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SDM'11: THE ELEVENTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING

Phoenix, Arizona, USA, April 28 - April 30, 2011
URL: http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm11

Important Dates:
Paper Submission: 11:59pm, October 15, 2010 (PST)
Author Notification: December 22, 2010
Workshop/Tutorial Proposals: 11:59pm, October 15, 2010
Camera Ready: January 25, 2011

Data mining is an important tool in science, engineering, industrial processes, healthcare, business, and medicine. The datasets in these fields are large, complex, and often noisy.  Extracting knowledge requires the use of sophisticated, high-performance and principled analysis techniques and algorithms, based on sound theoretical and statistical foundations. These techniques in turn require powerful visualization technologies; implementations that must be carefully tuned for performance; software systems that are usable by scientists, engineers, and physicians as well as researchers; and infrastructures that support
them. This conference provides a venue for researchers who are addressing these problems to present their work in a peer-reviewed forum. It also provides an ideal setting for graduate students and others new to the field to learn about cutting-edge research by hearing outstanding invited speakers and attending tutorials (included with conference registration). A set of focused workshops are also held on the last day of the conference. The proceedings of the conference are published in archival form, and are also made available on the SIAM web site.

Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2011)

The Fourteenth IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2011) will create an international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and practical experience in the areas of soft computing and artificial intelligence. The conference provides an opportunity to present and observe the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas. ASC 2011 will strengthen relations between industry practitioners, research laboratories, and universities. All papers submitted to this conference will be peer evaluated by at least two reviewers. Acceptance will be based primarily on originality and contribution.

ASC 2011 will be held in conjunction with the IASTED International Conferences on:

• Power and Energy Systems (EuroPES 2011)
• Applied Simulation and Modelling (ASM 2011)

Call for Papers

Please submit your papers as well as proposals for tutorials, special sessions, and panel sessions by January 15, 2011. See the Call for Papers here.

Location

Situated in the warm and sunny Mediterranean, Crete is the largest of the Greek islands. It is renowned in myth and rich in a history that spans thousands of years. Today, history and myth blend seamlessly with Crete's natural beauty and lively culture. Take in the sharp mountain ranges, interrupted by steep ravines and divided by fields of olive trees, all below a splendid sky. Spend a day exploring the wild cypress forests and keep an eye out for the kri-kri, the Cretan wild goat. A trip to the stunning White Mountains and the Samariá Gorge is a must, as are the many ruins and historic landmarks throughout the island. Unwind with a sunset stroll on the beach followed by a hearty meal at a local tavern, or an evening of vibrant city nightlife.

Windows Phone 7 SDK here; YouTube, Netflix demoed; no CDMA yet

Article from arstechnica.com

Two weeks after the operating system itself was finalized, Microsoft has released the Windows Phone 7 SDK to developers. Applications developed with the new SDK will be submittable to the Windows Phone Marketplace when that opens for submissions next month.

The new SDK brings many welcome improvements; it (finally) includes built-in support to allow developers to offer many of the same interface concepts as the built-in phone software uses. Specifically, Panoramas, used in the various hubs such as People and Office, and Pivots, used in the e-mail client, are now available for all to use. The sideways-scrolling panoramas in particular are a striking part of the Windows Phone 7 experience, and their absence led many to attempt to develop their own versions. Having a standard control to use will ease development and provide greater uniformity in third-party applications.

In spite of these additions, the SDK still isn't complete. There are desirable things that the built-in applications include—such as picking dates and times—that aren't available to third parties. In spite of the work that Microsoft has put in to Windows Phone 7 over the last few months of public releases, it's still a new platform that's immature in many ways.

To fill some of these gaps, the company is using its open source Silverlight Toolkit project to provide unsupported alternatives to the missing functionality.

In addition to the main SDK, Microsoft also released a Mobile Advertising SDK. Microsoft already has its own advertising platform, used in Bing (and soon Yahoo!), and unsurprisingly, it's bringing it to its mobile platform—for some months, Redmond has been promoting its phone operating system as an "ad-serving machine." With the SDK, it's trivial for developers to add advertising to their applications as a way of monetizing them.

Initially, the ads will only be available in the US, to US developers. Support in other markets will begin rolling out early next year. With Windows Phone 7 launching first in Europe, this is a little surprising. Microsoft already sells ads outside the US, and can pay non-US developers of phone apps, so on the face of it, it would seem that all the legal hurdles have been jumped, giving little reason for such a restriction. The first ads will be plain text and image banners, with rich media ads—similar to those of Apple's iAd—promised for the future. Microsoft's ads will pay out 70 percent of ad revenue to the application publisher, in contrast to iAd's 60 percent.

Along with the new SDKs, some new applications and capabilities have been demonstrated; among others, there's a good-looking Netflix app with streaming video, and an official Twitter app.

In a Bieber-heavy demo, Microsoft's Brandon Watson also showed off Windows Phone 7's YouTube support. Surprisingly, this used neither a YouTube application nor Flash (which is not available on the platform at the moment). Instead, Windows Phone 7 streamed the videos directly from YouTube using YouTube's APIs for that purpose; the support is built-in. YouTube videos also appear to integrate into the operating system's hubs, putting them on an equal footing with videos stored on the device itself.

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WIAMIS 2011

The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international fora for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry working in the areas of image, video and audio applications, with a special focus on analysis.
After a series of successful meetings starting in 1997 in Louvain, WIAMIS 2011 will be held at Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), Delft, The Netherlands.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

* 2D/3D feature extraction
* Segmentation and reconstruction of objects in 2D/3D image sequences
* Motion analysis and tracking
* Video/Audio special event recognition
* Multimedia coding efficiency and increased error resilience
* Multimedia browsing, indexing and retrieval
* Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for multimedia
* Multimedia content adaptation tools, transcoding and transmoding
* Advanced interfaces for content analysis and relevance feedback
* End-to-end quality of service support for Universal Multimedia Access
* Semantic mapping and ontologies
* Semantic web and social networks
* Relevance feedback and learning systems
* Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware
* Advanced multimedia applications
* Video/Audio based human behavior analysis systems
* Camera based human computer interaction

 

Paper Submission

All submissions will be handled electronically. Submission instructions will be posted on the workshop website (http://www.wiamis2011.org/) in due course.

Ετήσιο Βραβείο Καλύτερης Διδακτορικής Διατριβής

Το Ινστιτούτο Πληροφορικής και Τηλεματικής (ΙΠΤΗΛ) προκηρύσσει από φέτος το Ετήσιο Βραβείο Καλύτερης Διδακτορικής Διατριβής το οποίο έχει απονεμηθεί από Ελληνικό Πανεπιστήμιο στον ευρύτερο τομέα της Πληροφορικής-Τηλεματικής κατά την διάρκεια του προηγούμενου ημερολογιακού έτους.

Οι όροι του διαγωνισμού είναι οι ακόλουθοι:

• Ο διδακτορικός τίτλος θα πρέπει να έχει απονεμηθεί από Ελληνικό Πανεπιστήμιο μέσα στο 2010.
• Η διδακτορική διατριβή μπορεί να είναι γραμμένη είτε στα Ελληνικά είτε στα Αγγλικά.
• Η διδακτορική διατριβή θα πρέπει να αναφέρεται σε ένα από τα θέματα στα οποία δραστηριοποιείται ερευνητικά το ΙΠΤΗΛ:
  • Επεξεργασία εικόνας
  • Όραση υπολογιστών
  • Αναγνώριση προτύπων
  • Επεξεργασία σήματος
  • Τεχνητή νοημοσύνη
  • Πολυμέσα
  • Εικονική και επαυξημένη πραγματικότητα
• Η υποβολή της διδακτορικής διατριβής θα γίνεται ηλεκτρονικά. Μαζί θα πρέπει να υποβάλλεται βεβαίωση από την γραμματεία της σχολής ότι ο διδακτορικός τίτλος απονεμήθηκε μέσα στο έτος που αναφέρει η προκήρυξη, καθώς και τα ονόματα και οι ηλεκτρονικές διευθύνσεις της Τριμελούς Επιτροπής.

Η επιτροπή κρίσης θα αποτελείται από Ερευνητές του ΙΠΤΗΛ.

Το βραβείο θα απονέμεται κατά την Ανοιχτή Ημέρα του ΙΠΤΗΛ και θα αποτελείται από βεβαίωση και χρηματικό ποσό 600 ευρώ. Το ΙΠΤΗΛ θα καλύπτει τα έξοδα μετακίνησης του νικητή, εντός Ελλάδας, για να παραστεί στην εκδήλωση και να παραλάβει το βραβείο προσωπικά. Το βραβευμένο διδακτορικό θα προβάλλεται από την ιστοσελίδα του ΙΠΤΗΛ καθώς και μέσω δελτίου τύπου.

Προθεσμία υποβολής υποψηφιοτήτων: 15 Ιανουαρίου 2011.

Η υποβολή γίνεται ηλεκτρονικά στην διεύθυνση: http://www.iti.gr/itiPHD