CAMP’10: International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management 2010

Call for Papers (Extended deadline: 3 November 2009)

CAMP’10: International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management 2010

16–18 March 2010, Shah Alam, Malaysia

http://fskm.uitm.edu.my/camp10

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Dear Colleagues, It is our pleasure to invite you to CAMP’10 to share your research findings and experience in the field of Information Retrieval in support for Knowledge Management. This conference is organised by PECAMP, the Malaysian society of Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management together with Universiti Teknologi MARA, Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and is supported by the IEEE Malaysian Section and theIEEE Computer Society. The proceedings of CAMP’10 will be included in the IEEE Xplore database - Show quoted text - Scope - Show quoted text - Invisible World • Second Life • Augmented Virtuality • Augmented Reality • Collaborative Workspace • Digital Community • Social Networks • Online Behaviour • Online Gaming • Simulation Emerging Computing • Autonomous Computing • Cloud Computing • Natural Computing • Social Computing • Trust Computing • Contextual Computing • Ubiquitous Computing • Pervasive Computing • Network Computing Network Security • Network Surveillance • Intrusion Detection • Threat Avoidance • Privacy, Trust and Security Assurance Knowledge Intelligence • Artificial Intelligence • Social Intelligence • Ambient Intelligence • Emotional Intelligence • Reasoning Strategies Information Storage and Retrieval • Multimedia Information Retrieval (Audio, Video, Music, Image, Text) • Storage and Indexing Techniques • Semantics and Metadata • Natural Language Processing • Distributed and Parallel Information Retrieval • Information Fusion • Information Recovery • Visualisation Knowledge Management • Knowledge Management Processes (Creation, Sharing, Representation and Use of knowledge) • Knowledge Management Techniques and Tools (for Acquisition, Learning, Sharing and Processing of knowledge) • Change Management • Culture of Innovation • Organisational Complexity

- Show quoted text - Deadline for manuscript submission: 3 November 2009 Notification of acceptance: 20 November 2009 Camera ready paper due: 10 January 2010 Deadline for author’s registration: 10 January 2010

More information Kindly visit the conference web site at http://fskm.uitm.edu.my/camp10 for further details.

The 8th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling

PATAT 2010: PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS & DEMONSTRATIONS The 8th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling 10th August - 13th August 2010 Belfast, UK This conference is the eighth in a series of conferences that serve as a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors on all aspects of computer-aided timetable generation. For more information about the conferences see http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~B.McCollum/patat10/index.html Featured Keynote Speakers Graham Kendall (University of Nottingham, UK) Jeff Kingston (University of Sydney, Australia) David Ryan (University of Auckland, New Zealand) George White (University of Ottawa, Canada) The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to): Educational Timetabling Transport Timetabling Employee Timetabling and Rostering Sports Timetabling Complexity Issues Distributed Timetabling Systems Research Areas, including; Implementations Commercial Packages Interactive vs Batch Timetabling Timetable Updating Standard Data Formats Relationship with Other Scheduling Problems Constraint-Based Methods Evolutionary Computation Artificial Intelligence Mathematical Programming Expert Systems Heuristic Search Knowledge Based Systems Operational Research Simulated Annealing Local Search Ant Colony Methods Soft Computing Tabu Search Meta-Heuristics Hyper-Heuristics Very Large Neighborhood Search Graph Colouring Hybrid Methods Multi-Criteria Decision Making Fuzzy Reasoning Data Mining Submissions Authors are invited to submit presentations in one of three categories: (a) Full Papers. Authors should submit papers describing significant, original and unpublished work. Such papers are expected to be approximately 10-20 pages in length but this guideline is not strict. These papers will be fully refereed by the programme committee and the accepted ones will appear in conference proceedings. As in previous years, a selection of the papers will appear in a post conference volume. The second round of refereeing for this volume will take place shortly after the conference. (b) Abstracts. Authors can submit abstracts of up to 1000 words. Abstracts will be fully refereed. The accepted ones will appear in the conference proceedings. Abstracts will not go forward to the second round of refereeing for the post-conference volume. However, authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity to write a full paper based on their abstract and submit it for the selected papers volume. People who wish to give a talk (e.g. practitioners, researchers with preliminary or incomplete papers) but do not want to submit a full paper can submit under this category. (c) System Demonstrations. Authors can submit an abstract, describing the major properties and contribution of implemented and/or commercial timetabling systems. Abstracts should not exceed 1000 words (3-4 pages). Authors of accepted submissions in this category would be expected to provide a demonstration of their software during the conference. Demonstration submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their innovation, relevance and scientific contribution. The abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings but they will not be forwarded to the second round of refereeing for the post-conference volume. However, authors of accepted system demonstration abstracts are welcome to submit a full paper to the post-conference volume if they so wish. Submission Instructions Authors of all types of submitted papers are kindly requested to prepare a paper in English and submit it through our online submission system (available by the end of November 2009). The length of the paper should fulfil the requirements given for each category above. All papers must be submitted as a PDF file and authors will be requested to use the templates provided: the LaTeX version is preferred, the Microsoft Word version is also acceptable, no other format can be accepted. Please note that all participants will need to register for the conference and pay the registration fee in order for accepted submissions to appear in the conference proceedings. Deadlines Paper/abstract/system submissions: January 20th, 2010 Notification: April 20th, 2010 (at the latest) Organizing and Programme Committee co-chairs Barry McCollum School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Queen's University Belfast and Edmund Burke Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group, School of Computer Science and Information Technology University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus, Nottingham NG8 1BB United Kingdom PATAT 2010 website: http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~B.McCollum/patat10/index.html Copyright © 2009 PATAT 2010

4th International Symposium on Information Technology ITSim' 10

4th International Symposium on Information Technology
ITSim' 10 (www.itsim.org)

June 15 - 17, 2010
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

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*** Paper Submission Deadline is extended --- January 31, 2010 ****

Hosted by :

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, IEEE Malaysia Section, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Co-sponsored by :

IEEE Computer Society, Malaysian Information Technology Society (MITS)

Important Dates:

31 January 2010 : Submission of Full Paper

15 March 2010 : Notification of Papers Acceptance

30 April 2010 : Camera Ready due

1 – 15 April 2010 : Early Bird Registration

Paper submission :

Prospective authors must submit their original papers for review through the EDAS conference management system at http://edas.info/.

The manuscript template is available at: http://www.itsim.org/instruction.html

Areas :

The topics of the conference include, but not limited to, the following:

Engineering and Technology

• GRID and peer-to-peer computing
• Decision Support Systems
• Distributed control systems
• Computer networking
• Data and communications protocol
• Mobile computing
• Signal processing
• Electronics
• Scientific computing
• Computer security
• Biometrics and security
• Knowledge representation
• Artificial intelligence
• Neural networks
• Machine learning
• Fuzzy logic
• Data mining
• Information storage and retrieval
• Cryptography and compression
• Pattern recognition
• Agent technologies

Green Computing

• Hardware reusability
• Server virtualization
• Thin client solution
• Material recycling
• Power management
• Electronics waste management
• Telecommuting
• Minimalism computing
• Software reusability
• Algorithm efficiency
• Performance per watt
• Hibernation features

Human and Natural Ecosystem

• Biologically-inspired computing
• Bioinformatics
• Cerebral computing
• Genetic computing
• Autonomic computing
• Nature of software
• Natural intelligence
• Natural knowledge
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Neural computation
• Neural informatics
• Quantum processing
• Cognitive linguistic
• Expressive mathematics

Energy Informatics

• Data exploration on energy data set
• Energy information system
• Energy analysis
• Energy and ICT
• Renewable energy technology
• Sustainable energy technology
• Energy efficiency

Systems Development and Application

• Software engineering
• Knowledge engineering
• Knowledge-based applications
• Web-based information systems
• E-commerce systems
• E-learning systems
• Expert systems
• Intelligent systems
• Adaptive systems
• Voice recognition systems
• Haptics systems
• Industrial application systems
• Augmented Reality
• Simulation and visualization
• Comparative programming
• Evaluation of systems
• Technology impact assessment
• Software reusability
• Virtual reality

Knowledge Society

• Knowledge society indicators
• Knowledge divide
• Knowledge Management
• E-community
• Personalized knowledge
• Intellectual capital
• Meta-knowledge
• Libre knowledge

Registration & Fees

Registration must be made via EDAS website http://edas.info/.

Information on fees can be found at http://www.itsim.org/registration.htm .

Symposium Partners:

Universiti Malaya(UM), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Universiti Teknologi MARA(UiTM), Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA), Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Universiti Multimedia, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Universiti Kreatif Lim Kok Wing, Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Open University Malaysia, Kolej Tunku Abdul Rahman, MIMOS.

Symposium Co-chairs

Ahmad Kamil Mahmood, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia

Halimah Badioze Zaman, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Steve Elliot, University of Sydney, Australia
Peter Haddawy, Asian Insitute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA
Timothy Shih, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan
Zaiki Awang , Chairman, IEEE Malaysia Section

Contact us:

For further information, visit www.itsim.org or kindly contact us at :

Tel: +605-3687475/ +605-3687411
or
E-mail: itsim2010@petronas.com.my

International Workshop on Scheduling in Healthcare Systems (SCHEALS'10)

International Workshop on Scheduling in Healthcare Systems (SCHEALS'10)

25-27 August 2010

IAMSR, Åbo Akademi University
Turku, Finland

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Abstract

Many Healthcare providers have suffered a crisis of poor quality and inefficiency with rapidly increasing costs. Healthcare delivery faces complex scheduling needs and stands to gain from advances in scheduling technology and understanding. The SCHEALS 2010 workshop will take place at Åbo Akademi University in the city of Turku, in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Applied Operational Research (ICAOR'10). We invite you to join your colleagues for this international forum. Sharing of ideas, knowledge and experience is the primary goal of the workshop. The meeting would be ideal for young researchers to present their work, even at a preliminary stage, for constructive discussion and feedback.


Workshop Theme

The workshop will cover the general area of scheduling with particular emphasis being placed on healthcare applications, including, but not limited to:

* Automation
* Exact Methods
* Expert Systems
* Heuristics
* Machine Scheduling
* Meta-Heuristics
* Optimization
* Patient Scheduling
* Personnel Scheduling
* Queuing
* Rescheduling
* Shift Timetabling
* Simulation
* Uncertainty


Paper Submission

Researchers wishing to contribute to the conference are invited to submit manuscripts of not more than 12 pages either as full papers or extended abstracts. The working language of the conference is English. Authors are encouraged to prepare their manuscripts in LNCS style using the MS Word template provided by the Springer, please see Information for LNCS Authors.
Papers should be submitted online through the conference website submission system in MS Word 2003 format (.doc). All submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees, and successful papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings.


Special Issue

The authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration to post-workshop special issues of the Journal of Applied Operational Research (JAOR) or Lecture Notes in Management Science (LNMS).


Important Dates

15-Aug-2009 - Submission opens
15-Mar-2010 - Paper submission deadline
15-May-2010 - Notification of decisions
15-Jun-2010 - Registration deadline
30-Jun-2010 - Camera-ready deadline
25-Aug-2010 – Workshop starts


International Scientific Programme Committee

Ben Atkinson, London Metropolitan University, UK
Sigrid Knust, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Gilbert Laporte, HEC Montréal, Canada
Jesper Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Rym Hallah, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Margarida Moz, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy
Kaveh Sheibani, Tadbir Institute, Iran (Chair)


Registration

All workshop participants are expected to register for the ICAOR 2010 conference. The conference registration fee is €300 per delegate. This includes participation in all conference sessions, the proceedings, coffee breaks, lunches and the conference dinner.


Contact Details

General information on the conference email to:
icaor2010@gmail.com

Local Chair
Doc. Dr. Mikael Collan
Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research
Abo Akademi University
Joukahaisenkatu 3-5 A 4th floor
20520 Turku
Finland
Tel +358 (0)2 215 4033
Fax +358 (0)2 215 4809
mcollan@abo.fi

ICAOR/SCHEALS General Chair
Prof. Dr. Kaveh Sheibani
Tadbir Institute for Operational Research,
Systems Design and Financial Services Ltd.
122 Mahmudi 2ND Street
Tehran 19797-13673
Iran
Tel +98 (0)21 2271 7097
Fax +98 (0)21 2271 6816
tadbir@tadbirstm.org.ir


Please visit ICAOR website at http://www.tadbirstm.org.ir
or ICAOR 2010 conference website at http://iamsr.abo.fi/icaor2010