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From: “Eric Pardede ” <E.Pardede at latrobe.edu.au>

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EXTENDED DEADLINE : 23 FEB 2009

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BusIn’2009
Colocated with ICCSA 2009
Yongin, Korea, 29 June 2009 - 2 July 2009
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Business Intelligence supports decision making in organizations by using fact-based or data-driven approach. This terminology encompasses various methodologies, techniques and applications used for intelligent business processes. This workshop provides a forum for state-of-the-art developments and research, as well as current innovative activities in business intelligence.

Topic of Interest
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# Business intelligence cycle and model
# Causal modelling
# Data extraction and reporting
# Data cleaning and pre-processing
# Decision analysis
# Mining and agents
# OLAP
# Reasoning under uncertainty
# Specification/selection/ estimation
# Uncertainty and noise in data
# Web technology
# Contemporary challenges in Business Intelligence

Important Dates
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Deadline for Paper Submission: 23 Feb 2009 - Extended Deadline -
Notification of Acceptance: 24 Mar 2009
Camera Ready: 12 Apr 2009
Conference: 29 June 2009 - 3 July 2009

Submissions and Publications
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The workshop paper submission is through ICCSA cyberchair system at http://cyb09.iccsa.org/. Please make sure to select “BusIn2009″ during submission.

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers submitted to this workshop will undergo a peer-review process.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society. Authors are strongly encouraged to prepare their papers using IEEE CS format, maximum of 6 pages. The guidelines can be found through this link.

Program Committee Chairs
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# David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
# Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
# Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia

Program Committee Members, (to be added)
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# Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
# Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
# Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
# Maria Indrawan, Monash University, Australia
# Byung-Kwon Park, Dong-A University, Korea
# Hwan-Seung Yong, Ewha Womans University, Korea

Workshop Webpage
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http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ekpardede/busin2009/

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From: “Tansel Özyer ” <tozyer at yahoo.com>

ASONAM 2009 - CALL FOR PAPERS

(A printable typeset version of a more extensive CfP can be found at
.)

The 2009 International Conference on Advanced in Social Network Analysis
and Data Mining.

http://www.asonam.org

ASONAM is an international conference to be held in Athens, Greece, July
20-22, 2009 will provide an interdisciplinary venue for practitioners
and researchers from a variety of Social Network Analysis and Mining
(SNAM) fields to promote collaborations and exchange of ideas and
practices with a specific focus on emerging trends.

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Conference Publications Service. Selected best papers will
be invited for submission to special issues of journals and books
(see the website for further details).

Submissions of papers are solicited all areas of SNAM including, but not
limited to:

- Anomaly detection in social network evolution
- Application of social network analysis
- Application of social network mining
- Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online social networks
- Communities discovery and analysis in large scale offline social networks
- Connection between biological similarities and social network formulation
- Contextual social network analysis
- Contextual social network mining
- Crime data mining and network analysis
- Cyber anthropology
- Dark Web
- Data protection inside communities
- Detection of communities by document analysis
- Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
- Economical impact of social network discovery
- Evolution of patterns in the Web
- Evolution of communities in the Web
- Evolution of communities in organizations
- Geography of social networks
- Impact of social networks on recommendations systems
- Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
- Influence of cultural aspects on the formation of communities
- Knowledge networks
- Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis
- Misbehavior detection in communities
- Migration between communities
- Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis
- Open source intelligence
- Pattern presentation for end-users and experts
- Personalization for search and for social interaction
- Preparing data for Web mining
- Political impact of social network discovery
- Privacy, security and civil liberty issues
- Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and
establishment of social relations
- Recommendation networks
- Scalability of social networks
- Scalability of Search algorithms on social networks
- Social and cultural anthropology
- Social geography
- Social psychology of information diffusion
- Temporal analysis on social networks topologies
- Visual representation of dynamic social networks
- Web mining algorithms
- Web communities

IMPORTANT DATES:

September 30, 2008: Paper submission process open

January 30, 2009: Full papers due.

March 15, 2009: Notification of acceptance of papers.

April 7, 2009: Camera-ready paper deadline.

April 7, 2009: Conference registration deadline for authors presenting
papers.

May 30, 2009: Discount registration for general public.

July 20-22, 2009: Conference.

Please visit the conference website http://www.asonam.org for paper
format guidelines, submission instructions and further information

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From: “Mohand Boughanem” <bougha at irit.fr>

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

31st European Conference on Information Retrieval -
Toulouse – France, 6-9 April 2009 organised by IRIT Lab.
in cooperation with the BCS-IRSG and is supported by ACM-SIGIR, ARIA and
E-IRSG. http://ecir09.irit.fr/

* Conference programme (6th April –9 th April)
The technical program will include 42 full research papers, 18 short
papers and 25 posters.
Details of the conference programme are at http://ecir09.irit.fr/access.php?p=programme

* Keynote speakers
ECIR 2009 is pleased to announce the following three keynote speakers:

-Professor W. Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
-Dr. Gregory Grefenstette Research Director at Exalead (France)
-Professor Maarten de Rijke University of Amsterdam.

* Paper awards
Best paper award, best student paper award and best poster award, all
sponsored by Yahoo! Research

* ECIR 2009 Google Grant for female scientists
2009 Google ECIR conference Grant to encourage more female computer
scientists to attend and participate in the ECIR 2009 Conference

ECIR 2009 will also host three tutorials and four workshops
* Tutorials and workshops (6th April)
*Workshops
———
- Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation,
Bich-Liên Doan, Joemon Jose, Massimo Melucci, Lynda Tamine-Lechani
- Geographic Information on the Internet,
Florence Sèdes, Pierre-Alain Moëllic, and Gregory Grefenstette
- Information Retrieval over Social Networks,
Stéphane Marchand-Maillet and Arjen P. de Vries
- Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access,
George Buchanan, Matt Jones, Fabio Crestani, and Stefano Mizzaro

* Tutoriels
———
- Current Developments in Information Retrieval Evaluation,
Thomas Mandl

- Information Extraction and Linking in a Retrieval Context,
Marie-Francine Moens and Djoerd Hiemstra

- Mining Query Logs,
Salvatore Orlando, Fabrizio Silvestri

* Social events
- a Banquet reception on 8th April at the Cité de l’Espace

more details at ECIR 2009 Web site.

* Registration
For registration and other information, please visit the ECIR 2009
home page at http://ecir09.irit.fr/access.php?p=registration

* Main sponsors
Google http://www.google.com
MatrixWare Information Services http://www.matrixware.com
Microsoft Research http://research.microsoft.com
Yahoo! Research http://research.yahoo.com
Exalead http://www.exalead.com/
GDR I3
ARIA
Inforsid
Université Paul Sabatier
IRIT, UMR 5505

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Toulouse,

The ECIR 2009 Chairs

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From: “Mohand Boughanem” <bougha at irit.fr>

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

31st European Conference on Information Retrieval -
Toulouse – France, 6-9 April 2009 organised by IRIT Lab.
in cooperation with the BCS-IRSG and is supported by ACM-SIGIR, ARIA and
E-IRSG. http://ecir09.irit.fr/

* Conference programme (6th April –9 th April)
The technical program will include 42 full research papers, 18 short
papers and 25 posters.
Details of the conference programme are at http://ecir09.irit.fr/access.php?p=programme

* Keynote speakers
ECIR 2009 is pleased to announce the following three keynote speakers:

-Professor W. Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
-Dr. Gregory Grefenstette Research Director at Exalead (France)
-Professor Maarten de Rijke University of Amsterdam.

* Paper awards
Best paper award, best student paper award and best poster award, all
sponsored by Yahoo! Research

* ECIR 2009 Google Grant for female scientists
2009 Google ECIR conference Grant to encourage more female computer
scientists to attend and participate in the ECIR 2009 Conference

ECIR 2009 will also host three tutorials and four workshops
* Tutorials and workshops (6th April)
*Workshops
———
- Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation,
Bich-Liên Doan, Joemon Jose, Massimo Melucci, Lynda Tamine-Lechani
- Geographic Information on the Internet,
Florence Sèdes, Pierre-Alain Moëllic, and Gregory Grefenstette
- Information Retrieval over Social Networks,
Stéphane Marchand-Maillet and Arjen P. de Vries
- Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access,
George Buchanan, Matt Jones, Fabio Crestani, and Stefano Mizzaro

* Tutoriels
———
- Current Developments in Information Retrieval Evaluation,
Thomas Mandl

- Information Extraction and Linking in a Retrieval Context,
Marie-Francine Moens and Djoerd Hiemstra

- Mining Query Logs,
Salvatore Orlando, Fabrizio Silvestri

* Social events
- a Banquet reception on 8th April at the Cité de l’Espace

more details at ECIR 2009 Web site.

* Registration
For registration and other information, please visit the ECIR 2009
home page at http://ecir09.irit.fr/access.php?p=registration

* Main sponsors
Google http://www.google.com
MatrixWare Information Services http://www.matrixware.com
Microsoft Research http://research.microsoft.com
Yahoo! Research http://research.yahoo.com
Exalead http://www.exalead.com/
GDR I3
ARIA
Inforsid
Université Paul Sabatier
IRIT, UMR 5505

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Toulouse,

The ECIR 2009 Chairs

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