large-scale self-managing systems. The conference builds on previous highly influential meetings in New York, Seattle, Dublin, Jacksonville and Chicago. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing, particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different areas of research or report on prototype systems or experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Autonomic computing systems or prototype systems that exhibit self-monitoring, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and/or self-protection. * Fundamental science of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behavior, fault-tolerance, machine learning, control theory, predictive methods and their use to automate manual operations and enforce behavior. * Software engineering principles and architectures for self-managing systems, based on interoperable Grid Services, agent-based systems, Web Services, model-based systems or novel paradigms such as biological, economic or social. * System-level technologies, middleware or services that entail interactions among two or more components of self-managing systems in standalone, distributed, cluster, and Grid computing environments (e.g., health monitoring, dependency analysis, problem localization or remediation, workload management, and provisioning). * Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler technologies for building self-managing components, systems or applications. * Specific self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, data center or specific application elements. Emphasis should be placed on techniques or lessons that may generalize to other components. * Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level agreements, negotiation/conversation support, behavior enforcement, etc., tie in with IT governance, and interaction with legacy systems. * Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user interfaces, interfaces for monitoring and controlling behavior, techniques for defining, distributing, and understanding policies. * Experiences with autonomic system or component prototypes: measurements, evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user studies, experiences with large-scale deployments of self-managing systems or applications. * Applications of autonomics to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. PAPER/POSTER SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing as indicated above. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference themes. Submitted papers must include original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. They should also not be under review or be submitted to another forum during the ICAC-09 review process. Authors should submit full papers or posters electronically (PDF or postscript) via EDAS using the link on the ICAC-09 conference web site. Formatting instructions will also be posted at the web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings published by ACM (to be confirmed), which will be distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted papers/poster are expected to present their work at the conference. WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION ICAC-09 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on specific topics of general interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that may not be properly addressed in the main scientific program. ICAC-09 will also feature a demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a separate subcommittee led by the demo/exhibit chair. INDUSTRY SESSION A singular value of ICAC is the confluence of top researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry. ICAC-09 will provide a readout of various technologies currently in play from product perspectives. Among the areas to be addressed are core enablers for autonomic capabilities to be realized, such as frameworks, protocols and autonomic engines in production systems. The industry session also will address current areas of difficulty that present direct opportunities for both academic and corporate research. Topics will be relevant to entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users. Papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives are especially encouraged and can be submitted as described above. STUDENT AWARDS A student best paper award will be presented, consisting of a commemorative plaque, complimentary student registration to the conference and an honorarium that will partially cover travel & hotel costs. (A student paper is defined as one in which the principal (not sole) author is a student.) The student will be required to present the paper to receive the award. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals: September 25, 2008 Full paper submission: 11:59 EST, January 19, 2009 Author notification: March 9, 2009 Hot Topics submission: 11:59 EST, March 20, 2009 Demo/Exhibit proposals: March 20, 2009 Final manuscripts due: April 06, 2009 ORGANISATION GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE STEERING COMMITTEE Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE Jos? Fortes Univ. of Florida, US Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, US Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research, US Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US Brent Miller, IBM, US Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, US John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE John Wilkes, Google, US Mazin Yousif, Avirtec, US PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa, IL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE The ICAC 2009 programming committee is an internationally recognized group of leading researchers covering a broad range of topics related to the conference themes. DEMO/EXHIBIT CHAIR Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE WORKSHOP CHAIR Omer Rana, Cardiff Univ., UK PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, US James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, South Korea Dave Lewis, Trinity, IE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Joan Serrat, UPC, Barcelona, ES FINANCE/INDUSTRY CO-CHAIRS Brent Miller, IBM Corporation, US Michael Nunez, Sun Microsystems, US Jose A. Lozano, Telef?nica, ES HOT TOPICS CHAIR Fabi?n E. Bustamante, Northwestern Univ., US DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIR Jian Zhang, Microsoft, US Andres Quiroz Hernandes, Rutgers Univ., US CYBER CHAIR Ming Zhao, FL Intl. Univ., US SPONSORS (PENDING) IEEE Computer Society and ACM INFORMATION WWW: www.autonomic-conference.org E-mail: icac at autonomic-conference.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sat Jan 24 09:14:45 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:14:45 -0500 Subject: [sage-announce] CFP: SEKE 2009 Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A5619FF38@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings!] CALL FOR PAPERS The Twenty-First International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'09) will be held at the Hyatt Harborside at Boston's Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, USA, July 1-3, 2009. The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss on relevant results in either software engineering or knowledge engineering or both. Special emphasis will be put on the transference of methods between both domains. TOPICS Solicited topics include, but are not limited to: Agent architectures, ontologies, languages and protocols Multi-agent systems Agent-based learning and knowledge discovery Interface agents Agent-based auctions and marketplaces Artificial life and societies Secure mobile and multi-agent systems Mobile agents Mobile Commerce Technology and Application Systems Mobile Systems Autonomic computing Adaptive Systems Integrity, Security, and Fault Tolerance Reliability Enterprise Software, Middleware, and Tools Process and Workflow Management E-Commerce Solutions and Applications Industry System Experience and Report Service-centric software engineering Service oriented requirements engineering Service oriented architectures Middleware for service based systems Service discovery and composition Quality of services Service level agreements (drafting, negotiation, monitoring and management) Runtime service management Semantic web Requirements Engineering Agent-based software engineering Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Software Engineering Component-Based Software Engineering Automated Software Specification Automated Software Design and Synthesis Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Embedded and Ubiquitous Software Engineering Measurement and Empirical Software Engineering Reverse Engineering Programming Languages and Software Engineering Patterns and Frameworks Reflection and Metadata Approaches Program Understanding Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge-Based and Expert Systems Knowledge Representation and Retrieval Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques Time and Knowledge Management Tools Knowledge Visualization Data visualization Uncertainty Knowledge Management Ontologies and Methodologies Learning Software Organization Tutoring, Documentation Systems Human-Computer Interaction Multimedia Applications, Frameworks, and Systems Multimedia and Hypermedia Software Engineering Smart Spaces Pervasive Computing Swarm intelligence Soft Computing Software Architecture Software Assurance Software Domain Modeling and Meta-Modeling Software dependability Software economics Software Engineering Decision Support Software Engineering Tools and Environments Software Maintenance and Evolution Software Process Modeling Software product lines Software Quality Software Reuse Software Safety Software Security Software Engineering Case Study and Experience Reports Web and text mining Web-Based Tools, Applications and Environment Web-Based Knowledge Management Web-Based Tools, Systems, and Environments Web and Data Mining As well as System Applications and Experience Validation and Verification Formal Methods preferrable in the context of the topics listed above. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS 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/seke09/submit/SubmitPaper.php. Please use Internet Explorer as the browser. Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column text (include figures and references). If you have any questions or run into problems, please send e-mail to: seke09 at ksi.edu. SEKE 2009 Conference Secretariat Knowledge Systems Institute 3420 Main Street Skokie, IL 60076 USA Tel: 847-679-3135 Fax: 847-679-3166 E-mail: seke at ksi.edu IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: March 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2009 Camera-ready copy: May 1, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sat Jan 24 13:55:25 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:55:25 -0500 Subject: [sage-announce] Call for Nominations: The 2009 IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A5619FF45@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> The 2009 IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing The IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing is awarded for significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high impact research. The award consists of a medal and an honorarium of $1000. Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or may nominate him/her-self. Nomination should be sent via email to the award coordinator(s) listed below. A nomination should include the following details: 1. Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current professional affiliations and titles. 2. Citation: Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely stating the most salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified for the award. 3. Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical achievements as well as significance and impact. 4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate?s service and specific contributions to TCSC, its mission and its activities. 5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at least endorsers. Please provide the names, affiliation, and addresses (email) of your designated endorsers for your nomination. The endorsers will be required to comment on the nominee's technical contributions as well as service to the TCSC community. Important Dates: - Nomination Deadline: Feb 15, 2009 - Results Notification: Mar 15, 2009 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consist of leaders in the field, as well as some members of the TCSC Executive Committee and the TCSC Advisory Board. Chairs: - Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA (Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu) - Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Email: ltyang at stfx dot ca) -- ====================================================================== Manish Parashar Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 628 CAC/Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engr. Phone: (732) 445-5388 Rutgers University Fax: (732) 445-0593 94 Brett Road Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058 WWW: http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------ Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sun Feb 1 07:49:49 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 10:49:49 -0500 Subject: [sage-announce] CFP: IC3 2009 Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A561A0054@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings!] The Second International Conference on Contemporary Computing NOIDA, (outskirts of New Delhi), India August 17-19, 2009 http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3 Computing is an exciting and evolving area. The International Conference on Contemporary Computing, which is jointly organized by the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, NOIDA, India and the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, will focus on topics that are of contemporary interest to computer and computational scientists and engineers. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to advance the algorithmic, systems, applications, and educational aspects of contemporary computing. The second conference will be held in NOIDA (outskirts of New Delhi), India. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, exhibits, special sessions, tutorials, and paper presentations. The following is a list of keynote speakers for the first conference that was held last year: Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo Inc., USA, Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University, USA Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA S. Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA Pankaj Jalote, IIT Delhi, India Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad, India Rajeev Kumar, IIT Kharagpur, Inida A partial list of areas of interest follows: - Computational Finance - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Graphics, Entertainment, and Gaming - Medical Informatics - Remote Sensing - Scientific Computing - Society Driven Applications - E-commerce - Biometrics - Novel Algorithmic Paradigms - Multi-dimensional and Domain Specific Data Structures - Randomized Algorithms - Evolutionary Algorithms - Distributed Algorithms - Dynamic Algorithms - Stream Processing - Multicore Computing - Grid Computing - Service Oriented Architectures - Next generation Internet - Nanoscale Architectures - Quantum Computing - Bio-inspired Computing - Embedded Systems - System/network-on-chip - Reconfigurable architectures - Software Engineering Paper Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that demonstrate original unpublished research dealing with algorithmic, systems, applications, and educational aspects of contemporary computing. Please see the conference website http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3 for paper submission procedures (8 pages in a two column format). Papers will be reviewed by experts and selected for presentation and inclusion in the conference proceedings based on their clarity, originality, relevance and significance. Tutorial proposals are also be solicited and due by March 15, 2009. For further information and future updates, refer to the conference website at http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3 or contact the General or Program Chairs. Important Dates Submission Deadline: February 28, 2009 Author Notification: April 15, 2009 Final Manuscripts and Registration: May 15, 2009 Special Tracks There will be two special tracks on Bioinformatics (Chair: Sumeet Dua) and Analytics for Online Social Networks (Chair: Vir Phoha). Information for paper submission for these tracks is available on the website. Submission deadlines for these two tracks may be different than the main conference. Conference Organization General Co-chairs - Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida - Sanjay Goel, JIIT University Program Chair - Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida Track Co-chairs Algorithms - Ananth Grama, Purdue University - Rajeev Kumar, IIT Kharagpur Applications - Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University - Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University Systems - Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne - Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsinghua University Publicity Co-Chairs - Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne - Mario Dantas, Federal University of Santa Catarina - Suthep Madarasmi, King Mongkut's University of Technology - Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University - Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University - Divakar Yadav, JIIT Website - Sandeep Singh, JIIT University - Sangeeta Malik, JIIT University - Shikha Mehta, JIIT University Publications - Sushil Prasad, Georgia State University - Vikas Kumar, JIIT University Student Volunteer Coordinator - Manish Kumar Thakur, JIIT University ------------------------------------------------------------------ Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sun Feb 22 04:56:00 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:56:00 -0500 Subject: [sage-announce] AAC 2009: Deadline extended to March 2 Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A561A02F1@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross posting!] 2nd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AGENTS FOR AUTONOMIC COMPUTING (AAC 2009) to be held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2009) June 19, Barcelona Deadline extended to March 2 Self-management of complex systems is core to both the Autonomic Computing and the Software Agent communities. In both paradigms, individual autonomous entities manage their own behaviour and their interactions with the environment and other autonomous entities in accordance with their individual goals based on their local perception of state. These entities may negotiate with one another, and monitor and manage the resulting agreements. They may form dynamic virtual organizations that manage their collective behaviour in interaction with other such organizations. They may avail themselves of integration, repair and other services provided by directories, brokers and sentries, which themselves may be autonomous. Over the course of many years, the software agents community has developed and explored architectures, technologies and standards that support these aspects of agent behaviour, and have demonstrated in multiple contexts agents and multi-agent systems that exhibit autonomy, goal-directed adaptive behaviour, proactivity, reactivity, situated-ness, and an ability to learn and plan. The relatively younger field of autonomic computing seeks to build computing systems that exhibit these same properties and capabilities, but with few exceptions has failed to tap into the rich body of knowledge developed by the agents community. Some authors have suggested that autonomic computing may be the long-sought "killer app" for agents. The first AAC held during ICAC in 2008 in Chicago, made clear that the Agents and Autonomic Computing communities have much to gain from a closer association with one another. The aim of the second workshop is to further explore the potential of the agent paradigm, architectures, models and technology for autonomic computing; 1. identify the specific challenges of autonomic computing that would require extensions to the agent paradigm and current agent technologies; 2. We invite the submission of papers that describe the potential and/or limitations of applying traditional or new concepts in agent architecture or technology to self-managing computing systems, and vice versa applying techniques developed within autonomic computing to multi-agent systems. Papers describing and evaluating a working prototype are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: (Meta-)Architectures for agents and multi-agent systems Planning and scheduling Multi-agent coordination Learning algorithms Adaptivity, situatedness Emergent behaviour, emergent configurations Service agreements Negotiation Large scale simulations/emulations Mobility Legal implications of self-management/autonomy in networked systems Accountability, verification and validation Reliability, Integrity and Security Life cycle management ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Frances Brazier, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Jeff Kephart, IBM Katia Sycara, CMU PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (provisional) Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina Stephen Jarvis, Warwick University Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology Vic Lesser, University of Massachusetts Dejan Milojic, HP Labs Julian Padget, University of Bath Lin Padgham, RMIT University H. Van Dyke Parunak, New Vectors Omer Rana, Cardiff University Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University Kees Nieuwenhuis, Thales Research IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: February 16 March 2, 2009 Acceptance notification: March 9, 2009 Submission final version: April 6, 2009 WORKSHOP FORMAT: This one-day workshop will include invited talks, paper presentations, a forum/panel discussion and time for discussion. PAPERS: Papers are to be 6 pages in length in the standard IEEE two-column conference proceedings ------------------------------------------------------------------ Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sun Feb 22 05:01:14 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:01:14 -0500 Subject: [sage-announce] CFP: SEKE 2009 Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A561A02F7@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross posting!] CALL FOR PAPERS The Twenty-First International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'09) will be held at the Hyatt Harborside at Boston's Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, USA, July 1-3, 2009. The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss on relevant results in either software engineering or knowledge engineering or both. Special emphasis will be put on the transference of methods between both domains. TOPICS Solicited topics include, but are not limited to: Agent architectures, ontologies, languages and protocols Multi-agent systems Agent-based learning and knowledge discovery Interface agents Agent-based auctions and marketplaces Artificial life and societies Secure mobile and multi-agent systems Mobile agents Mobile Commerce Technology and Application Systems Mobile Systems Autonomic computing Adaptive Systems Integrity, Security, and Fault Tolerance Reliability Enterprise Software, Middleware, and Tools Process and Workflow Management E-Commerce Solutions and Applications Industry System Experience and Report Service-centric software engineering Service oriented requirements engineering Service oriented architectures Middleware for service based systems Service discovery and composition Quality of services Service level agreements (drafting, negotiation, monitoring and management) Runtime service management Semantic web Requirements Engineering Agent-based software engineering Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Software Engineering Component-Based Software Engineering Automated Software Specification Automated Software Design and Synthesis Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Embedded and Ubiquitous Software Engineering Measurement and Empirical Software Engineering Reverse Engineering Programming Languages and Software Engineering Patterns and Frameworks Reflection and Metadata Approaches Program Understanding Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge-Based and Expert Systems Knowledge Representation and Retrieval Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques Time and Knowledge Management Tools Knowledge Visualization Data visualization Uncertainty Knowledge Management Ontologies and Methodologies Learning Software Organization Tutoring, Documentation Systems Human-Computer Interaction Multimedia Applications, Frameworks, and Systems Multimedia and Hypermedia Software Engineering Smart Spaces Pervasive Computing Swarm intelligence Soft Computing Software Architecture Software Assurance Software Domain Modeling and Meta-Modeling Software dependability Software economics Software Engineering Decision Support Software Engineering Tools and Environments Software Maintenance and Evolution Software Process Modeling Software product lines Software Quality Software Reuse Software Safety Software Security Software Engineering Case Study and Experience Reports Web and text mining Web-Based Tools, Applications and Environment Web-Based Knowledge Management Web-Based Tools, Systems, and Environments Web and Data Mining As well as System Applications and Experience Validation and Verification Formal Methods preferrable in the context of the topics listed above. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS 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/seke09/submit/SubmitPaper.php. Please use Internet Explorer as the browser. Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column text (include figures and references). If you have any questions or run into problems, please send e-mail to: seke09 at ksi.edu. SEKE 2009 Conference Secretariat Knowledge Systems Institute 3420 Main Street Skokie, IL 60076 USA Tel: 847-679-3135 Fax: 847-679-3166 E-mail: seke at ksi.edu IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: March 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2009 Camera-ready copy: May 1, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Mon Feb 23 15:57:19 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:57:19 -0500 Subject: [sage-announce] SEKE 2009 Deadline is Extended to March 16, 2009! Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A561A0353@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [ Apology for cross postings!] ***Paper submission due: March 16, 2009 (Extended)*** SEKE 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS The Twenty-First International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'09) will be held at the Hyatt Harborside at Boston's Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, USA, July 1-3, 2009. The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss on relevant results in either software engineering or knowledge engineering or both. Special emphasis will be put on the transference of methods between both domains. TOPICS Agent architectures, ontologies, languages and protocols Multi-agent systems Agent-based learning and knowledge discovery Interface agents Agent-based auctions and marketplaces Artificial life and societies Secure mobile and multi-agent systems Mobile agents Mobile Commerce Technology and Application Systems Mobile Systems Autonomic computing Adaptive Systems Integrity, Security, and Fault Tolerance Reliability Enterprise Software, Middleware, and Tools Process and Workflow Management E-Commerce Solutions and Applications Industry System Experience and Report Service-centric software engineering Service oriented requirements engineering Service oriented architectures Middleware for service based systems Service discovery and composition Quality of services Service level agreements (drafting, negotiation, monitoring and management) Runtime service management Semantic web Requirements Engineering Agent-based software engineering Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Software Engineering Component-Based Software Engineering Automated Software Specification Automated Software Design and Synthesis Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Embedded and Ubiquitous Software Engineering Measurement and Empirical Software Engineering Reverse Engineering Programming Languages and Software Engineering Patterns and Frameworks Reflection and Metadata Approaches Program Understanding Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge-Based and Expert Systems Knowledge Representation and Retrieval Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques Time and Knowledge Management Tools Knowledge Visualization Data visualization Uncertainty Knowledge Management Ontologies and Methodologies Learning Software Organization Tutoring, Documentation Systems Human-Computer Interaction Multimedia Applications, Frameworks, and Systems Multimedia and Hypermedia Software Engineering Smart Spaces Pervasive Computing Swarm intelligence Soft Computing Software Architecture Software Assurance Software Domain Modeling and Meta-Modeling Software dependability Software economics Software Engineering Decision Support Software Engineering Tools and Environments Software Maintenance and Evolution Software Process Modeling Software product lines Software Quality Software Reuse Software Safety Software Security Software Engineering Case Study and Experience Reports Web and text mining Web-Based Tools, Applications and Environment Web-Based Knowledge Management Web-Based Tools, Systems, and Environments Web and Data Mining As well as System Applications and Experience Validation and Verification Formal Methods preferably in the context of the topics listed above. SPECIAL SESSIONS Bai, SOA-based software engineering (Call for Papers) Xiaoying Bai; e-mail: baixy at tsinghua.edu.cn and Scott Tilley; stilley at cs.fit.edu Yang, Service Oriented Architecture (Call for Papers) Chi-Lu Yang, III, Taiwan; e-mail: stwin at anet.net.tw Gao and Bari, Software Testing and Automation (Call for Papers) Jerry Gao; e-mail: jerry.gao at sjsu.edu and Emese Bari; e-mail: ebari at ebay.com Yang and Tsai, System Engineering for Information Technology Enabled Service (Call for Papers) Ren-Dar Yang; E-mail: rdyang at iii.org.tw and Tse-Ming Tsai: eric at iii.org.tw Du, Machine learning with value-based software engineering (Call for Papers) Du Zhang; e-mail: zhangd at gaia.ecs.csus.edu Reformat and Khoshgoftaar, Software Engineering with Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (Call for Papers) Marek Reformat; e-mail: reform at ece.ualberta.ca and Taghi Khoshgoftaar; taghi at cse.fau.edu Sadjadi, Software Engineering of Autonomic Grid Computing Systems and Applications (Call for Papers) Masoud Sadjadi; sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Garcia-Castro, Interoperability and Semantic Web Technologies (Call for Papers) Garcia-Castro; e-mail: rgarcia at fi.upm.es Cuadrado-Gallego, Software Measurement (Call for Papers) Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego; e-mail: jjcg at uah.es Pardede, Data and Metadata Management (Call for Papers) Eric Pardede; e-mail: E.Pardede at latrobe.edu.au Weitzel, Wirtz and Beimborn, Business Value of Service-Oriented Architectures (Call for Papers) Tim Weitzel; tim.weitzel at uni-bamberg.de, Guido Wirtz; guido.wirtz at uni-bamberg.de and Daniel Beimborn; daniel.beimborn at uni-bamberg.de INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS 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/seke09/submit/SubmitPaper.php. Please use Internet Explorer as the browser. Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column text (include figures and references). INFORMATION FOR REVIEWERS Papers submitted to SEKE'09 will be reviewed electronically. The users (webmaster, program chair, reviewers...) can login using the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/seke09/review/pass.php. If you have any questions or run into problems, please send e-mail to: seke09 at ksi.edu. SEKE 2009 Conference Secretariat Knowledge Systems Institute 3420 Main Street Skokie, IL 60076 USA Tel: 847-679-3135 Fax: 847-679-3166 E-mail: seke09 at ksi.edu IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: March 16, 2009 (Extended) Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2009 Camera-ready copy: May 1, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sat Feb 28 21:02:44 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 00:02:44 -0500 Subject: [sage-announce] Deadline Extended! Second International Conference on Contemporary Computing: August 17-19 NOIDA, India In-Reply-To: References: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A561A0409@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A561A0412@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings!] The Second International Conference on Contemporary Computing NOIDA, (outskirts of New Delhi), India August 17-19, 2009 http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3 Computing is an exciting and evolving area. The International Conference on Contemporary Computing, which is jointly organized by the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, NOIDA, India and the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, will focus on topics that are of contemporary interest to computer and computational scientists and engineers. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to advance the algorithmic, systems, applications, and educational aspects of contemporary computing. The second conference will be held in NOIDA (outskirts of New Delhi), India. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, exhibits, special sessions, tutorials, industry experience reports and paper presentations. The following is a list of keynote speakers for the first conference that was held last year: Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo Inc., USA, Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University, USA Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA S. Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA Pankaj Jalote, IIT Delhi, India Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad, India Rajeev Kumar, IIT Kharagpur, Inida A partial list of areas of interest follows: - Computational Finance - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Graphics, Entertainment, and Gaming - Medical Informatics - Remote Sensing - Scientific Computing - Society Driven Applications - E-commerce - Biometrics - Novel Algorithmic Paradigms - Multi-dimensional and Domain Specific Data Structures - Randomized Algorithms - Evolutionary Algorithms - Distributed Algorithms - Dynamic Algorithms - Stream Processing - Multicore Computing - Grid Computing - Service Oriented Architectures - Next generation Internet - Nanoscale Architectures - Quantum Computing - Bio-inspired Computing - Embedded Systems - System/network-on-chip - Reconfigurable architectures - Software Engineering Paper Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that demonstrate original unpublished research dealing with algorithmic, systems, applications, and educational aspects of contemporary computing. Please see the conference website http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3 for paper submission procedures (8 pages in a two column format). Papers will be reviewed by experts and selected for presentation and inclusion in the conference proceedings based on their clarity, originality, relevance and significance. Tutorial proposals are also be solicited and due by March 15, 2009. For further information and future updates, refer to the conference website at http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3 or contact the General or Program Chairs. Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 15, 2009 Author Notification: April 30, 2009 Final Manuscripts and Registration: May 15, 2009 Special Sessions There will be three special sessions on Industry Experience Reports (Chair: Devesh Bhatnagar), Bioinformatics (Chair: Sumeet Dua) and Analytics for Online Social Networks (Chair: Vir Phoha). Information for paper submission for these sessions is available on the website. Submission deadlines for these sessions may be different than the main conference. Conference Organization General Co-chairs - Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida - Sanjay Goel, JIIT University Program Chair - Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida Track Co-chairs Algorithms - Ananth Grama, Purdue University - Rajeev Kumar, IIT Kharagpur Applications - Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University - Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University Systems - Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne - Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsinghua University Special Sessions Chair - Industry Experience Reports (Devesh Bhatnagar), - Bioinformatics (Sumeet Dua) - Analytics for Online Social Networks (Vir Phoha) Tutorials Chair - Veena Mendiratta, Alactel-Lucent, USA Publicity Co-Chairs - Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne - Mario Dantas, Federal University of Santa Catarina - Suthep Madarasmi, King Mongkut's University of Technology - Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University - Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University - Divakar Yadav, JIIT Website - Sandeep Singh, JIIT University - Sangeeta Malik, JIIT University - Shikha Mehta, JIIT University Publications - Sushil Prasad, Georgia State University - Vikas Kumar, JIIT University - Student Volunteer Coordinator - Manish Kumar Thakur, JIIT University From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sun Mar 1 10:50:59 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 13:50:59 -0500 Subject: [sage-announce] SEKE 2009: Deadline Extended to March 16! In-Reply-To: References: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A561A0421@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A561A0427@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings!] SEKE 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS The Twenty-First International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'09) will be held at the Hyatt Harborside at Boston's Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, USA, July 1-3, 2009. The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss on relevant results in either software engineering or knowledge engineering or both. Special emphasis will be put on the transference of methods between both domains. TOPICS Agent architectures, ontologies, languages and protocols Multi-agent systems Agent-based learning and knowledge discovery Interface agents Agent-based auctions and marketplaces Artificial life and societies Secure mobile and multi-agent systems Mobile agents Mobile Commerce Technology and Application Systems Mobile Systems Autonomic computing Adaptive Systems Integrity, Security, and Fault Tolerance Reliability Enterprise Software, Middleware, and Tools Process and Workflow Management E-Commerce Solutions and Applications Industry System Experience and Report Service-centric software engineering Service oriented requirements engineering Service oriented architectures Middleware for service based systems Service discovery and composition Quality of services Service level agreements (drafting, negotiation, monitoring and management) Runtime service management Semantic web Requirements Engineering Agent-based software engineering Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Software Engineering Component-Based Software Engineering Automated Software Specification Automated Software Design and Synthesis Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Embedded and Ubiquitous Software Engineering Measurement and Empirical Software Engineering Reverse Engineering Programming Languages and Software Engineering Patterns and Frameworks Reflection and Metadata Approaches Program Understanding Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge-Based and Expert Systems Knowledge Representation and Retrieval Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques Time and Knowledge Management Tools Knowledge Visualization Data visualization Uncertainty Knowledge Management Ontologies and Methodologies Learning Software Organization Tutoring, Documentation Systems Human-Computer Interaction Multimedia Applications, Frameworks, and Systems Multimedia and Hypermedia Software Engineering Smart Spaces Pervasive Computing Swarm intelligence Soft Computing Software Architecture Software Assurance Software Domain Modeling and Meta-Modeling Software dependability Software economics Software Engineering Decision Support Software Engineering Tools and Environments Software Maintenance and Evolution Software Process Modeling Software product lines Software Quality Software Reuse Software Safety Software Security Software Engineering Case Study and Experience Reports Web and text mining Web-Based Tools, Applications and Environment Web-Based Knowledge Management Web-Based Tools, Systems, and Environments Web and Data Mining As well as System Applications and Experience Validation and Verification Formal Methods preferably in the context of the topics listed above. SPECIAL SESSIONS Bai, SOA-based software engineering (Call for Papers) Xiaoying Bai; e-mail: baixy at tsinghua.edu.cn and Scott Tilley; stilley at cs.fit.edu Yang, Service Oriented Architecture (Call for Papers) Chi-Lu Yang, III, Taiwan; e-mail: stwin at anet.net.tw Gao and Bari, Software Testing and Automation (Call for Papers) Jerry Gao; e-mail: jerry.gao at sjsu.edu and Emese Bari; e-mail: ebari at ebay.com Yang and Tsai, System Engineering for Information Technology Enabled Service (Call for Papers) Ren-Dar Yang; E-mail: rdyang at iii.org.tw and Tse-Ming Tsai: eric at iii.org.tw Du, Machine learning with value-based software engineering (Call for Papers) Du Zhang; e-mail: zhangd at gaia.ecs.csus.edu Reformat and Khoshgoftaar, Software Engineering with Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (Call for Papers) Marek Reformat; e-mail: reform at ece.ualberta.ca and Taghi Khoshgoftaar; taghi at cse.fau.edu Sadjadi, Software Engineering of Autonomic Grid Computing Systems and Applications (Call for Papers) Masoud Sadjadi; sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Garcia-Castro, Interoperability and Semantic Web Technologies (Call for Papers) Garcia-Castro; e-mail: rgarcia at fi.upm.es Cuadrado-Gallego, Software Measurement (Call for Papers) Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego; e-mail: jjcg at uah.es Pardede, Data and Metadata Management (Call for Papers) Eric Pardede; e-mail: E.Pardede at latrobe.edu.au Weitzel, Wirtz and Beimborn, Business Value of Service-Oriented Architectures (Call for Papers) Tim Weitzel; tim.weitzel at uni-bamberg.de, Guido Wirtz; guido.wirtz at uni-bamberg.de and Daniel Beimborn; daniel.beimborn at uni-bamberg.de INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS 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/seke09/submit/SubmitPaper.php. Please use Internet Explorer as the browser. Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column text (include figures and references). INFORMATION FOR REVIEWERS Papers submitted to SEKE'09 will be reviewed electronically. The users (webmaster, program chair, reviewers...) can login using the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/seke09/review/pass.php. If you have any questions or run into problems, please send e-mail to: seke09 at ksi.edu. SEKE 2009 Conference Secretariat Knowledge Systems Institute 3420 Main Street Skokie, IL 60076 USA Tel: 847-679-3135 Fax: 847-679-3166 E-mail: seke09 at ksi.edu IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: March 16, 2009 (Extended) Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2009 Camera-ready copy: May 1, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Wed Mar 11 12:42:34 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:42:34 -0400 Subject: [sage-announce] CFP: The Second International Conference on Contemporary Computing NOIDA, (outskirts of New Delhi), India August 17-19, 2009 Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A562E5158@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for possible cross posting!] The Second International Conference on Contemporary Computing NOIDA, (outskirts of New Delhi), India August 17-19, 2009 http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3 Computing is an exciting and evolving area. The International Conference on Contemporary Computing, which is jointly organized by the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, NOIDA, India and the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, will focus on topics that are of contemporary interest to computer and computational scientists and engineers. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to advance the algorithmic, systems, applications, and educational aspects of contemporary computing. The second conference will be held in NOIDA (outskirts of New Delhi), India. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, exhibits, special sessions, tutorials, industry experience reports and paper presentations. The following is a list of keynote speakers for the first conference that was held last year: Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo Inc., USA, Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University, USA Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA S. Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA Pankaj Jalote, IIT Delhi, India Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad, India Rajeev Kumar, IIT Kharagpur, Inida A partial list of areas of interest follows: - Computational Finance - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Graphics, Entertainment, and Gaming - Medical Informatics - Remote Sensing - Scientific Computing - Society Driven Applications - E-commerce - Biometrics - Novel Algorithmic Paradigms - Multi-dimensional and Domain Specific Data Structures - Randomized Algorithms - Evolutionary Algorithms - Distributed Algorithms - Dynamic Algorithms - Stream Processing - Multicore Computing - Grid Computing - Service Oriented Architectures - Next generation Internet - Nanoscale Architectures - Quantum Computing - Bio-inspired Computing - Embedded Systems - System/network-on-chip - Reconfigurable architectures - Software Engineering Paper Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that demonstrate original unpublished research dealing with algorithmic, systems, applications, and educational aspects of contemporary computing. Please see the conference website http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3 for paper submission procedures (8 pages in a two column format). Papers will be reviewed by experts and selected for presentation and inclusion in the conference proceedings based on their clarity, originality, relevance and significance. Tutorial proposals are also be solicited and due by March 15, 2009. For further information and future updates, refer to the conference website at http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3 or contact the General or Program Chairs. Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 15, 2009 Author Notification: April 30, 2009 Final Manuscripts and Registration: May 15, 2009 Special Sessions There will be three special sessions on Industry Experience Reports (Chair: Devesh Bhatnagar), Bioinformatics (Chair: Sumeet Dua) and Analytics for Online Social Networks (Chair: Vir Phoha). Information for paper submission for these sessions is available on the website. Submission deadlines for these sessions may be different than the main conference. Conference Organization General Co-chairs - Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida - Sanjay Goel, JIIT University Program Chair - Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida Track Co-chairs Algorithms - Ananth Grama, Purdue University - Rajeev Kumar, IIT Kharagpur Applications - Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University - Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University Systems - Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne - Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsinghua University Special Sessions Chair - Industry Experience Reports (Devesh Bhatnagar), - Bioinformatics (Sumeet Dua) - Analytics for Online Social Networks (Vir Phoha) Tutorials Chair - Veena Mendiratta, Alactel-Lucent, USA Publicity Co-Chairs - Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne - Mario Dantas, Federal University of Santa Catarina - Suthep Madarasmi, King Mongkut's University of Technology - Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University - Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University - Divakar Yadav, JIIT Website - Sandeep Singh, JIIT University - Sangeeta Malik, JIIT University - Shikha Mehta, JIIT University Publications - Sushil Prasad, Georgia State University - Vikas Kumar, JIIT University - Student Volunteer Coordinator - Manish Kumar Thakur, JIIT University ------------------------------------------------------------------ Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sat Mar 21 13:14:23 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:14:23 -0400 Subject: [sage-announce] Call for Applications ICAC 2009 Doctoral Consortium Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A562E52B7@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for possible cross postings!] Call for Applications ICAC 2009 Doctoral Consortium In conjunction with the 6th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing Barcelona, Spain, June 2009 IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: March 30, 2009 Acceptance Notification: April 27, 2009 Camera-ready submission: May 11, 2009 Consortium Date: June, 2009 OBJECTIVE The Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides a forum for students to discuss and explore their research interests with a panel of established researchers in Autonomic Computing. Selected students will present their work in front of an audience that consists of both their peers and a committee of established researchers from industry and academia. The goals of the DC are: (1) to provide feedback on participants' dissertation topic and focus, and advice on initiating a research career; (2) develop a support community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research across academia and industry; (3) contribute to the conference goals through interactions with other researchers and participation in conference events. SCOPE The DC is open to all Ph.D students carrying out research on topics related to ICAC's areas of interest. Example topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Production or prototype AC systems - Self-managing element - Management topics - Fundamental science of self-managing systems - Software architectures for self-managing systems - System-level technologies, middleware or services - Operating system support for autonomic systems - Interfaces to autonomic systems - Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler - Experiences with autonomic system or component prototypes - Other topics listed in the ICAC 2009 Call for Papers SUBMISSIONS Each submission must have a Ph.D student as the sole author or as the primary author with his/her thesis advisor(s) and should include the following materials (see left for submission instructions): Research Proposal: A three-page proposal that outlines the following: - Problem(s) being addressed - The significance of the proposal and its relevance to Autonomic Computing - Related work along with a discussion of their pros and cons - The proposed plan for research including research approach and methodology adopted - Expected contributions of the research and the novelty and benefits of the suggested solutions - A description of the progress to date - Curriculum Vita: Include a CV (at most one page) that describes the student's background and relevant experience (research, education, employment). The CV should mention how long the student has worked on his/her doctoral research and the expected date of completion. It is expected that students submitting to the DC would have one to two years left in their candidature so that they have enough time to incorporate the suggestions during their participation. Support Letter: A support letter from the faculty, which states support for the students participation in the DC. REVIEW PROCESS The DC organizing committee will select participants on the basis of clarity and completeness of the submission packet, stage of research, evidence of research promise such as published papers or technical reports, as well as their anticipated contribution to the workshop goals. We solicit applications from any topic area within the scope of the ICAC conference. Students who have identified their thesis direction, but still have significant research to complete are eligible and will be considered; however, the ideal candidate for the DC is one who has recently had his/her research proposal accepted by the thesis committee. AT THE CONFERENCE The DC will be held during the conference. Each student will give a research presentation focusing on the main theme of the proposal and have discussions and feedback from the committee and other participants. After the students' presentations, a 30 minute period will be reserved for group discussions to collect feedback and suggestions about the consortium organization and the participants. The organizers invite all students to attend and participate in the Doctoral Consortium, whether or not they present their research. Authors of accepted proposals are expected to present their work at the DC and are encouraged to participate in other conference activities. TRAVEL GRANTS ICAC hopes to offer a limited number of travel grants to students who have their work accepted at the Consortium. The grant will cover part of the travel costs for the students to attend the Consortium. Details regarding the grants are being worked out and will be announced at the Consortium website. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mark Burgess, University College Oslo, NO Simon Dobson, Univ. of Dublin, Ireland Renato Figueiredo, Univ. of Florida, USA Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Corp., USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK John Strassner, Motorola, USA Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA John Wilkes, Google, USA Mazin Yousif, Avirtec, USA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jian Zhang Microsoft Company Email: jianzha at microsoft dot com Andres Quiroz Rutgers University Email: aquirozh at caip dot rutgers dot edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Wed Apr 1 11:24:44 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:24:44 -0400 Subject: [sage-announce] ICAC 2009 Registration and Hotel Reservation Deadline Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A562E547F@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for possible cross postings!] Dear All, ICAC 2009 will be held in Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009. The early registration is open (http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/registration.shtm). Fees include all food functions, proceedings and attendance at all sessions. Fees become non-refundable after June 1, 2009 but substitions may be made at any time. ICAC 2009 has blocked a set of rooms at reduced rates in a few Hotels of Barcelona (http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/accomodation.shtm). These rates will be maintained until April 15, 2009. After this date booking availability and rates can't be guaranteed. Below this email, please find a copy of the Call for Papers for more information. We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona in June! Best regards, Masoud Sadjadi ICAC'09 Publicity Co-Chair ----------------------------------------------------------------- Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009 Sponsored by IEEE CS (Pending) and in cooperation with ACM (Pending) http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/ Call for papers SCOPE To deal with the increasing complexity of large-scale computing systems, computers and applications must learn to manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance from humans - a vision that has been referred to as autonomic computing. Meeting the grand challenges of autonomic computing requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software and system architectures that support the effective integration of the constituent technologies. The purpose of the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC-09) is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing all aspects of self-management in computing systems and applications. In doing so, we hope to further build and nurture a community that can work together to realize the vision of large-scale self-managing systems. The conference builds on previous highly influential meetings in New York, Seattle, Dublin, Jacksonville and Chicago. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing, particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different areas of research or report on prototype systems or experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Autonomic computing systems or prototype systems that exhibit self-monitoring, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and/or self-protection. * Fundamental science of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behavior, fault-tolerance, machine learning, control theory, predictive methods and their use to automate manual operations and enforce behavior. * Software engineering principles and architectures for self-managing systems, based on interoperable Grid Services, agent-based systems, Web Services, model-based systems or novel paradigms such as biological, economic or social. * System-level technologies, middleware or services that entail interactions among two or more components of self-managing systems in standalone, distributed, cluster, and Grid computing environments (e.g., health monitoring, dependency analysis, problem localization or remediation, workload management, and provisioning). * Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler technologies for building self-managing components, systems or applications. * Specific self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, data center or specific application elements. Emphasis should be placed on techniques or lessons that may generalize to other components. * Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level agreements, negotiation/conversation support, behavior enforcement, etc., tie in with IT governance, and interaction with legacy systems. * Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user interfaces, interfaces for monitoring and controlling behavior, techniques for defining, distributing, and understanding policies. * Experiences with autonomic system or component prototypes: measurements, evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user studies, experiences with large-scale deployments of self-managing systems or applications. * Applications of autonomics to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. PAPER/POSTER SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing as indicated above. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference themes. Submitted papers must include original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. They should also not be under review or be submitted to another forum during the ICAC-09 review process. Authors should submit full papers or posters electronically (PDF or postscript) via EDAS using the link on the ICAC-09 conference web site. Formatting instructions will also be posted at the web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings published by ACM (to be confirmed), which will be distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted papers/poster are expected to present their work at the conference. WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION ICAC-09 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on specific topics of general interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that may not be properly addressed in the main scientific program. ICAC-09 will also feature a demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a separate subcommittee led by the demo/exhibit chair. INDUSTRY SESSION A singular value of ICAC is the confluence of top researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry. ICAC-09 will provide a readout of various technologies currently in play from product perspectives. Among the areas to be addressed are core enablers for autonomic capabilities to be realized, such as frameworks, protocols and autonomic engines in production systems. The industry session also will address current areas of difficulty that present direct opportunities for both academic and corporate research. Topics will be relevant to entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users. Papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives are especially encouraged and can be submitted as described above. STUDENT AWARDS A student best paper award will be presented, consisting of a commemorative plaque, complimentary student registration to the conference and an honorarium that will partially cover travel & hotel costs. (A student paper is defined as one in which the principal (not sole) author is a student.) The student will be required to present the paper to receive the award. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals: September 25, 2008 Full paper submission: 11:59 EST, January 19, 2009 Author notification: March 9, 2009 Hot Topics submission: 11:59 EST, March 20, 2009 Demo/Exhibit proposals: March 20, 2009 Final manuscripts due: April 06, 2009 IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration: (Closed) 11:59 EST, Jan 19, 2009 Full paper submission: (Closed) 11:59 EST, Jan 25, 2009 Workshop proposals: Sep 25, 2008 Demo/Exhibit proposals: (Extended) Mar 20, 2009 Apr 1, 2009 Hot Topics submission: 11:59 EST, March 20, 2009 Doctoral consortium: (Extended) Mar 30, 2009 Apr 10, 2009 Author notification: Mar 9, 2009 Final manuscripts: Apr 06, 2009 Conference: Jun 15-19, 2009 ORGANISATION GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE STEERING COMMITTEE Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE Jos? Fortes Univ. of Florida, US Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, US Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research, US Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US Brent Miller, IBM, US Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, US John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE John Wilkes, Google, US Mazin Yousif, Avirtec, US PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa, IL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE The ICAC 2009 programming committee is an internationally recognized group of leading researchers covering a broad range of topics related to the conference themes. DEMO/EXHIBIT CHAIR Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE WORKSHOP CHAIR Omer Rana, Cardiff Univ., UK PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, US James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, South Korea Dave Lewis, Trinity, IE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Joan Serrat, UPC, Barcelona, ES FINANCE/INDUSTRY CO-CHAIRS Brent Miller, IBM Corporation, US Michael Nunez, Sun Microsystems, US Jose A. Lozano, Telef?nica, ES HOT TOPICS CHAIR Fabi?n E. Bustamante, Northwestern Univ., US DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIR Jian Zhang, Microsoft, US Andres Quiroz Hernandes, Rutgers Univ., US CYBER CHAIR Ming Zhao, FL Intl. Univ., US SPONSORS (PENDING) IEEE Computer Society and ACM INFORMATION WWW: www.autonomic-conference.org E-mail: icac at autonomic-conference.org From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Tue Apr 28 18:15:02 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:15:02 -0700 Subject: [sage-announce] [CfP CLIHC/LA-WEB '09] - 4th. Latin American Conference on Human-computer Interaction Message-ID: <49f7aa24.1b018e0a.554d.6301@mx.google.com> You are cordially invited to participate in CLIHC/LA-WEB 2009, the Joint Conference encompassing the 4th. Latin American Conference on Human-computer Interaction (CLIHC) and the 7th Latin American Web Congress, which will be held November 9-11, 2009, in M?rida, Yucat?n. (November 9-11, 2009) in Merida, Yucatan http://www.clihc.org/2009 Held in conjunction with LA-Web Welcome to the Latin- American perspective on HCI The diversity of Latin America is evident in its people, culture, geography, history and perspectives. This conference aims at capturing this richness within the context of those researchers and practitioners from and in Latin American working in the area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The conference will serve as a venue for the inter-change of ideas, methods, approaches and techniques of those aiming at designing interactive experiences for the people of Latin America. It has its origin in two previous editions of the Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CLIHC): In 2003 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and in 2005 in Cuernavaca, Mexico and in 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Following the spirit of these previous editions, we acknowledge that in the HCI field, not only should we reach for technology that can be used and appreciated by the widest range of people, but also for means to promote inter-cultural exchange and cross-fertilization among people with diverse backgrounds and needs. The workshop is open to all topics and disciplines related to HCI. Topics include, but are not limited to: ? user interface design and evaluation methods ? universal accessibility ? cross-cultural and internationalization issues ? multi-modal interfaces, theoretical & multidisciplinary aspects ? social and cultural issues in HCI ? intelligent user interfaces ? personalization and adaptive interfaces ? end-user programming, multimedia ? virtual reality and games ? online communities and pervasive computing. Type of submissions CLIHC will accept submissions in the following categories: 1 Full papers (up to 8 pages submissions) - Full papers are submissions describing results and original research work not submitted or published elsewhere. Full papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field 2 Short papers (up to 4 pages submissions) - Authors are invited to submit work in progress whose preliminary results are already interesting to CLIHC audience. This track will give CLIHC attendees a way to learn about ongoing research initiatives and will provide presenters with an excellent opportunity to receive invaluable direct feedback from experts. Important dates All papers categories submissions: May 30th, 2009 Notification of acceptance: July 10th, 2009 Camera-ready manuscripts due: August 1st, 2009 Conference dates: November 9-11, 2009 Submission and publication The format of submitted papers must follow the IEEE conference format , including no page numbers. Submitted papers must be in PDF or Word format for Windows. Papers should be submitted through the easychair submission management system: submit the paper (in either PDF or Word (97 - 2007) format). Papers written in english and accepted will be published in the conference proceedings edited by IEEE -both full and short papers. Papers written in Spanish and Portuguese and accepted will be included in the conference proceedings edited by (ISBN book from Universidad Autonoma de Baja California ). Selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of an international journal to be announced. Conference chair: Monica Tentori (mtentori at uabc.mx) | (mtentori at gmail.com) Local chair: Edgar Cambranes, UADY, Mexico Program chairs: Elizabeth S. Furtado (elizabet at unifor.br) and Alberto L. Moran (alberto_moran at uabc.mx) | (amoran2k at gmail.com) Steering committee: Alfredo Sanchez, UDLA, Mexico, Oscar Mayora, CreateNet, Italy , Victor M. Gonzalez, University of Manchester, UK, Christian Sturm, Hewlett Packard, Espa?a , Manuel Perez-Qui?ones, Virginia Tech, Cristina Baranauskas , PUC-RIO -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Fri May 8 07:02:35 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 10:02:35 -0400 Subject: [sage-announce] ICAC 2009 Program Highlights! Register Today! Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A562E5A3E@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings!] Dear All, We are looking forward to seeing you and other members of your research group at this exciting event, which will be held in Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009. If you have not registered already, please go ahead and register at your earliest convenience. The time is running out! Here is the link to the conference Web site: http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/index.shtm ICAC this year will have three distinguished keynotes: KEYNOTE 1: Autonomic Business Service Management Dr. Donald F. Ferguson SVP, Chief Architect EITM Short Bio: Dr. Donald F. Ferguson is CA's Chief Architect, responsible for the design and strategy for all CA products. Before CA, Don spent a year at Microsoft as a Technical Fellow in the Office of the CTO. The focus was on Microsoft's enterprise software, Internet SOA platform and model driven application systems. Prior to Microsoft, Don was an IBM Fellow, Chief Architect for IBM Software Group (SWG) and chaired the SWG Architecture Board. His responsibility was the architecture and technical strategy of the WebSphere, Lotus, DB2, Tivoli and Rational products. Don contributed to several important standards including J2EE, EJBs and various Web service standards. Don was the Chief Architect for the WebSphere product family from inception until assuming the SWG Chief Architect role in 2001. Don got a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1989 and joined IBM Research in 1987. KEYNOTE 2: Engineering Autonomic Systems Joseph L. Hellerstein Google, Inc. Short Bio: Joseph L Hellerstein is a Member of Technical Staff at Google in Seattle, Washington, where his work focuses on building a large scale distributed operating system. Prior to joining Google in 2008, he was a Principal Architect at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington where he contributed to .NET threading and multicore. From 1984-2006, Dr. Hellerstein was a researcher and manager at the IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York, where he founded the Adaptive Systems Department, a team of 25 that addressed various aspects of autonomic computing. He has also been an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York City and the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Hellerstein received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles, and has authored or co- authored approximately 100 peer reviewed articles, an Addison-Wesley book on expert systems, and a Wiley book entitled "Feedback Control of Computing Systems." Most recently, he received the IEEE/IFIP Stokesberry Award for outstanding contributions to network, systems, and service management. KEYNOTE 3: Flexible Behaviour Regulation in Agent Based Systems Michael Luck Department of Computer Science King's College London Short Bio: Michael Luck is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at King's College London, where he leads the Agents and Intelligent Systems group. He has been working in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems since its early days, and has over 150 publications. His work has sought to take a principled approach to the development of practical agent systems, and spans: formal frameworks for intelligent agents and multi-agent systems; the formalisation of existing practical agent systems and theories; development of information-based agent applications in domains such as genome analysis; norms and institutions; trust and reputation; agent infrastructure; and other areas. ICAC 2009's program is stronger than ever; with very low acceptance rate this year, only papers with excellent quality were selected to be included in the program. Also, a number of high quality posters will be presented in a one and a half hour session followed by a two hours Poster/Demo Session & Reception. As always, the panel is one of the most exciting parts of the program. This year, Karsten Schwan is organizing the panel. The panel will be followed by the conference banquet. ICAC 2009 has a number of popular collocated workshops and a doctoral symposium: Workshop Grids Meets Autonomic Computing (GMAC'09) 6th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2009) 3rd International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC 2009) 4th Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing (HotAC IV) Workshop on Deeper Automated Reasoning within Autonomic Systems (DARAS) 2nd International Workshop on Agents for Autonomic Computing (AAC 2009) Workshop on Bio?Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems (BADS 2009) Workshop on Automated Control for Datacenters and Clouds (ACDC) 2nd ICAC Doctoral Symposium Below this email, please find a copy of the program for your information. We are looking forward to seeing you and your colleagues in Barcelona in June 2009! Best regards, Masoud Sadjadi ICAC'09 Publicity Co-Chair ----------------------------------------------------------------- Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ICAC 2009 ADVANCE PROGRAM MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2009 WORKSHOPS Workshop Grids Meets Autonomic Computing (GMAC'09) 6th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2009) 3rd International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC 2009) 4th Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing (HotAC IV) Workshop on Deeper Automated Reasoning within Autonomic Systems (DARAS) TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2009 8:00AM - 8:45AM Registration 8:45AM - 9:00AM Opening Session Chair: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, US General Chairs' Comments Simon Dobson, UCD, IE & John Strassner, Waterford Inst. of Tech., IE Program Chairs' Comments Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, US & Onn Shehory, IBM, IL 9:00AM - 10:30AM Keynote I Chair: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, US Autonomic Business Service Management Dr. Donald F. Ferguson, SVP, Chief Architect EITM, CA, US 10:30AM - 11:00AM Break 11:00AM - 1:00PM Session I: Autonomic Diagnosis and Resolution Chair: Onn Shehory, IBM, IL Ranking the Importance of Alerts for Problem Determination in Large Computer Systems Guofei Jiang (NEC Labs America, US); Haifeng Chen (NEC Labs America, US); Kenji Yoshihira (NEC Labs America, US); Akhilesh Saxena (NEC Labs America, US) System Monitoring with Metric?Correlation Models: Problems and Solutions Miao Jiang (University of Waterloo, CA); Mohammad Munawar (University of Waterloo, CA); Thomas Reidemeister (University of Magdeburg, Germany, DE); Paul Ward (University of Waterloo, CA) An Adaptive Feedback Controller for SIP Server Memory Overload Protection Yixin Diao (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, US); Xiaolei Hu (IBM China Research Lab, CN); Asser Tantawi (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US); Haishan Wu (IBM China Research Lab, CN) Self?Correlating Predictive Information Tracking for Large?Scale Production Systems Ying Zhao (Tsinghua University, CN); Yongmin Tan (North Carolina State University, US); Zhenhuan Gong (North Carolina State University, US); Xiaohui Gu (North Carolina State University, US); Mike Wamboldt (IBM, US) 1:00PM - 2:30PM Lunch 2:30PM - 4:30PM Industry session Chair: Brent Miller (IBM, US) & Michael Nunez (Sun, US) Session Keynote Emre Kiciman (Microsoft, US) An Industry Survey of Autonomic Infrastructure Michael Nunez (Sun Microsystems, US) Real-time Correlation Engine for System Monitoring and Testing Viliam Holub (University College Dublin, IE); Trevor Parsons (University College Dublin, IE); Patrick O'Sullivan (IBM, IE); John Murphy (University College Dublin, IE) Resilient Workload Manager: Taming Bursty Workload of Scaling Internet Applications Hui Zhang (NEC Labs America, US); Guofei Jiang (NEC Labs America, US); Kenji Yoshihira (NEC Labs America, US); Haifeng Chen (NEC Labs America, US); Akhilesh Saxena (NEC Labs America, US) GreenCloud: A New Architecture for Green Data Center Liang Liu (IBM China Research Lab, CN); Xue Liu (McGill University, CA); Wenbo He (University of New Mexico, US) 4:30PM - 5:00PM Break 5:00PM - 6:30PM Poster Presentation Lightning Tasks Chair: Brent Miller (IBM, US) & Michael Nunez (Sun, US) Run-Time Correlation Engine for System Monitoring and Testing Viliam Holub (University College Dublin, IE); Trevor Parsons (University College Dublin, IE); Patrick O'Sullivan (IBM, IE); John Murphy (University College Dublin, IE) Resilient Workload Manager: Taming Bursty Workload of Scaling Internet Applications Hui Zhang (NEC Labs America, US); Guofei Jiang (NEC Labs America, US); Kenji Yoshihira (NEC Labs America, US); Haifeng Chen (NEC Labs America, US); Akhilesh Saxena (NEC Labs America, US) Dynamic Service Selection for Self-optimizing BPEL Processes Adina Mosincat (USI, CH); Walter Binder (University of Lugano, CH) Knowledge Delivery Mechanism for Autonomic Overlay Network Management Dominic Jones (Trinity College Dublin, IE); John Keeney (Trinity College Dublin, IE); Dave Lewis (Trinity College Dublin, IE); Declan O'Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin, IE) ParaDisE: Parallel Discovery Engine for Enterprise Datacenters Sandip Agarwala (IBM Research, US); Luis Bathen (UC Irvine, US); Divyesh Jadav (IBM Research, US); Ramani Routray (IBM Almaden Research Center, US) Identifying Performance Bottlenecks based on the Local Parameter Tuning Teruyoshi Zenmyo (Toshiba, JP) A Decentralised, Architecture-Based Framework for Self-Growing Applications Ada Diaconescu (Grenoble University, FR); Philippe Lalanda (Laboratoire LSR IMAG, FR) Self-management for neural dynamics in brain-like information processing Benjamin Dittes (Honda Research Institute Europe, DE); Alexander Gepperth (Honda Research Institute Europe, DE); Antonello Ceravola (Honda Research Institute Europe, DE); Jannik Fritsch (Honda Research Institute Europe, DE); Christian Goerick (Honda Research Institute Europe, DE) Multi-perspective Evaluation of Self-Healing Systems using Simple Probabilistic Models Rean Griffith (University of California, Berkeley, US) Overlay Self-Organization for Traffic Reduction in Multi-Broker Publish-Subscribe Systems Elisabetta Di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano, IT); Daniel Dubois (Politecnico di Milano, IT); Raffaela Mirandola (Universit di Roma "Tor Vergata", IT) Distributed W-Learning: An Algorithm for Multi-Policy Optimization in Decentralized Autonomic Systems Ivana Dusparic (Trinity College Dublin, IE); Vinny Cahill (Trinity College Dublin, IE Threat-Model Driven Runtime Adaptation and Evaluation of Intrusion Detection System Martin Rehak (Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ); Eugen Staab (University of Luxembourg, LU); Volker Fusenig (University of Luxembourg, LU); Jan Stiborek (Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ); Martin Grill (CESNET, CZ); Karel Bartos (CESNET, CZ); Michal Pechoucek (Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ); Thomas Engel (University of Luxemburg, LU) Model-Driven Architectural Monitoring and Adaptation for Autonomic Systems Thomas Vogel (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, DE); Stefan Neumann (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, DE); Stephan Hildebrandt (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, DE); Holger Giese (Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, DE); Basil Becker (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, DE) Design Patterns for Developing Dynamically Adaptive Systems Andres Ramirez (Michigan State University, US); Betty Cheng (Michigan State University, US) Out of band Detection of Boot-Sequence Termination Events Dan Pelleg (IBM Haifa, IL); Muli Ben-Yehuda (IBM Haifa Research Lab, IL); Paula Ta-Shma (IBM Haifa, IL); Naama Parush Shear-Yashuv (IBM Haifa, IL) Experiences With Scheduling and Mapping Games for Adaptive Distributed Systems Bin Lin (Northwestern University, US); Peter Dinda (Northwestern University, US) Self-organized server farms for energy savings Sahuquillo Martinez Salvador (University of Politecnica de Catalunya, ES); Antonio Manzalini (Telecom Italia, IT); Corrado Moiso (Telecom Italia, IT); Laura Ferrari (Telecom Italia, IT); Josep Sole Pareta (University of Politecnica de Catalunya, ES); Beatriz Otero (University of Politecnica de Catalunya, ES) 6:30PM - 8:30PM Poster/Demo Session & Reception WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2009 8:00AM - 9:00AM Registration 8:45AM - 9:00AM Gold Sponsor Address Chair: Brent Miller, IBM, US 9:00AM - 10:30AM Keynote II Chair: Simon Dobson, UCD, IE Engineering Autonomic Systems Joseph L. Hellerstein, Google, Inc. US 10:30AM - 11:00AM Break 11:00AM - 1:00PM Session II: Advanced Self* Approaches Chair: Omer Rana, Cardiff Univ., UK AdaptGuard: Guarding Adaptive Systems from Instability Jin Heo (University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign, US); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US) Enabling the Autonomic Data Center with a Smart Bare?Metal Server Platform Ricardo Morin (Intel Corporation, US); Arzhan Kinzhalin (Intel Corporation, AR); Rodolfo Kohn (Intel Corporation, AR); David Lombard (Intel Corporation, US) Applying Genetic Algorithms to Decision Making in Autonomic Computing Systems (Best student paper finalist) Andres Ramirez (Michigan State University, US); Betty Cheng (Michigan State University, US);David Knoester (Michigan State University, US); Philip McKinley (Michigan State University, US) Elicitation and Utilization of Application?level Utility Functions (Best student paper finalist) Paul deGrandis (Drexel University, US); Giuseppe Valetto (Drexel University, US) 1:00PM - 2:30PM Lunch 2:30PM - 4:00PM Session III: Autonomics & Virtualization Chair: Mazin Yousif, Avirtec, USA Self?Adaptive and Self?Configured CPU Resource Provisioning for Virtualized Servers Using Kalman Filters Evangelia Kalyvianaki (University of Cambridge, UK); Themistoklis Charalambous (University of Cambridge, UK); Steven Hand (University of Cambridge, UK) vManage: Loosely Coupled Platform and Virtualization Management in Data Centers Sanjay Kumar (Intel Corporation, US); Vanish Talwar (HP Labs, US); Vibhore Kumar (IBM Research, US); Partha Ranganathan (Hewlett Packard Labs, US); Karsten Schwan (Georgia Tech, US) VCONF: A Reinforcement Learning approach to Virtual Machine Autoconfiguration Jia Rao (Wayne State University, US) 4:00PM - 4:30PM Break 4:30PM - 6:30PM Panel Session Chair: Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech., US 8:30PM - Banquet THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2009 8:00AM - 9:00AM Registration 8:45AM - 9:00AM Gold Sponsor Address Chair: Brent Miller, IBM, US 9:00AM - 10:30AM Keynote III Chair: Onn Shehory, IBM, IL Flexible Behavior Regulation in Agent Based Systems Michael Luck, King's College London, UK 10:30AM - 11:00AM Break 11:00AM - 1:00PM Session IV: SelfConfiguration & SelfOptimization Chair: Jeffery Kephart, IBM, USA Injecting Realistic Burstiness into a Traditional Client?Server Benchmark Ningfang Mi (College of William and Mary, US); Giuliano Casale (SAP Research, UK); Lucy Cherkasova (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, US); Evgenia Smirni (College of William and Mary, US) Fast Scalable Optimization to Configure Service Systems having Cost and Quality of Service Constraints Jim Zhanwen Li (Carleton University, CA); Murray Woodside (Carleton University, CA); John Chinneck (Carleton University, CA); Marin Litoiu (IBM Centre of Advanced Studies, Toronto, CA) Determining Configuration Parameter Dependencies via Analysis of Configuration Data from Multi?tiered Enterprise Applications (Best student paper finalist) Vinod Ramachandran (Bits Pilani, IN); Manish Gupta (IBM India Research Lab, IN); Manish Sethi (IBM India Research Lab, IN); Soudip Roy Chowdhury (IBM India Research Lab, IN) NAP: a Building Block for Remediating Performance Bottlenecks via Black Box Network Analysis David Breitgand (IBM Haifa Research Lab, IL); Muli Ben-Yehuda (IBM Haifa Research Lab, IL); Michael Factor (IBM Research Lab in Haifa, IL); Hillel Kolodner (IBM Haifa Research Lab, IL); Valentin Kravtsov (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IL); Dan Pelleg (IBM Haifa, IL) 1:00PM - 2:30PM Lunch 2:30PM - 4:00PM Special Session on EU Autonomic Computing Projects Chairs: Simon Dobson, UCD, IE & Giuseppe Valetto, Drexel University, US European Initiatives in Autonomic Systems Speaker TBC (European Commission) The NSF Center for Autonomic Computing Jos? Fortes (University of Florida, US) CASCADAS: Component-ware for Autonomic Situation-aware communications Franco Zambonelli (Universit? di Modena e Reggio Emilia IT) Haggle: Communication in the Presence of Intermittent Connectivity Speaker TBC 4:00PM - 4:30PM Break 4:30PM - 6:30PM Special Session on EU Autonomic Computing Projects Chairs: Simon Dobson, UCD, IE & Giuseppe Valetto, Drexel University, US ANA: Autonomic Network Architecture Speaker TBC BIONETS: Biologically-inspired Communications Speaker TBC Lero: Engineering Evolving Critical Systems Mike Hinchey (Lero at University of Limerick, IE) Shadows Onn Shehory (IBM Haifa, IL) Discussion: Expanding Collaborations across Jurisdictions FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2009 - Workshops 2nd ICAC Doctoral Symposium 2nd International Workshop on Agents for Autonomic Computing (AAC 2009) Workshop on Bio?Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems (BADS 2009) Workshop on Automated Control for Datacenters and Clouds (ACDC) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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While he is a computer scientist by training, the work by Saul and his talented students typifies the cross-discipline aspects of Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Ubiquitous Computing. Ricardo Baeza-Yates is VP of Research for Europe and Latin America, leading the Yahoo! Research labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile, and also supervising the lab in Haifa, Israel. His research interests includes algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, web mining, text and multimedia databases, software and database visualization, and user interfaces. ********************************************************************** A NEW TYPE OF PRESENTATION CATEGORY: Posters in second life ********************************************************************** See the updated call for papers below.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You are cordially invited to participate in CLIHC/LA-WEB 2009, the Joint Conference encompassing the 4th. Latin American Conference on Human-computer Interaction (CLIHC) and the 7th Latin American Web Congress, which will be held November 9-11, 2009, in M?rida, Yucat?n. (November 9-11, 2009) in Merida, Yucatan http://www.clihc.org/2009 Held in conjunction with LA-Web Welcome to the Latin- American perspective on HCI The diversity of Latin America is evident in its people, culture, geography, history and perspectives. This conference aims at capturing this richness within the context of those researchers and practitioners from and in Latin American working in the area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The conference will serve as a venue for the inter-change of ideas, methods, approaches and techniques of those aiming at designing interactive experiences for the people of Latin America. It has its origin in two previous editions of the Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CLIHC): In 2003 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and in 2005 in Cuernavaca, Mexico and in 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Following the spirit of these previous editions, we acknowledge that in the HCI field, not only should we reach for technology that can be used and appreciated by the widest range of people, but also for means to promote inter-cultural exchange and cross-fertilization among people with diverse backgrounds and needs. The workshop is open to all topics and disciplines related to HCI. Topics include, but are not limited to: ? user interface design and evaluation methods ? universal accessibility ? cross-cultural and internationalization issues ? multi-modal interfaces, theoretical & multidisciplinary aspects ? social and cultural issues in HCI ? intelligent user interfaces ? personalization and adaptive interfaces ? end-user programming, multimedia ? virtual reality and games ? online communities and pervasive computing. ============================= ==== TYPE OF SUBMISSIONS ==== ============================= CLIHC will accept submissions in the following categories: 1 Full papers (up to 8 pages submissions) - Full papers are submissions describing results and original research work not submitted or published elsewhere. Full papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field 2 Short papers (up to 4 pages submissions) - Authors are invited to submit work in progress whose preliminary results are already interesting to CLIHC audience. This track will give CLIHC attendees a way to learn about ongoing research initiatives and will provide presenters with an excellent opportunity to receive invaluable direct feedback from experts. 3 Posters - For the first time in the CLIHC conference series, the poster session in CLIHC 2009 will be held simultaneously in real life at the conference and online in Second Life. Authors will present their work and interact with conference attendees and people who could not attend the conference. ========================= ==== IMPORTANT DATES ==== ========================= EXTENDED Submission deadline: Sunday, June 14, 2009 All papers categories submissions: May 30th, 2009 Notification of acceptance: July 10th, 2009 Camera-ready manuscripts due: August 1st, 2009 Conference dates: November 9-11, 2009 ==================================== ==== SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION ==== ==================================== The format of submitted papers must follow the IEEE conference format , including no page numbers. Submitted papers must be in PDF or Word format for Windows. Papers should be submitted through the easychair submission management system: submit the paper (in either PDF or Word (97 - 2007) format). Papers written in english and accepted will be published in the conference proceedings edited by IEEE -both full and short papers. Papers written in Spanish and Portuguese and accepted will be included in the conference proceedings edited by (ISBN book from Universidad Autonoma de Baja California ). Selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of an international journal to be announced. =================== ==== COMMITTEE ==== =================== Conference chair: Monica Tentori (mtentori at uabc.mx) | (mtentori at gmail.com) Local chair: Edgar Cambranes, UADY, Mexico Program chairs: Elizabeth S. Furtado (elizabet at unifor.br) and Alberto L. Moran (alberto_moran at uabc.mx) | (amoran2k at gmail.com) Steering committee: Alfredo Sanchez, UDLA, Mexico, Oscar Mayora, CreateNet, Italy , Victor M. Gonzalez, University of Manchester, UK, Christian Sturm, Hewlett Packard, Espa?a , Manuel Perez-Qui?ones, Virginia Tech, Cristina Baranauskas , PUC-RIO -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging three highly-respected meetings: International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS); International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL); and International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally-respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. AAMAS-2010 is the Ninth conference in the AAMAS series, following enormously successful previous conferences, and will be held at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel in downtown Toronto. See http://www.ifaamas.org for more information on the AAMAS conference series. SUBMISSION DETAILS AAMAS-2010 seeks high-quality submissions of full papers, limited to 8 pages in length. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated on the basis of originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality of their technical contribution. Reviews will be double blind; authors must avoid including anything that can be used to identify them. Where submission is for full (8 page) papers only, in some cases they may be accepted as 2 page extended abstracts For formatting instructions, please refer to the conference page. In addition to submissions in the main track, AAMAS is soliciting papers in two special tracks on robotics, and on virtual agents (see below). The review process for the special tracks will be the same as for the main track, but with specially-selected program committee members. Special Track on Robotics (Chair: Michael Beetz): Papers on theory and applications concerning single and multiple robots will be welcome, namely those focusing on real robots interacting with their surrounding environments. The goal is to foster interaction between researchers on agent and robotics systems, so as to provide a cradle for cross-fertilization of concepts from both fields. Special Track on Virtual Agents (Chair: Stacy Marsella): Virtual agents are embodied agents in interactive virtual or physical environments that emulate human-like behavior. We encourage papers on the design, implementation, and evaluation of virtual agents as well as challenging applications featuring them. The goal is to provide an opportunity for interaction and cross-fertilization between the AAMAS community and researchers working on virtual agents and to strengthen links between the two communities. In addition to the conference papers, presented in parallel technical sessions, AAMAS-2010 will include: o Industry and Applications track o Demonstrations o Posters presentations for full papers and extended abstracts o Invited talks and panel discussions The submission processes for the demonstration and industry tracks are separate from the main paper submission process. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs: Michael Luck and Sandip Sen Program Chairs: Wiebe van der Hoek and Gal A. Kaminka Local Organization Chair: Yves Lesperance A list of the other members of the AAMAS-2010 Organizing Committee may be found at http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sat Aug 15 05:31:20 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:31:20 +0200 Subject: [sage-announce] [AAMAS-2010] - Call for tutorials proposal Message-ID: <3704622745121988729798@Galvatron> (apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call) Call for Tutorial Proposals Ninth International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS 2010) Toronto, Canada May 10-14, 2010 http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010 The AAMAS-10 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program, to be held on May 10--11, immediately before to the technical conference. AAMAS-10 Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives: * Introduce novices to major topics of AAMAS research. * Provide instruction in established practices and methodologies. * Survey a mature area of AAMAS research or practice. * Motivate and explain an AAMAS topic of emerging importance. * Introduce expert non-specialists to an AAMAS area. * Survey an area of agent research especially relevant for people from industry AAMAS 2010 will be co-located with KR, NMR, ICAPS, FOIS (all in Toronto) and DL 2010 (in Waterloo), and welcomes proposals that cater to the broader community across these areas. Submission Requirements: ------------------------ Proposals should be two to four pages in length, and should contain the following information: * A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the conference registration brochure. * A detailed outline of the tutorial, including preferred length (half or full day). * Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge. * A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the AAMAS audience. * A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name, postal address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, background in the tutorial area, any available example of work in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article on the subject), evidence of teaching experience (including references that address the proposer's presentation skills), and evidence of scholarship in the area. * The name and e-mail address of the corresponding presenter. The corresponding presenter should be available for e-mail correspondence during the evaluation process, in the case clarifications and discussions on the scope and content of the proposal are needed. The evaluation of the proposal will take into account its general interest for AAMAS attendees, the quality of the proposal as well as the expertise and skills of the presenters. We emphasize that the primary criteria for evaluation will be whether a proposal is interesting, well-structured, and motivated, rather than the perceived experience/standing of the proposer. Those submitting a proposal should keep in mind that tutorials are intended to provide an overview of the field; they should present reasonably well established information in a balanced way. Tutorials should not be used to advocate a single avenue of research, nor should they promote a product. The selection of the tutorials to be included in the final AAMAS program will be based upon a number of factors, including: the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the quality of the proposal, the need to avoid strictly overlapping tutorials, and the unavoidable need to limit the overall number of selected tutorials. Responsibilities (with respect to accepted proposals): ----------------------------------------------------- AAMAS will be responsible for: * Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the tutorial. * Together with the organizers, determining the tutorial date and time. * Duplicating tutorial material and distributing them to the participants. Tutorial organizers will be responsible for: ---------------------------------------------------------- * Providing AAMAS with a legible PDF copy of their tutorial notes by April 4, 2010. * Presenting the tutorial at AAMAS-2010. AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any tutorial if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, if deadlines are missed, or if too few attendees register for the tutorial to support the costs of running the tutorial. Important Dates: ---------------- November 13, 2009: Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline December 4, 2009: Tutorial Acceptance Notifications April 4, 2010: Deadline for submitting tutorial materials May 10--11, 2010: AAMAS-2009 Tutorials Submissions and Inquiries: -------------------------- Proposals and inquiries should be sent by email (in ASCII or pdf) to the tutorials chair: Kate Larson Cheriton School of Computer Science University of Waterloo klarson at cs.uwaterloo.ca -- From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Wed Aug 19 22:48:51 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:48:51 -0700 Subject: [sage-announce] Call for Posters in CLIHC & LA-WEB 2009 In-Reply-To: <6458b750908192145q46e4cbf0xc267885c2187c98c@mail.gmail.com> References: <6458b750908192145q46e4cbf0xc267885c2187c98c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6458b750908192248v4bb3298di7450a71fc172e94d@mail.gmail.com> You are cordially invited to participate in CLIHC /LA-WEB 2009, the Joint Conference encompassing the 4th. Latin American Conference on Human-computer Interaction (CLIHC) and the 7th Latin American Web Congress, which will be held November 9-11, 2009, in M?rida, Yucat?n. http://www.clihc.org/2009 *Call for posters* *Topics, Aims and goals of the conference* *CLIHC Topics:* *LA-WEB Topics:* user interface design and evaluation methods Browsers and user interfaces universal accessibility E-commerce, E-Science, E-government and E-Learning cross-cultural and internationalization issues Digital libraries multi-modal interfaces, theoretical & multidisciplinary aspects Multimedia and hypermedia social and cultural issues in HCI Mobility and ubiquitous web access intelligent user interfaces Performance, reliability and scalability personalization and adaptive interfaces Web data mining end-user programming, multimedia Search virtual reality and games Semantic web online communities and pervasive computing. Web engineering Collaboration and web communities Security, privacy and copyright issues XML and web services Collaborative tagging Blogging Social Networks Web spam characterization, detection and filtering Web visualization Web usability and accessibility Web 2.0 approaches and applications *<> Open Posters submissions and publication* Authors are encouraged to submit preliminary research results of work-in-progress, use cases, thesis developments, etc. on all aspects of conference interest topics. Poster presentations will provide authors with early feedback on their research work and enable them to exchange ideas during the conference. An abstract of 800 words should be submitted through the easychair submission management system[s3] , and should include the essence of the planned presentation. All posters will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee according to the relevance of the work and to their ability to generate discussions between the participants of the conference. Submissions can be in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Accepted Posters should submit a two-page extended abstract, following the IEEE conference format[s4] , including no page numbers, in Word format for Windows, that will be published in the CLIHC proceedings with ISBN edited by the UABC. The posters will be presented during the Welcome cocktail of the conference, before that you will have a short presentation during the MADNESS poster track. IMPORTANT: ? Attendance by at least one author is mandatory and should be registered to the conference. ? MADNESS poster track will be announced soon. ? The posters for invitation, it is not necessary that are submit to be evaluated, only send us an email for notify the accepted invitation and submit the camera-ready at the established date. *Important dates* 800-word submissions: *September 4th, 2009* Notification of acceptance: *September 21st, 2009* Two-page camera-ready manuscripts due: *October 1st, 2009* Conference dates: *November 9-11, 2009* * * *Posters chairs:* *Victoria Meza* (mmeza*@uabc.mx*),* Sandra Nava-Mu?oz* (al323591 at uabc.mx) | (gaviota9n at gmail.com) and *Juan Pablo Garc?a* (netcommx at hotmail.com) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sun Aug 30 19:10:58 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:10:58 -0400 Subject: [sage-announce] CFP: ICAC 2010, June 7-11, Washington, DC, USA Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A56374999@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings!] CALL FOR PAPER: The 7th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Call For Papers June 7-11, 2010. Washington, DC, USA http://www.cis.fiu.edu/conferences/icac2010/ OVERVIEW Large-scale computer systems, from IT infrastructures and Grids to enterprise datacenters and Internet services, present common challenges in managing resources and applications to maximize performance and power efficiency while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads and failures. A system that addresses these challenges by integrating monitoring, decision-processing and actuation is an Autonomic Computing System. Research in autonomic computing spans a variety of areas, from computer systems, architecture, databases and networks to machine learning and control theory. The purpose of ICAC is to bring together researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to address the multiple facets of self-management in computing systems and applications. Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, including: * End-to-end techniques for autonomic management of resources, workloads, faults, power/thermal, and other challenges. * Self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, data center or specific application elements. * Decision and analysis techniques, such as machine learning, control theory, predictive methods, emergent behavior, selforganizing networks and rule-based systems. * Monitoring systems for autonomic computing. * Virtual machine, operating systems, hardware techniques or application frameworks in autonomic computing. * Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems. * Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement and tie-in with IT governance. * Toolkits, frameworks, principles and architectures, from software engineering practices and experimental methodologies to agent-based techniques and virtualization. * Fundamental science and theory of selfmanaging systems: understanding, controlling or exploiting system behaviors to enforce autonomic properties * Experience with existing systems * Applications of autonomics to real problems in science, engineering, business and society. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. Papers should report on experiences, measurements, user studies, or other evaluations, as appropriate. Evaluations of a prototype or large-scale deployment of autonomic systems and applications is expected. PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found on the conference web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings distributed at the conference and available electronically. Authors of accepted papers and posters are expected to present their work at the conference. WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION ICAC-10 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on topics of interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that complement the main program. ICAC-10 will also feature a demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a separate committee led by the demo/exhibit chair. INDUSTRY SESSION One of ICAC's important roles is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. In its industry session, ICAC helps fulfill this role by presenting an industry viewpoint on technologies, products, and market needs. The industry session also addresses current challenges, and opportunities for academic and corporate research collaborations. We encourage industry leaders, including entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users, to submit their papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives as part of the regular submission process. STUDENT AWARDS A student best paper award will be presented, consisting of a commemorative plaque, complimentary student registration to the conference and an honorarium that will partially cover travel and hotel costs. A student paper is defined as one in which the principal author and presenter is a student. PROGRAM CHAIRS Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC Yuriy Brun, University of Washington Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University Betty Cheng, Michigan State University Jeff Chase, Duke University Alva Couch, Tufts University Steve Hand, University of Cambridge Joe Hellerstein, Google Ravi Iyer, UIUC Guofei Jiang, NEC Labs Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs Pittsburgh Milan Milenkovic, Intel Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University Omer Rana, Cardiff University Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Intl. University Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab John Strunk, NetApp Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt Vanish Talwar, HP Labs Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research Dongyan Xu, Purdue University Xiaoyun Zhu, VMWare STEERING COMMITTEE Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews Jos? Fortes, University of Florida Salim Hariri, University of Arizona Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Brent Miller, IBM Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech John Strassner, Waterford Inst. of Technology John Wilkes, Google Mazin Yousif, Avirtec Important Dates Abstracts: Jan 11 2010, 6pm PDT Full papers: Jan 18 2010, 6pm PDT (HARD DEADLINE) Notification: March 8, 2010 Camera-ready: April 2010 Workshop proposals: Sep. 25, 2009 Demo/exhibit proposals: Mar. 29, 2010 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging three highly-respected meetings: International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS); International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL); and International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA). The aim of the joint conference is to provide a single, high-profile, internationally-respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. AAMAS-2010 is the Ninth conference in the AAMAS series, following enormously successful previous conferences, and will be held at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel in downtown Toronto. See http://www.ifaamas.org for more information on the AAMAS conference series. SUBMISSION DETAILS AAMAS-2010 seeks high-quality submissions of full papers, limited to 8 pages in length. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated on the basis of originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality of their technical contribution. Reviews will be double blind; authors must avoid including anything that can be used to identify them. Where submission is for full (8 page) papers only, in some cases they may be accepted as 2 page extended abstracts For formatting instructions and a list of keywords, please refer to the conference page. In addition to submissions in the main track, AAMAS is soliciting papers in two special tracks on robotics, and on virtual agents (see below). The review process for the special tracks will be the same as for the main track, but with specially-selected program committee members. Special Track on Robotics (Chair: Michael Beetz): Papers on theory and applications concerning single and multiple robots will be welcome, namely those focusing on real robots interacting with their surrounding environments. The goal is to foster interaction between researchers on agent and robotics systems, so as to provide a cradle for cross-fertilization of concepts from both fields. Special Track on Virtual Agents (Chair: Stacy Marsella): Virtual agents are embodied agents in interactive virtual or physical environments that emulate human-like behavior. We encourage papers on the design, implementation, and evaluation of virtual agents as well as challenging applications featuring them. The goal is to provide an opportunity for interaction and cross-fertilization between the AAMAS community and researchers working on virtual agents and to strengthen links between the two communities. In addition to the conference papers, presented in parallel technical sessions, AAMAS-2010 will include: o Industry and Applications track o Demonstrations o Posters presentations for full papers and extended abstracts o Invited talks and panel discussions The submission processes for the demonstration and industry tracks are separate from the main paper submission process. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs: Michael Luck and Sandip Sen Program Chairs: Wiebe van der Hoek and Gal A. Kaminka Local Organization Chair: Yves Lesperance A list of the other members of the AAMAS-2010 Organizing Committee, a list of Senior PC members and an updated list of keywords may be found at http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/ Soon it will also show the PC members! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you do not want to receive emails about CCGRID-2010, please just drop me a line at sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010) May 17-20, 2010, Melbourne, Australia http://www.manjrasoft.com/ccgrid2010/ Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society / Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Hosted/Organised by: * Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia * ISSNIP: ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing * Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia * NSF Center for Autonomic Computing Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **************** CALL FOR PAPERS **************** OVERVIEW/SCOPE: Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Grid and emerging Clouds. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenges featuring live demonstrations. In 2010, CCGrid will return to Australia, to Melbourne, to celebrate its 10th anniversary. CCGrid 2010 will have a special focus on three important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud and Grid computing: Economics, Environment and Autonomics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Paradigms and Technologies: System architectures, Design and deployment; Programming models, language, systems and tools/environments; Virtualization; Middleware technologies. * Service-Orientation: Service oriented architectures; Utility computing models; *aaS paradigm; Service composition and orchestration * Greening: Environment friendly computing ecosystems; Hardware/software/application energy efficiency; Power and cooling; Thermal/power awareness * Autonomic Management: Self-* behaviors, models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and approaches (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired approaches to management; SLA definition and enforcement; * Economic Aspects: Utility models and computing economies; Economic-based models and approaches. * Monitoring and Evaluation: Performance models; Monitoring and evaluation tools, Analysis of system/application performance; Benchmarks and testbeds. * Security and Trust: Cloud/Grid security and trust; Access control; Data privacy and integrity; Regulation. * Applications and Experiences: Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society; User studies; Experiences with large-scale deployments systems or applications. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference PC Chair for more information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made online through the IEEE Digital Library. CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS CCGrid 2010 is inviting proposals for organising of co-located and peer-reviewed workshops on emerging topics. For details, please visit: http://wiki.cs.cf.ac.uk/bin/view/Sandbox/WorkshopsCCGrid10 CHAIRS & COMMITTEES ******************** General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne and Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia Program Committee Chair: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Vice Chairs Applications And Experiences Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Algorithms David Bader, Georgia Tech, USA Programming Models and Systems Carlos Varela, RPI, USA Middleware/Runtime Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Performance Modeling and Evaluation Dick Epema, Delft University, Netherland Workshop Chair Omer F. Rana, Welsh eScience Center and Cardiff University, UK Industry Track Chair Geng Lin, Cisco Systems, USA Posters Chair Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, US Publicity Chair Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China Masoud Sadjadi, FIU, US Tutorials Chair Sushil Prasad, University of GA, US Research Demos/Competitions Chair (SCALE Challenge) Shantenu Jha, LSU, USA/eSI, UK Dan Katz, University of Chicago/ANL, US Local Organising Chair James Broberg, University of Melbourne, Australia Cyber Chair Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia IMPORTANT DATES Papers Due: 2 November 2009 Notification of Acceptance: 18 December 2009 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 January 2010 SUBMISSIONS Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the CCGrid 2010 paper submission system (http://www.edas.info/N8181) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Mon Sep 21 01:42:40 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:42:40 +0200 Subject: [sage-announce] [AAMAS-2010] - Call for workshops proposal Message-ID: <2560624028642809720815@Galvatron> (apologies for multiple postings) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- AAMAS 2010 - Call for Workshop Proposals ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The AAMAS-2010 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held on May 10-11, 2010 immediately prior to the main technical program of the AAMAS conference. The main goal of the AAMAS-2010 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS-2010 workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. AAMAS 2010 will be co-located with KR, NMR, ICAPS, FOIS, (all in Toronto) and DL 2010 (in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), and welcomes proposals that cater to the broader community across these areas. Members from all areas of the AAMAS community are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on new and emerging topics, applications, and on broader topics catering to the broader community represented by the co-located events are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be one full day in duration. Workshop organizers and attendees must register for their workshop and preferably also for the main AAMAS conference. Attendance is limited to registered participants only. -------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates for Workshops -------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 31, 2009 - Proposal Submission Deadline NOVEMBER 30, 2009 - Acceptance Notification DECEMBER 11, 2009 - Deadline for posting Workshops Call for Papers DECEMBER 11, 2009 - AAMAS-2010 Workshops Program Announced FEBRUARY, 2, 2010 - Submission of contributions to workshops MARCH 2, 2010 - Workshop paper acceptance notification MARCH 19, 2010 - Deadline for complete workshop notes submission to the workshop chair Workshop chair MARCH 19, 2010 - Deadline for posting a Call for Participation MAY 10-11, 2010 - AAMAS-2010 WORKSHOPS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AAMAS-2010 Workshops Requirements for Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposals for workshops should be a maximum of five pages in length (in plain ASCII text), and should contain the following information: - Title of the workshop. - A technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of the workshop to the main conference. - A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. - A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop. Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when and where it has been offered in the past (i.e., with AAMAS or another conference?), organizers names and affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered attendees, and follow-up publications, if any (e.g., journal special issue). - A preliminary workshop agenda and a proposed schedule for organizing the workshop. This should include a brief description of how the organizers intend to encourage an atmosphere appropriate for a workshop. - Description of paper review process and acceptance standards. - If available, a list of tentatively confirmed attendees. - The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the proposed workshop organizing committee. This committee should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing committee should include individuals from multiple institutions. -The name of the primary contact for the organizing committee (this person must have an email address). - A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with respect to organizing an AAMAS workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing committee, if any. - List of potential program committee members, including their title and affiliations. - Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day). - A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.) where the workshop is planned to be advertised. All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, to the AAMAS-2010 Workshop Chair: Kagan Tumer ( kagan.tumer at oregonstate.edu ) as soon as possible but no later than: Saturday October 31, 2009. Prospective organizers will be notified of the committee's decision no later than: Monday November 30, 2009. The selection of the workshops to be included in the final AAMAS program will be based upon multiple factors, including: the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of workshop topics, the cross-disciplinary nature of the workshop, and the capacity of the conference workshop program. Note that authors of proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping content areas and/or audiences may be requested to merge their proposals. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Responsibilities of AAMAS and workshop organizers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For all accepted proposals, AAMAS will be responsible for: - Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole. - Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop. - Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. Workshop organizers will be responsible for: -Setting up a website for the workshop. -Advertising the workshop and issuing a call for papers (by DECEMBER 11, 2009) and a call for participation (by MARCH 19, 2010). -Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop organizers commit themselves to adopt the same deadlines for paper submissions and notifications of acceptance, i.e., FEBRUARY 2, 2010: Submissions of contributions to workshops; MARCH 2, 2010: Notifications - Making the PDF of the whole workshop notes available to the workshops chair by MARCH 19, 2010, as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements. The AAMAS-2010 workshop notes will be included in the flash drive containing the AAMAS-2010 conference proceedings. To that end, please include the following sentence in your call for papers: "Workshop notes including all accepted papers will be distributed to AAMAS-2010 registrants in electronic form. Printed workshop notes will NOT be made available to workshop participants." - Ensuring that the workshop notes or individual papers are available from the workshops websites, as appropriate. Though the workshop notes will appear on the flash drive distributed to conference attendees, the workshop notes will not be hosted on the IFAAMAS website. - Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register for the workshop and are invited to register to the main conference (at least one author must register for the workshop in order for a paper to appear in the workshop proceedings). AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few paying attendees register for the workshop to support its running costs. ---------------------------------------------- Submissions and Inquiries ---------------------------------------------- Please send proposals and inquiries to: Kagan Tumer Oregon State University kagan.tumer at oregonstate.edu From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Thu Oct 1 01:29:03 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:29:03 +0200 Subject: [sage-announce] [AAMAS-10] Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <484623952642490013086@Galvatron> ***** Final Call for Papers-AAMAS 2010 ***** The 9th International Conference on Agents and Multi Agent Systems Conference: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/ Submissions: http://www.aamas2010.confmaster.net Toronto, Canada Important dates: Conference: May 10 - 14, 2010 Electronic Abstract Submission: October 8, 2009 Full Paper Submission: October 13, 2009 Author Notification: December 18, 2009 Collocated with KR2, NMR, ICAPS, FOIS, (all in Toronto) and DL 2010 (in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) SUBMISSION DETAILS AAMAS-2010 seeks high-quality submissions of full papers, limited to 8 pages in length. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated on the basis of originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality of their technical contribution. Reviews will be double blind; authors must avoid including anything that can be used to identify them. Where submission is for full (8 page) papers only, in some cases they may be accepted as 2 page extended abstracts For formatting instructions and a list of keywords, please refer to the conference page. In addition to submissions in the main track, AAMAS is soliciting papers in two special tracks on robotics, and on virtual agents (see below). The review process for the special tracks will be the same as for the main track, but with specially-selected program committee members. Special Track on Robotics (Chair: Michael Beetz): Papers on theory and applications concerning single and multiple robots will be welcome, namely those focusing on real robots interacting with their surrounding environments. The goal is to foster interaction between researchers on agent and robotics systems, so as to provide a cradle for cross-fertilization of concepts from both fields. Special Track on Virtual Agents (Chair: Stacy Marsella): Virtual agents are embodied agents in interactive virtual or physical environments that emulate human-like behavior. We encourage papers on the design, implementation, and evaluation of virtual agents as well as challenging applications featuring them. The goal is to provide an opportunity for interaction and cross-fertilization between the AAMAS community and researchers working on virtual agents and to strengthen links between the two communities. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs: Michael Luck and Sandip Sen Program Chairs: Wiebe van der Hoek and Gal A. Kaminka Local Organization Chair: Yves Lesperance A list of the other members of the AAMAS-2010 Organizing Committee, a list of Senior PC members and an updated list of keywords may be found at http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated on the basis of originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality of their technical contribution. Reviews will be double blind; authors must avoid including anything that can be used to identify them. Where submission is for full (8 page) papers only, in some cases they may be accepted as 2 page extended abstracts For formatting instructions and a list of keywords, please refer to the conference page. In addition to submissions in the main track, AAMAS is soliciting papers in two special tracks on robotics, and on virtual agents (see below). The review process for the special tracks will be the same as for the main track, but with specially-selected program committee members. Special Track on Robotics (Chair: Michael Beetz): Papers on theory and applications concerning single and multiple robots will be welcome, namely those focusing on real robots interacting with their surrounding environments. The goal is to foster interaction between researchers on agent and robotics systems, so as to provide a cradle for cross-fertilization of concepts from both fields. Special Track on Virtual Agents (Chair: Stacy Marsella): Virtual agents are embodied agents in interactive virtual or physical environments that emulate human-like behavior. We encourage papers on the design, implementation, and evaluation of virtual agents as well as challenging applications featuring them. The goal is to provide an opportunity for interaction and cross-fertilization between the AAMAS community and researchers working on virtual agents and to strengthen links between the two communities. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs: Michael Luck and Sandip Sen Program Chairs: Wiebe van der Hoek and Gal A. Kaminka Local Organization Chair: Yves Lesperance A list of the other members of the AAMAS-2010 Organizing Committee, a list of Senior PC members and an updated list of keywords may be found at http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Thu Oct 1 14:47:34 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:47:34 -0400 Subject: [sage-announce] ICAC-2010 Update: Deadline for Workshop Proposals is Extended to Oct. 5, 2009! Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A56374C3D@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings! If you do not want to receive emails about ICAC-2010, please just drop me a line at sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu.] CALL FOR PAPER: The 7th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Call For Papers June 7-11, 2010. Washington, DC, USA http://www.autonomic-conference.org PROGRAM CHAIRS Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC Yuriy Brun, University of Washington Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University Betty Cheng, Michigan State University Jeff Chase, Duke University Alva Couch, Tufts University Steve Hand, University of Cambridge Joe Hellerstein, Google Ravi Iyer, UIUC Guofei Jiang, NEC Labs Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs Pittsburgh Milan Milenkovic, Intel Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University Omer Rana, Cardiff University Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Intl. University Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab John Strunk, NetApp Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt Vanish Talwar, HP Labs Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research Dongyan Xu, Purdue University Xiaoyun Zhu, VMWare STEERING COMMITTEE Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews Jos? Fortes, University of Florida Salim Hariri, University of Arizona Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Brent Miller, IBM Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech John Strassner, POSTECH John Wilkes, Google Mazin Yousif, Avirtec Important Dates Abstracts: Jan 11 2010, 6pm PDT Full papers: Jan 18 2010, 6pm PDT (HARD DEADLINE) Notification: March 8, 2010 Camera-ready: April 2010 Workshop proposals: Oct. 5, 2009 Demo/exhibit proposals: Mar. 29, 2010 OVERVIEW Large-scale computer systems, from IT infrastructures and Grids to enterprise datacenters and Internet services, present common challenges in managing resources and applications to maximize performance and power efficiency while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads and failures. A system that addresses these challenges by integrating monitoring, decision-processing and actuation is an Autonomic Computing System. Research in autonomic computing spans a variety of areas, from computer systems, architecture, databases and networks to machine learning and control theory. The purpose of ICAC is to bring together researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to address the multiple facets of self-management in computing systems and applications. Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, including: * End-to-end techniques for autonomic management of resources, workloads, faults, power/thermal, and other challenges. * Self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, data center or specific application elements. * Decision and analysis techniques, such as machine learning, control theory, predictive methods, emergent behavior, selforganizing networks and rule-based systems. * Monitoring systems for autonomic computing. * Virtual machine, operating systems, hardware techniques or application frameworks in autonomic computing. * Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems. * Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement and tie-in with IT governance. * Toolkits, frameworks, principles and architectures, from software engineering practices and experimental methodologies to agent-based techniques and virtualization. * Fundamental science and theory of selfmanaging systems: understanding, controlling or exploiting system behaviors to enforce autonomic properties * Experience with existing systems * Applications of autonomics to real problems in science, engineering, business and society. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. Papers should report on experiences, measurements, user studies, or other evaluations, as appropriate. Evaluations of a prototype or large-scale deployment of autonomic systems and applications is expected. PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found on the conference web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings distributed at the conference and available electronically. Authors of accepted papers and posters are expected to present their work at the conference. WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION ICAC-10 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on topics of interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that complement the main program. ICAC-10 will also feature a demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a separate committee led by the demo/exhibit chair. INDUSTRY SESSION One of ICAC's important roles is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. In its industry session, ICAC helps fulfill this role by presenting an industry viewpoint on technologies, products, and market needs. The industry session also addresses current challenges, and opportunities for academic and corporate research collaborations. We encourage industry leaders, including entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users, to submit their papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives as part of the regular submission process. STUDENT AWARDS A student best paper award will be presented, consisting of a commemorative plaque, complimentary student registration to the conference and an honorarium that will partially cover travel and hotel costs. 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URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Thu Oct 1 14:51:27 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:51:27 -0400 Subject: [sage-announce] CCGrid 2010: Papers are due on Nov. 2, 2009 Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A56374C3F@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings! If you do not want to receive emails about CCGRID-2010, please just drop me a line at sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu.] CALL FOR PAPER: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010) May 17-20, 2010, Melbourne, Australia http://www.manjrasoft.com/ccgrid2010/ Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society / Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Hosted/Organised by: * Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia * ISSNIP: ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing * Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia * NSF Center for Autonomic Computing Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **************** CALL FOR PAPERS **************** OVERVIEW/SCOPE: Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Grid and emerging Clouds. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenges featuring live demonstrations. In 2010, CCGrid will return to Australia, to Melbourne, to celebrate its 10th anniversary. CCGrid 2010 will have a special focus on three important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud and Grid computing: Economics, Environment and Autonomics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Paradigms and Technologies: System architectures, Design and deployment; Programming models, language, systems and tools/environments; Virtualization; Middleware technologies. * Service-Orientation: Service oriented architectures; Utility computing models; *aaS paradigm; Service composition and orchestration * Greening: Environment friendly computing ecosystems; Hardware/software/application energy efficiency; Power and cooling; Thermal/power awareness * Autonomic Management: Self-* behaviors, models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and approaches (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired approaches to management; SLA definition and enforcement; * Economic Aspects: Utility models and computing economies; Economic-based models and approaches. * Monitoring and Evaluation: Performance models; Monitoring and evaluation tools, Analysis of system/application performance; Benchmarks and testbeds. * Security and Trust: Cloud/Grid security and trust; Access control; Data privacy and integrity; Regulation. * Applications and Experiences: Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society; User studies; Experiences with large-scale deployments systems or applications. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference PC Chair for more information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made online through the IEEE Digital Library. CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS CCGrid 2010 is inviting proposals for organising of co-located and peer-reviewed workshops on emerging topics. For details, please visit: http://wiki.cs.cf.ac.uk/bin/view/Sandbox/WorkshopsCCGrid10 CHAIRS & COMMITTEES ******************** General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne and Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia Program Committee Chair: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Vice Chairs Applications And Experiences Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Algorithms David Bader, Georgia Tech, USA Programming Models and Systems Carlos Varela, RPI, USA Middleware/Runtime Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Performance Modeling and Evaluation Dick Epema, Delft University, Netherland Workshop Chair Omer F. Rana, Welsh eScience Center and Cardiff University, UK Industry Track Chair Geng Lin, Cisco Systems, USA Posters Chair Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, US Publicity Chair Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China Masoud Sadjadi, FIU, US Tutorials Chair Sushil Prasad, University of GA, US Research Demos/Competitions Chair (SCALE Challenge) Shantenu Jha, LSU, USA/eSI, UK Dan Katz, University of Chicago/ANL, US Local Organising Chair James Broberg, University of Melbourne, Australia Cyber Chair Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia IMPORTANT DATES Papers Due: 2 November 2009 Notification of Acceptance: 18 December 2009 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 January 2010 SUBMISSIONS Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the CCGrid 2010 paper submission system (http://www.edas.info/N8181) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Thu Oct 8 05:47:04 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:47:04 +0200 Subject: [sage-announce] [AAMAS-2010] - 2nd Call for workshops proposal Message-ID: <276463909264214188434@Galvatron> (apologies for multiple postings) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- AAMAS 2010 - Call for Workshop Proposals ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The AAMAS-2010 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held on May 10-11, 2010 immediately prior to the main technical program of the AAMAS conference. The main goal of the AAMAS-2010 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS-2010 workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. AAMAS 2010 will be co-located with KR, NMR, ICAPS, FOIS, (all in Toronto) and DL 2010 (in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), and welcomes proposals that cater to the broader community across these areas. Members from all areas of the AAMAS community are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on new and emerging topics, applications, and on broader topics catering to the broader community represented by the co-located events are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be one full day in duration. Workshop organizers and attendees must register for their workshop and preferably also for the main AAMAS conference. Attendance is limited to registered participants only. -------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates for Workshops -------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 31, 2009 - Proposal Submission Deadline NOVEMBER 30, 2009 - Acceptance Notification DECEMBER 11, 2009 - Deadline for posting Workshops Call for Papers DECEMBER 11, 2009 - AAMAS-2010 Workshops Program Announced FEBRUARY, 2, 2010 - Submission of contributions to workshops MARCH 2, 2010 - Workshop paper acceptance notification MARCH 19, 2010 - Deadline for complete workshop notes submission to the workshop chair Workshop chair MARCH 19, 2010 - Deadline for posting a Call for Participation MAY 10-11, 2010 - AAMAS-2010 WORKSHOPS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AAMAS-2010 Workshops Requirements for Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposals for workshops should be a maximum of five pages in length (in plain ASCII text), and should contain the following information: - Title of the workshop. - A technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of the workshop to the main conference. - A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. - A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop. Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when and where it has been offered in the past (i.e., with AAMAS or another conference?), organizers names and affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered attendees, and follow-up publications, if any (e.g., journal special issue). - A preliminary workshop agenda and a proposed schedule for organizing the workshop. This should include a brief description of how the organizers intend to encourage an atmosphere appropriate for a workshop. - Description of paper review process and acceptance standards. - If available, a list of tentatively confirmed attendees. - The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the proposed workshop organizing committee. This committee should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing committee should include individuals from multiple institutions. -The name of the primary contact for the organizing committee (this person must have an email address). - A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with respect to organizing an AAMAS workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing committee, if any. - List of potential program committee members, including their title and affiliations. - Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day). - A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.) where the workshop is planned to be advertised. All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, to the AAMAS-2010 Workshop Chair: Kagan Tumer ( kagan.tumer at oregonstate.edu ) as soon as possible but no later than: Saturday October 31, 2009. Prospective organizers will be notified of the committee's decision no later than: Monday November 30, 2009. The selection of the workshops to be included in the final AAMAS program will be based upon multiple factors, including: the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of workshop topics, the cross-disciplinary nature of the workshop, and the capacity of the conference workshop program. Note that authors of proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping content areas and/or audiences may be requested to merge their proposals. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Responsibilities of AAMAS and workshop organizers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For all accepted proposals, AAMAS will be responsible for: - Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole. - Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop. - Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. Workshop organizers will be responsible for: -Setting up a website for the workshop. -Advertising the workshop and issuing a call for papers (by DECEMBER 11, 2009) and a call for participation (by MARCH 19, 2010). -Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop organizers commit themselves to adopt the same deadlines for paper submissions and notifications of acceptance, i.e., FEBRUARY 2, 2010: Submissions of contributions to workshops; MARCH 2, 2010: Notifications - Making the PDF of the whole workshop notes available to the workshops chair by MARCH 19, 2010, as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements. The AAMAS-2010 workshop notes will be included in the flash drive containing the AAMAS-2010 conference proceedings. To that end, please include the following sentence in your call for papers: "Workshop notes including all accepted papers will be distributed to AAMAS-2010 registrants in electronic form. Printed workshop notes will NOT be made available to workshop participants." - Ensuring that the workshop notes or individual papers are available from the workshops websites, as appropriate. Though the workshop notes will appear on the flash drive distributed to conference attendees, the workshop notes will not be hosted on the IFAAMAS website. - Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register for the workshop and are invited to register to the main conference (at least one author must register for the workshop in order for a paper to appear in the workshop proceedings). AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few paying attendees register for the workshop to support its running costs. ---------------------------------------------- Submissions and Inquiries ---------------------------------------------- Please send proposals and inquiries to: Kagan Tumer Oregon State University kagan.tumer at oregonstate.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sun Oct 11 08:54:02 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:54:02 -0400 Subject: [sage-announce] CFP: SEKE 2010 Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A56374D05@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings! If you do not want to receive emails about SEKE-2010, please just drop me a line at sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu.] SEKE 2010 Call For Papers www.ksi.edu/seke/seke10.html The Twenty-Second International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'10) will be held at the Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City, California, USA, July 1-3, 2010. The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss on relevant results in either software engineering or knowledge engineering or both. Special emphasis will be put on the transference of methods between both domains. The theme this year is smarter software engineering. Invited keynoters include Josephine Cheng, IBM Fellow and VP, and other distinguished speakers. 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/seke10/submit/SubmitPaper.php. Please use Internet Explorer as the browser. Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column text (include figures and references). IMPORTANT DATES March 2, 2010 Paper submission due April 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance May 10, 2010 Camera-Ready Copy If you have any questions or run into problems, please send e-mail to: seke10 at ksi.edu. SEKE 2010 Conference Secretariat Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School 3420 Main Street Skokie, IL 60076 USA Tel: 847-679-3135 Fax: 847-679-3166 E-mail: seke10 at ksi.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Mon Oct 19 01:45:17 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:45:17 +0200 Subject: [sage-announce] [AAMAS-2010] - Final call for workshops proposal Message-ID: <296462270864645432224@Galvatron> (apologies for multiple postings) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- AAMAS 2010 - Call for Workshop Proposals ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The AAMAS-2010 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held on May 10-11, 2010 immediately prior to the main technical program of the AAMAS conference. The main goal of the AAMAS-2010 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS-2010 workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. AAMAS 2010 will be co-located with KR, NMR, ICAPS, FOIS, (all in Toronto) and DL 2010 (in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), and welcomes proposals that cater to the broader community across these areas. Members from all areas of the AAMAS community are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on new and emerging topics, applications, and on broader topics catering to the broader community represented by the co-located events are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be one full day in duration. Workshop organizers and attendees must register for their workshop and preferably also for the main AAMAS conference. Attendance is limited to registered participants only. -------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates for Workshops -------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 31, 2009 - Proposal Submission Deadline NOVEMBER 30, 2009 - Acceptance Notification DECEMBER 11, 2009 - Deadline for posting Workshops Call for Papers DECEMBER 11, 2009 - AAMAS-2010 Workshops Program Announced FEBRUARY, 2, 2010 - Submission of contributions to workshops MARCH 2, 2010 - Workshop paper acceptance notification MARCH 19, 2010 - Deadline for complete workshop notes submission to the workshop chair Workshop chair MARCH 19, 2010 - Deadline for posting a Call for Participation MAY 10-11, 2010 - AAMAS-2010 WORKSHOPS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AAMAS-2010 Workshops Requirements for Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposals for workshops should be a maximum of five pages in length (in plain ASCII text), and should contain the following information: - Title of the workshop. - A technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of the workshop to the main conference. - A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. - A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop. Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when and where it has been offered in the past (i.e., with AAMAS or another conference?), organizers names and affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered attendees, and follow-up publications, if any (e.g., journal special issue). - A preliminary workshop agenda and a proposed schedule for organizing the workshop. This should include a brief description of how the organizers intend to encourage an atmosphere appropriate for a workshop. - Description of paper review process and acceptance standards. - If available, a list of tentatively confirmed attendees. - The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the proposed workshop organizing committee. This committee should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing committee should include individuals from multiple institutions. -The name of the primary contact for the organizing committee (this person must have an email address). - A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with respect to organizing an AAMAS workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing committee, if any. - List of potential program committee members, including their title and affiliations. - Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day). - A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.) where the workshop is planned to be advertised. All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, to the AAMAS-2010 Workshop Chair: Kagan Tumer ( kagan.tumer at oregonstate.edu ) as soon as possible but no later than: Saturday October 31, 2009. Prospective organizers will be notified of the committee's decision no later than: Monday November 30, 2009. The selection of the workshops to be included in the final AAMAS program will be based upon multiple factors, including: the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of workshop topics, the cross-disciplinary nature of the workshop, and the capacity of the conference workshop program. Note that authors of proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping content areas and/or audiences may be requested to merge their proposals. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Responsibilities of AAMAS and workshop organizers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For all accepted proposals, AAMAS will be responsible for: - Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole. - Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop. - Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. Workshop organizers will be responsible for: -Setting up a website for the workshop. -Advertising the workshop and issuing a call for papers (by DECEMBER 11, 2009) and a call for participation (by MARCH 19, 2010). -Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop organizers commit themselves to adopt the same deadlines for paper submissions and notifications of acceptance, i.e., FEBRUARY 2, 2010: Submissions of contributions to workshops; MARCH 2, 2010: Notifications - Making the PDF of the whole workshop notes available to the workshops chair by MARCH 19, 2010, as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements. The AAMAS-2010 workshop notes will be included in the flash drive containing the AAMAS-2010 conference proceedings. To that end, please include the following sentence in your call for papers: "Workshop notes including all accepted papers will be distributed to AAMAS-2010 registrants in electronic form. Printed workshop notes will NOT be made available to workshop participants." - Ensuring that the workshop notes or individual papers are available from the workshops websites, as appropriate. Though the workshop notes will appear on the flash drive distributed to conference attendees, the workshop notes will not be hosted on the IFAAMAS website. - Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register for the workshop and are invited to register to the main conference (at least one author must register for the workshop in order for a paper to appear in the workshop proceedings). AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few paying attendees register for the workshop to support its running costs. ---------------------------------------------- Submissions and Inquiries ---------------------------------------------- Please send proposals and inquiries to: Kagan Tumer Oregon State University kagan.tumer at oregonstate.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Tue Oct 20 14:19:34 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:19:34 -0400 Subject: [sage-announce] CFP: CCGrid 2010, Papers Due: November 2, 2009 Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A56374DD5@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> CALL FOR PAPER: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010) May 17-20, 2010, Melbourne, Australia http://www.manjrasoft.com/ccgrid2010/ Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society / Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Hosted/Organised by: * Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia * ISSNIP: ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing * Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia * NSF Center for Autonomic Computing Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **************** CALL FOR PAPERS **************** OVERVIEW/SCOPE: Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Grid and emerging Clouds. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenges featuring live demonstrations. In 2010, CCGrid will return to Australia, to Melbourne, to celebrate its 10th anniversary. CCGrid 2010 will have a special focus on three important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud and Grid computing: Economics, Environment and Autonomics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Paradigms and Technologies: System architectures, Design and deployment; Programming models, language, systems and tools/environments; Virtualization; Middleware technologies. * Service-Orientation: Service oriented architectures; Utility computing models; *aaS paradigm; Service composition and orchestration * Greening: Environment friendly computing ecosystems; Hardware/software/application energy efficiency; Power and cooling; Thermal/power awareness * Autonomic Management: Self-* behaviors, models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and approaches (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired approaches to management; SLA definition and enforcement; * Economic Aspects: Utility models and computing economies; Economic-based models and approaches. * Monitoring and Evaluation: Performance models; Monitoring and evaluation tools, Analysis of system/application performance; Benchmarks and testbeds. * Security and Trust: Cloud/Grid security and trust; Access control; Data privacy and integrity; Regulation. * Applications and Experiences: Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society; User studies; Experiences with large-scale deployments systems or applications. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference PC Chair for more information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made online through the IEEE Digital Library. CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS CCGrid 2010 is inviting proposals for organising of co-located and peer-reviewed workshops on emerging topics. For details, please visit: http://wiki.cs.cf.ac.uk/bin/view/Sandbox/WorkshopsCCGrid10 CHAIRS & COMMITTEES ******************** General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne and Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia Program Committee Chair: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Vice Chairs Applications And Experiences Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Algorithms David Bader, Georgia Tech, USA Programming Models and Systems Carlos Varela, RPI, USA Middleware/Runtime Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Performance Modeling and Evaluation Dick Epema, Delft University, Netherland Workshop Chair Omer F. Rana, Welsh eScience Center and Cardiff University, UK Industry Track Chair Geng Lin, Cisco Systems, USA Posters Chair Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, US Publicity Chair Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China Masoud Sadjadi, FIU, US Tutorials Chair Sushil Prasad, University of GA, US Research Demos/Competitions Chair (SCALE Challenge) Shantenu Jha, LSU, USA/eSI, UK Dan Katz, University of Chicago/ANL, US Local Organising Chair James Broberg, University of Melbourne, Australia Cyber Chair Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia IMPORTANT DATES Papers Due: 2 November 2009 Notification of Acceptance: 18 December 2009 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 January 2010 SUBMISSIONS Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the CCGrid 2010 paper submission system (http://www.edas.info/N8181) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sat Oct 24 07:19:18 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:19:18 -0400 Subject: [sage-announce] CCGrid 2010 Paper Submission Deadline is Extended to Nov. 13, 2009! Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A56374E5D@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings! If you do not want to receive emails about CCGRID-2010, please just drop me a line at sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu.] Dear Colleagues, Please find below this email the FINAL call for papers for CCGrid 2010 conference. On numerous request from our colleagues, we have extended the deadline for submission of papers for CCGrid 2010 to Nov. 13, 2009. Please note that the page limit is 10 pages in IEEE format. I would like to encourage you to submit the current version of your paper as soon as you can and sumbit the final version by Nov. 13, 2009. Please submit using only the submission system: http://www.manjrasoft.com/ccgrid2010/papersubmission.html As you may know, in 2010, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia to celebrate its 10th anniversary, which will be held on May 17-20, 2010, in Melbourne, Australia. Please share the CFP with your students, friends, and colleagues and encourage them to send a paper. CCGrid organizers would love to have an opportunity to welcome and host your visit to Australia! For more information, you can also go to the CCGRID-2010 Web site: http://www.manjrasoft.com/ccgrid2010/ Best regards, Masoud Sadjadi CCGRID-2010 Publicity Chair ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010) May 17-20, 2010, Melbourne, Australia http://www.manjrasoft.com/ccgrid2010/ Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society / Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Hosted/Organised by: * Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia * ISSNIP: ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing * Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia * NSF Center for Autonomic Computing Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***************** CALL FOR PAPERS ***************** ***************** Papers Due: November 13, 2009 (extended)********** OVERVIEW/SCOPE: Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Grid and emerging Clouds. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenges featuring live demonstrations. In 2010, CCGrid will return to Australia, to Melbourne, to celebrate its 10th anniversary. CCGrid 2010 will have a special focus on three important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud and Grid computing: Economics, Environment and Autonomics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Paradigms and Technologies: System architectures, Design and deployment; Programming models, language, systems and tools/environments; Virtualization; Middleware technologies; Volunteer Computing. * Service-Orientation: Service oriented architectures; Utility computing models; *aaS paradigm; Service composition and orchestration * Greening: Environment friendly computing ecosystems; Hardware/software/application energy efficiency; Power and cooling; Thermal/power awareness * Autonomic Management: Self-* behaviors, models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and approaches (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired approaches to management; SLA definition and enforcement; * Economic Aspects: Utility models and computing economies; Economic-based models and approaches. * Monitoring and Evaluation: Performance models; Monitoring and evaluation tools, Analysis of system/application performance; Benchmarks and testbeds. * Security and Trust: Cloud/Grid security and trust; Access control; Data privacy and integrity; Regulation. * Applications and Experiences: Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society; User studies; Experiences with large-scale deployments systems or applications. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference PC Chair for more information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made online through the IEEE Digital Library. CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS CCGrid 2010 is inviting proposals for organising of co-located and peer-reviewed workshops on emerging topics. For details, please visit: http://wiki.cs.cf.ac.uk/bin/view/Sandbox/WorkshopsCCGrid10 CHAIRS & COMMITTEES ******************** General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne and Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia Program Committee Chair: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Vice Chairs Applications And Experiences Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Algorithms David Bader, Georgia Tech, USA Programming Models and Systems Carlos Varela, RPI, USA Middleware/Runtime Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Performance Modeling and Evaluation Dick Epema, Delft University, Netherland Workshop Chair Omer F. Rana, Welsh eScience Center and Cardiff University, UK Industry Track Chair Geng Lin, Cisco Systems, USA Posters Chair Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, US Publicity Chair Masoud Sadjadi, FIU, US Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China Tutorials Chair Sushil Prasad, University of GA, US Research Demos/Competitions Chair (SCALE Challenge) Shantenu Jha, LSU, USA/eSI, UK Dan Katz, University of Chicago/ANL, US Local Organising Chair James Broberg, University of Melbourne, Australia Cyber Chair Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia IMPORTANT DATES - Updated ------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers Due: November 13, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: Jan 11, 2010 Camera Ready Papers Due: Feb 05, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the CCGrid 2010 paper submission system (http://www.edas.info/N8181) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Tue Oct 27 04:17:45 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:17:45 +0100 Subject: [sage-announce] [AAMAS 2010] - Call for Demonstrations Message-ID: <3680624002721510374@Galvatron> AAMAS 2010 CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS You can find this call (and updates) here: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/#content=call4_demo_proposal AAMAS 2010 will include a demonstration session. The goal of the demonstrations is to give participants, from industry and academia an opportunity to present their latest developments on software and/or robotic systems. In addition, we strongly encourage students to submit valuable demos resulting from their projects or thesis work. A "Best Demo Award" will be awarded, and will include a cash prize of $1,000. The award selection will be done by the exhibits & demos co-chairs in consultation with the Advisory Board. Demonstrators are expected to present a live interactive demo at assigned time slots during the conference. Developers of software or robotic systems based on autonomous agents or multi-agent techniques, especially those showing novel technology, are especially welcome. Examples of demos include but are not limited to: * Multi-agent software systems * Industrial and military applications (including prototypes) * Agent-based games * Agent platforms and development environments * Open-source software tools * Robotic systems (single and multi-agent) * Virtual agents and interactive virtual environments * Simulation environments SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Submissions accepted for the demonstration session will be advertised on the AAMAS website and in the conference booklet, which will contain abstracts of all available demos. Each demo submission should consist of a compressed file (*.rar or *.zip formats), named as the first author's surname, and containing the following: 1. Paper: A 2-page paper in which the authors describe the system to be demonstrated. The paper should describe the application domain, the problem scenario, the technology used, the agent/multi-agent techniques involved, the innovations of the system, its live and interactive aspects, etc. Papers must be prepared in PDF format using the AAMAS style (follow the instructions at http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/index.php#content=authors_instructions). The PDF file of the paper must be named "XXXX.pdf" where XXXX is the surname of the first author. 2. Movie / Demo Plan: The paper must contain a URL link to a demonstration movie (youtube compatible) of a maximum length of 10 minutes. The movie must clearly show how the demo will be performed. Important: Do not send the video file itself in the compressed submission file. Alternatively, the authors can submit a separate document (within the compressed file described above) that consists of a series of snapshots of the demo annotated with an explanation. This file must be named "demoplan.pdf" 3. Additional information: The compressed file must contain a plain text file (named "summary.txt") including the following information: * Demonstration title * Authors (name, affiliation, email, address, phone fax) * The corresponding author with her/his email address * Abstract (max. 150 words) * Keywords * The category of the submission * URL (if available) * Paper ID if the demo is related to a paper at the main conference * Equipment you will bring (e.g., laptop, robot) * Equipment you will need (e.g., table, poster board, power sockets) * Special requirements (e.g., space for robot and if so how much, video projector) * A discussion of the present state of your demo (e.g., ready to demonstrate now, but if not, include a realistic estimate for conclusion and what remains to be done before you have a demonstrable software/robotic system). 4. Contribution and Supervisor Endorsement (student projects only): A 1-page statement in which the student clearly describes his personal contribution to the project. The content of the statement must be confirmed by the student's advisor, via a separate email, to both Demos Chairs. Accepted demos will have the 2-page papers included in the AAMAS proceedings. SUBMISSION SITE All demonstration submissions should be submitted via EasyChair on this address (may require signing up to EasyChair if you do not already have an account): http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aamas2010demos SELECTION PROCESS The submission and selection processes for the AAMAS 2010 demos will be separate from that of the main conference. Each submission will be assessed by the demo co-chairs and at least one member of the advisory board. The authors will receive a brief report with the result of the evaluation with the notification. The main evaluation criteria are: * Relevance to AAMAS * Quality and soundness of the underlying technology * Novelty of the application domain * Maturity of the (deployed) system * Potential for public interaction Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted demos will be sent to the corresponding author (see dates below). At least one author of each accepted demonstration is required to register and to attend the conference to give the demonstration. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: January 11, 2010. Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 29, 2010. Camera-ready paper: February 5, 2010 CONTACT INFORMATION For more information, contact the demos co-chairs via email. EXHIBITS & DEMOS ADVISORY BOARD - Jacob Crandall, Masdar Institute of Science & Technology, UAE - Partha S Dutta, Rolls-Royce, Singapore - Andrew Gilpin, Hg Analytics, USA - Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany - Michael Neff, University of California, Davis, USA - Pablo Noriega, IIIA, Spain - Andrea Omicini, Universita di Bologna, Italy - H. Van Dyke Parunak, NewVectors LLC, USA - Juan Pav?n, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain - Dave Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK - Alex Rogers, University of Southampton, UK - Onn Shehory, IBM, Israel - Candy Sidner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA - Michael Winikoff, University of Otago, New Zealand (more coming soon) AAMAS 2010 EXHIBITS & DEMOS CHAIRS Catherine Pelachaud CNRS T?l?com ParisTech, France http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~pelachau/ Iyad Rahwan British University in Dubai, UAE & University of Edinburgh, UK http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/irahwan/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Candidates will be evaluated based on the quality, significance, and impact of their research contributions. It is usually expected that at least some of these contributions should have been reported at one or more Autonomous Agents or AAMAS conferences, although this is not an absolute requirement. Previous winners of the SIGART Autonomous Research Award were Manuela Veloso (2009), Yoav Shoham (2008), Sarit Kraus (2007). Michael Wooldridge (2006), Milind Tambe (2005), Makoto Yokoo (2004), Nick Jennings (2003), Katia Sycara (2002), and Tuomas Sandholm (2001). The award committee is now seeking nominations for the 2010 award. *** Nominations should be submitted by email to the Awards Committee Chair, Sarit Kraus (sarit at cs.biu.ac.il) The nomination should specify: -- Name of person being nominated; -- Name and contact information for the person making the nomination; -- A statement describing why the nominee should be considered for the award. -- CV and publication list of the nominee. Nominations must be made no later than: December 16, 2009. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Sun Nov 1 08:51:14 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:51:14 -0500 Subject: [sage-announce] CFP: ICAC 2010, Washington, DC, USA, June 7-11, 2010 Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A56374EA5@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings! If you do not want to receive emails about ICAC-2010, please just drop me a line at sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu.] Dear Colleagues, I am writing to encourage you and your research group to consider submitting one or more papers to ICAC 2010, The 7th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (http://www.cis.fiu.edu/conferences/icac2010/). ICAC 2010 will be held in Washington, DC, USA, June 7-11, 2010. The deadline for paper abstracts submissions is 6pm PDT, Jan. 11, 2010. The deadline for full paper submissions is 6pm PDT, Jan. 18, 2010. The deadline for workshop proposals is Oct. 5, 2009. The deadline for Demo/Exhibit proposals is Mar. 29, 2010 Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing, particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different areas of research or report on prototype systems or experiences. Below this email, please find a copy of the Call for Papers. We look forward to receiving one or more papers from you and your colleagues and having you join us in Washington DC next year! Best regards, Masoud Sadjadi ICAC-2010 Publicity Chair CALL FOR PAPER: The 7th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Call For Papers June 7-11, 2010. Washington, DC, USA http://www.autonomic-conference.org PROGRAM CHAIRS Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC Yuriy Brun, University of Washington Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University Betty Cheng, Michigan State University Jeff Chase, Duke University Alva Couch, Tufts University Steve Hand, University of Cambridge Joe Hellerstein, Google Ravi Iyer, UIUC Guofei Jiang, NEC Labs Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs Pittsburgh Milan Milenkovic, Intel Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University Omer Rana, Cardiff University Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Intl. University Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab John Strunk, NetApp Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt Vanish Talwar, HP Labs Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research Dongyan Xu, Purdue University Xiaoyun Zhu, VMWare STEERING COMMITTEE Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews Jos? Fortes, University of Florida Salim Hariri, University of Arizona Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Brent Miller, IBM Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech John Strassner, POSTECH John Wilkes, Google Mazin Yousif, Avirtec Important Dates Abstracts: Jan 11 2010, 6pm PDT Full papers: Jan 18 2010, 6pm PDT (HARD DEADLINE) Notification: March 8, 2010 Camera-ready: April 2010 Workshop proposals: Oct. 5, 2009 Demo/exhibit proposals: Mar. 29, 2010 OVERVIEW Large-scale computer systems, from IT infrastructures and Grids to enterprise datacenters and Internet services, present common challenges in managing resources and applications to maximize performance and power efficiency while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads and failures. A system that addresses these challenges by integrating monitoring, decision-processing and actuation is an Autonomic Computing System. Research in autonomic computing spans a variety of areas, from computer systems, architecture, databases and networks to machine learning and control theory. The purpose of ICAC is to bring together researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to address the multiple facets of self-management in computing systems and applications. Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, including: * End-to-end techniques for autonomic management of resources, workloads, faults, power/thermal, and other challenges. * Self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, data center or specific application elements. * Decision and analysis techniques, such as machine learning, control theory, predictive methods, emergent behavior, selforganizing networks and rule-based systems. * Monitoring systems for autonomic computing. * Virtual machine, operating systems, hardware techniques or application frameworks in autonomic computing. * Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems. * Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement and tie-in with IT governance. * Toolkits, frameworks, principles and architectures, from software engineering practices and experimental methodologies to agent-based techniques and virtualization. * Fundamental science and theory of selfmanaging systems: understanding, controlling or exploiting system behaviors to enforce autonomic properties * Experience with existing systems * Applications of autonomics to real problems in science, engineering, business and society. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. Papers should report on experiences, measurements, user studies, or other evaluations, as appropriate. Evaluations of a prototype or large-scale deployment of autonomic systems and applications is expected. PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found on the conference web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings distributed at the conference and available electronically. Authors of accepted papers and posters are expected to present their work at the conference. WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION ICAC-10 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on topics of interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that complement the main program. ICAC-10 will also feature a demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a separate committee led by the demo/exhibit chair. INDUSTRY SESSION One of ICAC's important roles is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. In its industry session, ICAC helps fulfill this role by presenting an industry viewpoint on technologies, products, and market needs. The industry session also addresses current challenges, and opportunities for academic and corporate research collaborations. We encourage industry leaders, including entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users, to submit their papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives as part of the regular submission process. STUDENT AWARDS A student best paper award will be presented, consisting of a commemorative plaque, complimentary student registration to the conference and an honorarium that will partially cover travel and hotel costs. 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This event provides the ideal forum to present and discuss your work; to inform and inspire the largest international gathering of agent technology researchers and practitioners with presentations and demonstrations of your compelling applications, success stories and new business ideas. It is our intention that the 2010 event actively works to promote the fostering of mutually beneficial relationships between members of the AAMAS community who are engaged in foundational scientific research and those who are working to make autonomous agents and multi-agent systems a commercial reality. **** Topics and Issues of Interest The AAMAS Industry Track invites submissions of short (4-page) or long (8-page) papers that describe autonomous agent and multi-agent systems that have been incorporated into for-profit or non-profit products or services, or that demonstrate a clear potential to be so included. Application domains of interest include, but are not limited to: * telecommunication, media and entertainment * bio-technology, pharmaceutical and health care * financial systems and services * manufacturing, automation, and logistics * enterprise systems * large-scale and grid systems management * transportation and telematics * ambient intelligence, intelligent buildings and smart cities * surveillance and security * e-government Authors are advised and encouraged to address the following questions in their paper: * Why is your chosen application domain important to industry and/or society? What are typical use cases? * What is the rationale for using agent-based technology in your application, as opposed to a more traditional approach? * If you have deployed your technology commercially, what specific or general insights have you gained from the experience? * Have you experienced (or do you foresee) technical challenges or market-based barriers to adoption, and if so how did (or might) you address them? * What improvements or external factors might facilitate wider-spread adoption of your technology? * What improvements in fundamental agent technology might improve your application, or enable it to be adopted more broadly? * In financial terms, or any other appropriate measure of benefit, what is the present value of your technology to customers, industry, or government, and what is its ultimate potential? **** What is the relationship between AAMAS Industry Track and AAMAS? The AAMAS Industry Track is an essential and integral part of the AAMAS conference. It runs concurrently with the regular AAMAS scientific track, and all accepted papers are included in the general conference proceedings. The AAMAS Industry Track mandates the same high level of quality that has come to be expected of the AAMAS scientific track. The expectation is that authors must make a concerted effort to address the issues and questions identified in "Topics and Issues of Interest", as appropriate to their paper. We discourage the submission of purely speculative papers or papers whose primary contribution is scientific, as these ought to have been submitted to the regular conference track. Authors submitting a paper to the AAMAS Industry Track are encouraged to submit a demo of their agent-based application to the AAMAS Demonstration session http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/index.php#content=call4_demo_proposal **** Submission instructions and dates Please format your paper according to standard AAMAS guidelines. AAMAS style guides, as well as templates and style sheets for Microsoft Word and LaTeX can be found here. http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/index.php#content=authors_instructions Papers must be 8 pages (regular paper) or 4 pages (short paper), including figures and references, when formatted using the specified style. Papers should be formatted for standard Letter paper size. (i.e. not A4). Over-length papers will be rejected. Notification of receipt of the electronic paper will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. To submit your paper, please register your abstract at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aamas2010industrytrack) before 11:59pm, December 8, 2009 (UTC), and then submit an electronic copy of your completed paper to the same site by 11:59pm, December 15, 2009 (UTC). We strongly encourage submissions in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format), but will accept submissions in Postscript if PDF is infeasible. We will not accept papers in any other format (e.g., MS Word) because of compatibility problems between software versions, machines, and nationalities. We cannot accept title pages or papers submitted by FAX. Submissions received after this deadline will not be considered for review. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) by January 23, 2010. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and to attend the conference to present the work. In summary, here are the critical dates: * Deadline for paper information: December 8, 2009 * Deadline for paper submission: December 15, 2009 * Notification of acceptance or rejection: January 23, 2010 * Final versions due: February 8, 2010 For more information, contact the track co-chairs at aamas2010industrytrack at easychair.org **** Policy on Multiple Submissions The AAMAS 2009 Industry Track will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the AAMAS review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and similar specialized presentations with a limited audience and no formal proceedings. **** Track Co-Chairs Dominic Greenwood Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland Jeff Kephart IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, USA **** Program Committee Jeremy Baxter, QinetiQ Michael Berger, DocuWare AG Sven Br?ckner, NewVectors LLC Paul Buhler, Modus 21 Bernard Burg, Panasonic Laboratories Klaus Dorer, Offenburg University James Hanson, IBM Research Tarek Helmy, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Martin Hofmann, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories Takahiro Kawamura, Toshiba Michael Kerstetter, Boeing Dejan Milojicic, Hewlett Packard Laboratories James Odell, CSC Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University Michael Pirker, Siemens AG Maarten Sierhuis, NASA Elizabeth Sklar, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Simon Thompson, BT Research Shigeo Matsubara, Kyoto University Steven Willmott, 3Scale Networks Gaku Yamamoto, IBM and Tokyo Institute of Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This trend has provided many new business opportunities and challenges to e-commerce vendors, mobile service providers, mobile content publishers and marketplaces, mobile technology providers and solution integrators. Living in a wireless world changes and enhances people?s life in many ways, such as communications, information sharing and learning, e-commerce and mobile application services. At the same time, businesses and government agencies are confronted with new pressure for technology update, that is, how to provide customers and users with reliable and secure mobile commerce applications and efficient and user-friendly mobile services. To meet this increasing demand on mobile commerce and mobile services, people are looking for innovative ideas to create next generation mobile-commerce applications and service systems. Mobile commerce and services has become a very hot research subject in both business and research communities. The major theme of this workshop is to study new business models, emerging mobile technology, and engineering methods to build the next generation of mobile commerce service systems supporting mobile users anywhere at anytime. Goals: The 6th International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services (WMCS2010) is a forum to bring together business people, researchers, scientists, software architects, and industry professionals to discuss innovative ideas and diverse topics on next generation of mobile-commerce and services. Using this forum, researchers and practitioners can exchange issues, challenges, new business models and structures, and new technologies and solutions.Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original and research papers addressing business and technical issues, challenges, solutions, and technologies in building wireless-based software systems and applications. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the international program committee. Accepted papers will be included in the GPC2010 workshop proceedings (E-I index). The topics of interest for WMCS2010include, but are not limited to, the following: - M-commerce business: ? M-commerce businessmodels, processes, strategies, and market structure analysis ? Mobile supply chain management ? Pricing and cost analysis of M-commerce services ? Case studies in M-commerce and information services - Mobile enabled and wireless Internet technologies: ? Mobile computing models, technologies and solutions ? "Mobile2.0" and/or MobileWeb2.0 Technology Extension ? Context-aware and location-based technologies and solutions for M-commerce ? Enabling technologies (such as RFID, Barcodes) for M-commerce and services ? Mobile agent, workflow models, and supporting technologies in M-commerce ? New wireless multimedia technologies and platforms for mobile commerce, e.g., DMB, DVB-H, mobile TV ? Mobile enabled architectures, middleware, components, and agent technologies ? Mobile security problems, technologies, solutions and privacy ? Mobile database retrieval techniques, transaction models and caching techniques ? New mobile client design, architectures, and interaction methods for mobile devices - Innovative wireless (or wireless Internet) based applications: ? "Mobile2.0" and/or Mobile Web 2.0 based applications and experience ? Mobile-based e-learning and education environments ? Mobile service middleware and platforms for mobile commerce ? Mobile advertising solutions, techniques, systems and platforms ? Mobile payment protocols, solutions, service systems and platforms ? New mobile portals, mobile-based social networks, and marketplaces ? Ambient intelligent frameworks, platforms, and systems ? Ubiquitous computing platform and services for mobile users ? P2P mobile systems and applications ? New mobile enterprise systems and applications ? Mobile digital home environment and intelligence ? Deployment, experience and lesson learned reports in M-commerce and services - Mobile services: ? Semantic web and services for M-commerce ? Mobile instant messaging systems and services ? Mobility discovery, management, and services ? Mobile brokerage, management, and service mechanisms ? Mobile entertainment services and platforms for digital music, videos, tickets, and games ? Deployment, experience and lesson learned reports in M-commerce and services ? Mobile personalization, mobile service management, and natural language support - Tagging technologies: ? RFID/uID middleware design and implementation ? Barcode-based or tag based highly available ubiquitous services ? Tools for design, deployment and evaluation of tag-based systems ? Tag discovery, management, security, and services ? Tagging for smart life services Workshop History and Likely Participants: Since 2004, we have successfully organized and delivered a number of international workshops (WMCS2004, WMCS2005, WMCS2006, EMOBS07, WMCS2008, and WMCS2009) onthe same subject. The workshop aims at attracting both researchers from academic and industrial institutions and practitioners from industry. Submission: Original papers that are not published previously or under review by other journals or conferences ?will be considered. All submitted papers will be evaluated according to their originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance. The URL link of WMCS2010 workshoppaper submission http://edas.info/index.php?c=8345For format and style guidelines authors should refer to: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0The authors should prepare their final paper according to the instructions. Manuscripts will be limited to 8-12 pages following LNCS conference proceedings style and guidelines. Papers that present novel ideas, criticize existing work, and discuss practical studies and experiments are especially encouraged. Accepted papers will be published in LNCS by Springer. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the workshop to have the paper published in the proceedings. Important Dates: - PaperSubmission Deadline:??? December 10, 2009 - Workshop Author Notification: January 31, 2010 - Workshop Camera-Ready:?????? February 10, 2010 - Conference Date:???????????? May 5-10, 2010 Workshop Organization: WorkshopCo-Chairs:Brian K. Lien??? Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan ??????????????????????? Jerry Gao? San JoseState University, USA Workshop Program Co-Chairs: Chien-Chang Hsu??? Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Guanling Lee?????????? National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Steering Committee(in alphabetical order): Jerry Gao?????????????????? San JoseState University, USA Jingsha He???????????????? Bejing Universityof Technology, China Chien-Chang Hsu????????Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Axel Kupper???????????????Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversity, Germany Keung Hae Lee???????????Korea Aerospace University, Korea Brian K. Lien????????????? Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Claudia Linnhoff-Popien?Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversity, Germany (Chair) Hsing Mei????????Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan ? Program Committee(in alphabetical order): Matthias Book???????????? UniversityLeipzig,Germany DonggangCao????????????? Peking University,China Chih-Min Chao???????????? National Taiwan Ocean University Rung-Ching Chen???????? Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan Narciso Cerpa????????????? University of Talca, Chile Yong-Yi? FanJiang??????? Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Volker Gruhn?????????????? University Leipzig, Germany Chi-Pan Hwang????????????National Changhua University, Taiwan Jia-Lien Hsu??????????????? Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Axel Kupper??????????????? Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany Keung Hae Lee???????????Korea Aerospace University, Korea Katina Michael??????????? University of Wollongong, Australia Claudia Linnhoff-Popien?Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversity, Germany George Roussos??????????Bikbeck College, UK Xiao Su?????????????????????? San Jose State University, USA Yong Ik Yoon?????????????? Sookmyung Women's University, Korea Kyung-Chang Kim????????Hongik University, Korea Gu-min Jeong????????????? Kookmin University, Korea Ron Vetter????????????????? UNC Wilmington,USA Timothy K. Shih??????????National Taipei Universityof Education, Taiwan Chiu-Ching Tuan?????????National Taipei Universityof Technology, Taiwan Sheng-Yuan Yang???????St.John's University, Taiwan Yi-Jen Su?????????????????? Shu-Te University, Taiwan For further information on WMCS2010, please contactthe workshop co-chairs at jerry.gao at sjsu.edu or cch at csie.fju.edu.tw. From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Wed Nov 11 11:20:21 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:20:21 -0500 Subject: [sage-announce] SCALE 2010 Challenge; Deadline: 01 Feb, 2010; First prize: Plaque + $1000; Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A56374F49@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings! If you do not want to receive emails about SCALE-2010, please just drop me a line at sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu.] Dear Colleagues, The Third IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2010), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Objective and Focus: The objective of the Third IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2010), sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), is to highlight and showcase real-world problem solving using computing that scales. Effective solutions to many scientific problems require applications that can scale. There are different dimensions to application scaling: for example, applications can scale-up to large number of cores or compute units, scale-out to utilize multiple distinct compute units, or scale-down to release resources that are no longer needed. In order to scale, applications need the support of tools, middleware, infrastructure, programming systems, etc. SCALE is concerned with advances in application development and supporting infrastructure that enable scaling. Call for Proposals: The Third IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2010) contest will focus on end-to-end problem solving using concepts, technologies and architectures (including Clusters, Grids and Clouds) that facilitate scaling. Participants in the challenge will be expected to identify significant current real-world problems where scalable computing techniques can be effectively used, and design, implement, evaluate and demonstrate solutions. SCALE2010 will be held in conjunction with the 10th CCGrid Conference in Melbourne, Australia on 17-20 May, 2010. We invite teams to submit white papers outlining the problem addressed and the technologies employed to enable applications to scale. White papers should be up to 4 pages long, 12-pt. font and single column, and in addition to listing team members and contact information, should clearly outline: 1. The problem being solved and the technology employed 2. The application scenario and its requirements 3. Performance data and a qualitative description of how the application scales -- scale-up, scale-out or any other type of scaling 4. The solution -- architecture, underlying concepts and technologies used -- highlighting the innovative aspects of the solution 5. Impact of the solution, including extensibility and uniqueness of results, and the extent to which the presented solution pushes the envelope in scalable computing 6. Analysis of solution and technology employed compared to related approaches Papers will be shortlisted using the above 6 points as merit criteria, and up to 6 papers will be invited to compete in a final round at CCGrid 2010. In addition to the above, finalists will be judged on the quality of their presentation, which shall include a 5-minute demonstration, as well as their responses to questions by a technical committee. Participation from students and young researchers, especially in leadership roles, is strongly encouraged. Selected teams will receive an award of up to US$1000 to help with travel to the conference. At least one member from each selected team will be expected to present and demonstrate their project at CCGrid 2010. Awards: First prize: Plaque + US$1000 Second prize: Plaque + US$500 Tentative timeline: The deadline for submitting proposals is 01 Feb, 2010. Decisions: 15 Feb, 2010. Final presentation/demo: 17-20 May, 2010. Coordinators: Daniel S. Katz, Computation Institute, University of Chicago, USA, dsk at ci dot uchicago dot edu Shantenu Jha, CCT, Louisiana State University, USA, sjha at cct dot lsu dot edu Best regards, Masoud ------------------------------------------------------------------ Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sage-announce at mailman.sage.org Tue Dec 1 04:38:16 2009 From: sage-announce at mailman.sage.org (Announcements regarding SAGE and interests of SAGE members) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 07:38:16 -0500 Subject: [sage-announce] ICAC 2010 Workshops! Message-ID: <4E8210CA03ECD24DB6EA5BE1555D9A56375061@exserver.ipcom.cis.fiu.edu> [Apology for cross postings! If you do not want to receive emails about ICAC-2010, please just drop me a line at sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu.] Dear Colleagues, I am writing to encourage you and your research group to consider submitting one or more papers to one of the workshops of ICAC 2010. Note that all conference attendees will be welcome to attend any of the workshops for no additional fee. This year, ICAC will be hosting the following workshops. * 2nd Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems (BADS 2010) http://bads.icar.cnr.it/ Important Dates Papers due: February 7th Author notification: March 10th, 2009 Camera-ready final papers due: April 2009 * 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing (HotAC V) http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jamm/HotACV/index.html Important Dates Submission deadline: March 16 2010 11:59 EST (GMT-5) Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2010 * 2nd Workshop Grids Meets Autonomic Computing (GMAC 2010) http://gmac2010.lri.fr/index.php/GMAC_2010 Important dates Paper submission February 15, 2010 Author Notification March 15, 2010 Final version due April 2010 * 2nd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Architectures (SOAR 2010) http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/soar/2010/ Important Dates Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2010 Paper notifications: March 8, 2010 Camera ready paper: April 2010 Event: planned on June 7th, 2010 For more information about ICAC 2010, the 7th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications, please visit this Web site: http://www.cis.fiu.edu/conferences/icac2010/ ICAC 2010 will be held in Washington, DC, USA, June 7-11, 2010. The deadline for paper abstracts submissions is 6pm PST, Jan. 11, 2010. The deadline for full paper submissions is 6pm PST, Jan. 18, 2010. The deadline for Demo/Exhibit proposals is Mar. 29, 2010 Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing, particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different areas of research or report on prototype systems or experiences. Below this email, please find a copy of the Call for Papers. We look forward to receiving one or more papers from you and your colleagues and having you join us in Washington DC next year! Best regards, Masoud Sadjadi ICAC-2010 Publicity Chair CALL FOR PAPER: The 7th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Call For Papers June 7-11, 2010. Washington, DC, USA http://www.autonomic-conference.org PROGRAM CHAIRS Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC Yuriy Brun, University of Washington Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University Betty Cheng, Michigan State University Jeff Chase, Duke University Alva Couch, Tufts University Steve Hand, University of Cambridge Joe Hellerstein, Google Ravi Iyer, UIUC Guofei Jiang, NEC Labs Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs Pittsburgh Milan Milenkovic, Intel Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University Omer Rana, Cardiff University Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Intl. University Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab John Strunk, NetApp Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt Vanish Talwar, HP Labs Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research Dongyan Xu, Purdue University Xiaoyun Zhu, VMWare STEERING COMMITTEE Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews Jos? Fortes, University of Florida Salim Hariri, University of Arizona Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Brent Miller, IBM Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech John Strassner, POSTECH John Wilkes, Google Mazin Yousif, Avirtec Important Dates Abstracts: Jan 11 2010, 6pm PST Full papers: Jan 18 2010, 6pm PST (HARD DEADLINE) Notification: March 8, 2010 Camera-ready: April 2010 Workshop proposals: Oct. 5, 2009 Demo/exhibit proposals: Mar. 29, 2010 OVERVIEW Large-scale computer systems, from IT infrastructures and Grids to enterprise datacenters and Internet services, present common challenges in managing resources and applications to maximize performance and power efficiency while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads and failures. A system that addresses these challenges by integrating monitoring, decision-processing and actuation is an Autonomic Computing System. Research in autonomic computing spans a variety of areas, from computer systems, architecture, databases and networks to machine learning and control theory. The purpose of ICAC is to bring together researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to address the multiple facets of self-management in computing systems and applications. Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, including: * End-to-end techniques for autonomic management of resources, workloads, faults, power/thermal, and other challenges. * Self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, data center or specific application elements. * Decision and analysis techniques, such as machine learning, control theory, predictive methods, emergent behavior, selforganizing networks and rule-based systems. * Monitoring systems for autonomic computing. * Virtual machine, operating systems, hardware techniques or application frameworks in autonomic computing. * Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems. * Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement and tie-in with IT governance. * Toolkits, frameworks, principles and architectures, from software engineering practices and experimental methodologies to agent-based techniques and virtualization. * Fundamental science and theory of selfmanaging systems: understanding, controlling or exploiting system behaviors to enforce autonomic properties * Experience with existing systems * Applications of autonomics to real problems in science, engineering, business and society. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. Papers should report on experiences, measurements, user studies, or other evaluations, as appropriate. Evaluations of a prototype or large-scale deployment of autonomic systems and applications is expected. PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found on the conference web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings distributed at the conference and available electronically. Authors of accepted papers and posters are expected to present their work at the conference. WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION ICAC-10 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on topics of interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that complement the main program. ICAC-10 will also feature a demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a separate committee led by the demo/exhibit chair. INDUSTRY SESSION One of ICAC's important roles is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. In its industry session, ICAC helps fulfill this role by presenting an industry viewpoint on technologies, products, and market needs. The industry session also addresses current challenges, and opportunities for academic and corporate research collaborations. We encourage industry leaders, including entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users, to submit their papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives as part of the regular submission process. STUDENT AWARDS A student best paper award will be presented, consisting of a commemorative plaque, complimentary student registration to the conference and an honorarium that will partially cover travel and hotel costs. 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In the past, IEEE TCSC medal of excellence were awarded to Professor Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA) in 2008, and Professor Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) in 2009. Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or may nominate him/her-self. Nomination should be sent via email to the award coordinator(s) listed below. A nomination should include the following details: 1. Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current professional affiliations and titles. 2. Citation: Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely stating the most salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified for the award. 3. Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical achievements as well as significance and impact. 4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate's service and specific contributions to TCSC, its mission and its activities. 5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at least endorsers. Please provide the names, affiliation, and addresses (email) of your designated endorsers for your nomination. The endorsers will be required to comment on the nominee's technical contributions as well as service to the TCSC community. Important Dates: - Nomination Deadline: Feb 01, 2010 - Results Notification: Mar 01, 2010 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consist of leaders in the field, as well as members of the TCSC Executive Committee and the TCSC Advisory Board. Chairs: - Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA (Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu) - Laurence T. 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