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From: “Peter Buneman ” <peter at cis.upenn.edu>

Postdoctoral Fellowships in Database Research at the University of
Edinburgh

In connection with a recently awarded EPSRC platform grant, the
database group has two vacancies for postdoctoral research fellows.
The grant covers a wide area of database systems including, but not
only, the following topics:

Architecture-conscious database systems
Curated databases
Expressive power and complexity of query languages
Data Quality
Data provenance and annotation
Data archiving
Data exchange
Data security
Data integration
Peer to peer computation
Master Data Management
Query evaluation and optimisation
Schema mappings
Storage architectures and Flash-based storage
Web services and workflows
Web page clustering

While the positions are primarily open to database researchers with
promising academic records, all applicants with a strong background in
computer science will be considered. Skills in both theory and system
building are desirable.

Details of these positions are available at

http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3011134

Through which applications should be made (please be sure to attach
full CV and statement of research interests.)

Potential applicants may also want to want to contact informally one
of the investigators on this project: Peter Buneman (opb), Wenfei Fan
(wenfei), Leonid Libkin (libkin) or Stratis Viglas (sviglas) all at
inf.ed.ac.uk

In the past five years the School of Informatics at Edinburgh has
committed to increasing its strength in databases, and the database
group has now become one of the leading European research groups.
Aided by funding from the Royal Society, the UK Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council, IBM and the EC, the group has good
resources to support a broad research base in databases. The group
currently has nineteen primary members and several visitors.

The database group is part of the Laboratory for the Foundations of
Computer Science (LFCS), the best-known of the Institutes within the
School of Informatics. LFCS has traditional strengths in the
principles and theory of programming languages and has been the
incubator of some of the most profound connections between logic and
computer science. The School of Informatics itself is currently the
top-ranked computer science department in the UK.

As the capital of Scotland and a remarkably attractive city, Edinburgh
is a magnet for many international scientific activities. It is also
within easy reach of Scotland’s spectacular countryside, and it is
rated as one of the most “livable” cities in the UK. Edinburgh is a
natural hub for teaching and research within the whole of
Scotland. Moreover, within Edinburgh there are numerous users of
advanced database technology who are forming natural partnerships with
database research.

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From: “Michael Dittenbach” <m.dittenbach at matrixware.com>

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Final Call for Papers

PaIR’09
2nd International CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval
http://pair.ir-facility.org/

November 6, 2009
Hong Kong (colocated with CIKM 2009)
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Paper submission deadline approaching rapidly: July 17, 2009
IP keynote speaker confirmed: Ilkka Havukkala,
IP Office of New Zealand
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Goals
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Patent Information Retrieval specialists in the 21st century face
many challenges. They must search very large numbers of documents in
multiple languages expressing complex technological concepts
through sophisticated legal clauses. Despite a great deal of
theoretical development in Information Retrieval techniques,
advanced search tools for patent professionals are still in their
infancy.

The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for Information
Retrieval and Knowledge Management scientists as well as Patent
Retrieval experts from industry to study the next generation of
patent search tools. We encourage IP professionals to present their
special information needs and IR&KM researchers to present relevant
technical ideas, for example for high recall search in prior art
searching.

We also promote exchange of ideas on measuring the progress of
system performance for retrieval tasks in the intellectual property
domain.

Topics of Interest
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This workshop solicits two types of papers: research and industry
papers. Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not
limited to:

* Cross-lingual information retrieval (esp. Asian languages)
* Patent classification
* Ontology-based retrieval
* Information retrieval evaluation
* Evaluation frameworks
* Test collections
* Large-scale information retrieval experiments
* Parallel and distributed information retrieval
* Ranking strategies
* Query validation and query quality analysis
* Query expansion
* Interactive retrieval
* Session-based information retrieval
* User modeling
* Handling of noisy data (OCR/spelling/typing errors)
* XML retrieval

Industry papers shall present research challenges.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

* Patent search workflow
* Patent search strategies
* Information need of the patent researcher
* Shortcomings of current patent search tools
* Case studies
* Challenges in patent search
* Patent life cycle
* Quality of patent data

Keynote Speakers
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- Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, JP
- Ilkka Havukkala, Intellectual Property Office of
New Zealand, NZ

Important Dates
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- Individual workshop papers due: July 17, 2009
- Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2009
- Camera ready version: August 15, 2009
- Workshop date: November 6, 2009

Submission Guidelines
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The Workshop Committee encourages the submission of high quality
research and industrial papers, which are not published or under
consideration elsewhere, with special emphasis on Patent Information
Retrieval methods. Research papers will be peer-reviewed by at least
3 members of the international program committee. Manuscripts should
be formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates (both for MS word
and Latex) available at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates .
There are two styles on the website. Both the Strict Adherence to
SIGS and the Tighter Alternate style are allowed. Papers cannot
exceed 8 pages in length. A website with camera-ready instructions
is available. Full papers should be submitted in PDF format to
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pair09 .

Selected papers will be invited to provide an extended version to be
edited in a book published by Springer.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to present their work in
course of a poster session. Note that these papers will be included
in the proceedings.

In case of questions, please e-mail us: pair09@ir-facility.org

Organization
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* General Chair
- John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility, AT
* Workshop Organizers
- Helmut Berger, Matrixware Information Services GmbH, AT
- Michael Dittenbach, Matrixware Information Services GmbH, AT
- Mihai Lupu, Information Retrieval Facility, AT
* PR & Communications Chair
- Marie-Pierre Garnier, Information Retrieval Facility, AT

Program Committee
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- Giambattista Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, IT
- Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK
- Helmut Berger, Matrixware Information Services GmbH, AT
- Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US
- Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK
- Barrou Diallo, European Patent Office, DE
- Michael Dittenbach, Matrixware Information Services GmbH, AT
- Karl Fröschl, University of Vienna, AT
- Gerben Gieling, Synthon BV, NL
- Cornelis H.A. Koster, University of Nijmegen, NL
- Wessel Kraaij, TNO, NL
- Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, DK
- Mihai Lupu, Information Retrieval Facility, AT
- R. Manmatha, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US
- Andreas Pesenhofer, Matrixware Information Services GmbH, AT
- Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, AT
- Giovanna Roda, Matrixware Information Services GmbH, AT
- Thomas Roelleke, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Michael Schwantner, FIZ Karlsruhe, DE
- Wim Vanderbauwhede, University of Glasgow, UK
- Jun Wang, University College London, UK
- Jianhan Zhu, University College London, UK
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From: “Indrajit Ray ” <indrajit at cs.colostate.edu>

Apologies for cross posting and if you have received this email earlier
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5th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2009)
14 Ð 18 December, 2009
Kolkata, India
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/iciss2009/

CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference series ICISS (International Conference on Information Systems Security), held annually, provides a forum for disseminating the latest research results in information and systems security. The acceptance ratio of the first four conferences has averaged less than 30%, and the proceedings have been published as part of the Springer Verlag series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The ICISS 2009 encourages submissions addressing theoretical and practical problems in information and systems security and related areas. We especially like to encourage papers in domains that have not been represented much in the past at the conference, such as database security/privacy, usability aspects of security, operating systems security, and sensor networks security. Papers that introduce and address unique security challenges or present thought-provoking ideas are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Security and External World

Biometric security
Database security and privacy
Audits and digital forensics
Digital rights management
Privacy and anonymity
User interfaces and security
Security/privacy on the web
Security/privacy in healthcare
Computer System & Network Security

Security on handheld devices
Security in sensor and ad hoc networks
Malware analysis and mitigation
Vulnerability detection and mitigation
Distributed systems security
Operating systems security
Software security analysis
Security in cyber physical systems

Security: Models and Analysis

Authentication and access control
Access control models
Cryptographic protocols
Language-based security
Security policies

Important Dates
Manuscript Submission (Full Paper): 15 July 2009
Tutorial Proposal Submission: 03 Aug 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 04 Sep 2009
Camera-ready Manuscript Due: 21 Sep 2009

Paper Submission
Submissions must be made online at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iciss2009 Papers should be formatted as they would appear in the final LNCS proceedings. Papers should be at most 15 pages in length, including the bibliography. One of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the conference to present the paper. Conference papers will be presented between Dec. 16th and 18th, 2009. ICISS accepts only electronic submissions in PDF format. Note that our publisher, Springer LNCS series, strongly prefers camera-ready manuscripts to be submitted in LaTeX2e (or LaTeX) format using the llncs.cls LaTeX template provided by Springer. See detailed manuscript preparation instructions and options at Information for LNCS authors: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
Dual Submission Policy: Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers published or currently submitted to a journal or conference with proceedings
Proceedings: Conference proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series
Poster / Demo Session
There will be a poster/demo session for researchers to present new ideas and latest preliminary research. Ideas that provoke, intrigue, or inspire information security audience are specially encouraged. These can be submitted closer to the conference date. The submission can be just a poster, just a demo, or a combination of the two. Further details on submission deadlines to be provided later. Contact Poster/Demo
Session Chair: Prof. Raja Datta: rajadatta@ece.iitkgp.ernet.in

Tutorial Proposals
There will be tutorial program for two days (14-15 December 2009). At most four three-hour tutorials will be offered. Proposals are invited for tutorials of duration three hours on relevant topics of current interest. A tutorial proposal should include the extended abstract of the tutorial and a brief biography of the speaker(s). Please mail your proposal to Professor A.K. Pujari or Professor Indrakshi Ray (reachable via iciss09-tutorials @umich.edu) by 3rd Aug 2009. The speaker(s) of the accepted proposals need to submit their final presentation one month before the conference to the Tutorial Chairs.

More information is available at the conference website: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/iciss2009/
5th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2009), 14-18 Dec, Kolkata, India

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From: “Helen Oliver” <helen.oliver.1 at city.ac.uk>

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eHEALTH 2009 – INDUSTRY AND HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS PAPERS – DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 10TH JULY

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Helen Oliver
Research Assistant
City eHealth Research Centre (CeRC)
City Community and Health Sciences
Tait Building, C329
City University, Northampton Square
London, EC1V 0HB, UK

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