ACML 2009 Call for Paper

The 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML'09) will be held in November 2-4, 2009, Nanjing, China. The conference aims at providing a leading international forum for researchers in Machine Learning and related fields to share their new ideas and achievements. Submissions from other than the Asia-Pacific regions are also highly encouraged.

Important dates:
- Full paper submission: 15 June 2009
- Author notification: 31 July 2009
- Camera-ready: 5 August 2009
- Conference: 2 -4 Novemeber 200

WISE 2009 Call for Paper

The aim of this conference is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge and experience in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan, China (2006), Nancy, France (2007), and Auckland, New Zealand (2008).

Topics of Interest

WISE 2009 invites submissions on all topics related to Web information systems engineering, including but not limited to those listed below:

• Complex Event Processing and Event-driven Systems

• Deep/Hidden Web

• e-Commerce and e-Government

• Grid Computing and P2P Systems

• Innovative Web-based Applications

• Location-based Services

• Mobile Web Information Systems

• Rich Web UI

• Semantic Web

• Web Agents and Web Intelligence

• Web Data Integration

• Web Data Mashup

• Web Data Models

• Web Information Retrieval

• Web Metrics

• Web Mining and Web Warehousing

• Web Monitoring and Management

• Web Performance

• Web Security and Trust Management

• Web Services

• Web Tools and Languages

• Web Transactions

• Web Visualization

• Web-based Auction and Negotiation

• Web-based Business Processes

• Web-based Enterprise Systems

• Web-based Learning

• XML and Semi-structured Data

Research and Industry Tracks

There will be two independent tracks for Research and Industrial papers with a different set of evaluation criteria. The authors must clearly indicate the track to which the paper is being submitted.


Research Papers: The conference is soliciting original research papers on all aspects of Web information systems engineering. Submitted papers will be judged according to their scientific merits and evaluated on significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition.

Industrial and Application Papers: WISE 2009 encourages submissions covering the application of Web information systems engineering in practice, including papers describing innovative implementations, novel applications, and major improvements to the state-of-practice. The papers submitted to this track can range from a few page extended abstract to a full paper. The track will also include a small number of invited visionary papers.

Publication

The proceedings of WISE 2009 will be published in two separate volumes by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, one volume for all papers accepted by the main conference, and one volume for all papers accepted by all WISE workshops. A special issue of the World Wide Web Journal is scheduled in 2010 for publishing extended versions of selected WISE 2009 papers.

Important Dates:

Workshop proposals	February 28, 2009
Paper Submission	May 1, 2009
Tutorial/Panel Proposals	May 31, 2009
Author Notification	June 15, 2009
Camera-ready submission	June 28, 2009
Author registration	June 28, 2009
Conference and Workshops	October 5-7, 2009

RecSys'09: Third ACM Conference on Recommender Systems Call for Paper

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to invite you once again to participate in the premier annual event on research and applications of recommendation technologies, the Third ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. The previous conferences in Minneapolis and Lausanne have been distinguished by a strong level of interaction between practitioners and researchers in the sharing of ideas, problems and solutions, and the 2009 conference will continue in this tradition. The fully-refereed proceedings will be published by the ACM and, like past RecSys proceedings, are expected to be widely read and cited.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

The technical program will celebrate the diversity of research in and applications of recommender systems with refereed and invited presentations, keynote talks and posters.

Tutorials

The first day of the conference will be devoted to tutorials in which top practitioners and researchers share their expertise and latest results. The tutorials at the 2008 conference were highly-attended. Look for the Call for Tutorials announcement on the website, or send email to tutorial2009@recsys.acm.org if you are interested in presenting a tutorial.

Workshops

To reflect the diversity of research in recommender systems and to give additional venues for the presentation of research, the conference will feature workshops for the first time. Look for the Call for Workshops announcement on the website, or send email to workshop2009@recsys.acm.org if you are interested in organizing a workshop.

Doctoral Symposium

The Doctoral Symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished research faculty. Look for the Call for Participation announcement on the website, or send email to doctoral2009@recsys.acm.org if you are interested in participating.

Additional information on all aspects of the program can be found here.

IMPORTANT DATES

1. Tutorial Proposals: April 10, 2009
2. Paper Submission: May 8, 2009
3. Workshop Proposals: May 15, 2009
4. Doctoral Symposium Applications: June 8, 2009
5. Paper Acceptance Notifications: June 19, 2009
6. Conference: October 22-25, 2009
1. Doctoral Symposium: October 22
2. Tutorials: October 22
3. Technical Program: October 23-24
4. Workshops: October 25

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We construe recommender systems broadly, including applications ranging from e-commerce to social networking, platforms from web to mobile and beyond, and a wide variety of technologies ranging from collaborative filtering to case-based reasoning. Therefore, topics of interest for RecSys’09 include (but are not limited to):

Case studies of recommender system implementations

Conversational recommender systems

Context-aware and multidimensional recommender systems

Evaluation of recommender systems

Group recommenders

The impact of recommenders in practice

Innovative recommender applications

Novel paradigms of recommender systems

Personalization

Recommendation algorithms

Recommendation in social networks

Recommender system interfaces

Scalability issues

Security and privacy

Semantic web technologies for recommender systems

Theoretical aspects of recommender systems

User modeling and recommender systems

User studies

Two papers accepted by APWeb/WAIM 2009

Just be informed that, two papers co-authored by guys from Roboo.com and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal are accepted by the 11th APWeb/WAIM, 2009. Cheer for ourselves.

Looking forward to have more contribute to IR community, and providing more exciting products for the users.

Note:
Roboo.com is one leading mobile search service provider in China.
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal is an engineering school affiliated to the University of Montreal, Canada.

AIRS 2009 CFP

The Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) aims to bring together researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and latest achievements in the field of information retrieval (IR). The scope of the symposium covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multimedia data. The Fifth AIRS (AIRS 2009) welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval. Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to:

1. IR theories, models and techniques
2. Evaluation methodologies, test collections, evaluation metrics, etc.
3. IR interface and user studies: exploratory search, collaborative search, etc.
4. Multilingual information access: cross-language IR, cross-language question answering, etc.
5. Multimedia information access: image, video, audio, metadata
6. Natural language processing and IR: opinion extraction, summarization, text mining, categorization, etc.
7. Web related issues: Web search,Web mining, Semantic Web, etc.
8. Systems and implementation issues: indexing, compression, efficiency, integration, etc.
9. IR applications: e-commerce, e-learning, digital libraries, ubiquitous computing, bioinformatics, medical informatics, telematics, etc.
   

IMPORTANT DATES
- April 19, 2009 Submissions due
- June 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance
- June 16, 2009 Camera-ready due
- September 1, 2009 Registration deadline
- October 21-23 2009 AIRS 2009

DMIN 2009 CFP

The 2009 International Conference on Data Mining will be held in Las Vegas like before.

Important dates
Proposals for organizing sessions/workshops - Jan 16, 2009
Submission of papers - Feb 25, 2009
Notification of acceptance - Mar 25, 2009
Camera-ready papers and registration due - April 25, 2009
Conference date - July 13 - 16, 2009

OSDM 2009 CFP

As the first Open Source in Data Mining workshop, it will held with 13th PAKDD, 2009.
Open source software is becoming increasingly accepted in public and private sector organisations in many countries. There is a variety of open source data mining tools available to both researchers and practitioners, some being simple research prototypes while others are fully developed software tools.

This workshop aims to bring together data mining practitioners, researchers and educator, with the objectives to present open source data mining tools, discuss experiences and lessons learned using such tools, and exchange ideas on how to promote the use of open source tools in the field of data mining.

Important Dates
Submission of full papers: 22 December 2008
Notification of authors: 23 January 2009
Camera-ready version: 9 February 2009
OSMD Workshop date: 27 April 2009

SIGIR 2009 CFP

The 32nd ACM SIGIR will be held in Boston.

Important dates:


Nov 17, 2008 Requests for mentoring must be submitted
Jan 19, 2009 Abstracts for full research papers due
Jan 26, 2009 Full research paper submissions due
Feb 2, 2009 Workshop proposals due
Feb 23, 2009 Posters, demonstration, and tutorial proposals due
Mar 2, 2009 Doctoral consortium proposals due
Mar 9, 2009 Notification of workshop acceptances
Apr 11, 2009 All other acceptance notification

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

“神舟7号向全国人民，全世界人民问好”

那真是令人兴奋和自豪的时刻啊！

希望神舟系列走得更远，更好，更多地为全人类谋福利

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

Brand new News Channel shipped online now!

On Roboo mobile search eninge (wap.roboo.com, http://www.roboo.com/), recently we make the news channel upgrading done successfully. With the new system, we only only crawl and index newly appearing news in real time, but do the recommendation instantly. More advanced applications are in process as well to make it a friendly and popular product.

Roboo: A promising mobile search engine in China

Welcome to visit us at www.roboo.com and wap.roboo.com (using Opera browser)

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

Hard vs. fuzzy clustering

"Data clustering is the process of dividing data elements into classes or clusters so that items in the same class are as similar as possible, and items in different classes are as dissimilar as possible. Depending on the nature of the data and the purpose for which clustering is being used, different measures of similarity may be used to place items into classes, where the similarity measure controls how the clusters are formed. Some examples of measures that can be used as in clustering include distance, connectivity, and intensity.

In hard clustering, data is divided into distinct clusters, where each data element belongs to exactly one cluster. In fuzzy clustering, data elements can belong to more than one cluster, and associated with each element is a set of membership levels. These indicate the strength of the association between that data element and a particular cluster. Fuzzy clustering is a process of assigning these membership levels, and then using them to assign data elements to one or more clusters." - wikipedia

Comparing with hard clustering, fuzzy clustering has more applications due to its flexibility and the nature of decision making.

IEEE SMC 2008 CFP

IEEE SMC 2008 will be hold in Singapore, from Oct 12 to 15.

Important dates:

Submission due of special session proposals
March 2, 2008 (Sunday)
Submission due of papers (full-length papers only)
March 16, 2008 (Sunday)
Notification of acceptance/rejection
May 15, 2008 (Thursday)

Hypertable

Hypertable is one open source project from Google. It is for the design and implementation of a high performance, scalable, distributed storage and processing system for structured and unstructured data.

By now, the latest version is 0.9.0.3-alpha

Some references for MapReduce(from Wikipedia)

Papers
"MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters" — paper by Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat; from Google Labs
"Interpreting the Data: Parallel Analysis with Sawzall" — paper by Rob Pike, Sean Dorward, Robert Griesemer, Sean Quinlan; from Google Labs
"Google's MapReduce Programming Model -- Revisited" — paper by Ralf Lammel; from Microsoft
"Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters" — paper by Hung-Chih Yang, Ali Dasdan, Ruey-Lung Hsiao, and D. Stott Parker; from Yahoo and UCLA; published in Proc. of ACM SIGMOD, pp. 1029--1040, 2007. (This paper shows how to extend MapReduce for relational data processing.)
FLuX: the Fault-tolerant, Load Balancing eXchange operator from UC Berkeley provides an integration of partitioned parallelism with process pairs. This results in a more pipelined approach than Google's MapReduce with instantaneous failover, but with additional implementation cost.

Articles
"How Google Works - Reducing Complexity" — article from Baseline magazine
"Can Your Programming Language Do This?" — article from the Joel on Software weblog
Nutch MapReduce — article about MapReduce in Nutch from Tom White's weblog
Cat MapReduce — article about MapReduce in Cat from the Cat project wiki.
"Simple Map Reduce in Ruby" - article about using SimpleMapReduce on Ruby's Rinda which uses DrbRuby
"MapReduce: A major step backwards" - column about advances in database technology compared to MapReduce.

Software
Hadoop — open source MapReduce implementation from Apache
IBM MapReduce Tools for Eclipse — a plug-in that supports the creation of MapReduce applications within Eclipse.
QtConcurrent Open Source C++ MapReduce (non-distributed) implementation from Trolltech
Skynet Ruby Map/Reduce Framework
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce"

adMyself

Just create a page about myself using google page creator.

IEEE ICDM'08 CFP

[Overview]
The 2008 edition of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM 2008) will be held in Pisa, Italy, on December 15 thru 19, 2008.
The International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) is well established as a top ranked research conference in data mining, providing a premier forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences.
The conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software and systems, and applications. In addition, ICDM draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, and high performance computing. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state-of-the-art in data mining. Besides the technical program, the conference will feature workshops, tutorials, panels and, new for this year, the ICDM data mining contest.

[Important Dates]
July 7, 2008 Deadline for paper submission
September 15, 2008 Notification to authors
October 7, 2008 Deadline for camera-ready copies
December 15 – 19, 2008 Conference

ECML PKDD 2008 CFP

The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) will be located in Antwerp, Belgium, from September 15th to 19th, 2008. This event builds upon a very successful series of 18 ECML and 11 PKDD conferences, which have been jointly organized for the past seven years. It has become the major European scientific event in these fields and in 2008 it will comprise presentations of contributed papers and invited speakers, a wide program of workshops and tutorials, a discovery challenge, a panel, a demo track and an industrial track.

Important DatesWorkshop Proposals due March 31stTutorial Proposals due March 31stPaper Submission due April 25thAuthor Notification on June 13thCamera Ready Papers due June 22nd

Let's go to FLAIRS 2008

Accepted as full paper, cheer!