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From: “Marko Boskovic” <marko.boskovic at informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>

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After the success of the 1st NFPinDSML(http://planet-mde.org/nfpindsml2008) workshop co-located with the MoDELS2008 and a special theme section of Journal on Software and System Modeling (SoSyM, http://www.trustsoft.uni-oldenburg.de/en/36860.html), it is our pleasure to announce

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2nd International Workshop on Non-functional System Properties and Domain Specific Modeling Languages (NFPinDSML 2009)
https://nfpindsml.semtech.athabascau.ca/?q=node/1
Affiliated with MoDELS 2009, Denver, Colorado, USA, Oct 4 – Oct 9, 2009,
http://www.modelsconference.org/

The 2nd NFPinDSML brings together researchers and practitioners from communities dedicated to non-functional properties of software systems and researchers from language engineering to study the principles of integration of various non-functional system properties and language engineering in order to further expand principles of reasoning about non-functional properties of software systems in Domain Specific Modeling Languages, and model-driven engineering in general.

The importance of non-functional properties of software systems is generally acknowledged by the software engineering community. Non-functional properties of software systems are at least important as functional properties, and must be considered during design of software systems. For the engineering of systems of a particular domain, Domain Specific Modeling Languages – domain-oriented modeling languages developed for solving specific classes of problems related to such a domain – are becoming a common-place in software and system engineering. Nevertheless, as till now, the study of engineering Domain Specific Modeling Languages and analysis of non-functional properties of software systems lack common principles. For this reason, non-functional properties analysis should be addressed during the language design phase.

The typical NFPinDSML paper studies Domain Specific Modeling Language descriptions, and annotation, computation and evaluation of non-functional properties of a final software product as a characteristic of a language. In this way, a user of a language can certify and optimize the design of a system under study with respect to values of different non-functional properties of his product at all stages of development. Because of the significant variety of languages and their application, the synergic use is rather a complex task that requires join efforts of different communities.
Scope.
The 2nd NFPinDSML intends to discuss all relevant aspects of integration of non-functional system requirements and Domain Specific Language engineering. Language engineering specifically aims to explain and support the design, the reuse, and the evolution of Domain Specific Language definitions and their relation and transformation to mathematical formalisms and simulation models for non-functional system properties estimation and evaluation.

This year’s workshop particularly pays attention to the multi dimensional analysis, commonalities and differences in DSMLs observed from the perspective of different NFP estimation and evaluation, and annotation of DSMLs’ constructs for NFP analysis.
The workshop topics include, but are not restricted to:
?-Platform models in domain specific modeling languages
?-Model annotations and computation of non-functional properties
?-Non-functional properties and traceability in domain specific modeling languages
-Aspect-oriented modeling and non-functional properties in domain specific modeling languages
? -Estimation and evaluation of non-functional properties in domain specific modeling languages with aspects
? -Domain-specific aspects for estimation, evaluation and measurement
?-Multi-dimensional modeling and NFP:
? -Multi-dimensional modeling for NFP estimation, evaluation, and assessment
? -NFP estimation, evaluation, and assessment of multi-dimensional models
?-Assessment of non-functional properties in domain specific modeling languages
? -Estimation of non-functional properties in domain specific modeling languages with simulation and mathematical formalisms
? -Measurement of non-functional properties in domain specific languages
? -Verification of non-functional properties in domain specific languages
?-Transformations and non-functional properties
? -Transformation as non-functional properties influencing design choice
? -Non-functional properties of transformations
?-Early decisions on NFPs in modeling with domain specific languages
?-Ontologies for formalizing shared knowledge about non-functional system properties
?-Integration of legal policies into domain specific modeling languages

For the reason that non-functional and functional properties can vary in different domains, e.g. timing properties and sometimes reliability properties are often considered functional in the domain of embedded systems, we also cover topics of non-functional properties of particular domains and their domain specific modeling languages:
?-Non-functional properties and domain specific modeling languages in SOA
?-Non-functional properties and domain specific modeling languages in event driven architectures
?-Non-functional properties and domain specific modeling languages in embedded and reactive systems
?-Non-functional properties and domain specific modeling languages in health-care systems

Papers submission.
We solicit position papers (4 to 8 pages) and full technical papers (up to 14 pages) formatted by using the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Short papers will be expected to discuss controversial issues in the field or describe interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed. Full papers will be expected to describe new research results and have a higher degree of technical rigor than short papers. All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. All papers should be submitted via the NFPinDSML online submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfpindsml2009. All papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, while 2 best papers will be selected for publication in a “Workshop and Symposia” post-proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series after the conference. Selected and improved papers of NFPinDSML based on papers that we will so!
licit through an open-call for papers (subject to a second round of rigorous review) will be published in the a special issue of a suitable magazine (we are currently having the negotiations).
Important Dates.
Deadline for paper submissions: July 13;
Notification of authors: August 15
Workshop Organizers.
Marko Boškovic, on move to Athabasca University, Canada, marko.boskovic@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
Dragan Gaševic, Athabasca University, Canada, dgasevic@acm.org
Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland, claus.pahl@computing.dcu.ie
Bernhard Schätz, Technische Universität München, Germany, schaetz@in.tum.de

(Tentative) Programme Committee:

Vittorio Cortellessa, University dell’Aquila, Italy
Michel Chaudron, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Joerg Doerr, IESE Franhofer, Germany
Sébastien Demathieu, Thales Research and Technology, France
Huascar Espinoza, CEA LIST/LISE, France
Geri Georg, Colorado State University, USA
Sébastien Gérard, CEA, France
Annirudha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA
Wilhelm Hasselbring, University of Kiel, Germany
Michaela Huhn, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
Hardi Hungar, Offis Institute Oldenburg, Germany
Jan Jürjens, Open University (UK) and Microsoft Research (Cambridge), UK
Raimund Kirner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Richard Paige, University of York, UK
Dorina Petriu, Charleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Ivan Porres, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland
Antonio Vallecillo, University of Malaga, Spain
Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Schteffen Zschaler, Lancaster University, UK
Andreas Winter, University Koblenz, Germany
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From: “Grigorios Tsoumakas” <greg at csd.auth.gr>

[Apologies if you receive this more than once!]

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MLD ‘09

1st International Workshop on learning from Multi-Label Data

http://lpis.csd.auth.gr/workshops/mld09/

September 7, 2009 - Bled, Slovenia

Held in conjunction with ECML/PKDD 2009:
European Conference on Machine Learning and
Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases

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BACKGROUND

Multi-label learning deals with the problem where each example is associated with multiple labels and thus encompasses traditional supervised learning (single-label) as its special case.

Though methods for learning from multi-label textual data have been proposed since 1999, the recent years have witnessed an increasing number and diversity of applications, such as image/video annotation, bioinformatics, web search and mining, music categorization, collaborative tagging and directed marketing.

Learning from multi-label data stretches across several aspects of supervised learning tasks, including classification, ranking, semi-supervised learning, active learning and dimensionality reduction, and across several learning paradigms, such as decision trees, nearest neighbor classifiers, neural networks, ensemble methods, support vector machines, kernel methods, genetic algorithms, etc.

It poses several old and new research challenges, such as exploiting label correlation to improve predictive performance, exploiting structure and semantic relationships among the labels to improve predictive performance and computational efficiency, and scaling learning methods to very large number of labels and examples. In addition, multi-label learning is closely related to other learning frameworks, such as the newly proposed multi-instance multi-label learning (MIML).

AIMS & SCOPE

The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners that work on various aspects of multi-label learning into a fruitful dicussion about the state-of-the-art and the remaining open problems, and to offer them an opportunity to identify new promising research directions. To achieve this goal we are soliciting two types of contributions: a) mature research results, and b) interesting preliminary results or stimulating position statements. In addition, the workshop will feature at least one di
scussion session to allow for a more interactive and engaging experience.

MAIN TOPICS OF INTEREST

* Classification of multi-label data
* Ranking of multi-label data
* Statistical characterizations of multi-label data sets
* Visualization of multi-label data sets
* Evaluation metrics for multi-label learning methods
* Exploiting label structure and relationships (trees, ontologies, etc)
* Learning label structure and relationships
* Learning from multiple continuous target variables
* Online learning from multi-label data
* Hierarchical multi-label classification and ranking
* Dimensionality reduction of multi-label data
* Clustering multi-label data
* Semi-supervised learning from multi-label data
* Learning association rules from multi-label data
* Scalable methods for learning with very large number of labels
* Multi-instance multi-label learning
* Active learning from multi-label data
* Applications of multi-label learning in bioinformatics
* Semantic annotation of images and video
* Multi-label learning from music
* Automated tag recommendation in collaborative tagging systems

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission : June 10, 2009
* Notification : June 30, 2009
* Camera ready : August 15, 2009
* Workshop day : September 7, 2009

SUBMISSION

The papers must be in English and must be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines (available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The maximum length of papers is at most 16 pages in this format. At the time of submission, the papers must not be under review or be accepted for publication elsewhere. Each submitted paper will be rigorously reviewed by at least two reviewers. The submission site for MLD’09 is managed by EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=
mld09).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Hendrik Blockeel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
* Johannes Furnkranz, TU Darmstadt
* Shantanu Godbole, IBM Research
* Jose M. Pena, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
* Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia
* Eyke Hullermeier, Philipps-Universitat Marburg
* Ioannis Katakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
* Dragi Kocev, Jozef Stefan Institute
* Bernhard Pfahringer, University of Waikato
* Fadi Thabtah, University of Huddersfield
* Jieping Ye, Arizona State University
* Kai Yu, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
* Shipeng Yu, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Grigorios Tsoumakas,
Department of Informatics,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Url: http://mlkd.csd.auth.gr/greg.html

Min-Ling Zhang,
College of Computer and Information Engineering,
Hohai University, China
Url: http://cies.hhu.edu.cn/pweb/zhangml/

Zhi-Hua Zhou,
National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology,
Nanjing University, China
Url: http://cs.nju.edu.cn/zhouzh/
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From: “Feifei Li” <lifeifei at cs.fsu.edu>

C A L L F O R P A P E R S

8th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering
for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE’09)

10 Year Anniversary

Jun 29th, 2009
Providence, Rhode Island USA

(collocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2009)

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/mobide09/

REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS

The registration fee for the workshop is $85 (USD). To register please
visit the following URL: http://www.regmaster.com/conf/sigmod2009.html

KEYNOTE TALK

Title: A New Era of Resource Responsibility for Sensor Networks
Speaker: Matt Welsh (Harvard University, USA)

INVITED TALK

Title: Space, Time, Sensors, and Data Semantics
Speaker: Frank Olken (Program Director of NSF for DB Research, USA)

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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8:00 - 8:30: Breakfast (Foyer)

8:30 - 9:45 (1h-15m): Opening and Keynote

Keynote Speaker: Matt Welsh (Harvard University, USA)
Keynote Title: “A New Era of Resource Responsibility for Sensor Networks”

9:45 - 10:15 (30m): Coffee Break (Foyer)

10:15 - 11:30 (1h-30m): Session 1: Database Issues for Mobile Computing
Chair: TBA

ID: 4 (25 min)
“Using Transaction Isolation Levels for Ensuring Replicated Database”
Consistency in Mobile Computing Environments
Jose Monteiro (PUC-Rio, Brazil), Angelo Brayner (University of Fortaleza, Brazil)
and Sergio Lifschitz (PUC-Rio, Brazil)

ID: 13 (25 min)
“Data-aware connectivity in mobile replicated systems”
Joao Barreto, Joao Garcia, Luis Veiga, Paulo Ferreira (Technical University
Lisbon, Portugal)

ID: 7 (25 min)
“Bandwidth-constrained Distributed Skyline Computation”
Vlachou Akrivi and Kjetil Norvag (NTNU, Norway)

* Notice: This session finishes 15-min earlier than the rest SIGMOD sessions

11:30 - 13:15 (1h-30m): Lunch Break

13:15 - 14:30 (1h-15m): Session 2: Context/Location-based Data Access and Query Processing
Chair: TBA

ID: 11 (25 min)
“Towards Context and Preference-Aware Location-based Database Systems”
Mokbel Mohamed and Justin Levandoski (Univ. Of Minnesota, USA)

ID: 8 (25 min)
“Law-Aware Access Control for International Financial Environment”
Stieghahn Michael and Thomas Engel (Univ. Of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

ID: 9 (25 min)
“An Innovative Architecture for Context Foraging”
Tsetsos Vassileios and Stathes Hadjiefthymiades (Univ. Of Athens, Greece)

14:30 - 14:45 (15min): Coffee Break (Foyer)

14:45 - 15:45 (1h): Session 4: Demonstrations
Chair: TBA

ID: 20 (30 min)
“Demonstrating Evacuation Algorithms with Mobile Devices using an
e-Scavenger Hunt Game”
Connor Alexander, Callen Shaw, Alexander Connor, Alexandros Labrinidis
and Panos Chrysanthis (Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA)

ID: 23 (30 min)
“MobiSNA: a Mobile Video Social Network Application”
Liang Gou, Jung-Hyun Kim, Hung-Hsuan Chen (Penn State University, USA),
Jason Collins, Marc Goodman (Alcatel-Lucent, USA), Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang,
C. Lee Giles (Penn State University, USA))

15:45 - 16:15: Coffee Break (Foyer)

16:15-18:00: Invited Talk & Panel

Invited Presenter: Dr. Frank Olken (Program Director of NSF for Database Research)
Invited Talk Title: “Space, Time, Sensors, and Data Semantics”

Panel Moderator: TBA
Panelists: TBA

18:00 - 18:15: Closing Remarks

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Workshop Chairs:

Yannis Kotidis
Department of Informatics
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
E-mail: kotidis@aueb.gr

Pedro Jose Marron
Institut for Informatik,
Bonn University, Germany
E-mail: pjmarron@cs.uni-bonn.de

Program Chairs:

Le Gruenwald
School of Computer Science
University of Oklahoma, USA
E-mail: ggruenwald@ou.edu

Demetris Zeinalipour
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
E-mail: dzeina@cs.ucy.ac.cy

Demonstration Chair:

Zografoula Vagena
Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
E-mail: zografv@microsoft.com

Publicity Chair:

Feifei Li
Department of Computer Science
Florida State University, USA
E-mail: lifeifei@cs.fsu.edu

STEERING COMMITTEE

Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University, USA
Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dik Lun Lee, HKUST, Hong Kong
George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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From: “Jae-Gil Lee” <leegj at us.ibm.com>

***** Two days are left until the abstract due. *****

***** Important updated information *****

Please see Awards and Journal Special Issues below.

***** Submission site *****

http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/cikm2009/submission/how_to_submit.htm

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Call for Papers

ACM Eighteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM 2009, Hong Kong, November 2-6, 2009

http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/cikm2009/about/

Sponsored by: ACM SIGIR, SIGWEB

THEME: CIKM 2009 (ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management) will be held on November 2-6, 2009, Hong Kong, China. Since 1992, CIKM has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future research directions through the publication of high qualit
y, applied and theoretical research findings. In CIKM 2009, we will continue the tradition of promoting collaboration among multiple areas. We encourage submissions of high quality papers on all topics in the general areas of databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Papers that bridge across these areas are of special interest and will be considered for a “Best Interdisciplinary Paper” award. Topics of interest in the three tracks include, but are not lim!
ited to:

Databases:
- Data Adaptability, Quality, Reusability and Adaptability
- Information Integration, Data Provenance, Probabilistic Databases
- Mobile and Distributed Data Management
- Query Optimization
- Security and Data Privacy
- Semantic Web
- Streams, Network Databases
- String Databases, Blogs and Social Search
- Systems, Platforms, Middleware, Applications and Experiences
- User Experience (Languages, Models, Interfaces)
- XML Data Processing, Filtering, Routing, and Algorithms
- Novel Data Management Tools
- Data Warehousing and OLAP

Information Retrieval:
- Citation Analysis, Social Networks for IR
- Domain-Specific IR (e.g., Legal IR, Genome, Mobile IR, IR for Chemical Structures)
- Filtering (e.g., Routing, Collaborative Filtering, Topic Tracking, Recommender Systems)
- Foundation of Information Retrieval (e.g., Theory, Ranking)
- IR Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency
- IR Evaluation
- Language Specific IR (Multi-Lingual, Cross-Lingual, NLP)
- Machine Learning for IR
- Multimedia IR (Audio, Speech, Video, Image)
- Semi-Structured Information Retrieval
- User Modeling for IR, Search Personalization
- Web Search, Advertising, Adversarial

Knowledge Management:
- Advertising and Optimization
- Classification and Clustering
- Data Pre- and Post-Processing
- Information Extraction
- Information Filtering and Recommender Systems
- Knowledge Synthesis and Visualization
- Large-scale Statistical Techniques
- Link and Graph Mining
- Semantic Techniques
- Temporal and Spatial Data Mining
- Text Mining

Industry track:
- Industrial Practice and Experience
- Technology for Developing Regions

Paper Submissions for CIKM 2009
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers cannot exceed 10 pages in length. In addition to the regular full-length papers, the program committee will accept some as poster papers (two pages).

Note: Submission procedure is the same for all areas.

Uploading instructions and more detailed submission instructions for papers, workshop, and tutorial proposals are available at the conference website (http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/cikm2009/about/).

One author per paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the paper if accepted for publication.

Awards and Journal Special Issues
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A “Best Interdisciplinary Paper” award will be given to the best paper that bridges at least two of the general areas of interest to the conference, namely databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. A “Best Student Paper” award will be selected among the papers whose first author is a student. A set of selected papers will be published as special issues in three SCI indexed journals: Data and Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal, The Internatio
nal Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics.

Industrial Papers
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Industry authors are also invited to submit papers describing solutions in the domains addressed by this conference, focusing on the technical aspects of their work. The submission procedure for industrial papers is the same as for research papers.

Workshops
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Thirteen different workshops will be held with CIKM 2009. Please refer to http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/cikm2009/program/workshops.htm for the list of the workshops. Please contact CIKM 2009 workshop chairs Min Song at and Wook-Shin Han at , if you have any questions on the workshops.

Tutorial Proposals
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Tutorial proposals should be directly emailed to the Tutorial co-Chairs, Mike Ng at and Masatoshi Yoshikawa at , by July 15, 2009.

Demo Papers
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Demonstration papers cannot exceed 2 pages in length, which describe system components, implementation techniques, and contributions as well as interactive demonstration plan. They also have to include URLs for the web sites of their systems (or the information for verifying them). Uploading instructions and more detailed submission instruction for demonstration papers are available at the conference website (http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/cikm2009). For more details, contact Demo Chairs: “Lei Che
n” and “Jin-Ho Kim” .

Important Dates for CIKM 2009
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Research and Industry Track
- Abstracts due: June 1, 2009
- Papers due: June 8, 2009
- Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2009
- Camera ready: August 15, 2009

Tutorials
- Proposals due: July 15, 2009
- Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2009

Demo
- Demo papers due: June 8, 2009
- Notification of acceptance: July 22, 2009
- Camera ready: August 15, 2009

Registration
- Registration opens: June 30, 2009
- Early registration deadline: August 15, 2009

Conference Dates
- Tutorial Day: November 2, 2009
- Conference: November 3, 4, 5, 2009
- Workshops: November 6, 2009 (and part of Nov. 5 if required)

CIKM 2009 Organization Team
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Honorary Conference Chairs: Peter Chen (USA), Wei Li (China), Shan Wang (China)
Conference co-Chair: David Cheung (HK), Il-Yeol Song (USA)
PC Co-Chairs: Wesley Chu (USA), Xiaohua (Tony) Hu (USA), Jimmy Lin (USA).

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