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Re: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'06: Last Call for Workshop Proposals

2008-04-24T06:27:54Z

> I'm trying to deal with OLE compound documents without Microsoft API
> functions. I successfully read all that streams/storages etc, and now I'd
> like to read information about embedded objects. I made some assumptions
> about the binary format, but I failed to find any docs with the description
> of the ObjectPool storage, and LinkInfo is about the topic of the new
> ( http://www.vaginadating.org ) stream especially.

Those are implementation details of specific applications, not parts of
compound document specification. Office applications in particular tend
to create a dedicated storage, named ObjectPool, for all objects
embedded in the document. I'm not sure what LinkInfo is. Anyway, these
application-specific details are not documented.
--
With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat,
and wrong." H.L. Mencken

Re: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'06: Last Call for Workshop Proposals

2008-03-22T01:37:40Z

Can anyone provide information on how to create compound documents with
4096 byte sectors? I need these to get past the two gig limit on storage
sizes, but when I try to specify it, I just get an invalid parameter error.
The code I use is:

// Specify that the storage have 4096 byte sectors,
// which allow the file size to exceed 2 gigabytes.
STGOPTIONS Options;
Options.pwcsTemplateFile = NULL;
Options.reserved = 0;
Options.ulSectorSize = 4096;
Options.usVersion = STGOPTIONS_VERSION;

HRESULT result = ::StgCreateStorageEx(
LPCWSTR(wstrTempName),
STGM_READWRITE | STGM_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE |
" http://www.student-statistics.org "
STGM_DELETEONRELEASE ,
STGFMT_DOCFILE, 0, &Options, 0,
__uuidof(IStorage), reinterpret_cast<LPVOID *>(&m_spStorage) );

When I change my code to the following however, it works fine but gives a
compound document that can't get above 2 gig.

HRESULT result = ::StgCreateStorageEx(
LPCWSTR(wstrTempName),
STGM_READWRITE | STGM_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE |
" http://www.eurocity-statistics.org "
STGM_FAILIFTHERE | STGM_DELETEONRELEASE ,
STGFMT_STORAGE, 0, NULL, 0,
__uuidof(IStorage), reinterpret_cast<LPVOID *>(&m_spStorage) );

Thanks

Re: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'06: Last Call for Workshop Proposals(B

2008-01-31T09:00:20Z

The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop,
forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and
guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and range of the
Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the
Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will
be available at the workshops.

The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected
papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal
issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A full-day workshop should
select 20-25 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select
10-13 regular papers, from a large number of submissions. The workshop
organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at
the workshops.

PROPOSALS SHOULD INCLUDE:

* Title of your proposed workshop

* Detailed description for consideration by the planning committee

* Brief (5 sentences or less) abstract exactly as you want it listed
in program materials should your proposal be accepted

* Your name and title (if any) exactly as you want them listed in
program materials should your proposal be accepted

* Contact information (address, phone, fax/email if you have them)

* Brief (5 sentences or less) presenter bio exactly as you want it
listed in program materials should your proposal be accepted

* Any audiovisual equipment you would need for your workshop

If you have never presented at Autreat before, please also include an
introduction for the planning committee summarizing your relevant
experience, including any presentations or other education/advocacy
activities elsewhere, and the nature of your interest in autism and/or
in general disability issues.

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Re: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'06: Last Call for Workshop Proposals(B

2008-01-17T01:10:09Z

I put in the request to have a GEO informational table at the
conference. Informational tables will be in the Illini Union Ballroom
(2nd floor of the Union) on 2/23 from 8:30am–4:30pm. There
will be corporate sponsors who may be recruiting, as well as
University of Illinois graduate departments. Additionally, there will
be non-profit organizations, students discussing research projects,
the Illini Union Bookstore, and a MBLGTACC table selling memorabilia.
I am looking for caucus volunteers to help staff that GEO table.
Please email me if you are interested in taking a shift (even if it is
only for a half hour) and we can work out the details once we know the
workshop schedule for Saturday.

Workshops
Jan 19 is the absolute deadline for workshop proposals for the
MBLGTACC conference. Anyone who wants to do a workshop MUST register
for the conference. Do folks want to submit a
proposal around the Lesbians from Newark/media negativity and LGBTQA
of color? Who is interested in being a presenter for this type of
workshop? Once someone is committed to being the presenter(s) then
this workshop proposal needs to be written.

Kisha Rivers and I are submitting a workshop proposal around creating
caucuses within larger organizations to talk about the GEO-LGBTQA
Caucus and GPSoC. She and I have both registered for the conference
and will submit the proposal soon.

--
-- GoldED/386 2.42.G0614+

I will try to live with love... with dreams... and forever with tears...
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Re: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'06: Last Call for Workshop Proposals(B

2008-01-13T04:06:56Z

Since '03, I have been using an integrated model of care which I developed
(the one presented at the '07 conference) My intention is to present this
model as a juxtaposition to current quality of care and to provoke
conversation between patient and physician on the treatment of panic.

HELP!!!!! I need at least three people who are willing to travel to D.C.
and participate on this panel. I cannot provide any financial remuneration,
but would be forever indebted, and will feature panel participants
prominently (if they so desire) in my future publications (consumer, not
journal). I believe that ADAA offers some type of discount to workshop
presenters.... we can look into this together. Serious inquiries, please
e-mail me before November 15 to inform me of your interest.

I need to get this going ASAP (no pun intended ;-)! Let me know if you
can come!!
BTW, I would be willing to barter in vivo consultation to flight phobic
(from Chicago) in exchange for panel participation...... unless this turns
out to be unethical... LM, Dr. Shipko, what do you think?
~ Valerie

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-- GoldED/386 2.42.G0614+

I will try to live with love... with dreams... and forever with tears...
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moon

2007-09-24T10:57:04Z

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habitats and drive sporty new rovers capable of
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small, separately launched modules, NASA is now hoping
to land up to three large habitats on fewer flights to build a beachhead
on the moon, the space agency said.

Doug Cooke, NASA's deputy associate administrator for exploration
systems, said that the space agency's revised lunar plan
calls for the launching of larger habitats to the moon on unmanned cargo
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ToC of the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), Vol. 4, Issue 1, January-March 2007

2007-01-18T17:23:42Z

Great News: International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) has been indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E).

As the first refereed, international publication featuring only the latest research findings and industry solutions dealing with all aspects of Web services and SOA technology, the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) has been indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) beginning with V.3(1) 2006. I would like to send my thanks to YOU as an author, review board member, associate editor, and technical community members for your high-quality contributions.

The contents of the latest issue of:

International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR)
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 4, Issue 1, January-March 2007
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1545-7362
EISSN: 1546-5004
Published by Idea Group Inc., Hershey, PA, USA
www.idea-group.com/jwsr

Editor-in-Chief: Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center USA

Special Issue: Web Services Discovery and Composition

EDITORIAL PREFACE:

Liang-Jie Zhang, Editor-in-Chief, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Services discovery and composition are among the key issues that decide the success of Web services technology. This issue of the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) highlights the theme of a special issue: “Web Services Discovery and Composition.” Guest Editors M. Brian Blake, William K. Cheung, Andreas Wombacher, and Kwok Ching Tsui organized four articles in this special issue focused primarily on various approaches on services discovery and composition. In the fifth paper, “A Dynamic Two-Phase Commit Protocol for Adaptive Composite Services,” Weihai Yu and Calton Pu propose enhancement to traditional two-phase commit protocol to serve Web services-based applications.

GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE:

M. Brian Blake, Georgetown University, USA
William K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Andreas Wombacher, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Kwok Ching Tsui, Hong Kong Baptist University & Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong

This special issue explores several approaches to accomplishing the notion of web services discovery and composition. This issue is similar to recent venues that explore implementation issues in the form of a competition (Blake, 2005; WS-Challenge, 2006). This guest editorial preface discusses the general aspects of service discovery and composition that are independent of implementation details. In addition, the various contributions of the special issue with respect to the discovery/composition implementation approaches are summarized.

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS

PAPER ONE:

“Web Service Planner (WSPR): An Effective and Scalable Web Service Composition Algorithm”

Seog-Chan Oh, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Dongwon Lee, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Soundar R. T. Kumara, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

As the emergence of service-oriented architecture provides a major boost for e-commerce agility, the number of available Web services is rapidly increasing. However, when there are a large number of Web services available and no single Web service satisfies the given request, one has to “compose” multiple Web services to fulfill the goal. This article presents an AI planning-based Web service composition algorithm named Web Services Planner (WSPR). The efficiency and effectiveness of WSPR is evaluated using two publicly available test setsEEE05 and ICEBE05. In addition to analyzing the two test sets, the authors also suggest several improvements for benchmarking Web service composition.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=6570

PAPER TWO:

“Web Service Discovery and Composition for Virtual Enterprises”

Jürgen Dorn, EC3 -electronic Commerce Competence Center, Austria
Peter Hrastnik, EC3 -electronic Commerce Competence Center, Austria
Albert Rainer, EC3 -electronic Commerce Competence Center, Austria

One main characteristic of virtual enterprises are short-term collaborations between business partners to provide efficient and individualized services to customers. This article describes the MOVE project, which targets a methodology and software framework to support such flexible collaborations based on process oriented design and communication by Web services. MOVE’s framework supports the graphical design and verification of business processes, the execution and supervision of processes in transaction-oriented environments, and the dynamic composition and optimization of processes. The composition of processes from Web services is implemented with methods from AI-planning. The authors apply answer set programming (ASP) and map Web service descriptions and customer requests into the input language of the ASP software DLV. The conclusion demonstrates the performance of the program provides implementation details, and shares thoughtful insights.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=6571

PAPER THREE:

“BITS: A Binary Tree Based Web Service Composition System”

Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China
Sheng Huang, Fudan University, China
Xiaoling Wang, Fudan University, China

In current service-oriented applications, typically each individual Web service cannot satisfy users’ requests for Web services, but the functionalities of several Web services may be integrated to accomplish the requested task. The article introduces BITS, a Web service composition system. BITS is implemented based on a binary tree which is used to organize Web services. In this system, some search strategies and optimization techniques are developed for efficient service discovery and service composition. Extensive experiments are conducted for performance study, and the results show the efficiency and effectiveness of the methods adopted in BITS.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=6572

PAPER FOUR:

“A Flexible Directory Query Language for the Efficient Processing of Service Composition Queries”

Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Ion Constantinescu, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Boi Faltings, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Service composition is a major challenge in an open environment populated by large numbers of heterogeneous services. In such a setting, the efficient interaction of directory-based service discovery with service composition engines is crucial. This article presents a Java-based directory that offers special functionality enabling effective service composition. In order to optimize the interaction of the directory with different service composition algorithms exploiting application-specific heuristics, the directory supports user-defined selection and ranking functions written in a declarative query language. Inside the directory queries are transformed and compiled to JVM bytecode which is dynamically linked into the directory. The compiled query enables a best-first search of matching directory entries, efficiently pruning the search space.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=6573

REVIEWED PAPER

“A Dynamic Two-Phase Commit Protocol for Adaptive Composite Services”

Weihai Yu, University of Tromsø, Norway
Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Next-generation applications based on Web services impose additional requirements on the use of coordination protocols with various optimizations, such as the two-phase commit protocol (2PC). This article analyzes the well-known 2PC optimizations “presumed commit” and “presumed abort,” and presents an improved 2PC that is suitable for Web-service-based applications. More specifically, the protocol allows every individual service provider to dynamically choose the most appropriate presumption for any distributed transaction. This new capability is especially useful when a composite Web service is integrating component services that make different presumptions in their commit protocols. The protocol does not introduce extra overhead to the previous 2PC variants in terms of number of messages and log records, and it is easy to understand and realize. The simulation shows that the choice of appropriate presumption has significant influence on system performance, and that in some heterogeneous settings, combining different presumptions in individual transactions outperforms adopting only one single presumption.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=6574

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Mission of JWSR:

Web services are among the most important emerging technologies in the e-business, computer software and communication industries. Web services technologies will redefine the way that companies do business and exchange information in the twenty-first century. They will enhance business efficiency by enabling dynamic provisioning of resources from a pool of distributed resources. Due to the importance of the field, there is a significant amount of ongoing research in the areas. In a parallel effort, standardization organizations are actively developing standards for Web services. Web services are creating what will become one of the most significant industries of the new century. The International Journal of Web Services Research is designed to be a valuable resource providing leading technologies, development, ideas, and trends to an international readership of researchers and engineers in the field of Web Services.

Coverage of JWSR:

Business Grid
Business process integration and management using Web Services
Case Studies for Web Services
Communication applications using Web Services
Composite Web Service creation and enabling infrastructures
Dynamic invocation mechanisms for Web Services
E-Commerce applications using Web Services
Frameworks for building Web Service applications
Grid based Web Services applications (e.g. OGSA)
Interactive TV applications using Web Services
Mathematic foundations for service oriented computing
Multimedia applications using Web Services
Quality of service for Web Services
Resource management for Web Services
Semantic services computing
SOAP enhancements
Solution Management for Web Services
UDDI enhancements
Web Services architecture
Web Services discovery
Web Services modeling
Web Services performance
Web Services security

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at http://www.idea-group.com/JWSR

All submissions should be sent to the online system (http://www.servicescomputing.org/jwsr/submissions.htm).
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang at zhanglj AT us.ibm.com
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Best Regards,
LJ
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Research Staff Member, SOA Services
Services Computing, IBM Research
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR)
My SOA Innovations Blog on ibm.com
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Table of Contents of the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR): Vol.3, No.3

2006-08-25T15:40:59Z

The contents of the latest issue of:

International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR)
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 3, Issue 3, July-September 2006
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1545-7362
EISSN: 1546-5004
Published by Idea Group Inc., Hershey, PA, USA
www.idea-group.com/jwsr

Editor-in-Chief: Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center USA

EDITORIAL PREFACE:

“Web Services in Access, Control, and Pricing”

Liang-Jie Zhang, Editor-in-Chief, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

This issue of the International Journal of Web Services research (JWSR) collects five papers on various topics of Web services. Topics include Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs), a Web services-oriented access-control model, a suite of automated software tools to facilitate the construction of OWL-S specifications, an auction-based pricing model for Web service providers, and a Quality of Services (QoS) Management Architecture to support dynamic end-toend QoS requests and analyses in Web-service oriented architectures.

RESEARCH PAPERS

PAPER ONE:

“Supporting Predictable Service Provision in MANETs Via Context-Aware Session Management”

Radu Handorean, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Rohan Sen, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Gregory Hackmann, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Gruia-Catalin Roman, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

The increasing ubiquity of wireless mobile devices is promoting unprecedented levels of electronic collaboration among devices interoperating to achieve a common goal. Issues related to host interoperability are addressed partially by the principles of the service-oriented computing paradigm. However, certain technical concerns relating to predictable interactions among hosts in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have not yet received much attention. This article introduces “follow-me sessions,” where interactions occur between a client and a service, rather than a specific service provider. A client, thus, may exploit several service providers during the course of its interaction with a given service. This redundancy mitigates the effects of mobility-induced disconnections, thereby facilitating reliable communication. This paper covers the architecture and implementation of a middleware that supports follow-me sessions and shows how this middleware mitigates issues related to proxy-based service-oriented architectures in mobile ad hoc networks.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=6319

PAPER TWO:

“An Adaptive Access Control Model for Web Services”

Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Anna C. Squicciarini, Purdue University, USA
Lorenzo Martino, Purdue University, USA
Federica Paci, University of Milano, Italy

This paper presents an innovative access control model, referred to as Web service Access Control Version 1 (Ws-AC1), specifically tailored to Web services. The most distinguishing features of this model are the flexible granularity in protection objects and negotiation capabilities. Formal definitions underlying the model and the relevant algorithms, such as the access control algorithm are presented. An encoding of the model in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) standard for which a required extension is developed to support Ws-AC1 is also presented.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=6320

PAPER THREE:

“Facilitating the Specification of Semantic Web Services Using Model-Driven Development”

Gerald C. Gannod, Miami University (OH), USA
John T. E. Timm, Arizona State University - Tempe Campus, USA
Raynette J. Brodie, Arizona State University - Tempe Campus, USA

The semantic Web promises automated invocation, discovery, and composition of Web services by enhancing services with semantic descriptions. An upper ontology for Web services called OWL-S has been created to provide a mechanism for describing service semantics in a standard, well-defined manner. Unfortunately, the learning curve for semantic-rich description languages such as OWL-S can be steep, especially given the current state of tool support for the language. This paper describes a suite of automated software tools the authors developed to facilitate the construction of OWL-S specifications. This paper describes the tools and demonstrates how the use of lightweight interactive tools facilitates creation of OWL-S specifications.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=6321

PAPER FOUR:

“Auction-Based Pricing Model for Web Service Providers”

Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA
Ning Zhang, Cornell University, USA
Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Applying auctions to Web services selection and invocation calls for examination due to the unique features of Web services, such as interoperable machine-to-machine interactions and re-enterable bargaining services. In this paper, the authors propose a formal model for Web services-based auctions. Examining a one-sided sealed auction type, they prove mathematically that service requestors’ risk preferences could lead to pricing strategies with a higher profit for service providers. A basic service requestor risk preference elicitation algorithm and a historical data-based service requestor risk preference prediction model are proposed.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=6322

PAPER FIVE:

“A Service-Oriented Composition Framework with QoS Management”

Casey K. Fung, Boeing Phantom Works, USA
Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Richard C. Linger, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Guijun Wang, Boeing Phantom Works, USA
Gwendolyn H. Walton, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Quality of Services (QoS) management in compositions of services requires careful consideration of QoS characteristics of the services and effective QoS management in their execution. This paper describes an approach to implementation of QoS management in compositions of Web services in the context of Computational Quality Attributes and Service Level Agreements. Building on prior research work of others in the use of Message Detail Records, this paper integrates the results from several research threads to propose a QoS Management Architecture to support dynamic processing of service- and flow-level quality attributes to support QoS requests and analyses in Web-service-oriented architectures. The study of QoS management in a Web service composition framework was motivated by the evolution of the composition framework for a toolkit for integration and experimentation of distributed system applications. A message tracking model is proposed for supporting QoS end-to-end management by applying the Computational Quality Attribute (CQA) concepts of Flow-Service-Quality engineering. Quality attributes are defined, computed and acted upon as dynamic characteristics of systems, with values constantly changing in operation. A CQA provision is illustrated, with a simple Web Services travel reservation example. The example is elaborated to illustrate QoS end-to-end management using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message tracking model.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=6323

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Mission of JWSR:

Web Services are among the most important emerging technologies in the e-business, computer software and communication industries. The Web Services technologies will redefine the way that companies do business and exchange information in the twenty-first century. They will enhance business efficiency by enabling dynamic provisioning of resources from a pool of distributed resources. Due to the importance of the field, there is a significant amount of ongoing research in the areas. In a parallel effort, standardization organizations are actively developing standards for Web Services. The Web Services are creating what will become one of the most significant industries of the new century. The International Journal of Web Services Research is designed to be a valuable resource providing leading technologies, development, ideas, and trends to an international readership of researchers and engineers in the field of Web Services.

Coverage of JWSR:

Business Grid
Business process integration and management using Web Services
Case Studies for Web Services
Communication applications using Web Services
Composite Web Service creation and enabling infrastructures
Dynamic invocation mechanisms for Web Services
E-Commerce applications using Web Services
Frameworks for building Web Service applications
Grid based Web Services applications (e.g. OGSA)
Interactive TV applications using Web Services
Mathematic foundations for service oriented computing
Multimedia applications using Web Services
Quality of service for Web Services
Resource management for Web Services
Semantic services computing
SOAP enhancements
Solution Management for Web Services
UDDI enhancements
Web Services architecture
Web Services discovery
Web Services modeling
Web Services performance
Web Services security

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript
submission guidelines at http://www.idea-group.com/jwsr

All submissions should be sent to the online review system at http://www.servicescomputing.org/jwsr.

All inquiries should be sent to: Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang at zhanglj@...

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Job Posting: Services Computing at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

2006-07-13T22:10:10Z

Dear Colleagues,

IBM Research is seeking outstanding Services Computing researchers to help us advance the state of the art and advance services innovation research and IBM's technology in Services Computing (http://www.research.ibm.com/services). We are interested in enthusiastic and self-motivated individuals with a PhD or equivalent in computer science or related disciplines. Successful candidates will be expected to help define and lead research projects from SOA and Web Services, SOA solution and services design, business transformation, business process modeling, monitoring & management to the realization leveraging the advanced modular SOA infrastrutures and tools.

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), 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.

IBM Research is extending its distinguished history in Services Computing, and the related areas of service-oriented business consulting, modeling, transformation, execution, monitoring and management. IBM researchers have been making foundational contributions in Web services standards, web services hub framework, federated web services discovery, semantic web services, business performance management, SLA management, software as a service, services as software, dynamic web services composition, extended business collaboration, business process and workflow management, business transformation solutions, component business model and SOA, multi-channel e-commerce architecture, access control and security, industry solution frameworks, and industry standards. IBM researchers have also been actively working with the worldwide research communities to help define the research directions of Services Computing. IBM's Services Science, Management, and Engineering (SSME) academic initiative is supported by Services Computing discipline within IBM Research.

Please send resume to LJ Zhang at zhanglj@... with subject "Services Computing Job Posting". Thank you very much.

Best Regards,
LJ
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Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang (Ph.D.)
Research Staff Member, SOA Services
Chair, Services Computing PIC, IBM Research
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), EI Compendex
19 SKYLINE DRIVE, HAWTHORNE, NY 10532
Tel: 914-784-6132 (NEW) Email: zhanglj@...
"Innovation That Matters"

CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2006

2006-04-27T01:19:35Z

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IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2006

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2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Web Intelligence (WI'06)

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China,
18-22 December 2006.

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Co-Organized With
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)

University/Corporate Sponsors
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
Microsoft Corp.

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/

(Papers Due: 5 July 2006)
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Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for
scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles
as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
(e.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and
data mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and
advanced Information Technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks,
ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids) on
the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and
activities. It is one of the most important as well as promising IT
research fields in the era of Web and agent intelligence.

The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI'06) will be jointly held with the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06) and the 6th IEEE
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06) for providing
synergism among the three research areas. It will provide
opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous
conferences. The three conferences will have a joint opening, keynote,
reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one
conference and can attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across the
three conferences. We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper
sessions that discuss common problems in the three areas.

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Topics of Interest
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The topics and areas include, but not limited to:

* World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
- Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation
- Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML)
- Search of Best Means and Ends
- Goal-Directed Services Support
- Distributed Resources Optimization
- Service Self-Aggregation
- Web Inference Engine
- Information and Knowledge Markets

* New Social Interaction Paradigms
- Social and Psychological Contexts
- Regularities and Laws of W4
- Social Networks and Social Intelligence
- Social Networks Mining
- Web Site Clustering
- Link Topology and Site Hierarchy
- Theories of Small-World Web
- Virtual and Web Communities
- Web-Based Cooperative Work

* Knowledge Community Formation and Support
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Intelligent Wireless Web
- Ubiquitous Learning Systems
- Entertainment

* Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
- Semantic Grids
- Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery
- On-Demand Planning and Routing
- Brokering and Scheduling
- Middleware Architectures and Tools

* Web Mining and Farming
- Text Mining
- Data Stream Mining
- Multimedia Data Mining
- Web Content Mining
- Web Log and Usage Mining
- Learning User Profiles
- Context Sensitive Web Mining
- Web Information Clustering
- Web Page Clustering and Mining
- E-Mail Classification
- Web Site Classification
- Web Information Indexing
- Data Warehousing
- Web Farming and Warehousing

* Semantics and Ontology Engineering
- Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
- Ontology-Based Web Mining
- Web-Based Ontology Learning
- Semantic Web

* Web Agents
- Global Information Foraging
- Distributed Problem Solving
- Coordination
- Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
- Self-Organization and Reproduction
- Agent Networks and Topologies
- Mobile Agents
- Macroscopic Behavior Modeling
- Trust Models for Web Agents

* Web Services
- Service-Oriented Computing
- Matchmaking
- Web Service Reconfiguration
- Web Service Workflow Composition
- Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services
- Grid Services

* Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
- Automatic Cataloging and Indexing
- Clustering-Based Recommender Systems
- Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation
- Hybrid Recommendation
- Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations
- Web Information Categorization and Ranking
- Proxy and Cache Techniques
- Web Prediction and Prefetching
- Distributed Web Search
- Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process
- Web Crawling Systems
- Search Engines and Meta-search Engines

* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
- Adaptive Web Interfaces
- Context-Aware Computing
- Learning User Profiles
- Personalized Interfaces
- Personalized Web Sites
- Remembrance Agents
- Multimedia Representation
- Visualization of Information and Knowledge
- Social and Psychological Issues

* Web Support Systems
- Information Retrieval Support Systems
- Web Site Navigation Support Systems
- Recommender Support Systems
- Web-Based Decision Support Systems
- Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic,
evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing)
and Uncertainty Management for WI

* Intelligent e-Technology
- Business Intelligence
- Intelligent Enterprise Portals
- Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM
- Web-Based EDI
- e-Publishing
- e-Business and e-Commerce
- e-Finance
- e-Community
- Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
- e-Learning
- Digital Library
- e-Science
- e-Government
- Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and
supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the
basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
Note that WI'06 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
PDF versions.

Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the
IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings
Author Guidelines at
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/ieeecs/publications),
and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of
technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality,
significance, and clarity. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'06
website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published
in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

A selected number of WI'06 accepted papers will be expanded and
revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An
International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in
Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics
(http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html)

The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the
authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
best application paper award.

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
found from the WI'06 homepage: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06/.

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Industry/Demo-Track
++++++++++++++++++++

We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.

(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
the research track.
(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.

For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions
at the homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/wi/?index=demo

We are planning to arrange the Demo session in the afternoon of Dec 19
(before and during the conference reception), jointly with the IAT'06 and
ICDM'06 Demo sessions.

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Workshops
+++++++++

As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will
focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted
for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published
by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the
workshops. Detailed information is available at the conference
homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year
(i.e., conference registration covers everything).

I. Accepted as Fullday Workshops

1. International Workshop on Agent and Data Mining Interaction (ADMI)
2. International Workshop on Web Privacy Intelligence
3. International Workshop on Service Composition
4. The 3rd International Workshop on Web-based Support Systems (WSS'06)

II. Accepted as Halfday Workshops

5. International Workshop on Intelligent Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks
(IA-WSN)
6. International Workshop on Adaptation and Personalization
for e-Business Intelligence
7. International Workshop on Semantics in VO and WS
8. International Workshop on Communication between Human and Artificial
Agents
9. International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI-2006)
10. International Workshop on P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents
11. International Workshop on GrC and Brain Informatics (BI) for WI
12. International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in E-Business: Concepts,
Technologies and Applications (MASeB'06)
13. International Workshop on Research of Agent-based Government Horizon
Business Integration Management Systems
14. International Workshop on OWL-Based Approach for Semantic Interoperating
and Accessing Heterogeneous XML Sources
15. International Workshop on Technologies and Applications of
Knowledge Computing on the Web

For more information, please visit the conference website at
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06/.

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Tutorials
++++++++++

WI'06 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'06 will include tutorials
providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest
to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half
day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the
main conference technical program. Detailed information is available
at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee this year
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

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Important Dates
++++++++++++++++

Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2006
Electronic submission of full papers: ** July 5, 2006 **
Tutorial proposal submission: July 15, 2006
Notification of paper acceptance: September 4, 2006
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: September 29, 2006
Workshops: December 18, 2006
Conference: December 19-22, 2006

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Conference Organization
++++++++++++++++++++++++

Conference Chairs:
* Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
* Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Organizing Chair:
* Yiu-Ming Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

Program Chair:
* Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan

Program Co-chairs:
* Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
* Ubbo Visser, Science Universitat Bremen, Germany
* Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA

Industry/Demo-Track Co-Chairs:
* Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
* Kazuhiro Kuwabara, ATR, Japan
* Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA

Workshop Co-Chairs:
* Cory J. Butz, University of Regina, Canada
* Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
* Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
* Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
* Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada
* Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics/University of Tokyo,
Japan

Publicity Chairs:
* Marcin Szczuka, Warsaw University, Poland
* Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
* Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA

Sponsorship Chairs:
* Man-chung Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
* Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan
* Hongjin Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Program Vice Co-chairs:
* Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Greia" of Catanzaro, Italy
* Meng Chang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
* Joost Kok, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, The Netherlands
* Tsau Young Lin, San Jose State University, USA
* Massimo Marchiori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and
University of Venice, Italy
* Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
* Sankar Pal, Machine Intelligence Unit Indian Statistical Institute, India
* Steve Willmott, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
* Chengqi Zhang, Faculty of Information Technology, Australia
* Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, USA

*** Contact Information ***

Yiuming Cheung
Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
E-mail: ymc@...

IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'06: Last Call for Workshop Proposals

2006-04-04T01:51:13Z

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Call for Workshop Proposals

2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint
Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
(WI-IAT'06)

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China,
18-22 December 2006

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06

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Workshop Proposals Due: 10 April 2006
All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop
Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press
===================================================================

The Program Committees of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint
Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
(WI-IAT'06) invite proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be
held at the beginning of the Conference, December 18, 2006 at Hong
Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the
workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the
papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and
range of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be
included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society
Press and will be available at the workshops.

The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing
selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or
special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A
full-day workshop should select 20-25 regular papers, while a half-day
workshop should select 10-13 regular papers, from a large number of
submissions. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of
authors of accepted papers at the workshops.

I. Workshop Topics

Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and
initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology
(IAT). The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for
researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results
and practical development experiences in these two fields. Suggested,
but not limited to, workshop topics include:

- Intelligent E-Technology (including E-Science, E-Business,
E-Learning, E-Finance, E-Government, E-Community)
- Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
- Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
- Semantics and Ontology Engineering
- Social Networks and Social Intelligence
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Web Agents
- Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
- Web Mining and Forming
- Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
- Web Services and Grid Services
- Web Support Systems
- World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
- Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
- Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
- Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
- Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
- Learning and Self-Adapting Agents
- Distributed Intelligence

II. Workshop Proposal Submission

Workshop proposals should include the following elements:

- Title of the workshop
- Your name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address
- A description of the topic of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words)
- Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
- A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of
Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology
- A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as
to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers

After the acceptation of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should:

- Create a "Call for papers/participation" for the workshop
- Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will be published
on the Conference Web site
- Create a Board of Reviewers (Program Committee)
- Review and select papers
- Schedule the workshop activities

Those papers selected by a workshop organizer will also be reviewed by
the Workshop Co-Chairs for final acceptance.

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical
quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.

We will provide an online paper submission and review system
to support the workshops.

III. Important Dates

- April 10, 2006: Workshop proposal submission due
(Please send proposals by e-mail to all three Workshop Co-Chairs)
- April 20, 2006: Notification to workshop proposers
- April 30, 2006: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops
Papers
- July 30, 2006: Due date for full workshop papers submission
(at least two reviews for each paper)
- September 5, 2006: Final acceptance by Workshop Co-Chairs
- September 8, 2006: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
- September 29, 2006: Camera-ready of accepted papers
- December 18, 2006: Workshop day

We look forward to your support in making 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT
workshops an exciting event.

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Cory J. Butz, University of Regina, Canada
E-mail: butz@...
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
E-mail: thanh@...
Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
E-mail: ytakama@...

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

For your information, the WI-IAT'06 conference will be co-located with
the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06) for
providing synergism among the three research areas. It will provide
opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous
conferences. The three conferences will have the joint opening,
keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register one
conference and can attend sessions across the three conferences. We
are planning to have a joint panel and joint paper sessions that
discuss common problems in the three areas.

IEEE ICDM'06: Last Call for Workshop Proposals

2006-03-31T00:03:07Z

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Call for Workshop Proposals

ICDM '06: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China,
18-22 December 2006

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/

*******************************************************************
Workshop Proposals Due: 10 April 2006
All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop
Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press
===================================================================

The Program Committee of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Data
Mining (ICDM '06) invites proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will
be held at the beginning of the Conference, December 18, 2006 at the
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the
workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the
papers, and guaranteeing high quality worthy of the prestige and range
of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included
in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press
and will be available at the workshops.

The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing
selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or
special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A
full-day workshop should select 20-25 regular papers, while a half-day
workshop should select 10-13 regular papers, from a large number of
submissions. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of
authors of accepted papers at the workshops.

Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and
initiatives in Data Mining. The workshops should provide an informal
and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share
their research results and practical development experiences in the
data mining field.

Workshop Proposal Submission
-----------------------------

Workshop proposals should include the following elements:

- Title of the workshop
- Your name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address
- A description of the topic of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words)
- Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
- A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of
Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology
- A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as
to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers

After the acceptance of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should:

- Create a "Call for papers/participation" for the workshop
- Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will be published
on the Conference Web site
- Create a Board of Reviewers (Program Committee)
- Review and select papers
- Schedule the workshop activities

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical
quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.

Those papers selected by a workshop organizer will also be reviewed by
the Workshop Co-Chairs for final acceptance.

We will provide an online paper submission and review system to
support the workshops.

Important Dates
---------------

- April 10, 2006: Workshop proposal submission due
(Please send proposals by e-mail to Workshops Chair)
- April 20, 2006: Notification to workshop proposers
- April 30, 2006: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops
Papers
- July 30, 2006: Due date for full workshop papers submission
(at least two reviews for each paper)
- September 5, 2006: Final acceptance by Workshop Co-Chairs
- September 8, 2006: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
- September 29, 2006: Camera-ready of accepted papers
- December 18, 2006: Workshop day

We look forward to your support in making 2006 IEEE Data Mining
workshops an exciting event.

Workshops Chair:

* Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan
E-mail: tsumoto@...

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year
(i.e., the conference registration covers everything).

For your information, the ICDM '06 conference will be co-located with
the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) for providing synergism
among the three research areas. It will provide opportunities for
technical collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The three
conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across the three conferences.
We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper sessions that
discuss common problems in the three areas.

Volume 3, Issue 2, April - June 2006 : International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR)

2006-03-14T09:16:47Z

Apologies if you received this multiple times. Thank you.

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The contents of the latest issue of:

International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR)
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 3, Issue 2, April - June 2006
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1545-7362
EISSN: 1546-5004
http://www.servicescomputing.org/jwsr

Editor-In-Chief: Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center USA

EDITORIAL PREFACE:

“Web Services in Data, Control, and Applications”

Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA
Liang-Jie Zhang, Editor-In-Chief, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

This issue of the International Journal of Web Services research (JWSR) is a collection of five papers on various topics of Web services.

RESEARCH PAPERS

PAPER ONE:

“Search Strategies for Automatic Web Service Composition”

Nikola Milanovic, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Miroslaw Malek, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

This paper investigates architectural properties required for supporting automatic service composition. First, composable service architecture will be described, based on modeling Web Services as abstract machines supported by formally defined composition operators. Based on the proposed infrastructure, the authors give several options for achieving automatic service composition by treating it as a search problem. Namely, basic heuristic, probabilistic, learning-based, decomposition and bidirectional automatic composition mechanisms will be presented and compared. Finally, this article discusses the impact and outlook for automatic composition.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=5964

PAPER TWO:

“XWRAPComposer: A Multi-Page Data Extraction Service”

Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jianjun Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Wei Han, IBM Research, Almaden Research Center, USA
Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
James Caverlee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Sungkeun Park, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Terence Critchlow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
David Buttler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Matthew Coleman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

The authors of this paper present a service-oriented architecture and a set of techniques for developing wrapper code generators, including the methodology of designing an effective wrapper program construction facility and a concrete implementation, called XWRAPComposer. This wrapper generation framework has two unique design goals. First, the authors explicitly separate tasks of building wrappers that are specific to a Web service from the tasks that are repetitive for any service. Second, inductive learning algorithms that derive information flow and data extraction patterns by reasoning about sample pages or sample specifications are used. More importantly, the authors design a declarative rule-based script language for multi-page information extraction, encouraging a clean separation of the information extraction semantics from the information flow control and execution logic of wrapper programs.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=5965

PAPER THREE:

“An Ontology-Based Content Model for Intelligent Web Content Access Services”

Stephen J. H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan
Norman W. Y. Shao, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Intelligent Web content access is a fundamental Web service, representing the first step toward semantic Web services. A lack of adequate and sufficient interpretation for content in current methods impedes access to content. This study regards Web content as any content described and published in the format of a markup language such as HTML or XML. In this paper, the authors present the Content Model, combining subjective information from the content itself with objective information from people’s perceptions of this content, providing an integrated interpretation of a content item. During accessing, a search engine examines the description of a content item, as found in the Content Model, to find matching files. An ontology-based Content Model is developed and applied to the Web environment to enhance Web content accessibility. Results of this study demonstrate that the proposed Content Model provides essential content descriptions for locating, accessing, and interacting with content providers.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=5966

PAPER FOUR:

“Self-Reconfiguration of Service-Based System for Service Level Agreements and Resource Optimization”

Ying Li, IBM China Research Laboratory, China
Kewei Sun, IBM China Research Laboratory, China
Jie Qiu, IBM China Research Laboratory, China
Ying Chen, IBM China Research Laboratory, China

In this paper, the authors propose an autonomic computing approach to the problem of reconfiguration, that is, enabling the service-based system to configure itself by means of a loop of monitoring, analyzing, planning and executing. This article begins by formalizing the definition of reconfiguration. Then, a description is given on how to implement the autonomic computing mechanisms for reconfiguring service-based systems to satisfy Service Level Agreements with minimal resource consumption. The approach is demonstrated on a resilient service provisioning environment. Finally, the preliminary experiments are evaluated to determine the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=5967

PAPER FIVE:

“UML-Based Support for Designing and Validating Web Service Descriptions”

Juanjuan Jiang, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Tarja Systä, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

WSDL descriptions, often characterized as IDLs for Web services, are a key for Web service interoperability. Therefore, special care should be taken in designing WSDL descriptions. In this paper, the authors present an approach that provides UML-based support to design and validate WSDL descriptions. To promote Web service interoperability, WS-I organization provides a Basic Profile that defines clarifications, refinements, interpretations, and amplifications of Web service specifications, including WSDL. The article suggests UML-based profiles to define structural rules of WSDL documents as well as Basic Profile recommendations for WSDL descriptions. These profiles can be used to guide the user in designing correct and Basic-Profile-compliant WSDL descriptions and to check the validity of existing WSDL descriptions. A method and tools for such validity checking is proposed, and the applicability of the approach with case studies.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=5968

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For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) in your Institution's library. If your library is not currently subscribed to this Journal, please recommend JWSR subscription to your librarian.
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Note: For only $18.00, purchase a JWSR article or any of over 1,100 single journal articles available electronically by visiting www.idea-group.com/articles.

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Mission of JWSR:

Web Services are among the most important emerging technologies in the e-business, computer software and communication industries. The Web Services technologies will redefine the way that companies do business and exchange information in the twenty-first century. They will enhance business efficiency by enabling dynamic provisioning of resources from a pool of distributed resources. Due to the importance of the field, there is a significant amount of ongoing research in the areas. In a parallel effort, standardization organizations are actively developing standards for Web Services. The Web Services are creating what will become one of the most significant industries of the new century. The International Journal of Web Services Research is designed to be a valuable resource providing leading technologies, development, ideas, and trends to an international readership of researchers and engineers in the field of Web Services.

Coverage of JWSR:

Web Services architecture
Web Services security
Frameworks for building Web Service applications
Composite Web Service creation and enabling infrastructures
Web Services discovery
Resource management for Web Services
Solution Management for Web Services
Dynamic invocation mechanisms for Web Services
Quality of service for Web Services
Web Services modeling
Web Services performance
UDDI enhancements
SOAP enhancements
Case Studies for Web Services
E-Commerce applications using Web Services
Grid based Web Services applications (e.g. OGSA)
Business process integration and management using Web Services
Multimedia applications using Web Services
Mathematic foundations for service oriented computing
Communication applications using Web Services
Interactive TV applications using Web Services
Semantic services computing
Business Grid

Interested authors should consult the Journal's manuscript submission guidelines at http://www.idea-group.com/jwsr . Please submit your paper through the online system (http://www.servicescomputing.org/jwsr).

All inquiries should be sent to:
Editor-In-Chief: Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang at zhanglj AT us.ibm.com

CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT'06

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IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS

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2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06)

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China,
18-22 December 2006.

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/

(Papers Due: 5 July 2006)
**********************************************************************

The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06)
will be jointly held with the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'06)
and the 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06)
for providing synergism among the three research areas.
It will provide opportunities for technical
collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The three
conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across the three conferences.
We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper sessions that discuss
common problems in the three areas.

IAT 2006 provides a leading international forum to bring together
researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer
science, information technology, business, education, human factors,
systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design
principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in
intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the
cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents
and multi-agent systems among different domains. By encouraging
idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive,
physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling
technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2006 will foster the
development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based
computing.

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Topics of Interest
+++++++++++++++++++

The topics and areas include, but not limited to:

* Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
- Agent-Based Complex Systems Modeling and Development
- Agent-Based Simulation
- Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computation Methods
- Behavioral Self-Organization
- Complex Behavior Characterization and Engineering
- Emergent Behavior
- Hard Computational Problem Solving
- Self-Organized Criticality
- Self-Organized Intelligence
- Swarm Intelligence
- Nature-Inspired Paradigms

* Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
- Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining
- Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery And Sharing
- Autonomous Information Services
- Distributed Knowledge Systems
- Emergent Natural Law Discovery in Multi-Agent Systems
- Evolution of Knowledge Networks
- Human-Agent Interaction
- Information Filtering Agents
- Knowledge Aggregation
- Knowledge Discovery
- Ontology-Based Information Services

* Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
- Agent Interaction Protocols
- Cognitive Architectures
- Cognitive Modeling of Agents
- Emotional Modeling
- Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems
- Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems
- Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems
- Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
- Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols
- Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures
- Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques
- Multi-Agent Planning and Re-Planning
- Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems
- Reinforcement Learning
- Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems
- Task-Based Agent Context
- Task-Oriented Agents

* Distributed Problem Solving
- Agent-Based Grid Computing
- Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving
- Collective Group Behavior
- Coordination and Cooperation
- Distributed Intelligence
- Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations
- Efficiency and Complexity Issues
- Market-Based Computing
- Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments
- Distributed Search

* Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
- Agent-Based Marketplaces
- Auction Markets
- Combinatorial Auctions
- Hybrid Negotiation
- Integrative Negotiation
- Mediating Agents
- Pricing Agents
- Thin Double Auctions

* Applications
- Agent-Based Assistants
- Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise
- Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications
- Interface Agents
- Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems
- Perceptive Animated Interfaces
- Scalability
- Social Simulation
- Socially Situated Planning
- Software and Pervasive Agents
- Tools and Standards
- Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents
- Ubiquitous Software Services
- Virtual Humans
- XML-Based Agent Systems

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and
supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the
basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
Note that IAT'06 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
PDF versions.

Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the
IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings
Author Guidelines at
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/ieeecs/publications),
and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of
technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality,
significance, and clarity. Please use the Submission Form on the IAT'06
website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published
in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

A selected number of IAT'06 accepted papers will be expanded and
revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An
International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in
Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics
(http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html)

The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the
authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
best application paper award.

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
found from the IAT'06 homepage: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06/.

++++++++++++++++++++
Industry/Demo-Track
++++++++++++++++++++

We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following two methods:

(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
the research track.
(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.

For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions
at the homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/iat/?index=demo

We are planning to arrange the Demo session in the afternoon of Dec 19
(before and during the conference reception), jointly with the WI'06 and
ICDM'06 Demo sessions.

+++++++++
Workshops
+++++++++

IAT'06 welcomes Workshop proposals. As an important part of the
conference, the workshop program will focus on new research challenges
and initiatives. All papers accepted for workshops will be included
in the Workshop Proceedings, which are expected to be published by
IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the
workshops. Detailed information is available at the conference
homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

++++++++++
Tutorials
++++++++++

IAT'06 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'06 will include
tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad
interest to the intelligent agent community. Both short (2 hours) and
long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be
part of the main conference technical program. Detailed information
is available at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee this year
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

++++++++++++++++
Important Dates
++++++++++++++++

Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2006
Electronic submission of full papers: ** July 5, 2006 **
Tutorial proposal submission: July 15, 2006
Notification of paper acceptance: September 4, 2006
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: October 4, 2006
Workshops: December 18, 2006
Conference: December 19-22, 2006

++++++++++++++++++++++++
Conference Organization
++++++++++++++++++++++++

Conference Chairs:
* Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
* Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Organizing Chair:
* Yiu-Ming Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

Program Chair:
* Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan

Program Co-chairs:
* Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany
* Katia Sycara, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
* Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University, Japan

Industry/Demo-Track:
* Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
* Kazuhiro Kuwabara, ATR, Japan
* Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA

Workshop Co-Chairs:
* Cory J. Butz, University of Regina, Canada
* Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
* Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
* Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
* Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada
* Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics/University of Tokyo,
Japan

Publicity Chairs:
* Marcin Szczuka, Warsaw University, Poland
* Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
* Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA

Sponsorship Chairs:
* Man-chung Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
* Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan
* Zhaohui Tang, Micorsoft Corp., USA
* Hongjin Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Program Vice Co-chairs:
* Jeffrey Bradshaw, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition/UWF, USA
* Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Warsaw University, Poland
* Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, University of Paris 6 and CNRS, France
* Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
* Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
* Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College, UK
* Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
* Liz Sonenberg, The University of Melbourne, Australia

*** Contact Information ***

Yiuming Cheung
Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
E-mail: ymc@...

WI'06: Call For Papers

2006-02-15T01:04:55Z

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

IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS

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

2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Web Intelligence (WI'06)

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China,
18-22 December 2006.

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/

(Papers Due: 5 July 2006)
**********************************************************************

Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for
scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles
as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
(e.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and
data mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and
advanced Information Technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks,
ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids) on
the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and
activities. It is one of the most important as well as promising IT
research fields in the era of Web and agent intelligence.

The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI'06) will be jointly held with the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06) and the 6th IEEE
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'06) for providing
synergism among the three research areas. It will provide
opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous
conferences. The three conferences will have a joint opening, keynote,
reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one
conference and can attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across the
three conferences. We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper
sessions that discuss common problems in the three areas.

+++++++++++++++++++
Topics of Interest
+++++++++++++++++++

The topics and areas include, but not limited to:

* World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
- Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation
- Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML)
- Search of Best Means and Ends
- Goal-Directed Services Support
- Distributed Resources Optimization
- Service Self-Aggregation
- Web Inference Engine
- Information and Knowledge Markets

* New Social Interaction Paradigms
- Social and Psychological Contexts
- Regularities and Laws of W4
- Social Networks and Social Intelligence
- Social Networks Mining
- Web Site Clustering
- Link Topology and Site Hierarchy
- Theories of Small-World Web
- Virtual and Web Communities
- Web-Based Cooperative Work

* Knowledge Community Formation and Support
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Intelligent Wireless Web
- Ubiquitous Learning Systems
- Entertainment

* Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
- Semantic Grids
- Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery
- On-Demand Planning and Routing
- Brokering and Scheduling
- Middleware Architectures and Tools

* Web Mining and Farming
- Text Mining
- Data Stream Mining
- Multimedia Data Mining
- Web Content Mining
- Web Log and Usage Mining
- Learning User Profiles
- Context Sensitive Web Mining
- Web Information Clustering
- Web Page Clustering and Mining
- E-Mail Classification
- Web Site Classification
- Web Information Indexing
- Data Warehousing
- Web Farming and Warehousing

* Semantics and Ontology Engineering
- Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval
- Ontology-Based Web Mining
- Web-Based Ontology Learning
- Semantic Web

* Web Agents
- Global Information Foraging
- Distributed Problem Solving
- Coordination
- Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
- Self-Organization and Reproduction
- Agent Networks and Topologies
- Mobile Agents
- Macroscopic Behavior Modeling
- Trust Models for Web Agents

* Web Services
- Service-Oriented Computing
- Matchmaking
- Web Service Reconfiguration
- Web Service Workflow Composition
- Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services
- Grid Services

* Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
- Automatic Cataloging and Indexing
- Clustering-Based Recommender Systems
- Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation
- Hybrid Recommendation
- Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations
- Web Information Categorization and Ranking
- Proxy and Cache Techniques
- Web Prediction and Prefetching
- Distributed Web Search
- Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process
- Web Crawling Systems
- Search Engines and Meta-search Engines

* Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
- Adaptive Web Interfaces
- Context-Aware Computing
- Learning User Profiles
- Personalized Interfaces
- Personalized Web Sites
- Remembrance Agents
- Multimedia Representation
- Visualization of Information and Knowledge
- Social and Psychological Issues

* Web Support Systems
- Information Retrieval Support Systems
- Web Site Navigation Support Systems
- Recommender Support Systems
- Web-Based Decision Support Systems
- Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic,
evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing)
and Uncertainty Management for WI

* Intelligent e-Technology
- Business Intelligence
- Intelligent Enterprise Portals
- Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM
- Web-Based EDI
- e-Publishing
- e-Business and e-Commerce
- e-Finance
- e-Community
- Decentralized Community Communication Techniques
- e-Learning
- Digital Library
- e-Science
- e-Government
- Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On-Line Submissions and Publication
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and
supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the
basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.
Note that WI'06 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing
PDF versions.

Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the
IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings
Author Guidelines at
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/ieeecs/publications),
and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of
technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality,
significance, and clarity. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'06
website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published
in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

A selected number of WI'06 accepted papers will be expanded and
revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An
International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in
Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics
(http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html)

The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the
authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
best application paper award.

More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be
found from the WI'06 homepage: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06/.

++++++++++++++++++++
Industry/Demo-Track
++++++++++++++++++++

We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods.

(1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as
the research track.
(2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule.
(3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option.
That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to
specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of
demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing
process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration.

For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions
at the homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/wi/?index=demo

We are planning to arrange the Demo session in the afternoon of Dec 19
(before and during the conference reception), jointly with the IAT'06 and
ICDM'06 Demo sessions.

+++++++++
Workshops
+++++++++

WI'06 welcomes Workshop proposals. As an important part of the
conference, the workshop program will focus on new research challenges
and initiatives. All papers accepted for workshops will be included
in the Workshop Proceedings, which are expected to be published by
IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the
workshops. Detailed information is available at the conference
homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year
(i.e., conference registration covers everything).

++++++++++
Tutorials
++++++++++

WI'06 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'06 will include tutorials
providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest
to the Web intelligence community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half
day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the
main conference technical program. Detailed information is available
at the conference homepage.

Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee this year
(i.e., only one conference registration covers everything).

++++++++++++++++
Important Dates
++++++++++++++++

Workshop proposal submission: April 10, 2006
Electronic submission of full papers: ** July 5, 2006 **
Tutorial proposal submission: July 15, 2006
Notification of paper acceptance: September 4, 2006
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: October 4, 2006
Workshops: December 18, 2006
Conference: December 19-22, 2006

++++++++++++++++++++++++
Conference Organization
++++++++++++++++++++++++

Conference Chairs:
* Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
* Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Organizing Chair:
* Yiu-Ming Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

Program Chair:
* Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan

Program Co-chairs:
* Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
* Ubbo Visser, Science Universitat Bremen, Germany
* Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA

Industry/Demo-Track Co-Chairs:
* Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
* Kazuhiro Kuwabara, ATR, Japan
* Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA

Workshop Co-Chairs:
* Cory J. Butz, University of Regina, Canada
* Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
* Yasufumi Takama, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
* Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
* Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada
* Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics/University of Tokyo,
Japan

Publicity Chairs:
* Marcin Szczuka, Warsaw University, Poland
* Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
* Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA

Sponsorship Chairs:
* Man-chung Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
* Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan
* Hongjin Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Program Vice Co-chairs:
* Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Greia" of Catanzaro, Italy
* Meng Chang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
* Joost Kok, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, The Netherlands
* Tsau Young Lin, San Jose State University, USA
* Massimo Marchiori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and
University of Venice, Italy
* Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
* Sankar Pal, Machine Intelligence Unit Indian Statistical Institute, India
* Steve Willmott, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
* Chengqi Zhang, Faculty of Information Technology, Australia
* Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, USA

*** Contact Information ***

Yiuming Cheung
Hong Kong Baptist University, HK
E-mail: ymc@...

ICDM'06: Call for Workshop Proposals

2006-02-08T00:09:58Z

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Call for Workshop Proposals

ICDM '06: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China,
18-22 December 2006.

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/

(Workshop Proposals Due: 10 April 2006)
===================================================================

The Program Committee of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Data
Mining (ICDM '06) invites proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will
be held at the beginning of the Conference, December 18, 2006 at the
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the
workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the
papers, and guaranteeing high quality worthy of the prestige and range
of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included
in the Workshop Proceedings, which are expected to be published by
IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshops.

The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing
selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or
special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A
full-day workshop should select 20-25 regular papers, while a half-day
workshop should select 10-13 regular papers, from a large number of
submissions. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of
authors of accepted papers at the workshops.

Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and
initiatives in Data Mining. The workshops should provide an informal
and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share
their research results and practical development experiences in the
data mining field.

Workshop Proposal Submission
-----------------------------

Workshop proposals should include the following elements:

- Title of the workshop
- Your name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address
- A description of the topic of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words)
- Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
- A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of
Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology
- A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as
to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers

After the acceptance of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should:

- Create a "Call for papers/participation" for the workshop
- Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will be published
on the Conference Web site
- Create a Board of Reviewers (Program Committee)
- Review and select papers
- Schedule the workshop activities

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical
quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.

Those papers selected by a workshop organizer will also be reviewed by
the Workshop Co-Chairs for final acceptance.

We will provide an online paper submission and review system to
support the workshops.

Important Dates
---------------

- April 10, 2006: Workshop proposal submission due
(Please send proposals by e-mail to Workshops Chair)
- April 20, 2006: Notification to workshop proposers
- April 30, 2006: Each workshop organizer sends out Call for Workshops
Papers
- July 30, 2006: Due date for full workshop papers submission
(at least two reviews for each paper)
- September 5, 2006: Final acceptance by Workshop Co-Chairs
- September 8, 2006: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
- October 8, 2006: Camera-ready of accepted papers
- December 18, 2006: Workshop day

We look forward to your support in making 2006 IEEE Data Mining
workshops an exciting event.

Workshops Chair:

* Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan
E-mail: tsumoto@...

Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year
(i.e., the conference registration covers everything).

For your information, the ICDM '06 conference will be co-located with
the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) for providing synergism
among the three research areas. It will provide opportunities for
technical collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The three
conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across the three conferences.
We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper sessions that
discuss common problems in the three areas.

Table of Contents of the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR): 3(1), 2006

2005-12-09T09:12:25Z

The contents of the latest issue of:

International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR)
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 3, Issue 1, January-March 2006
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1545-7362
EISSN: 1546-5004

Editor-In-Chief: Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM, USA

EDITORIAL PREFACE:

Jia Zhang, Associate Editor, Northern Illinois University, USA
Liang-Jie Zhang, Editor-In-Chief, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

This issue of the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) collects five papers on the topics of Web services information confidentiality, transport protocol enhancements, dynamic service composition and configuration, services-oriented data access, and services-based application design and development.

RESEARCH PAPERS

PAPER ONE:

“A Dynamic Label Checking Approach for Information Flow Control in Web Services”

Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia
Peter Bertok, RMIT University, Australia
Dusan Simic, RMIT University, Australia

Information Flow Control (IFC) is a method of enforcing confidentiality by using labels, data structures for specifying security classifications. IFC is used in programming languages to monitor procedures in an attempt to detect and prevent information leakage. While it ensures greater security, IFC excessively restricts flow of information. This paper presents a model of information flow control using semi-discretionary label structures. The authors propose a set of rules that not only increases the flexibility of IFC but also defines labels as a practical component of a security system. The authors propose a dynamic approach using a centralized model for dynamic label checking and verify the proposed model using theoretical proofs.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=5522

PAPER TWO:

“Service-Oriented Solution Framework for Internet Banking”

Tony Chao Shan, Wachovia Corporation, USA
Winnie Wei Hua, CTS Inc., USA

This paper describes a service-oriented solution framework designed for Internet banking in financial services. A pragmatic approach is developed to help migrate conventional n-tier e-commerce systems to a service-oriented computing paradigm, composed of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Integration (SOI), Process (SOP), and Management (SOM). This comprehensive framework comprises Service Patterns, Architecture Process, Hybrid Methodology, Service-Oriented Enterprise Model, and Solution Platform. E-business patterns are applied to categorize diverse online services, which form the baseline for subsequent selection justifications of appropriate technologies, products/tools, and infrastructure. A multi-level architecture process is developed to cope with the architecture complexity in a disciplined way. Furthermore, a hybrid methodology is designed to leverage the benefits of both top-down and bottom-up approaches, in which a converging layer is conceived to incorporate the latest technologies such as portal, process orchestration, Web services, service aggregations, business rule engine, and so forth.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=5523

PAPER THREE:

“Bandwidth and Latency Considerations for Efficient SOAP Messaging”

Christian Werner, University of Lübeck, Germany
Carsten Buschmann, University of Lübeck, Germany
Tobias Jäcker, University of Braunschweig, Germany
Stefan Fischer, University of Lübeck, Germany

Although Web service technology is being used in more and more distributed systems, its areas of application are inherently limited by high latencies and high amounts of protocol overhead. For messaging in environments with user interaction, like Web platforms for business or multimedia applications, the response time of the whole system needs to be kept in tight boundaries. In other scenarios including mobile communication and battery-powered devices, bandwidth-efficient communication is imperative. In this paper, the authors address both of these issues. First they conduct a detailed latency analysis of different transport mechanisms for SOAP and then thoroughly investigate their protocol overhead. For both aspects the authors present a theoretical analysis as well as experimental measurement results. A new transport binding called PURE is then introduced.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.idea-group.com/articles/details.asp?id=5524

PAPER FOUR:

“Facilitating Dynamic Service Compositions by Adaptable Service Connectors”

Gang Li, Institute of Computing Technology, China
Yanbo Han, Institute of Computing Technology, China
Zhuofeng Zhao, Institute of Computing Technology, China
Jing Wang, Institute of Computing Technology and
Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Roland M. Wagner, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering, Germany

Dynamic changes of services and requirements require service connection relationships adaptable in service compositions. This paper presents an adaptable service connector model and related language and tools. The model presents service connection relationships as an explicit component with which service connections can be reconfigured and changes of services involved in the interaction can be handled; this makes the service connection relationships more adaptive. With the language and tools supporting the model, services can be dynamically chained, which make service-oriented applications adapt to volatile business requirements and dynamic changeable services. The related case study and evaluation are also presented in this paper.

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“XML Data Services”

Vinayak Borkar, BEA Systems, Inc., USA
Michael Carey, BEA Systems, Inc., USA
Nitin Mangtani, BEA Systems, Inc., USA
Denny McKinney, BEA Systems, Inc., USA
Rahul Patel, BEA Systems, Inc., USA
Sachin Thatte, BEA Systems, Inc., USA

In this paper, the authors address the question, “In the brave new world of Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOA), how does data fit in?” They bring data modeling concepts to bear on the world of services, yielding an approach in which enterprise data access is handled by a collection of interrelated data services. It is then shown how the approach can be realized on a foundation of XML standards, namely XML Schema, Web services, and XQuery. The authors show that this approach provides a uniform and declarative framework for integrating enterprise data assets that are drawn from disparate underlying sources, including both queryable and non-queryable data sources as well as data that is encapsulated by Web services. How the approach yields data services that are easily and efficiently reusable is also explained.

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