Canadian AI 2009 Call for Paper

The 22nd Canadian AI will be held at Kelowna,British Columbia, Canada. Here are some important dates:

- Paper submission due: January 23rd, 2009
- Notification of acceptance: March 3rd, 2009
- Final paper due: March 16th, 2009
- Conference date: May 25-27, 2009

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WWW 2009 Second Call for Paper

Re-publish the important dates:

Workshops:	October 10th, 2008
Refereed Papers:	November 3rd , 2008
Tutorials:	November 30th, 2008
Panels:	December 21st, 2008
Posters:	January 20th , 2009
Developers track:	February 2nd, 2009

Acceptance Notifications:
Refereed Papers: January 20th , 2009

FLAIRS 2009 CFP

22nd International FLAIRS Conference Call for Paper

Due date: 2008-11-23
Conference date: 2009-05-19 to 2009-05-21

APWeb 2009 CFP

APWeb and WAIM are leading international conferences on research, development and applications of Web technologies,database systems, information management and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing(1998), Hong Kong(1999), Xian(2000), Changsha(2001), Xi’an(2003), Hangzhou(2004), Shanghai(2005), Harbin (2006),Huangshan (2007) and Shenyang(2008) and previous WAIM conferences were held in Shanghai(2000), Xian(2001), Beijing(2002), Chengdu(2003), Dalian(2004), Hangzhou(2005), Hong Kong(2006), Huangshan(2007) and Zhangjiajie(2008).

Important Dates

Abstract due:	October 8, 2008
Full paper due:	October 15, 2008
Acceptance notification:	December 10, 2008
Camera-ready copy:	January 5, 2009
Workshop Proposals:	September 1, 2008
Panel/Tutorial Proposals:	November 15, 2008

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WSDM 2009 CFP

2nd International Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) Conference calls for paper:
- Abstract due date: Aug 04, 2008
- Full paper due date: Aug 11, 2008

WWW'09 1st CFP

Workshops: 10th October 2008
Papers: 31st October 2008
Tutorials: 30th November 2008
Panels: 21st December 2008
Posters: 11th January 2009
Developers track: 2nd February 2009

Conference date: 20th-24th April 2009

HCIR 2008 CFP

Workhop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval

Papers/abstracts due: August 22, 2008
Decisions to authors: September 12, 2008
Camera-ready copy due: October 3, 2008

Location: Redmond, WA, USA

Recent paper work

One is accepted by International Conference on Data Mining 2008;
Another is accepted by ACM SIGIR Workshop on Mobile Search 2008;
Submit one to IEEE ICDM 2008.

Looking for a new one!!

MIR'08 CFP

ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR)

Submission deadline: June 20, 2008
Acceptance notification date: July 14, 2008
Conference date: October 30-31, 2008
Conference venue: Vancouver, Canada

SDM 2009 CFP

9th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining calls for paper.

submission deadline: 2008.10.03
conference date: 2009.04.30
conference venue: Sparks, NV, USA

PAKDD'09 CFP

The 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-09) is a major international conference in the areas of data mining and knowledge discovery. It provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all KDD-related areas including data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, databases, statistics, knowledge acquisition and automatic scientific discovery, data visualization, causal induction and knowledge-based systems. The conference website is at http://www.pakdd2009.org.

Location: Bangkok Thailand

09 September 2008 Abstract Submission
16 September 2008 Paper Submission
29 September 2008 Workshop Proposal
17 November 2008 Tutorial Proposal
28 November 2008 Tutorial Notification
08 December 2008 Author Notification
09 January 2009 Camera Ready
27 April 2009 Conference 27 - 30 April 2009

Topic Detection and Tracking

1) http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/894.01/tests/tdt/
2) http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/TDT/

Content-based Image Retreival(CBIR)

Most image retrieval today rely on metadata such as captions or keywords, which actually is text-based retrieval.

"Content-based" means that the search will analyze the actual contents of the image. The term 'content' in this context might refer to colors, shapes, textures, or any other information that can be derived from the image itself.

Potential uses for CBIR include:

• Art collections

• Photograph archives

• Retail catalogs

• Medical diagnosis

• Crime prevention

• The military

• Intellectual property

• Architectural and engineering design

• Geographical information and remote sensing systems

Query techniques:

• Query by example. An example image is provided to the CBIR system, and the underlying search engine returns imags sharing common elements with the provided example.This query technique removes the difficulties that can arise when trying to describe images with words.

• Semantic retrieval. The user makes a request like "find pictures of dogs" or even "find pictures of Abraham Lincoln", which is quite difficult for computer to perform. Current CBIR systems generaly make use of lower-level features like textures, color, and shape, although some systems take advantage of very common higher-level features like faces. Not every CBIR system is generic. Some systems are designed for a specific domain.

Content comparison techniques:

• Color. It retrieves images based on color similarity, e.g. by computing a color histogram for each image that identifies the proportion of pixels within an image holding specific values. This is one of the most widely used techniques because it does not depend on image size or orientation.

• Texture. It look for visual patterns in images and how they are spatially defined. Textures are represented by texels which are then placed into a number of sets, depending on how many textures are detected in the image. These sets not only define the texture, but also where in the image the texture is located.

• Shape. It refers to the shape of a particular region that is being sought out. Shapes will often be determiend first applying segmentation or edge detection to an image.

Lustre File System

What is Lustre?

Lustre is a scalable, secure, robust, highly-available cluster file system. It is designed, developed and maintained by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

The central goal is the development of a next-generation cluster file system which can serve clusters with 10,000's of nodes, provide petabytes of storage, and move 100's of GB/sec with state-of-the-art security and management infrastructure.

Lustre runs on many of the largest Linux clusters in the world, and is included by Suns's partners as a core component of their cluster offering (examples include HP StorageWorks SFS, and the Cray XT3 and XD1 supercomputers). Today's users have also demonstrated that Lustre scales down as well as it scales up, and runs in production on clusters as small as 4 and as large as 25,000 nodes.

Reference Resource:

• Lustre wiki on Sun
  
• Sun's official entrance

WebKDD 2008 CFP

10th SIGKDD Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis (WEBKDD'08)

submission deadline: 2008. 5. 26
conference date: 2008. 8. 24 - 8. 27
conference venue: Las Vegas, NV, USA

ProActive: A powerful middleware for cluster computing

ProActive is a middleware for parallel, distributed and multi-threaded computing. It provides a comprehensive framework and programming model to simplify the programming and execution of parallel applications: within multi-core processors, distributed on LAN, on clusters and data centers, on intranet and Internet Grids.

The core part of ProActive is its Active Object Model. Programming on ProActive is primarily dealing with with active objects. A distributed or concurrent application built using ProActive is composed of a number of active objects.

WI 2008 CFP

Overview
The 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence(WI'08) (WI-08) will be jointly held with the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-08). The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2008 joint conferences are organized by University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART.

Important Dates
Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2008
Electronic submission of full papers: July 10, 2008
Tutorial proposal submission: July 10, 2008
Workshop paper submission: July 30, 2008
Notification of paper acceptance: September 3, 2008
Camera-ready of accepted papers: September 30, 2008
Workshops: December 9, 2008 Conference: December 9 - 12, 2008