(Preliminary) Call for Paper
EC-TEL 2010
Fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice
[http://www.ectel2010.org]

28 September  - 1 October 2010 in Barcelona, Spain

The last decade has seen significant investment in terms of effort and resources
(time, people, money) in innovating education and training. The time has come to
make the  bold step from small scale innovation research and -development to
larger scale  implementation and evaluation. The time has come to show the world
(government, industry, general population) that we have matured to the stage
that sustainable
learning and learning practices – both in schools and in industry – can be
achieved based upon our work.

What not long ago was seen and experienced as a novel technology (Internet and
WWW) has become for much of the populace mundane and commonplace (Web 2.0 and
social software). What not long ago was expensive and exotic (computers and
broadband computer networks) is now inexpensive and ordinary (netbooks and
omnipresent wireless). And what in the past was proprietary and inaccessible
(information and learning materials) is now generic and open (open educational
resources).

The TEL community is faced by new research questions related to large scale
deployment of technology enhanced learning, support of individual learning
environments through mashup and social software, new approaches in TEL
certification, etc.. Furthermore, for new approaches are required for TEL
design, implementation, and use to improve the understanding and communication
of educational needs among all stakeholders, ranging from researchers, learners,
tutors, educational organizations, companies, TEL industry, and policy makers.

ECTEL 2010 will bring together technological developments, learning models, and
implementations of new and innovative approaches to training and education. The
conference will explore how the synergy of multiple disciplines, ranging from
Computer Science, Education, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Social Science,
can provide new, more effective and more especially more sustainable,
technology-enhanced learning solutions to learning problems. The conference
welcomes researchers and developers from European and Non-European countries and
industries to present recent advancements from technologies, applications, and
learning models in all areas of technology enhanced learning.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
From both research and experience perspective the following topics of interest
to the conference include, but are not limited to:

Technological underpinning
*    Large scale sharing and interoperability
*    Technologies for personalisation and adaptation
*    Context-aware systems
*    Social computing and web 2.0
*    Semantic web and web 3.0
*    Mobile technologies
*    Intelligent games
*    Network infrastructures and architectures for TEL
*    Sensors and sensor networks
*    Roomware and ubiquitous computing
*    Data mining and information retrieval
*    Natural language processing and latent semantic analysis
*    eLearning specifications and standards

Pedagogical underpinning
*    Problem- and project-based learning / Inquiry based learning
*    Computer supported collaborative learning
*    Collaborative knowledge building
*    Game-based and simulation-based learning
*    Story-telling and reflection-based learning
*    Instructional design and Design approaches
*    Communities of learners & Communities of practice
*    Teaching techniques and strategies for online learning
*    Learner motivation and engagement
*    Evaluation methods for TEL

Individual, social & organisational learning processes
*    Cognitive mechanisms in knowledge acquisition and construction
*    Self-regulated and Self-directed learning
*    Social processes in teams and communities
*    Social awareness
*    Knowledge management and organisational learning
*    Sustainability & TEL business models and cases
*    Business-learning models

Learning contexts and domains
*    Applications of TEL in various domains
*    Formal education: initial (K-12, higher education), post-initial
(continuing education)
*    Workplace learning in small, medium and large companies
*    Aggregated learning at the workplace Distance and online learning
*    Lifelong learning (cradle to grave)
*    Vocational training
*    Informal learning
*    Non-formal learning
*    Ubiquitous learning

TEL in developing countries
*    ICT Inclusion for learning
*    Digital divide and learning
*    Generation divide and learning
*    Education policies
*    Rural learning

TEL, functional diversity and users with special needs
*    Accessible learning for all
*    Visual, hearing and physical impairments
*    Psycho-pedagogic support for users
*    Educational guidance for tutors
*    Adapted learning flow, content and monitoring process
*    Standards about accessibility and learning

IMPORTANT DATES (PROVISIONAL)
Paper submission:    11 April 2010
Paper acceptance:    31 May 2010
Camera-ready final papers:    30 June 2010
Workshop proposals:    11 April 2010
Workshop acceptance:    11 May 2010
Workshops:    28/29 September 2010
Conference    30 September /1 October 2010

SUBMISSION FORMATS (use of supplied template  is mandatory)
All papers will be reviewed through a non-blind review process. Accepted papers
will be published in the conference proceedings. Proceeding publishing is
currently under negotiaiont with the Springer publisher within their "Lecture
Notes in Computer Science" series which is ranked in the ISI Web of Knowledge.
Please follow the Spinger guidelines at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

*    Full Papers (max. 16 pages)
*    Short Papers and Posters (max. 6 pages)
*    Poster and Demos (max. 2-4 pages)
*    Meetings: contact the local organisation chair

WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
EC-TEL 2010 offers the opportunity to host several workshops. Parties interested
to organize a workshop are asked to submit a proposal of max. 4 pages outlining
the theme of the workshop, workshop format, expected participants and domains
addressed, dissemination
activities, programme committee, and organizational requirements.

Proposals should be submitted to the workshop chair by 11 April to: Daniel
Burgos Solans <daniel.burgos@...>


CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
- General chair: Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
- Programme chairs: Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany and Paul A.
Kirschner, Open Universiteit Nederlands
- Workshop chair: Daniel Burgos, TELSpain, ATOS Origin, Spain
- Poster and Demonstration chairs: Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz,
Austria
- Industrial session chair: Ignacio Canela, TELSpain/Int. University of La
Rioja, Spain
- Local organization chair: Marta Enrech, TELSpain/Open University of Catalonia,
Spain
- Doctoral Consortium chairs: Katherine Maillet, INT, France, and Ralf Klamma,
RWTH Aachen, Germany

--
Dr. Martin Wolpers
Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT
Schloss Birlinghoven
53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany

email: martin.wolpers@...
Tel: +49 2241 14 2128
Fax: +49 2241 144 2128

-------- apologies for multiple postings --------

The University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science the availability of a 

Lectureship / Senior Lectureship

The Department has an international reputation for the quality of its research and teaching excellence. The OAK research group focus on research and innovation in Information and Knowledge Technologies. Areas of interest include the Semantic and Future Web, their use for Knowledge Management in large organisations, Multimedia analysis (including text extraction, speech and image analysis) and Human Computer Interaction.

Informal enquiries about this post should be addressed to the Head of Department, Professor John Derrick, jd@..., phone +44 114 222 1849, or the head of the OAK research group, Professor Fabio Ciravegna, fabio@... .

Closing date for applications: 19th February 2010

 Job reference number: UOS000512

 Further details and process of application are given at:

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/academic.html

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                          CALL FOR PAPERS

4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
http://www.icwsm.org
May 23-26, 2010

George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum
that brings together researchers from the disciplines in computer science,
linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of
ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations.
Submissions describing research that blends social science and technology
are especially encouraged.

The 2010 meeting will be held in Washington D.C.  In addition to the
usual program of contributed technical talks, tutorials and invited
presentations, ICWSM 2010 will include a session of invited talks from
prominent social scientists that are studying social media, and a set of
talks from leaders of government projects who are experimenting with
social media platforms for various purposes, e.g. to increase
transparency and better engage the citizenry.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper Submission: January 8, 2010
- Poster/Demo Submission: January 8, 2010
- Paper Acceptance: March 3, 2010
- Poster/Demo Acceptance: March 3, 2010
- Workshop Submission: March 1, 2010
- Camera Ready Copies: March 12, 2010

SPEAKERS

Keynote Speakers:

- Robert E. Kraut, Carnegie Mellon Universirty,
 "Designing Online Communities from Theory"

- Michael Kearns, Computer and Information Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania,
 "Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks"

Speakers in Special Sessions:

- Nicole Ellison, Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies
 and Media, Michigan State Univ.
- James Pennebaker, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Texas, Austin
- S. Craig Watkins, Dept. of Radio, TV and Film, Univ. of Texas, Austin

- Don Burke, CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, Intellipedia
- Haym Hirsh, National Science Foundation IIS Division Director
- Macon Phillips, U.S. White House, Head of New Media

Tutorial Speakers will include:

- Jake Hofman, Yahoo! Research,
 "Large-scale social media analytics with Hadoop"

- Cindy Chung and James Pennebaker, Univ. Texas,
 "Using LIWC to uncover social psychology in social media"

TECHNICAL AREAS

More specifically, ICWSM welcomes submissions from researchers in a number
of disciplines:

- Computational Linguistics/NLP
- Text Mining/Data Mining/Machine Learning
- Psychology
- Sociology (including Social Network Analysis)
- Anthropology, Communications, Media Studies
- Visualization
- HCI
- Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models

Submissions are welcome that study a broad array of types social data,
including:

- Weblogs, including comments
- Social Networking Sites
- Microblogs
- Wikis (wikipedia)
- Forums, usenet
- Community media sites: youtube, flickr

Technical topics of interest include:

- Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
- Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream media
- Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media
- Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors
- Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs
- Social network analysis; communities identification;
 expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering
- Trust; reputation; recommendation systems
- Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and
 visualization
- Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion
 identification and extraction
- Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age
 identification
- Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting;
 measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media
- New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Author registration:

Authors must register at the ICWSM-10 web-based technical paper
submission site (http://icwsm10.confmaster.net). The software will assign
a password, which will enable the author to log on to submit an abstract
and paper. In order to avoid a rush at the last minute, authors are
encouraged to register as soon as possible, and well in advance of
the January 8, 2010 submission deadline.

Abstract and paper submission:

Electronic abstract and paper submission through the ICWSM-10
paper submission site (http://icwsm10.confmaster.net) is required on or
(preferably) before January 8. We cannot accept submissions by
e-mail or fax.

Papers must be in high resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter
(8.5" x 11") paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. Papers should be
at most 8 pages, including references (technical paper), or 4 pages
(poster or demo description), and formatted in AAAI two-column,
camera-ready style (see the author instructions page). Please note
that these formatting instructions are for final, accepted papers;
no additional pages can be purchased at the review stage. In addition,
the copyright slug may be omitted in the initial submission phase.

Authors will receive confirmation of receipt of their abstracts or
papers, including an ID number, shortly after submission.
AAAI will contact authors again only if problems are encountered
with papers. Inquiries regarding lost papers must be made no later
than January 15, 2010.

Submissions to other conferences or journals:

ICWSM-10 will *not* accept any paper that, at the time of submission,
is under review for or has already been published or accepted for
publication in a journal or another conference. This restriction
does not apply to submissions for workshops and other venues with
a limited audience.

Registration:

All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the
conference proceedings. At least one author must register for the
conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission.
The registered author must attend the conference to present
the paper in person.

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers and abstracts will be allocated up to 8 (eight)
pages in the conference proceedings. Authors will be required to
transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI.

DATA CHALLENGE

ICWSM-10 is hosting its traditional data challenge featuring
freely-available datasets and a half-day workshop at the end of
the conference. Data for 2010 includes last year's blog collection
from Spinn3r.com, multiple derived datasets including a searchable
Lucene index, and an annotated blog sentiment dataset (mentions,
coreference, meronymy and sentiment targeting) from
J.D. Power and Associates described by Kessler and Nicolov at
ICWSM-09. We are especially interested in mashups of multiple
datasets. Details on datasets and solicited topics may be found
on the data challenge website, http://www.icwsm.org/2010/data.shtml.
Papers for the data challenge workshop are due March 1st, 2010 and
should follow the ICWSM main conference formatting guidelines for
technical papers (8 pages max in the specified format).

ORGANIZERS

General Chair:
 Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley School of Information

Program Chairs:
 William Cohen, CMU Computer Science
 Samuel Gosling, U Texas Dept of Psychology

Data challenge chairs:
 Ian Soboroff, NIST
 Akshay Java, Microsoft

Tutorials Chair:
 Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs

Publicity Chair:
 Nicolas Nicolov, J.D.Power and Associates/McGraw-Hill

Sponsorship Chair:
 Matthew Hurst, Microsoft

Senior Program Committee Members:

- Lada Adamic, Univ. of Michigan
- Eugene Agichtein, Emory Univ.
- danah boyd, Microsoft Research
- Claire Cardie, Cornell Univ.
- Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
- Cindy Chung, Univ. of Texas at Austin
- Scott Counts, Microsoft Research
- Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
- Nicole Ellison, Dept of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media,
 Michigan State University
- Tim Finin, UMBC
- Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research
- Lise Getoor, Univ. of Maryland
- Kristina Lerman, ISI-USC
- Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
- Winter Mason, Yahoo! Research
- Gilad Mishne, Yahoo! Labs
- Kate Neiderhoffer, Dachis Corporation
- Bo Pang, Yahoo! Research
- Marc Smith, Telligent Systems

CONTACT

For more info: icwsm10@...

(Apologies for cross-posting)

Dear all:

In the past year, we released a lot of tools in the context of the
GoodRelations vocabulary (http://purl.org/goodrelations/) that may be of
wider interest. All tools are available on-line and most are also
released as sourcecode under LPGL.

1. Generic Tools

a) RDF2DataRSS:
===============
Yahoo accepts RDF only as either RDFa embedded into existing Web pages
or via their proprietary DataRSS feed format. The RDF2DataRSS tool turns
any RDF data submitted as RDF/XML or Turtle/N3 into such Yahoo feeds and
can be used to submit RDF/XML into Yahoo's SearchMonkey index.

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/rdf2datarss/

b) RDF2RDFa converter:
======================
This tool creates handy snippets of invisible RDFa from RDF/XML content
such that the RDF can be pasted easily into any existing page without
hard-wiring it with the HTML page mark-up.

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/rdf2rdfa/

2. Tools for Creating GoodRelations Data

a) Google Product Feed Converter:
=================================
Many shops are already exposing their product and price information in
one of the proprietary Google feed formats (RSS 1.0, 2.0 / CSV-based).
With our tool, you can generate GoodRelations RDF/XML data from that
data. That can be particularly interesting for adding RDF export to
existing shops easily.

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/google-product-feed-converter/

b) BMEcat2GoodRelations converter:
==================================
BMEcat is a popular XML Schema Definition (and DTD) for exchanging
catalog data between enterprises in B2B settings. Many PIM, shop, and
ERP software packages can create BMEcat XML documents. This tool
transforms a BMEcat catalog into a GoodRelations-variant in RDF/XML.
It can reuse / preserve more features than any other tool.

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/bmecat2goodrelations/

By the way, a free tool for creating BMEcat catalogs is at
http://www.eclass.de/user/software/democat_2_0.zip (in German only,
unfortunately).

c) GoodRelations Annotator:
===========================
A straightforward form-based Web application that creates a detailed
company / business profile in RDFa and RDF/XML.

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/

d) Plug-ins / Extensions for Shop Software:
===========================================
     * osCommerce Shop Software:
       http://code.google.com/p/goodrelations-for-oscommerce/

     * Joomla/Virtuemart CMS/Shop combo:
       http://code.google.com/p/goodrelations-for-joomla/

     * Magento shop software:
       Contact Uwe Stoll, http://www.semantium.de/ (demo shop at
http://www.la-mousson.de/)

3. GoodRelations-compliant Domain Ontologies for Vertical Industries

a) ClassOWL 5.1.4 Products and Services Ontology
================================================
     * OWL or HTML: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/ontologies/eclass/5.1.4/
       (Warning: The file is very large - 38.3 MB for RDF/XML and 71.8 MB
for HTML):

     * ZIP: OWL+HTML:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/ontologies/eclass/5.1.4/eclass_514en.zip
       (eClassOWL 5.1.4 ontology and documentation, compressed  - OWL +
HTML, zip, 4.7 MB):

b) freeClassOWL - Ontology of Construction and Building Materials
=================================================================
     * http://www.freeclass.eu/freeclass_v1
       (add .html / .owl if content negotiation should fail)

c) Consumer Electronics Ontology (CEO)
======================================
     * http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/ontologies/consumerelectronics/v1
       (add .html / .owl if content negotiation should fail)

3. Applications for Inspecting and Consuming GoodRelations Data

a) iGoogr: "Imagine Google was using the GoodRelations vocabulary for
e-commerce"
================================================================================\
=
A quick demo of how Google search results could be improved by
GoodRelations meta-data; also useful for inspecting your own page,
because it fetches and parses RDFa in real-time.

http://igoogr.appspot.com/

b) GoodRelations Statistics
===========================
A tool that collects and exposes detailed data on the popularity of
GoodRelations elements in the wild (with RDFa export of the stats!).

http://goodrelations-stats.appspot.com/

c) GoodRelations Validator (alpha)
==================================
A tool that spots semantic inconsistencies in GoodRelations data beyond
the axioms of the ontology.

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-validator/

Much more is on our agenda for 2010, so please stay tuned by
     * bookmarking http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations and
     * subscribing to
http://ebusiness-unibw.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/goodrelations .

Best wishes

Martin Hepp

--
--------------------------------------------------------------
martin hepp
e-business & web science research group
universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen

e-mail:  hepp@...
phone:   +49-(0)89-6004-4217
fax:     +49-(0)89-6004-4620
www:     http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group)
           http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal)
skype:   mfhepp
twitter: mfhepp

Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data!
=================================================================

Project page:
http://purl.org/goodrelations/

Resources for developers:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations

Webcasts:
Overview - http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/
How-to   - http://vimeo.com/7583816

Recipe for Yahoo SearchMonkey:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey

Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009:
"Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology"
http://www.slideshare.net/mhepp/semantic-webbased-ecommerce-the-goodrelations-on\
tology-1535287

Overview article on Semantic Universe:
http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmaster\
s-get-ready.html

Tutorial materials:
ISWC 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in Brief: A Hands-on
Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Web_of_Data_for_E-Commerce_Tutorial_ISWC2009

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please find below the call for papers and workshops of BIS 2010. We
encourage
you to submit your work or organize a workshop at our conference
and kindly ask you to help circulate this CFP and CFW among your colleagues.

Kind regards,
Krzysztof Wecel

================================================================================\
========
Call for Papers: 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on BUSINESS INFORMATION
SYSTEMS
(BIS2010)

May 3-5, 2010 Berlin, Germany
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl

++ Submission deadline December 14, 2009  ++

Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) by
Springer
================================================================================\
=========



THEME OF THE CONFERENCE: Future Internet Business Services

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your work to BIS 2010
conference.
It will take place in May 2010 in Berlin and will be co-organized by
Freie Universität
Berlin and Poznan University of Economics.

BIS 2010 International Conference invites researchers and practitioners to
submit papers that contribute the results of research in Business
Information Systems as
well as papers that report on industrial IT projects. The Program
Committee particularly
encourages presentations of practical papers on industrial experience or
on the
validation of prototype implementations. Topics are restricted by the
theme of the
conference as defined above and they include:

Business Process Management
------------------------------
- semantic business process management
- adaptive and dynamic processes
- integration of data and processes
- process modeling, execution, mining
- BPM platforms
- ERP implementations

Future Internet
-----------------
- Internet of Things
- wireless and mobile applications
- location-aware and geography-centric information systems
- ambient computing

Ontology applications
-----------------------
- creation, learning, population, evolution and evaluation of ontologies
- ontologies for enterprise content management
- natural language processing and cognitive science
- semantic integration of heterogeneous semi-structured information sources
- business models for Web information integration and aggregation

Content retrieval and filtering
---------------------------------
- Deep Web search and crawling
- data integration from Web information sources
- modeling and adaptive integration of evolving data sources
- information gathering support for knowledge-intensive enterprises
- search over semi-structural Web sources
- business models for a content

Online collaboration
----------------------
- discovery, mashup, tagging
- ad hoc, knowledge-based collaboration
- social networks and social wikis
- infrastructures for collaboration (P2P, TSC, etc.)
- semantic grid
- security in distributed systems
- Web-based model for discoverability, consumption, and reuse

Web services
-------------
- service-oriented computing
- service discovery and composition
- semantic web services
- choreography and orchestration
- trust and quality of services (QoS, SLA)
- Internet of services


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
========================

- BIS 2010 proceedings will be published as a volume in Lecture Notes in
Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series by Springer Verlag
- Submission system is available here
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bis2010) (EasyChair)
- language of publication: English
- paper should not exceed 12 LNCS pages (including abstract and references)
- we understand that you submit your original work that has not been
published
or submitted elsewhere, and that you agree to publish your work when it is
accepted by the Program Committee; you will be required to send a signed
copyright form as
required by Springer at a later stage
- at least one author should register for the conference and present the
paper; only registered authors' papers will be included in the proceedings
- the authors will prepare the final manuscript in time for its
inclusion in
conference proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES:
-----------------

Dec 14, 2009 - submission deadline for papers
Jan 31, 2010 - notification of acceptance/rejection
Feb 10, 2010 - submission of final papers
May 3-5, 2010 - the conference


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
====================

General Co-Chairs
------------------

Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Program Committee
------------------
Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK
Dimitris Apostolou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Gerardo Canfora, University of Sannio, Italy
Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Australia
Wojciech Cellary, Poznañ University of Economics, Poland
Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politechnica de Madrid, Spain
Flavio Corradini, University of Camerino, Italy
Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University, UK
Nirmit Desai, IBM India Research Labs, Bangalore, India
Tommaso Di Noia, Technical University of Bari, Italy
Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Wien
Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University, Germany
Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Hele-Mai Haav, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon, France
Axel Hahn, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Martin Hepp, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland,
Switzerland
Jack Hsu, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Pawe³ J. Kalczyñski, CSU Fullerton, USA
Uzay Kaymak, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Ralf Klischewski, German University in Kairo, Egypt
Jacek Koronacki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia
Maurizio Lenzerini, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy
Alexander Löser, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Zakaria Maamar, College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates
Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie University, Australia
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
Yutaka Matsuo, University of Tokyo, Japan
Florian Matthes, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Günter Müller, University of Freiburg, Germany
Markus Nüttgens, University of Hamburg, Germany
Andreas Oberweis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA
José Palazzo M. de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Eric Paquet, National Research Council, Canada
Vassilios Peristeras, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Arnold Picot, University of Munich, Germany
Jakub Piskorski, EU, JRC, Web and Language Technology, Italy
Elke Pulvermueller, University Osnabrueck, Germany
Hajo A. Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Ulrich Reimer, University of Konstanz, Germany
Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata, Argentina
Massimo Ruffolo, University of Calabria, Italy
Jürgen Sauer, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Alexander Schill, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Douglas C. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA
Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
Elmar J. Sinz, University of Bamberg, Germany
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA
Kilian Stoffel, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Vojtech Svatek, VSE Praha, Czech Republic
Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Italy
Olegas Vasilecas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Herna Viktor, University of Ottawa, Canada
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Hannes Werthner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Mathias Weske, Hasso Plattner Institute for It-Systems Engineering, Germany
Krzysztof Wêcel, Poznañ University of Economics, Poland
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente , Netherlands
Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland
Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Hui Xiong, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, USA
Jozef Zurada, University of Louisville, USA


ORGANIZING COMMITEE:
=======================

OC Co-Chairs:
---------------

Ma³gorzata Mochól, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Krzysztof Wêcel, Poznan University of Economics, Poland

OC Members:
------------
Monika Starzecka, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Piotr Stolarski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Adam Walczak, Poznan University of Economics, Poland



CONTACT:
=========


Krzysztof Wecel
Poznan University of Economics
Department of Information Systems
Al. Niepodleglosci 10
61-875 Poznan, Poland
phone: +48 61 854 36 32
fax:   +48 61 854 36 33
bis@...



For more information please visit the conference Web page
(http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl)

We are looking forward to welcome you in Berlin!

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======================================================================
                      Call for Workshop Proposals
                     (Proceedings: Springer LNBIP)

======================================================================
     13th International Conference on Business Information Systems
                                BIS 2010

                             Berlin, Germany
                              May 3-5, 2010

           http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/13th_bis/cfw.php?i=99

======================================================================

              Deadline for submissions: December 14, 2009

======================================================================

13th  International  Conference  on  Business Information Systems (BIS
2010) will  be  held in Berlin, Germany, 3-5 May 2010. BIS, originally
based in Poznan, Poland, is currently  one of top European conferences
in the areas of theory and practice of development  and implementation
of  contemporary  business  information  systems.  More information on
current and previous editions of BIS conference is accessible  at  BIS
Web site at http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/ .

The  BIS 2010 Program Committee invites proposals for the workshops to
be  held  back-to-back  and  during the conference. BIS 2010 workshops
should be related to:
-   specific   aspects  of  business  information  systems  modelling,
implementation and usage, or
-  specific  issues related  to  business information systems helping
enterprises to take advantages of internet of services and internet of
things, including service orientation, service front-ends as the
interface to users and communities, virtualisation of resources, etc.


Organization  of  the  workshops (including participants registration,
Website  creation  and partial advertising of call for papers) will be
supported  by  BIS  team,  allowing  workshop  organizers  to focus on
scientific  aspects  of  the  event  (review  and selection of papers,
division of presentations into sessions).

The post-proceedings of BIS 2010 workshops will be published as a book
by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
(LNBIP) series.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Each  submission  of  proposed  workshop  (max  three  A4 pages in PDF
format) should describe:

- title of the workshop
- short description of the workshop and its goals
- proposed workshop format
- initial list of topics
- preliminary program committee with specified chair(s)
- description of workshop history (if proposed workshop is a following
   edition  of  already  existing  workshop)  including  statistics  of
   previous edition(s)
- previous  experience  of  workshop  chair(s)  in  organizing similar
   events
- preliminary  forecast on possible number of submissions and accepted
   papers

Any information on possible workshop publicity is also welcome.

Submissions   should   be   sent  to  the  following  e-mail  address:
bis-workshops@...

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline  for  submission  of workshop proposals is December 14, 2009.
Decisions  on  acceptance  or  rejection  of proposed workshop will be
taken  and  announced  to  workshop organizers within three weeks from
submission.



--
Dr Krzysztof Wecel                  http://www.kie.ue.poznan.pl/~kaw
Department of Information Systems
Poznan University of Economics, al. Niepodleglosci 10, 61-875 Poznan
K.Wecel@...    Tel:+48(61)854-3632  Fax:+48(61)854-3633

I would like to thank all those answered the survey. I decided to resend this mail as there have been concerns raised due to the fact that I sent the initial survey through my personal e-mail. The survey will be open for a few more days, and I hope more people will be able to give feedback, specially on the motivation factor of collaborative ontology alignment for the public.

Hello All,

(Apologies for cross posting)

I am currently researching on building a scalable approach to collaborative ontology alignment. The aim of this project is to use a crowd sourcing approach to ontology alignment. Considerations will also be made as to how to motivate the public to take part in ontology alignment. Furthermore the scalability(number of people, number of concepts) of the solution to the internet as a whole rather than a specific expert group of knowledge engineers is also investigated.

The questionnaire contained in the link below is a short survey to gather the requirements for this approach.

http://ecustomersurvey.com/dsm/ViewSurvey.do?id=d23138e6-ac89-4e6c-9f43-bc91c11ab433

Please complete the survey as your feedback will be invaluable to the construction of this approach. Any other comments are also welcome regarding the aim outlined above. (Please mail comments to s.dewaraja@....)

Thanks and Regards,

Supun Dewaraja.

At the address http://www.instancematching.org a new web site about instance
matching is available for discussing and notifying problems and initiatives
about instance matching.

Instance matching is seen as a specific subtask of the more general problem of
ontology matching and, for this reason, IM.org has been created in collaboration
with http://www.ontologymatching.org starting from the experience of the
instance matching evaluation track of OAEI 2009 (
http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/ ).

If OM.org is the main reference resource about matching in general, IM.org
should be seen more as a focused group on the specific field of instance
matching.

Every user interested in instance matching is invited to subscribe the web site
and submit articles, short comments, news or links about:
- Theoretical discussions and problems
- Methods and techniques for IM
- Experiences and empirical work
- Instance Matching evaluation
- Links to tools, datasets, initiatives

[Apologies for cross postings.  Please circulate to colleagues and
prospective interested parties.]

Call for Chapters
=================

Semantic Agent Systems:  Foundations and Applications (Edited Book by
Springer-Verlag)
http://tinyurl.com/CFP-ESAS-BySpringer

Integrating agent and semantic Web technologies in order to extend the
ability of programs have long been hailed as the most efficient way to serve
users. The idea is to significantly affect performance of application
software employing cooperating multi-agent systems through the use of
semantic Web services and domain ontologies. The Semantic Web has matured to
a great extent with ontology-based applications being built by several major
enterprises. However, research and development concerned with the
integration of the semantic Web and software agent technologies are moving
at snailÂ’s pace. To bring our contribution, we initiated around November
2005, the series of IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic
Agent Systems in conjunction with the 30th International Computer Software
and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2006) in Chicago, Illinois, USA.  After
four annual workshops, preparing to announce the fifth, and two journal
special issues on this theme, we are soliciting contributions from research
experts and practitioners for an edited volume in the series “Studies in
Computational Intelligence” (http://www.springer.com/series/7092) by
Springer-Verlag.

Topics of Interest:
-----------------
Possible topics for the special issue include:
• Principles and methodologies for semantic agent systems;
• Foundations, theories and models of semantic agent systems;
• Semantic-based autonomous and multi-agent architectures;
• Agent communication languages and protocols with semantics;
• Frameworks and environments for semantic agents systems;
• Ontology development (modeling, versioning, repository) for agent systems
• Ontology management (mapping, merging, alignment) for agents systems;
• Semantic technologies, decision making, communications for agent systems
• Languages, logics, tools and methodologies for semantic agent systems;
• Semantics related agent-oriented software engineering;
• Semantic agents systems for collaboration and cooperation;
• Semantic agent systems for (including but not limited to):
•   - Mission-critical systems, enterprise information systems, social
networks,
•   - E-government, e-commerce, e-business, e-health, life sciences,
•   - Multimedia, man-machine interfaces of software application systems;
• Information visualization for agent systems with semantic Web techniques;
• Applications of semantic agents systems with pertinent lessons learned.

Proposal submission:
-------------------
We welcome original high quality contributions on the theme of Semantic
Agent Systems along the aspects of foundation, theory, models, engineering,
and applications. Substantially revised and extended versions of papers
presented at conferences and workshops are also encouraged provided that the
new content exceeds 50% of the paper. A 2-page chapter proposal may be
uploaded to the submission site
(https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SASFA2010/) as soon as possible. Authors
will be notified of the outcome within two weeks. Draft and final chapter
proposals of about twenty pages must conform to Springer's Instructions for
Authors
(http://www.springer.com/series/7092?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCount
er=149813).

Important Dates:
----------------
2-Page Proposal: Immediate
Guest Editors' Feedback: Within two weeks
Chapter Submission Deadline: March 1, 2010
Completion of First-Round Reviews: April 10, 2010
Revised Chapters Due: April 30, 2010
Final Publication Materials Due: May 20, 2010

Contact Details:
---------------
Please address all correspondence regarding this book to the Guest Editors:

Atilla Elci
Internet Technologies Research Center
Eastern Mediterranean University
Gazimagusa, North Cyprus
E-mail: atilla.elci @ emu.edu.tr

Mamadou Tadiou Kone
Independent Computing Research
Montreal, Canada
E-mail: Kone.Mamadou @ gmail.com

Mehmet A. Orgun
Department of Computing
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Email: Mehmet.Orgun @ mq.edu.au



E.M.U
Eastern Mediterranean University


E.M.U
Eastern Mediterranean University

*****

ESWC2010 Ontology and Reasoning Track: CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010ontologiesandreasoning

*****

7th Extended Semantic Web Conference | ESWC 2010 30 May - 3 June
2010 | Heraklion, Greece http://www.eswc2010.org/

*****

ABOUT THE ESWC2010

The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010) is to bring
together researchers and practitioners dealing with
different aspects of semantics on the Web. ESWC2010 builds on the success of the
former European Semantic Web Conference series, but
seeks to extend its focus by collaborating with other communities and research
areas, in which web semantics play an important role
-- within and outside ICT. At the same time, ESWC2010 is a truly international
conference, not only "European".

Semantics of web content, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), data about
web usage, natural language processing,
etc. will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of functionality.
It will weave together a large network of human
knowledge and make this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated
services, based on reasoning with metadata and
ontologies, will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and
processing information in machine-understandable
form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly
intelligent systems, which will be employed for various
complex decision-making tasks. Research about web semantics can benefit from
ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas:
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Database and Information
Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia,
Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web Science.

ESWC2010 will present the latest results in research and applications in its
field. The research program will be organised
in targeted research tracks. In addition, the conference will feature a tutorial
program, system descriptions and demos, a
posters track, a Ph.D. symposium, and a number of collocated workshops. The
individual calls for these events can be found on
the conference Web site (http://www.eswc2010.org/).


*****


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission December 15, 2009 (compulsory)

Full Paper Submission December 22, 2009 (11:59 pm Hawaii time)

Notification February 24, 2010

Camera Ready March 10, 2010


*****

ONTOLOGIES AND REASONING TRACK

The Ontologies and Reasoning programme involves the management of and reasoning
with ontologies and rules, so as to support their
applications. The central idea of this vision is to use (1) ontologies to encode
application data in a machine understandable
form, in order to be able to automatically integrate data from different sources
and to be able to support semantic search for
information based on its meaning rather than its syntactic form, and (2) rules
to perform conditional decision, event processing
and actions on behalf of the user.

In this track we invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to
the following topics:

- Rules and ontology management (creation, evolution, reuse, evaluation, etc.)

- Searching, visualizing, navigating and browsing ontologies

- Ontology reasoning and query answering

- Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web

- Ontology usability

- Query languages and optimization for ontologies

- Combining rules and ontologies

- Declarative rule-based reasoning techniques

- Rule languages, standards, and rule systems

- Ontology-based search

- Ontology alignment (mapping, matching, merging, mediation and reconciliation)

- Ontology learning and metadata generation (e.g., HLT and ML approaches)

- Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction

- Corporate Semantic Web

- applications in enterprises and economic valuation

- Language extensions of OWL, ODM, RIF, RuleML, ...

Papers should be submitted through the Easychair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2010ontologiesandreasoning

*****

SUBMISSIONS

ESWC2010 welcomes the submission of original research and application papers
dealing with all aspects of representing and
using semantics on the web. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical,
and applications papers.

The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes
in Computer Science series. Paper submission and
reviewing for ESWC2010 will be electronic via the conference submissions site.
Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in
length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors.

Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and
will *not* be accepted in any other format. Papers that
exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected
automatically without a review. Authors of accepted
papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of
their submission -- details of this process will be
provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one
author of each accepted paper must register for the
conference.


*****

BEST PAPER AWARD

An award will be given to the best paper (or papers) submitted to the conference
as judged by the Program and Track Chairs in
collaboration with the Program Committee.


*****

INFORMATION AND CONTACT

For further information please visit the conference website
(http://www.eswc2010.org) or contact eswc2010_info@...

*****

ESWC2010 - brought to you by Semantic Technology Institute
International (http://www.sti2.org)

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please find below the call for papers and workshops of BIS 2010. We encourage
you to submit your own work or organize your own workshop at our conference
and kindly ask you to help circulate this CFP and CFW among your colleagues.

BIS 2010 Organizing Committee

================================================================================\
========
Call for Papers: 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS
(BIS2010)

May 3-5, 2010 Berlin, Germany
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl

++ Submission deadline December 14, 2009  ++

Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) by
Springer
================================================================================\
=========


THEME OF THE CONFERENCE: Future Internet Business Services

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your work to BIS 2010 conference.
It will take
place in May 2010 in Berlin and will be co-organized by Freie Universität
Berlin and
Poznan University of Economics.

BIS 2010 International Conference invites researchers and practitioners to
submit papers
that contribute the results of research in Business Information Systems as
well as papers
that report on industrial IT projects. The Program Committee particularly
encourages
presentations of practical papers on industrial experience or on the
validation of
prototype implementations. Topics are restricted by the theme of the
conference as
defined above and they include:

Business Process Management
------------------------------

- semantic business process management
- adaptive and dynamic processes
- integration of data and processes
- process modeling, execution, mining
- BPM platforms
- ERP implementations

Future Internet
-----------------

- Internet of Things
- wireless and mobile applications
- location-aware and geography-centric information systems
- ambient computing

Ontology applications
-----------------------

- creation, learning, population, evolution and evaluation of ontologies
- ontologies for enterprise content management
- natural language processing and cognitive science
- semantic integration of heterogeneous semi-structured information sources
- business models for Web information integration and aggregation

Content retrieval and filtering
---------------------------------

- Deep Web search and crawling
- data integration from Web information sources
- modeling and adaptive integration of evolving data sources
- information gathering support for knowledge-intensive enterprises
- search over semi-structural Web sources
- business models for a content

Online collaboration
----------------------

- discovery, mashup, tagging
- ad hoc, knowledge-based collaboration
- social networks and social wikis
- infrastructures for collaboration (P2P, TSC, etc.)
- semantic grid
- security in distributed systems
- Web-based model for discoverability, consumption, and reuse

Web services
-------------

- service-oriented computing
- service discovery and composition
- semantic web services
- choreography and orchestration
- trust and quality of services (QoS, SLA)
- Internet of services


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
========================

- BIS 2010 proceedings will be published as a volume in Lecture Notes in
Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series by Springer Verlag
- Submission system is available here
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bis2010) (at EasyChair)
- language of publication: English
- paper should not exceed 12 LNCS pages (including abstract and references)
- we understand that you submit your original work that has not been published
or
submitted elsewhere, and that you agree to publish your work when it is
accepted by the
Program Committee; you will be required to send a signed copyright form as
required by
Springer at a later stage
- at least one author should register for the conference and present the
paper; only
registered authors' papers will be included in the proceedings
- the authors will prepare the final manuscript in time for its inclusion in
conference
proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES:
-----------------

Dec 14, 2009 - submission deadline for papers
Jan 31, 2010 - notification of acceptance/rejection
Feb 10, 2010 - submission of final papers
May 3-5, 2010 - the conference



PROGRAM COMMETEE:
====================

General Co-Chairs
------------------

Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Program Committee
------------------
Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK
Dimitris Apostolou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Gerardo Canfora, University of Sannio, Italy
Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Australia
Wojciech Cellary, Poznań University of Economics, Poland
Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politechnica de Madrid, Spain
Flavio Corradini, University of Camerino, Italy
Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University, UK
Nirmit Desai, IBM India Research Labs, Bangalore, India
Tommaso Di Noia, Technical University of Bari, Italy
Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Wien
Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University, Germany
Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Hele-Mai Haav, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon, France
Axel Hahn, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Martin Hepp, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland,
Switzerland
Jack Hsu, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Paweł J. Kalczyński, CSU Fullerton, USA
Uzay Kaymak, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Ralf Klischewski, German University in Kairo, Egypt
Jacek Koronacki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia
Maurizio Lenzerini, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy
Alexander Löser, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Zakaria Maamar, College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates
Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie University, Australia
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
Yutaka Matsuo, University of Tokyo, Japan
Florian Matthes, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Günter Müller, University of Freiburg, Germany
Markus Nüttgens, University of Hamburg, Germany
Andreas Oberweis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA
José Palazzo M. de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Eric Paquet, National Research Council, Canada
Vassilios Peristeras, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Arnold Picot, University of Munich, Germany
Jakub Piskorski, EU, JRC, Web and Language Technology, Italy
Elke Pulvermueller, University Osnabrueck, Germany
Hajo A. Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Ulrich Reimer, University of Konstanz, Germany
Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata, Argentina
Massimo Ruffolo, University of Calabria, Italy
Jürgen Sauer, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Alexander Schill, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Douglas C. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA
Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
Elmar J. Sinz, University of Bamberg, Germany
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA
Kilian Stoffel, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Vojtech Svatek, VSE Praha, Czech Republic
Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen - Bolzano, Italy
Olegas Vasilecas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Herna Viktor, University of Ottawa, Canada
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Hannes Werthner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Mathias Weske, Hasso Plattner Institute for It-Systems Engineering, Germany
Krzysztof Węcel, Poznań University of Economics, Poland
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente , Netherlands
Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland
Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Hui Xiong, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, USA
Jozef Zurada, University of Louisville, USA


ORGANIZING COMMETEE:
=======================

OC Co-Chairs:
---------------

Małgorzata Mochól, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Krzysztof Węcel, Poznan University of Economics, Poland

OC Members:
------------
Monika Starzecka, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Piotr Stolarski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Adam Walczak, Poznan University of Economics, Poland



CONTACT:
=========


Krzysztof Wecel
Poznan University of Economics
Department of Information Systems
Al. Niepodleglosci 10
61-875 Poznan, Poland
phone: +48 61 854 36 32
fax:   +48 61 854 36 33
bis@...



For more information please visit the conference Web page
(http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl)

We are looking forward to welcome you in Berlin!

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#############################################################################


======================================================================
                      Call for Workshop Proposals
                     (Proceedings: Springer LNBIP)

======================================================================
     13th International Conference on Business Information Systems
                                BIS 2010

                             Berlin, Germany
                              May 3-5, 2010

           http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/13th_bis/cfw.php?i=99

======================================================================

              Deadline for submissions: December 14, 2009

======================================================================

13th  International  Conference  on  Business Information Systems (BIS
2010) will  be  held in Berlin, Germany, 3-5 May 2010. BIS, originally
based in Poznan, Poland, is currently  one of top European conferences
in the areas of theory and practice of development  and implementation
of  contemporary  business  information  systems.  More information on
current and previous editions of BIS conference is accessible  at  BIS
Web site at http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/ .

The  BIS 2010 Program Committee invites proposals for the workshops to
be  held  back-to-back  and  during the conference. BIS 2010 workshops
should be related to:
-   specific   aspects  of  business  information  systems  modelling,
implementation and usage, or
-  specific  issues related  to  business information systems helping
enterprises to take advantages of internet of services and internet of
things, including service orientation, service front-ends as the
interface to users and communities, virtualisation of resources, etc.


Organization  of  the  workshops (including participants registration,
Website  creation  and partial advertising of call for papers) will be
supported  by  BIS  team,  allowing  workshop  organizers  to focus on
scientific  aspects  of  the  event  (review  and selection of papers,
division of presentations into sessions).

The post-proceedings of BIS 2010 workshops will be published as a book
by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
(LNBIP) series.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Each  submission  of  proposed  workshop  (max  three  A4 pages in PDF
format) should describe:

- title of the workshop
- short description of the workshop and its goals
- proposed workshop format
- initial list of topics
- preliminary program committee with specified chair(s)
- description of workshop history (if proposed workshop is a following
   edition  of  already  existing  workshop)  including  statistics  of
   previous edition(s)
- previous  experience  of  workshop  chair(s)  in  organizing similar
   events
- preliminary  forecast on possible number of submissions and accepted
   papers

Any information on possible workshop publicity is also welcome.

Submissions   should   be   sent  to  the  following  e-mail  address:
bis-workshops@...

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline  for  submission  of workshop proposals is December 14, 2009.
Decisions  on  acceptance  or  rejection  of proposed workshop will be
taken  and  announced  to  workshop organizers within three weeks from
submission.

Apologies  for  cross-postings.  Please  send   it  to  interested  colleagues,
researchers and students. Many Thanks.





---------------------- JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS ------------------------------------

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE
Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected papers published in the
proceedings of SCC 2010 will be invited for publication in the IEEE Transactions
on Services Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services Research
(JWSR), and International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management
(IJBPIM). Both the SCC Proceedings and JWSR are included in EI Compendex. JWSR
is also indexed in SCI-E.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: CALL FOR PAPERS :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::



The 7th IEEE 2010 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2010)
===========================================================================
Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC)\

IEEE Computer Society

http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2010
July 5-10, 2010, Miami, Florida, USA

Services account for a major part of the IT industry today. Companies
increasingly
like to focus on their core expertise area and use IT services to address all
their
peripheral needs. Services Computing is a new science which aims to study and
better
understand the foundations of this highly popular industry. It covers the
science
and technology of leveraging computing and information technology to model,
create,
operate, and manage business services. Since 2004, the International Conference
on
Services Computing (SCC) has provided a platform for practitioners to present
the
latest advances in services science. Like its predecessors, SCC 2010 will
contribute
in building the pillars of this important science and shaping the future of
Services
Computing.



Services Computing currently shapes the thinking of business modeling, business
consulting, solution creation, service delivery, and software architecture
design,
development and deployment. The global nature of Services Computing leads to
many
opportunities and challenges and creates a new networked economic structure for
supporting different business models. SCC 2010 will help in bridging the gap
between
business services and information technology by driving research in technologies
such
as service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process integration and
management,
service engineering and grid and cloud computing and Web 2.0. SCC 2010 will have
the
following major tracks: Foundations of Services Computing, Services Computing
Practices
and Applications and Business Aspects of Services Computing.



SCC 2010 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
Services
Computing. SCC 2004 was held in Shanghai, China, September 15-18, 2004 . SCC
2005 was
co-located with ICWS 2005 on July 11-15, 2005 in Orlando, Florida, USA. SCC 2006
was
co-located with ICWS 2006 on September 18-22, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
SCC 2007
was co-located with ICWS 2007 on July 9-13, 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
SCC 2008
was held on July 8-11, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. SCC 2009 was held on
September 21-25,
2009, Bangalore, India. The SCC Proceedings has been included in EI Compendex.



The International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) covers the whole
lifecycle of
innovation research and enabling technologies, which includes enterprise
modeling,
business consulting, solution creation, services delivery, services
orchestrtaion,
services optimization, services management, services marketing, services
delivery and
cloud computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process
integration and
management, and Web services technologies and standards.

Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to, the following:



Foundations of Services Computing
---------------------------------
# Services Science
# Service Modeling and Implementation
# Service Delivery, Deployment and Maintenance Service
# Value Chains and Innovation Lifecycle
# Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Standards and Solution Stacks
# Service-based Grid/Cloud/Autonomic Computing
# Mobile Services Computing
# Services Computing in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs)
# Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration
# Service Security, Privacy and Trust
# Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS)
# Ontology and Semantic Web for Services Computing
# Services Repository and Registry
# Formal Methods for SOA
# Service Discovery
# Services Engineering Practices and Case Studies



Services-Centric Business Models
--------------------------------
# Business Service Analysis, Strategy, Design, Development and Deployment
# Service-Oriented Business Consulting Methodology and Utilities
# Intra- or Inter- Enterprise for Business-to-Business Service Control
# Service Revenue Models and Utility Computing, e.g., Fee-for-Transaction and
Fee-for-Service
# Service Strategic Alliance and Partners
# Service Network Economic Structures and Effects
# Ontology and Business Service Rules
# Trust and Loyalty in Services-Centric Business Models
# Cultural, Language, Social and Legal Obstacles in Services-Centric Business
Models
# Commercialization of Services Computing Technologies
# Industry Service Solution Patterns
# Service Interaction Patterns
# Case Studies in Services-Centric Business Models (e.g., healthcare, financial,
aviation, etc)



Business Process Integration and Management
-------------------------------------------
# Mathematical Foundation of Business Process Modeling, Integration and
Management
# Business Process Modeling Methodology and Integration Architecture
# Collaborative Business Processes
# Extended Business Collaboration (eBC) Architecture and Solutions
# Business Process-Based Business Transformation and Transition
# Enabling Technologies for Business Process Integration and Management
# Performance Management and Analysis for Business Process Integration and
Management
# Security, Privacy and Trust in Business Process Management
# Return On Investment (ROI) of Business Process Integration and Management
# Requirements Analysis of Business Process Integration and Management
# Enterprise Modeling and Application Integration Services, e.g. Enterprise
Service Bus
# Monitoring of Services, Process Mining, and Quality of Service
# Case Studies in Business Process Integration and Management
# SOA Tools, Solutions and Services



SOA Tooling Practices and Examples
----------------------------------
# Systematic Design Method for SOA Solutions
# SOA based Consulting Services and Design Services
# SOA Delivery Excellence
# Service-Oriented Computing for service orientation



Authors are invited to submit original, UNPUBLISHED research papers that are not
being considered in another forum. Duplicate submissions will be rejected from
all
conferences or journals without review. Manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE
Proceeding style: the IEEE Proceedings template in Word Format  and IEEE Latex
Style)
pages and be printed on 10 or 11 size font. Please follow the IEEE Computer
Society
Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. Electronic
submission of
manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Please visit the latest
Services
Computing Taxonomy to identify your innovation areas when you prepare your
papers.

Detailed Instructions for electronic paper submission, panel proposals, tutorial
proposals, and review process can be found at the submission page. At least one
author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present
the
paper. Only the accepted and presented papers will be published in the CD-ROM
and
On-line versions of the Proceedings of IEEE 2010 International Conference on
Services
Computing (SCC 2010) by IEEE Computer Society Press.



Enhanced versions of selected papers published in SCC 2010 will be invited for
publication in the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC,
http://computer.org/tsc), International Journal of Business Process Integration
and Management (IJBPIM), and the International Journal of Web Services Research
(JWSR).



One Best Paper Award and one Best Student Paper Award will be presented by SCC
2010. The first author of the best student papers should be a full-time student.

Review and Presentation Policy

"IEEE Policy and professional ethics requires that referees treat the contents
of
papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others
before
publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under review will
make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge, which that access provides.
Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program committees should be
regarded
as privileged as well, and handled in the same manner. The Conference
Publications
Chair shall ensure that referees adhere to this practice. Organizers of IEEE
conferences are expected to provide an appropriate forum for the oral
presentation
and discussion of all accepted papers.



An author, in offering a paper for presentation at an IEEE conference, or
accepting
an invitation to present a paper, is expected to be present at the meeting to
deliver
the paper. In the event that circumstances unknown at the time of submission of
a paper
preclude its presentation by an author, the program chair should be informed on
time,
and appropriate substitute arrangements should be made. In some cases it may
help reduce
no-shows for the Conference to require advance registration together with the
submission
of the final manuscript."

Important Dates for Research Track Papers:
------------------------------------------
Paper Submission Due Date: Feb. 15, 2010

Decision Notification (Electronic): April 10, 2010

Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 30, 2010

Conference Dates: July 5-10, 2010

About IEEE

IEEE is the world’s largest professional association advancing innovation and
technological
excellence for the benefit of humanity.  IEEE and its members inspire a global
community to
innovate for a better tomorrow through its highly cited publications,
conferences, technology
standards, and professional and educational activities. IEEE is the trusted
“voice” for
engineering, computing and technology information around the globe.

About IEEE Computer Society



With nearly 85,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) is the world’s
leading
organization of computing professionals. Founded in 1946, and the largest of the
38
societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the
CS is
dedicated to advancing the theory and application of computer and
information-processing
technology.



About the Technical Committee on Services Computing

IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC) is a
multi-disciplinary group whose purpose is to advance and coordinate work in the
field
of Services Computing carried out throughout the IEEE in scientific,
engineering, standard,
literary and educational areas.



Services Computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the science and
technology of
bridging the gap between Business Services and IT Services. The underneath
breaking
technology suite includes Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA),
cloud
computing, business consulting methodology and utilities, business process
modeling,
transformation and integration. This scope of Services Computing covers the
whole lifecycle
of services innovation research that includes business compoentization, services
modeling,
services creation, services realization, services annotation, services
deployment, services
discovery, services composition, services delivery, service-to-service
collaboration,
services montoring, services optimization, as well as services management. The
goal of
Services Computing is to enable IT services and computing technology to perform
business
services more efficiently and effectively.



Contact Information

For any enquires, please e-mail to the Conference Assistant Jessica Roswell:
jessica.roswell AT beaconwall.com, or the administration office at scc.ieeecs AT
gmail.com ***



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TO JOIN, CLICK HERE NOW: https://www.ieeecommunities.org/services



Next, press the "JOIN" button to apply for membership. As a member, you will be
permitted to login and participate in the community.

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Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues,
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The 6th IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010)
=======================================================
Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC),
IEEE Computer Society

http://servicescongress.org/2010
July 5-10, 2010, Miami, Florida, USA



The theme of the 2010 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) is
"modernization of the
services industry". SERVICES 2010 supports and further explores the science and
technology
of modernizing services industries using latest methods and technologies such as
as Services
Computing, which has been formally promoted by IEEE Computer Society since 2003.
From a
technology perspective, Services Computing has become the foundational
discipline for the
emerging modern services industry.



The first Joint Conference on SERVICES includes the 2005 International
Conference on Web
Services (ICWS 2005) and the the 2005 International Conference on Services
Computing
(SCC 2005), which were held in July 2005 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The second
Joint
Conference on SERVICES includes the 2006 International Conference on Web
Services
(ICWS 2006) and the the 2006 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC
2006),
which were held in September 2006 in Chicago, IL, USA.  In 2007, the joint
conference on
Services formally became the 2007 IEEE First Congress on Services (SERVICES
2007), which
was held in July 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The 2008 IEEE Second and
Third Congress
on Services (SERVICES-I 2008 and SERVICES-II 2008) were co-located with the 2008
International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008) in July 2008 in
Honolulu, Hawaii,
USA as well as the 2008 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2008) in
September
2008 in Beijing in China. In 2009, the Fourth World Congress on Services
(SERVICES-I 2009)
was co-located with IEEE 2009 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS
2009) held
in July 2009 in Los Angeles, USA. The Fifth World Congress on Services
(SERVICES-II 2009)
was co-located with the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
(SCC 2009)
held in September 2009 in Bangalore, India.



In 2010, the Sixth IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) will be held
in July 2009
in Miami, Florida, USA. SERVICES 2010 tries to attract researchers,
practitioners, and industry
business leaders in all the following services sectors to help define and shape
the modernization
strategy and directions of the services industry. You are invited to submit
research, engineering,
and business innovation papers to the following business services sectors:



# Advertising Services
# Banking Services
# Broadcasting & Cable TV Services
# Business Services
# Casinos & Gaming Services
# Communications Services
# Cross-industry Services (e.g. strategy and planning, supply chain management,
enterprise
resource planning, customer relationship management, marketing services)
# Design Automation Services
# Energy and Utilities Services
# Financial Services
# Government Services
# Healthcare Services
# Hotels & Motels Services
# Insurance Services
# Internet Services
# Motion Pictures Services
# Personal Services
# Printing & Publishing Services
# Real Estate Operations Services
# Recreational Activities Services
# Rental & Leasing Services
# Restaurants Services
# Retail Services (Apparel, Catalog & Mail Order, Department & Discount, Drugs,
Grocery,
Home Improvement, Specialty, Technology)
# Schools and Education Services
# Security Systems & Services
# Technology Services
# Travel and Transportation Services
# Waste Management Services
# Wholesale Distribution Services

In addition, SERVICES 2010 presents keynote sessions, panel discussions, paper
presentations,
paper posters, innovation show cases, job fair, Services University (Summer
School), Education
Methodology Summit, "Services Cup" contest, SOA industry summit, workshops, and
symposiums.

Services University

"Services University" (servicesuniversity.org) was launched at the 2007 Congress
on Services
(SERVICES 2007) to help teach Services Computing discipline in a systematic way.
A regional
leaders community is being formed to support this worldwide "Services
University" program,
which is sposnored by Services Society. Services Society is technically
sponsored by the IEEE
Technical Committee on Services Computing , IBM Research, SAP and other
professional and
industry sponsors. In 2010, the Summer School on Services Computing will be
offered in the
Services University program.

2010 Education Methodology Summit on Services Computing

The Education Methodology Summit on Services Computing brings educators and
practitioners
around the world together to share their experiences in Services related
education, and builds
consensus on the core of Services Computing education, the knowledge areas and
education
methodologies. The Summit will focus on pedagogical implications of Services
education and
its role in overall Services Computing Curriculum Initiative (SCCI). The
accepted papers will
be published in the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Sixth World Congress on
Services (SERVICES 2010)
as a special section.

2010 SOA Industry Summit

The 2010 SOA Industry Summit encourages industry people to submit presentations
and two-page
papers instead of 8-page research reports. The accepted papers will be published
in the Proceedings
of the 2010 IEEE Sixth World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) as a special
section.

2010 SERVICES Workshops

SERVICES 2009 will include a set of workshops and symposiums focusing on various
themes of modernizing
services industry. The accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of
the 2010 IEEE Sixth
World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) as a special section.

2010 Ph.D. Symposium on Services Computing

SERVICES 2010 will provide a Ph.D. Symposium on Services Computing as a forum
encouraging Ph.D. students
and holders to report on-going or just completed work. The accepted papers will
be published in the
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Sixth World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) as
a special section.

2010 Symposium on SOA Standards

SERVICES 2010 will favor the 2010 Symposium on SOA Standards as a forum for
international researchers
and practitioners to discuss and establish standards around SOA. The accepted
papers will be published
in the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Sixth World Congress on Services (SERVICES
2010) as a special section
for SOA standards.

Paper Submission and Review Process

Please use the submission page to find the right tracks and events to submit
your papers.

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee
members. Please note that
the same paper should NOT be submitted to other conferences or events
simultaneously. Such duplicate
submissions will be rejected from all conferences without review.



Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and
required to be formatted
using the IEEE Proceedings template. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in
PDF or Word format) is
required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission,
panel proposals,
tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at
www.servicescongress.org<http://www.servicescongress.org>. At least one author
of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the
paper.



Only the accepted and presented papers will appear in the CD-ROM version and
online version of the
proceedings of the IEEE 2010 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) , which
will be published by
the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected best papers
published in the SERVICES
2010 will be invited for potential publication in the International Journal of
Web Services Research
(JWSR), the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management
(IJBPIM), and IEEE
Transactions on Services Computing (TSC). JWSR is included in EI Compendex and
indexed in SCI-E.
According to Thomson Scientific, JWSR is listed in the 2008 Journal Citation
Report with an Impact
Factor of 1.200. The journal ranks #47 of 99 in the Computer Science,
Information Systems and ranks
#37 of 86 in Computer Science, Software Engineering.



Paper Review Policy

IEEE Policy and professional ethics requires that referees treat the contents of
papers under review
as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It
is expected that no
one with access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of the
special knowledge,
which that access provides. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference
program committees should
be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same manner. The
Conference Publications Chair
shall ensure that referees adhere to this practice. Organizers of IEEE
conferences are expected to
provide an appropriate forum for the oral presentation and discussion of all
accepted papers. An
author, in offering a paper for presentation at an IEEE conference, or accepting
an invitation to
present a paper, is expected to be present at the meeting to deliver the paper.
In the event that
circumstances unknown at the time of submission of a paper preclude its
presentation by an author,
the program chair should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute
arrangements should be made.
In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for the Conference to require advance
registration together
with the submission of the final manuscript.



Important Dates:

Research Track Paper Submission Due Date:  March 6, 2010 (Accepting Paper
Submissions from Nov. 1, 2009)
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 12, 2010
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due:  April 30, 2010

About IEEE

IEEE is the world’s largest professional association advancing innovation and
technological excellence
for the benefit of humanity.  IEEE and its members inspire a global community to
innovate for a better
tomorrow through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology
standards, and professional and
educational activities. IEEE is the trusted “voice” for engineering, computing
and technology information
around the globe.

About IEEE Computer Society

With nearly 85,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) is the world’s
leading organization of computing
professionals. Founded in 1946, and the largest of the 38 societies of the
Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the CS is dedicated to advancing the theory and
application of computer and
information-processing technology.

About the Technical Committee on Services Computing

IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC) is a
multi-disciplinary group
whose purpose is to advance and coordinate work in the field of Services
Computing carried out throughout
the IEEE in scientific, engineering, standard, literary and educational areas.

Services Computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the science and
technology of bridging the
gap between Business Services and IT Services. The underneath breaking
technology suite includes Web
services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, business
consulting methodology and
utilities, business process modeling, transformation and integration. This scope
of Services Computing
covers the whole lifecycle of services innovation research that includes
business compoentization,
services modeling, services creation, services realization, services annotation,
services deployment,
services discovery, services composition, services delivery, service-to-service
collaboration, services
montoring, services optimization, as well as services management. The goal of
Services Computing is to
enable IT services and computing technology to perform business services more
efficiently and effectively.

Contact Information

For any enquires, please e-mail to the Conference Assistant Jordanne Christie:
jordanne.christie AT beaconwall.com, or the administration office at
services.ieeecs AT gmail.com ***



========================================================

Please join us at: IEEE Services Computing Community

TO JOIN, CLICK HERE NOW: https://www.ieeecommunities.org/services

Next, press the "JOIN" button to apply for membership. As a member, you will be
permitted to login and participate in the community.

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(apologies for crossposting)

The Protege Team is pleased to announce that we will be holding a Protege-OWL
Short Course at Stanford University from March 24th-26th, 2010.  The course
provides an introduction to ontology development in OWL, both from a theoretical
standpoint and from a practical standpoint through hands-on use of the Protege
platform. The course also emphasizes how to use OWL ontologies, and other
semantic technologies like SWRL, to build semantic applications with examples
from real-world use cases.  More details about course content [1], as well as a
complete course schedule [2] are available online.

The course is especially geared toward beginner and intermediate users of
Protege-OWL, but everyone is welcome to register.  Online registration is
available on the course website [3].

The course will be taught by members of the Protege staff [4] and enrollment is
limited to ensure optimal learning experiences.  We are currently offering a 10%
discount for groups of five or more people from the same organization.  Please
contact the course organizers if you have additional questions about the short
course:

protege-shortcourse@....

Best Regards,
The Protege Team

Homepage: http://protege.stanford.edu

[1] http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/protege-owl/201003/content.html
[2] http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/protege-owl/201003/schedule.html
[3] http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/protege-owl/201003/register.html
[4] http://protege.stanford.edu/aboutus/aboutus.html

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*** Extended Paper Submission Due: November 22, 2009 ***


1st Int’l Workshop on
Data Engineering meets the Semantic Web (DESWeb2010)
(Towards semantic-based data engineering for the Web)
Co-located with ICDE 2010
http://DESWeb2010.unimore.it


Modern web applications like Wiki’s, social networking sites and
mashups, are radically changing the nature of modern Web from a
publishing-only environment into a vivant place for information
exchange. The successful exploitation of this information largely
depends on the ability to successfully communicate the data semantics,
which is exactly the vision of the Semantic Web. In this context, new
challenges emerge for semantic-aware data management systems.

The contribution of the data management community in the Semantic Web
effort is fundamental. RDF has already been adopted as the
representation model and exchange format for the semantics of the data
on the Web. Although, until recently, RDF had not received
considerable attention, the recent publication in RDF format of large
ontologies with millions of entities from sites like Yahoo! and
Wikipedia, the huge amounts of microformats in RDF from life science
organizations, and the gigantic RDF bibliographic annotations from
publishers, have made clear the need for advanced management
techniques for RDF data.

On the other hand, traditional data management techniques have a lot
to gain by incorporating semantic information into their
frameworks. Existing data integration, exchange and query solutions
are typically based on the actual data values stored in the
repositories, and not on the semantics of these values. Incorporation
of semantics in the data management process improves query accuracy,
and permit more efficient and effective sharing and distribution
services. Integration of new content, on-the-fly generation of
mappings, queries on loosely structured data, keyword searching on
structured data repositories, and entity identification, are some of
the areas that can benefit from the presence of semantic knowledge
alongside the data.

The goal of DESWeb is to bring together researchers and practitioners
from both fields of Data Management and Semantic Web. It aims at
investigating the new challenges that Semantic Web technologies have
introduced and new ways through which these technologies can improve
existing data management solutions. Furthermore, it intends to study
what data management systems and technologies can offer in order to
improve the scalability and performance of Semantic Web applications.


*Topics of Interest*
DESWeb welcomes papers on topics related, but not limited, to:

Semantic Data Integration:
* Semantic-aware matching and mapping
* Management of incomplete information on the Semantic Web
* Dataspaces and the Semantic Web
* Semantic-aware search engines
* Role of ontologies in data integration and data exchange
* Semantic-based keyword searching in databases
* Probabilistic data and query answering
* Data Management for Social Networking
* Semantic-based lifecycle management
* Database support for social Web2.0 applications
* Entity identification on the Semantic Web
* Tool support for developing and deploying data intensive Semantic
             Web applications
* Publishing relational data on the Semantic Web
* Semantic annotation
* Semantic evolution
* Understanding and managing Wiki/Blog data
* Semantic Web technologies for cooperation and collaboration
* Business processes on the Semantic Web
* Semantic-based service discovery and composition
* Interoperation via Semantic Web services
* Query languages for RDF and the Semantic Web
* Multimedia management on the Semantic Web

Core Database Technologies for RDF Data:
* Data models and query languages for RDF
* RDF querying processing and optimization
* Indexing and access methods for RDF data
* RDF storage and compression
* Update management and maintenance of RDF data
* Query answering techniques on RDF databases
* Benchmarking RDF Systems and applications

*Submission Guidelines*
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers
that are not being considered for publication in any other
forum. Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files, be
formatted according to the standard ICDE format and be at most 6 pages
in length.

All accepted papers will be published in the ICDE proceedings and will
also become publicly available in IEEE Xplore.

Papers should be submitted at the following web site:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DESWeb2010

Important dates
* Submission deadline: Nov 22nd, 2009 (deadline extended)
* Notification to authors: Dec 22nd, 2009
* Camera Ready version: Jan 5th 2010

Workshop Chairs
* Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento
* Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Panel Chair
* Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Program Committee
* Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yahoo!, USA
* Paolo Atzeni, Università di Roma Tre, Italy
* Michael Benedikt, Oxford University, UK
* Omar Boucelma, Université Aix-Marseille, France
* John Breslin, DERI, Ireland
* Nieves Brisaboa, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
* Tiziana Catarci, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
* Vassilis Christophides, University of Crete & ICS-FORTH, Greece
* Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and Università della Calabria, Italy
* Roberto De Virgilio, Università di Roma Tre, Italy
* AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
* Alfio Ferrara, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
* Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH, Greece
* Ramanathan Guha, Google Inc, USA
* Howard Ho, IBM Almaden, USA
* Arantza Illarramendi, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
* Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM Watson, USA
* Manolis Koubarakis, University of Athens, Greece
* Ioana Manolescu, INRIA, France
* Ahsan Morshed, FAO, Italy
* John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
* Felix Naumanm, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany
* Stelios Paparizons, Microsoft Research, USA
* Flavio Rizzolo, Carleton University, Canada
* Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina, Italy
* Peter Spyns, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Armando Stellato, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
* Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* James Terwilliger, Microsoft Research, USA
* Raquel Trillo Lado, University of Zaragoza, Spain
* Cong Yu, Yahoo!, USA

dott. ing. Francesco Guerra
Researcher in Computer Engineering, Ph. D.
Dipartimento di Economia Aziendale
Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Phone: +39  059  205 6264 / +39  059  205 6869
Fax:   +39  059  205 6129
Web: www.dbgroup.unimo.it/~guerra
Email: francesco.guerra@...