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Meetings and Events for Analytical Professionals

16th National Quality Education Conference

November 16-18, 2008 • Silver Legacy Resort • Reno, NV >> more information

Designing Products and Processes using Six Sigma

November 17-21, 2008 (SEI Pittsburgh, PA)

Course Registration
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Phone: 412 / 268-7388
FAX: 412 / 268-7401
Questions: courseregistration@sei.cmu.edu

To Register: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/products/courses/register_p56b_2008.html

This course may also be offered by arrangement at customer sites. E-mail course-info@sei.cmu.edu or call +1 412-268-7622 for details.

Course Description
Please note the prerequisites below: you must bring a laptop computer, and you must install and test a number of software tools before the course, as specified in the pre-course letter.

This five-day course takes a hands-on, measurement-oriented approach to product development, providing participants with a toolkit of analysis methods and leveraging industry best practices, such as the Design-for-Six-Sigma methodology of DMADV (Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, Verify) and CMMI High Maturity. This course builds upon basic statistical concepts from the Improving Process Performance Using Six Sigma course. More advanced and powerful analytical methods are introduced through short lectures and extensive hands-on practice sessions using problems traditionally faced by new product development teams. Participants learn a framework in the form of tools, methods, and practices for analyzing data to make more informed business decisions about project management (quality, schedule, and cost) and process and product performance. The ways in which these quality measurement practices relate to improvement models such as the Capability Maturity Model, Integration, CMMI are also discussed.

8th International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Applications (ISDA08)

The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2008)
November 26-28, 2008
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

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The 9th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering Management Systems Conference (APIEMS2008)

Nusa Dua, Bali - Indonesia. December 3-5, 2008

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ICPR 2008 - The 19th Conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Dec.8-11, Tempa, FL

The ICPR 2008 will be an international forum for discussions on recent advances in the fields of Computer vision, Pattern recognition (theory, methods and algorithms), Image, speech and signal analysis, Multimedia and video analysis, Biometrics, Document analysis, and Bioinformatics and biomedical applications.

ICPR 2008 will be held at the Tampa Convention Center. With pristine beaches, numerous parks, arts and science museums, and vibrant night life, Tampa Bay is a popular destination for tourists .

The conference consists of 7 tracks :
1) Computer Vision (Sensor systems; Features and Image Descriptors; Segmentation, Color and Texture; Image Modelling and Scene Understanding; Motion, Tracking, Video Analysis; Object Description and Recognition; Robotics and Visual Navigation; Applications)

2) Pattern Recognition (Statistical, Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition; Machine Learning and Data Mining; Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Learning; Feature Reduction, Manifold Learning; Classification and Clustering; Support Vector Machines and kernels; Invariances in Recognition; Applications)

3) Image, Speech and Signal Analysis (Image and Video Processing and Understanding; Speech and Audio Processing and Analysis; Enhancement, segmentation, filtering; Coding and compression; Separation and Segmentation; Learning; Applications)

4) Multimodal Interaction and Multimedia Processing (Multimodal interaction; Multimedia analysis, indexing, retrieval; Multimedia infrastructure; Applications)

5) Document Analysis (Character and Text Recognition; Handwriting Recognition; Graphics Recognition; Document Analysis and Recognition; Document Databases and Data Mining; Applications)

6) Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications (Data mining for Biological Databases; Algorithms for Molecular Biology; Pattern Recognition for Genomics and Proteomics; Microarray Data Analysis; Computational Biology; Medical Image Analysis and Registration; Computer-Aided Diagnosis; Applications)

7) Biometrics (Biometric Technologies; Multi-modal biometrics; Biometric System Design; Performance Evaluation; Applications)

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IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management, Singapore, Dec. 8-11 2008

The International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) aims to provide a forum to disseminate, to all branches industries, information on the most recent and relevant innovations, theories and practices in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. Following the great success of IEEM2007, IEEE Engineering Management Society Singapore Chapter decided to host this conference for a second time to provide another opportunity for those who missed the last conference and for those who wish to revisit us. We hope to link researchers and practitioners in different branches of industrial engineering and engineering management from around the world.

We invite papers and proposals for special sessions/tracks related to all areas in industrial engineering and engineering management. Authors are invited to submit to paper for following topics:

Decision Analysis and Methods
E-Business and E-Commerce
Engineering Economy and Cost Analysis
Engineering Education and Training
Facilities Planning and Management
Global Manufacturing and Management
Human Factors
Information Processing and Engineering
Intelligent Systems
Manufacturing Systems
Operations Research
Production Planning and Control
Project Management
Quality Control and Management
Reliability and Maintenance Engineering
Safety, Security and Risk Management
Service Innovation and Management
Supply Chain Management
Systems Modeling and Simulation
Technology and Knowledge Management

Tentative Dates (please refer to www.ieeeieem.org for update)
Full paper submission: 1 June 2008
Notification of acceptance: 1 August 2008
Final camera-ready paper due: 1 September 2008

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The Tenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-08), Dec 15-19, Hanoi, Vietnam

The Tenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-08) will provide an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences which concentrate on AI technologies and their applications in areas of social and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim.

PRICAI-08 will be held in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Hanoi, with a millennium-long history, has become one of the most beguiling cities in Asia where IT technology and research activities are taking place in an unprecedented speed. >> more information

American Mathematical Society (AMS) International Meeting Program

Joint International Meeting
Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China, December 17-21, 2008 (Wednesday - Sunday)
Meeting #1045
Associate secretaries: Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

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Second International Joint Conference on Biomedical Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2009)

January 14–17, 2009, Porto, Portugal >> more information

SAC 2009 The 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

March 8 - 12, 2009, Waikiki Beach <http://www.aloha.com/%7Elifeguards/waikiki.html> , Honolulu <http://www.visit-oahu.com/> , Hawaii, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS

The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) is a primary forum for applied computer scientists and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2009 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and is presented in cooperation with other ACM Special Interest Groups. For more information on ACM SAC 2009, please visit: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/

Bioinformatics Track

A large part of the information to support biological and biomedical research is available in an increasingly wide variety of rapidly- growing decentralized databases. The challenge is to obtain information and knowledge from these databases using innovative computational approaches to support and promote biological and biomedical research. One example of such a computational challenge is in identifying biological pathways using data, information, and knowledge scattered over heterogeneous databases. Computational tools using system-theoretic approaches are needed to model metabolic pathways, signal-transduction pathways, genetic regulatory circuits and biological systems.

By comparing the genomes and pathways of several species at a high level, we hope to understand how stable biological systems have evolved. Over the last few years, microarray data have provided many insights into the transcriptome and into cellular functions. These data are now increasingly complemented by mass spectrometry data of the proteome, whose analysis poses new computational challenges.

Track Topics:
* Algebraic Biology
* Bioinformatics for diseases
* Computational genomics and systems biology
* Data visualization and visual analytics
* Databases & Data Integration
* DNA assembly, clustering and mapping
* Errors and inconsistencies in biological databases
* Gene Expression/regulation & Microarrays
* Genomes and protein analysis
* High-performance bio-computing
* Integrative approaches for drug design
* Integrative data and text mining approaches
* Life sciences databases and ontologies
* Machine learning, data integration and data mining in the life sciences
* Molecular sequence analysis, modeling and simulation
* Parallel architectures and algorithms for biological applications
* Pathways, Networks, Systems Biology
* Prediction and integration of metabolic and regulatory networks
* Protein & RNA Structure and Function
* Protein-protein Interactions, prediction, and Molecular Networks
* Query processing and optimization for biological data
* Semantic web for the life sciences
* Sequence Analysis & Alignment, Assembly
* SNPs and Haplotyping
* Structural and functional bioinformatics
* System Biology and Modeling
* Virtual cell modeling

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24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. March 8 - 12, 2009
Sponsored by The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

For more info: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/

25th International Conference on Data Engineering

March 29 - April 4, 2009, Shanghai, China

Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering techniques and methodologies in the design, development and assessment of information systems for different computing platforms and application environments. The 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering will continue in its tradition of being a premier forum for presentation of research results and advanced data-intensive applications and discussion of issues on data and knowledge engineering. The mission of the conference is to share research solutions to problems of today's information society and to identify new issues and directions for future research and development work.

For more info: http://i.cs.hku.hk/icde2009/

AAAI Spring Symposium Series

The AAAI Spring Symposium Series will be held March 23–25, 2009, at Stanford University, Stanford, California. >> more information

Call for Abstracts: PMSA (Pharmaceutical Management Science Association) 2009 Conference

April 26 - April 29, 2009. Westin Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, California

Submission deadline for abstracts: Friday October 17, 2008
Authors will be contacted by: Friday January 16, 2009

PMSA 2009 will invite speakers based on a competitive review process. We invite submissions from members of the pharmaceutical industry on any topic reflecting applications of management science in the pharmaceutical industry.

The Call for Abstracts is available on the PMSA website at www.pmsa.net

13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing

June 3-5, 2009, Moscow, Russia >> more information

Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09)

The Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held July 11–17, 2009, in Pasadena, California. IJCAI-09 is cosponsored by AAAI. http://www.ijcai.org/