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I am happy to announce that the inaugural issue of the International Journal oF Operating System Security, published by CserLab and indexed by ISI Thomson, Google scholar and cyrus . Please find below the Table of Contents of the first issue.
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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
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TITLE OF BOOK: Ubiquitous Multimedia and Mobile Agents: Models and Implementations
EDITOR: Dr. Susmit Bagchi, Samsung Electronics Ltd.
TO BE PUBLISHED BY: IGI GLOBAL, USA.
http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=778
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Introduction
The ubiquitous multimedia systems, or mobile multimedia systems, offer the promise of pervasive delivery
of multimedia contents to the mobile users to their hand-held devices.

The ubiquitous/mobile multimedia systems have enormous research challenges and, also, commercial potentials
for the end products. The ubiquitous multimedia systems involve user/creator authentication, media adaptation,
data delivery over wireless network, QoS awareness, and user-mobility management. On the other hand, the mobile
agent technology is appropriate for the realization of a wide range of high-end mobile applications.
Agents/mobile-agents are capable of tackling various challenges faced by mobile multimedia delivery infrastructure.

We solicit scholarly book chapters on the hybridization of these two paradigms, namely, ubiquitous/mobile multimedia
and mobile agents, where mobile agents act as the platform to realize mobile multimedia delivery infrastructure. We are
soliciting technical papers, in the form of book chapters, dealing with mobile agents-based ubiquitous content delivery,
agent-based media adaptation, agent-based QoS management, and agent-based user-mobility management, as well as
establishing ubiquitous media delivery infrastructure based on agent-mediated platforms/middleware.

Intended Audience
The book will be published by IGI Global in 2011. This book will serve as a reference book of scholarly value for advanced
level students, researchers, and professionals.

Topic Areas
The technical contents should be within (but not limited to) the following domains:

– Agent/Mobile-Agent based Multimedia Content Discovery
– Agent/Mobile-Agent based Multimedia Content Adaptation
– Agent/Mobile-Agent based Content Delivery to Mobile-Users
– Agent/Mobile-Agent based QoS Management for Mobile Multimedia
– Agent/Mobile-Agent based Mobile/Ubiquitous Multimedia Systems Infrastructure
– Agent/Mobile-Agent based Ubiquitous/Mobile Multimedia Models
– Agent/Mobile-Agent based Middleware for Ubiquitous Multimedia
– Agent/Mobile-Agent and System Interactions/Communications to support Mobile Multimedia
– Content Creator/User Authentication by Agents in Ubiquitous Multimedia Systems
– Agents/Mobile-Agents, Agent Migration, and Wireless Network to realize Ubiquitous Multimedia
– Agent/Mobile-Agent based Resource Management in Mobile Multimedia Systems
– Agent/Mobile-Agent based User-Mobility Management in Mobile Multimedia Systems

Technical Contents
The chapters may contain any, or a combination, of the following research contributions in the above mentioned areas:

– Theoretical Models and Formal Verifications/Proofs
– Algorithms, Middleware, Protocol, and Performance by Simulation
– Real-World Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation
– Software Design, Software Models, Implementations and Verifications, Performance

Submission Guidelines
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before February 15, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly
explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter, as PDF or DOC file attachment, to the Editor
(dr.susmitbagchi@yahoo.in). The proposal should contain the following information:

1.1 Name of chapter,
1.2 Name of author(s), e-mail address and affiliation,
1.3 Technical area covered in the chapter,
1.4 Main contributions which will be made by author(s),
1.5 Specify the technical novelty in the contribution
1.6 Detailed table of contents of the chapter

Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 1, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.
Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 15, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.
Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference”
(formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and
“Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.
This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.

Important Dates
Proposal Submission Deadline: 15 February 2010 (Extended to 15 March)
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 1 March 2010 (Extended to 01 April)
Full Chapter Submission: 15 July 2010
Review Results Returned: 30 September 2010
Revised Chapter Submission: 30 October 2010
Final Deadline: 30 November 2010

Editorial Advisory Board
– Dr. Atilla Elci, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus
– Dr. Hafizur Rahaman, Bengal Engineering and Science University, India
– Dr. Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
– Dr. Yong-Kee Jun, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea
– Dr. Sule Yildirim, Hedmark University College, Norway
– Dr. Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
– Dr. Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically to:
dr.susmitbagchi@yahoo.in

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Draft paper submission deadline is extended: EISWT-10, Orlando, USA

The 2010 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. EISWT is an important event in the areas of Enterprise Information Systems, Enterprise Solution Systems, Databases as well as Web Technologies.

The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10). MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of researc
h to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10.

• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10)
• International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10)
• International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10)
• International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10)
• International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10)
• International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10)
• International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10)
• International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10)
• International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10)
• International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10)

MULTICONF-10 will be held at Imperial Swan Hotel and Suites, located in Orlando, USA.  It is a full-service resort that puts you in the middle of the fun! Located 1/2 block south of the famed International Drive, the hotel is just minutes from great entertainment like Walt Disney World® Resort, Universal Studios and Sea World Orlando. Guests can enjoy free scheduled transportation to these theme parks, as well as spacious accommodations, outdoor pools and on-site dining — all situated on 10 tro
pically landscaped acres. Here, guests can experience a full-service resort with discount hotel pricing in Orlando.

We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details.

Sincerely
John Edward
Publicity committee

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CALL FOR PAPERS - SEKE2010 (http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke10.html)
Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School

The Twenty-Second International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE2010) will be held at the Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City, California, USA, July 1-3, 2010.

The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss on relevant results in either software engineering or knowledge engineering or both. Special emphasis will be put on the transference of methods between both domains.

The theme this year is smarter software engineering. Invited keynoters include Josephine Cheng (IBM Fellow and VP), Alfred Spector (Executive Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives, Google, USA), Daniel Cooke, Guenther Ruhe, and other distinguished speakers.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission due: March 2, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2010
Early registration deadline: May 10, 2010
Camera-ready copy: May 10, 2010

WORKSHOPS
Service-oriented Computing and Engineering - Chu, Chang and Bryant
Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization - Gao, Muccini and Bai

SPECIAL SESSIONS
Adaptive Distributed Computing Systems and Applications - Sadjadi and Ezenwoye
Computational Collective Intelligence for Distributed Knowledge Processing - Nguyen and Jung
Interoperability and Semantic Web Technologies - Garcia-Castro
Machine Learning with Value-based Software Engineering - Zhang
Software Engineering with Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning - Reformat and Khoshgoftaar
Software Measurement - Cuadrado-Gallego, Abran and Dumke

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (Postscript, PDF, or MS Word format) of the full paper should be submitted using the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/seke2010/submit/SubmitPaper.php. Please use Internet Explorer as the browser. Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column text (including figures and references).

TOPICS
Agent architectures, ontologies, languages and protocols
Multi-agent systems
Agent-based learning and knowledge discovery
Interface agents
Agent-based auctions and marketplaces
Artificial life and societies
Secure mobile and multi-agent systems
Mobile agents
Mobile Commerce Technology and Application Systems
Mobile Systems

Autonomic computing
Adaptive Systems
Integrity, Security, and Fault Tolerance
Reliability
Enterprise Software, Middleware, and Tools
Process and Workflow Management
E-Commerce Solutions and Applications
Industry System Experience and Report

Service-centric software engineering
Service oriented requirements engineering
Service oriented architectures
Middleware for service based systems
Service discovery and composition
Quality of services
Service level agreements (drafting, negotiation, monitoring and management)
Runtime service management
Semantic web

Requirements Engineering
Agent-based software engineering
Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Software Engineering
Component-Based Software Engineering
Automated Software Specification
Automated Software Design and Synthesis
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Embedded and Ubiquitous Software Engineering
Measurement and Empirical Software Engineering
Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages and Software Engineering
Patterns and Frameworks
Reflection and Metadata Approaches
Program Understanding

Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge-Based and Expert Systems
Knowledge Representation and Retrieval
Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques
Time and Knowledge Management Tools
Knowledge Visualization
Data visualization
Uncertainty Knowledge Management
Ontologies and Methodologies
Learning Software Organization
Tutoring, Documentation Systems
Human-Computer Interaction
Multimedia Applications, Frameworks, and Systems
Multimedia and Hypermedia Software Engineering

Smart Spaces
Pervasive Computing
Swarm intelligence
Soft Computing

Software Architecture
Software Assurance
Software Domain Modeling and Meta-Modeling
Software dependability
Software economics
Software Engineering Decision Support
Software Engineering Tools and Environments
Software Maintenance and Evolution
Software Process Modeling
Software product lines
Software Quality
Software Reuse
Software Safety
Software Security
Software Engineering Case Study and Experience Reports

Web and text mining
Web-Based Tools, Applications and Environment
Web-Based Knowledge Management
Web-Based Tools, Systems, and Environments
Web and Data Mining

If you have any questions or run into problems, please send e-mail to:
seke10@ksi.edu.

SEKE 2010 Conference Secretariat
Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School 3420 Main Street Skokie, IL
60076 USA
Tel: 847-679-3135
Fax: 847-679-3166
E-mail: seke10@ksi.edu
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International Workshop on Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization
in Conjunction with
The Twenty-Second International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2010)Hotel Sofitel. San Francisco Bay, USA , July 1– July 3, 2010
(URL: http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke10.html)

Organized by Knowledge Systems Institute, U.S.A.

THEME

For decades software systems suffer from poor reliability. Billions of dollars and even lives are lost annually due to software errors. According to the report by NIST in 2002, poor software quality costs 60 billion dollars yearly to US economy, and 22 billion dollars can be regained by improving infrastructure for detecting errors using testing closer to the development phase. With the quick increase of software complexity and scale, test automation is becoming an emerging and effective solution in software quality assurance to meet tight project schedules with quality.

Today, there are many published research papers addressing software test automation issues and solutions, numerous test automation tools are available for quality assurance engineer. However, there are many open issues, obstacles, and challenges in software test automation, practice, and standardization. Moreover, there is an emerging need in software test automation standardization to reduce test automation efforts by increasing standardization of test process, test design, and test tools. This workshop is set up to meet these emerging needs.

GOALS

This international workshop on software test automation, practice, and automation brings together software test automation researchers and industry practitioners to exchange innovative ideas, practical solutions, and test automation tools to cope with practical issues and challenges in the real world. Moreover, this workshop is set-up to provide an effective forum for researchers and industry practitioners to discuss the diversity of test automation standards in software projects, test automation standardization needs, challenges, and importance. Furthermore, this workshop provides a great platform for engineers and researchers to report innovative software test automation solutions, and tools, and share practical project experience and lessons, as well as, exchange well-defined test automation standards.

TOPIC OF INTEREST

This international workshop seeks original papers, which propose new test automation ideas, solutions and tools, report practical experience in test automation projects, discuss new test automation processes, standards, models, and test criteria. The typical scope includes different perspectives in test automation, including auto-test infrastructure, standards, models, test generation, test execution, test management, and test coverage analysis and measurement. In addition, it also seeks practice reports that present the current issues, challenges, experience and lessons on software test automation projects.

The topics for submissions include but are not limited to the followings:

1. Auto-test solutions and tools:
* Software test automation tools and solutions for unit testing (black-box/white-box)
* Automatic techniques and tools for testing software production lines, such as installation testing, and configuration testing
* Automatic software regression test techniques and tools
* System load testing tools and performance evaluation tools for non-functional requirements and features
* Software simulation and tools for software auto-testing
* Software security testing techniques and tools
* User-oriented and requirements-based test automation approaches and tools
* Program-based software test automation methods, tools, and experience
* Language-based software test automation techniques and tools
* Software test automation cost analysis and complex evaluation tools
* Innovative software test languages, scripting techniques, and tools
* Automatic software test coverage analysis and monitoring tools

2. Test automation standardization:
* Test automation standardization issues, challenges, motivations, and needs
* Test automation standards in test processes, test models, test languages, coverage criteria, and documentation
* Test automation standards for test planning, design & analysis, test generation and scripting, test complexity and cost evaluation, and tools
* Test automation techniques, experience, lessons and case studies
* General and domain-specific standardization for test automation and tools

3. Emerging test automation methods and tools:
* Automatic validation techniques and technology for emerging software technologies
* SOA-based software test automation methods, techniques, and tools
* Model-based software test automation methods, techniques, and tools
* Component-based software test automation methods and tools
* Web-based and agent-based software test automation methods and tools
* Wireless-based software test automation approaches and tools

4. Test automation management and practice:
* Issues, challenges, and needs in software test automation and practice
* Test-driven-development techniques and project experience
* Software test automation case studies and empirical studies
* Software test automation project issues, experience and lessons learned

IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper submission due: March 2, 2010
* Notification of acceptance: April, 15, 2010
* Camera-ready copy: May 10, 2010
* Workshop and conference date: July 1-3, 2010

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (Postscript, PDF, or MS Word format) of the full paper should be submitted using the following URL: http://conf.ksi.edu/seke2010/submit/SubmitPaper.php. Please use Internet Explorer as the browser, and select the paper type “Workshop: Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization - Gao, Muccini and Bai”. Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column text (include figures and references). In the final version, you have option to buy extra pages (up to 2 pages).

PAPER REVIEW, WORKSHOP PROGRAM, AND PUBLICATION

All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop PC committee and SEKE2010 program committee. The accepted papers will be published in the SEKE2010 conference proceedings. The workshop program will be set up as a part of SEKE 2010 Conference Program.

The best papers and their extended versions will be recommended for the publication on a special issue on Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization in International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering in 2010.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Honorary Workshop Chair:David C. Kung, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Workshop Chairs:

Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA
Henry Muccini, University of L’Aquila, Itlay
Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Industry Advisory Board:Satya Dodda, SUN Microsystems, USA

Emese Bari, eBay, USA
Ken Chen, Oracle, USA
Dani. Almog, Ben Gurion University of Negev Israel
OMG Test Automation Standardization Group

Program Committee Members: (Listed in alphabetical order)

Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany
Kuang-Nan Chang, Eastern Kentucky University, USA
Mark Harman, King’s College London, UK
Sandeep Konchady, SUN Microsystems, USA
Bixin Li, Southeast University, China
Chien-Hung Liu, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Shih-Hsi Liu, California State University at Fresno, USA
Ahmed Salem, California State University at Sacramento, USA
Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft Research, USA
Rajesh Subramanyan, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. USA
Tao Xie, North Carolina State University, USA
Marlon Vieira, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. USA
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Extensible Virtual Worlds Workshop (X10)
Mar 29-Apr 2, 2010 - Venue: Second Life
Organizers: IBM Academy of Technology and University of Arkansas
http://vw.ddns.uark.edu/X10
CFP: 15 Feb - short 1-2p position papers

WORKSHOP CONTEXT

Today’s virtual worlds are mostly stand alone and not easily extended.
This workshop will explore component technologies that can be leveraged
to make a set of extensible virtual worlds. These extensible virtual
worlds will need to be secure, easy to build, easy to create applications
for, and easy to integrate with the physical world and with enterprise
IT systems. Several technologies are poised to contribute including gaming,
geographic information systems, Web technologies, artificial intelligence,
information retrieval, cloud computing, service oriented architectures and
others. This workshop aims to bring together knowledgeable international
researchers and virtual world developers from areas that can contribute
to accelerating our understanding of 3D virtual world architectures aimed
at understanding the kinds of extensible 3D virtual world platforms that
will be needed in the next five years to construct a rich variety of
applications that 3D virtual worlds can make possible.

THEMES/TOPICS

Example themes for position papers could include: terminology,
requirements, examples, driving or killer apps, potential for standards,
and research challenges.

o Theme 1: Extensible Virtual World Architectures
- Extensible Architecture – Services, plugins, mix-and-match – subtracting
or adding features. Evolution as new capabilities are added.
- Scaling Virtual Worlds – Many prims, many avatars, … a hospital full of
equipment, a stadium full of people, Second Earth, … tiny, cosmic.
- Connecting enclaves that have different properties.
- Populating and Provisioning Virtual Worlds – how can we rapidly populate
a large space by importing (or generating) terrain, buildings, and
objects? What GIS, CAD, and other standards should we build on? How can
we engage the community?

o Theme 2: Virtual World Applications
- Driving Applications – Modeling Healthcare, Retail, Battlefields, Real
Estate, Museums, Archaeology Sites, etc
- VW Enterprise Apps or games – How to layer them onto the core virtual
world architecture
- Planning and Workflows – How to organize a collection of avatar bots to
cooperate to solve a problem in a virtual world
- Economies – Modeling and trading systems in virtual worlds. Integrating
with real world currency systems.

o Theme 3: Integration with the Real World
- Mirror Worlds – Tying the real and virtual world together. Using virtual
world as a command post. Rural telemedicine. Modeling supply chains.
Sensor networks and RFID.
- Smart Networked Objects – What protocols are needed to make an ordinary
object smart and networked? Identity, messaging, API reflection, access
control, virtual model.
- Man-Machine Interface – how can people communicate with smart networked
(real or virtual) objects or collections of them?

o Theme 4: Enhanced Capabilities
- VW Search Engines and Query Language – Spatial queries, temporal
queries, etc
- Ontologies – Adding ontologies to make virtual worlds semantic (by
analogy to the semantic web)
- Time – Modeling past and future using virtual worlds
- Scoping – When are virtual worlds appropriate, when are other modeling
technologies more appropriate, can these different modeling technologies
interoperate?
- Security – Alternatives to simple access control, digital rights,
microlicensing, micropayments,
- Grief/Fraud – Modeling systems and tools for identifying users creating
grief/fraud in the virtual world.

IMPORTANT DATES

Registration/Paper Submission*: 15 February 2010
Notification of Acceptance: 7 March 2010
Workshop Dates: 29 March - 2 April 2010
* short position papers and/or full research paper

INSTRUCTIONS

The workshop will take place the week of March 29-April 2, 2010 as a series
of small group thematic discussions in Second Life at various SLURL venues
to be announced (avatar registration required). Each small group discussion
will focus on a theme and will last around 3 hours. A moderator will ask the
group a set of questions (available beforehand) and a scribe (volunteer from
the group) will record the meeting and summarize the discussion in a 2-3 page
brief that will be posted on the workshop homepage soon after that discussion.

To be invited to a session, you must write a 1-2 page position paper
(single-spaced, include position paper title, your name(s), your avatar name
(for registration), your contact information and affiliation, your time zone
for planning purposes, your virtual world credentials/experience, and your
views on some aspect of a topic – see Themes/Topics). You may write
multiple position papers to be invited to different thematic discussions.
Position papers will be posted on the workshop homepage. Tiny groups will be
merged and big groups split to keep group size around 5-10 (some topics may
be covered by more than one group).

Accommodation will be made for longer research papers or presentations for
those who want to present recent results to a mid-sized audience. These
papers/presentations will be reviewed for relevance. Accepted papers/
presentations will be posted on the workshop homepage. During the workshop,
a schedule will be posted on the workshop homepage - the speaker will present
and attendance will be limited to around 50 avatars, first-come-first-served
from among registered participants.

Accommodation will also be made for additional themes or topics as suggested
by participants – include a paragraph describing the scope of theme. Since
this workshop is focused on virtual world architectures, we are limiting
additional themes to that general area, not to also include general social
networking or cultural issues that do not focus on architectural aspects.

SECOND LIFE LOGISTICS

The workshop will take place in Second Life, a 3D virtual world. To
participate in the workshop, in addition to submitting a short or long paper,
you will need to become (somewhat) proficient in using Second Life. To get
started: [see workshop website for some suggestions]. More instructions to
follow - if your short/long paper is accepted (notification
date is 1 March 2010), we’ll send you information on pre-workshop socials
inworld where you can meet other workshop attendees and practice communicating.
If you are presenting a long paper (using .ppt for a presentation), we will
send you instructions related to uploading your presentation and we’ll give
you some time to practice presenting in the two weeks before the workshop.

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Call for Papers
7th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems
QEST 2010

http://www.qest.org/qest2010/

College of William & Mary, Computer Science Department
15th-18th September, 2010, Williamsburg, VA, USA

*** co-located with the 6th International Workshop on the ***
*** Numerical Solution of Markov Chains (NSMC’10) ***

in cooperation with ACM SIGMETRICS

DEADLINES:

Abstract submission by 22 March, 2010
Paper and tool submission by 29 March, 2010
Tutorial submission by 26 April, 2010
Author notification by 24 May, 2010
Camera ready version by 14 June, 2010

Selected papers will appear in a special issue of the Elsevier Performance
Evaluation Journal.

SCOPE AND TOPICS:

The International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST)
is the leading forum on evaluation and verification of computer systems
and networks, through stochastic models and measurements. QEST has a broad
range of interest - the common thread is that the evaluation be
quantitative. The range of performance metrics of interest spans classical
measures involving performance and reliability, as well as quantification
of properties that are classically qualitative, such as safety,
correctness, and security. QEST welcomes measurement-based studies as well
as analytic studies. QEST welcomes diversity in the model formalisms and
methodologies employed, as well as development of new formalisms and
methodologies. QEST is keenly interested in case studies that highlight
the role of quantitative evaluation in the design of “systems”, where the
notion of system is broad. Systems of interest include computer hardware
and software architectures, communication systems, embedded systems, and
biological systems. Moreover, tools for supporting the practical
application of research results in all of the above areas are of special
interest, and therefore tool papers are sought. Tool demonstration papers
that describe a relevant tool, as well as its features,
evaluation, or any other information that may demonstrate the merits of
the tool.
In short, QEST aims to create a sound methodological basis for assessing
and designing systems using quantitative means.

SUBMISSIONS:

Submissions must be in English, IEEE double-column format, and
must indicate the above paper type. Electronic submission instructions may
be found at www.qest.org. Submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages (2
for tool demonstrations). Additional material for the aid of the reviewers
(e.g., proofs) can be included in a clearly marked appendix. Papers must
be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. PC
members, except program co-chairs, may submit papers.

All accepted papers (including tool demonstrations) will appear in the
Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, and
must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. A best-paper
award will be presented at the conference.

TUTORIALS:

There will be one day of tutorials at the start of the conference.
Tutorial proposals (up to 4 pages) should be sent to the Tutorial Chair.

TOOL PRESENTATIONS:

Sessions will be arranged to present and demonstrate tools relevant to any
conference topic. Accepted tool descriptions will appear in the conference
proceedings.

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:
Peter Kemper (US)
Evgenia Smirni (US)

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Gianfranco Ciardo (US)
Roberto Segala (IT)

TOOL CHAIR:
William Knottenbelt (UK)

TUTORIAL CHAIR:
Susanna Donatelli (IT)

LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR:
Ruth Lamprecht (US)

PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Giuliano Casale (UK)

STEERING COMMITTEE:

Gianfranco Balbo (IT)
Gianfranco Ciardo (US)
Pedro D’Argenio (AR)
Boudewijn Haverkort (NL, chair)
Holger Hermanns (DE)
Jane Hillston (UK)
Joost-Pieter Katoen (DE)
William Knottenbelt (UK)
Marta Kwiatkowska (UK)
Gerardo Rubino (FR)
William Sanders (US)
Miklos Telek (HU)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Christel Baier (DE)
Nathalie Bertrand (FR)
Andrea Bondavalli (IT)
Patricia Bouyer (FR)
Peter Buchholz (DE)
Giuliano Casale (UK)
Ivana Cerna (CZ)
Pedro D’Argenio (AR)
Vittoria de Nitto Persone` (IT)
Kousha Etessami (UK)
Tony Field (UK)
Giuliana Franceschinis (IT)
Jean-Michel Fourneau (FR)
Shravan Gaonkar (US)
Leana Golubchik (US)
Serge Haddad (FR)
Armin Heindl (DE)
Holger Hermanns (DE)
Jane Hillston (UK)
Michael Huth (UK)
Radha Jagadeesan (US)
Alain Jean-Marie (FR)
Joost-Pieter Katoen (DE)
Peter Kemper (US)
Gabriele Kotsis (AT)
Marta Kwiatkowska (UK)
Kim Larsen (DK)
Ningfang Mi (US)
Andrew Miner (US)
Gethin Norman (UK)
Alma Riska (US)
William Sanders (US)
Matteo Sereno (IT)
Jeremy Sproston (IT)
Marielle Stoelinga (NL)
Miklos Telek (HU)
Yann Thierry-Mieg (FR)
Franck van Breugel (CA)
Carey Williamson (CA)
Verena Wolf (DE)
Murray Woodside (CA)
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, Riverside
Bourns College of Engineering

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of
California, Riverside invites applications for TWO faculty positions
at all levels with research interests in Systems and Data
Mining/Machine Learning. Exceptional candidates in all areas will be
considered. Tenured and tenure-track positions require a Ph.D. in
Computer Science (or in a closely related field) at the time of
employment. Senior candidates must have an exceptional research,
teaching, and graduate student mentorship record. Junior candidates
must show outstanding research, teaching and graduate student
mentorship potential. Salary level will be competitive and
commensurate with qualifications and experience.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering offers B.S. degrees
in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Computer Engineering, and
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science. The Department currently
has 20 faculty members that include five ACM/IEEE/AAAS Fellows, and
eight Young Investigator/CAREER award holders. The department is
heavily focused towards Ph.D. education with over 120 Ph.D. and 30
M.S. students enrolled in the 2009-10 academic year. We graduate
around 20 Ph.D.s per year with an average yearly research expenditure
of $3.5M. More information on the department is available at
http://www.cs.ucr.edu

Full consideration will be given to applications received by March 8,
2010. The search will continue until the positions are filled. To
apply please register at http://www.engr.ucr.edu/facultysearch/ and
submit the requested PDF files. For inquiries and questions, please
contact search@cs.ucr.edu.

The University of California, Riverside is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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Call for Papers - FSDM10

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International Workshop on Feature Selection in Data Mining (FSDM10)

21st of June 2010, Hyderabad, India
(In conjunction with PAKDD 2010)

http://featureselection.asu.edu/fsdm10

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Knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) is a multidisciplinary effort to mine gold nuggets of knowledge from data. The increasingly large data sets from many application domains have posed unprecedented challenges to KDD; in the meantime, new types of data are evolving such as social media, text, and microarray data, to name a few. Researchers and practitioners in multiple disciplines and various IT sectors confront similar issues in feature selection, and there is a pressing need for continued exchange
and discussion of challenges and ideas, exploring new methodologies and innovative approaches to generate breakthroughs.

Feature selection is effective in data preprocessing and reduction that is an essential step in successful data mining applications. Feature selection has been a research topic with practical significance in many areas such as statistics, pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining (including Web, text, image, and microarrays). The objectives of feature selection include: building simpler and more comprehensible models, improving data mining performance, and helping prepare, clean, and understan
d data. Workshop on Feature Selection in Data Mining (FSDM2010) aims to further the cross-discipline, collaborative effort in variable and feature selection research. FSDM2010 will be held at the 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2010)

The workshop invites all papers related to feature selection, and especially welcomes contributions that highlight emerging feature selection challenges in data mining. Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:

- Dimensionality reduction
- Feature weighting
- Feature ranking
- Subset selection
- Feature extraction/construction
- Feature selection methodology
- Integration with data mining algorithms
- Pitfalls and learned lessons in feature selection studies
* Novel data structures
- Selection in small sample domains
- Data streams and time series
- Feature selection bias and variance
- Selection in extremely high-dimensional domains
- Real-world case studies and applications that highlight the role of feature selection
- Emerging challenges

— KEY DATES —
Paper Submission deadline: March 19th, 2010
Author Notification: April 16th, 2010
Camera-ready: April 30th, 2010
Workshop: June 21th, 2010

— ORGANIZATION —
Huan Liu, Hiroshi Motoda, Rudy Setiono, Zheng Zhao
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EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Special Issue on Video Analysis for Novel TV Services

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/si/ntvs.html

Call for Papers
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The significant increase in the amount of digital video content (TV channels, in particular) and thediversification of broadcast possibilities and storage devices have recently given rise to the emergence ofmany new services and novel TV program-consumption schemes. These new services are basically aimed atmaking TV content available to users without any constraint on location and/or time. The idea is also to present TV programs in different ways in order to increase their audience, automatically creating
summaries, building novel browsing models, and allowing users to perform semantic queries. Examples of such services are TVoD, interactive TV, Network PVR, catch-up TV, start-over, and many others.

In order to build on these services, highly time-consuming preprocessing steps of TV content are required. TV content is generally available as continuous streams of audio-visual frames. Useful TV programs and interprograms (like commercials, trailers) are concatenated and broadcasted without any precise and reliable flags that identify the boundaries of useful segments and times of interest. Therefore, in order to be useful, TV streams have to be macrosegmented and segments must be classified and mined. P
rograms need to be described, structured, summarized, classified following their genre and theme, indexed, stored, and retrieved. Events of interest also need to be detected in programs. Events may concern, for instance, goals and important actions in soccer footage, and also each time a specific person appears on screen.

On the other hand, making use of TV program content raises important IPR issues. Efficient techniques for copyidentification and also watermarking are, therefore, required in order to trace the content.

The objective of this special issue is twofold. First, it aims at highlighting the need for powerful and automatic audio and video content-based techniques in building novel TV services. The second objective is to present the recent advances in the field.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* TV stream structuring
* Content-based audio/video analysis of TV content
* TV program classification
* Event detection in TV streams
* Search engines for TV streams
* Program summarization
* Thematic and semantic clustering of TV programs
* Human machine interfaces for browsing and retrieving TV content
* Metadata extraction and mining from TV content
* Duplicate video detection
* Video and audio fingerprinting/watermarking

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscripts through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due: June 1, 2010
First Round of Reviews: September 1, 2010
Publication Date: December 1, 2010

Lead Guest Editor
Sid-Ahmed Berrani, Orange Labs, France Telecom, Rennes, France

Guest Editors
Patrick Gros, INRIA, The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, Rennes, France
Shin’ichi Satoh, The National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

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