The American Strategic Management Institute’s Performance Conference 2008, May 5-7, in Orlando, FL.
Performance. It is on
every executive’s mind: how to plan, measure and improve
performance on all levels of the enterprise. All executives are looking
for a strategy for improving their organization’s
performance… but real success still hinges on the effective
execution of strategy. When strategy is not executed, organizations
fall short of meeting the performance expectations of stakeholders and
customers.
The fatal disconnect
between strategy definition by management and strategy execution by the
organization has given rise to “performance management
systems.” Today’s high performing organizations utilize
performance management systems to successfully execute strategy at all
levels of their operations.
To enhance your own
efforts to define and implement performance improvement strategies in
your organization, you are invited to join leaders in the field of
organizational performance at The American Strategic Management
Institute’s Performance Conference 2008, May 5-7, in Orlando, FL.
At this national event,
you will learn how to defi ne and execute strategies within in your
organization that that align with corporate goals and drive across all
key business functions, including fi nance, workforce and operational
performance. Unlike any other event, The Performance Conference will
focus on the challenge of aligning strategy with measures to achieve
your enterprise objectives through comprehensive performance management.
The nation’s
leaders in performance management will be on hand for The Performance
Conference 2008. Join them and you will emerge with powerful lessons
and tools for driving real and immediate performance improvements in
your organization.I look forward to seeing you in sunny Orlando!
This course covers
industry fundamentals and provides a comprehensive review of successful
manufacturing strategies to prepare participants for the Basics of
Supply Chain Management Exam. Examine the basic concepts and language
as well as the relationships among master planning, inventory
management, forecasting, Just-in-Time manufacturing, material
requirements planning, capacity management, distribution, production
activity control, total quality management, and purchasing. Industry
newcomers and those seeking to advance into management roles will
benefit from this course.
21 Professional Development Points
Dates March 11-13, 2008 June 3-5, 2008 September 23-25, 2008
Prepare for the Detailed Scheduling and Planning exam: explore various
techniques for material and capacity scheduling, including concepts and
techniques of material requirements planning, capacity requirements
planning, inventory management practices, and procurement and supplier
planning. New applications such as material-dominated scheduling and
processor-dominated scheduling are applicable to the process industries
as well as other mature production environments.
2008 Society for Health Systems (SHS) Conference. February 22–23, 2008. Orlando, Florida
Workshops planned for
Thursday, February 21, 2008 and Sunday, February 24, 2008. The
SHS Conference is held in partnership with the Healthcare Information
Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference scheduled for February
24–28, 2008.
The theme for the 2008
SHS Conference is "Bridging Clinical, Operational, and Financial
Performance". The first keynote presentation is “Realizing
the Promise of Clinical Improvement through Health Information
Technology” by Laura L. Adams - President and CEO, The Rhode
Island Quality Institute. The closing keynote presentation is
“Utilizing Lean and Six Sigma to Design the Health System of the
Future - Simple BFO’s that Change Everything” by Joseph M.
Duhig, Senior Vice President, Juran Institute.
Toronto, March 31-April 2, 2008 San Francisco, May 4-7, 2008
Watch the video introduction to eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit Optimize the Value of Your Online Marketing
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Marketing Optimization:
The art and science of continuous improvement
New measurement methods to increase marketing ROI
Make your company more successful
Online has become Mainstream
eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit where wisdom is shared about:
Website Optimization
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Campaign Optimization
Web 2.0 Optimization
Public Sector Metrics
Behavioral Targeting
Competitive Analysis
Customer Experience
Statistical Analysis
Business Implementation
Multi-Channel Marketing Metrics
And a lot more
Marketing managers, web
analysts and business intelligence experts have been meeting at the
eMetrics Summit since 2002 to learn how to increase the return on
online investments. It's your turn to join the discussion.
February 25 & 26, 2008
Grande Dunes Marriott, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Create customer connections
Discover how to harness the power of multi-channel marketing and establish genuine customer relationships at Marketing 08.
This exceptional event features keynote sessions and case studies of
the year’s most innovative marketing strategies and will arm you
with the information you need to turn customers into communities.
Key topics:
Shifting from traditional marketing to online media
Measuring return on marketing investment
Building and maintaining brand image and equity
Innovative strategies for attracting and retaining customers
The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning: Models,Technologies and Applications MLMTA'08
Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings/ book.
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
General Machine Learning Theory - Statistical learning theory - Unsupervised and Supervised Learning - Multivariate analysis - Hierarchical learning models - Relational learning models - Bayesian methods - Meta learning - Stochastic optimization - Simulated annealing - Heuristic optimization techniques - Neural networks - Reinforcement learning - Multi-criteria reinforcement learning - General Learning models - Multiple hypothesis testing - Decision making - Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods - Non-parametric methods - Graphical models - Gaussian graphical models - Bayesian networks - Particle filter - Cross-Entropy method - Ant colony optimization - Time series prediction - Fuzzy logic and learning - Inductive learning and applications - Grammatical inference General Graph-based Machine Learning Techniques - Graph kernel and graph distance methods - Graph-based semi-supervised learning - Graph clustering - Graph learning based on graph transformations - Graph learning based on graph grammars - Graph learning based on graph matching - General theoretical aspects of graph learning - Statistical modeling of graphs - Information-theoretical approaches to graphs - Motif search - Network inference - General issues in graph and tree mining Machine Learning Applications - Aspects of knowledge structures - Computational Finance - Computational Intelligence - Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques - Induction of document grammars - Supervised and unsupervised classification of web data - General Structure-based approaches in information retrieval, web authoring, information extraction, and web content mining - Latent semantic analysis - Aspects of natural language processing - Intelligent linguistic - Aspects of text technology - Computational vision - Bioinformatics and computational biology - Biostatistics - High-throughput data analysis - Biological network analysis: protein-protein/signaling/metabolic/transcriptional regulatory networks - Graph-based models in biostatistics - Computational Neuroscience - Computational Chemistry - Computational Statistics - Systems Biology - Algebraic Biology
IAFE/SunGard 2007 Financial Engineer of the Year Award Dinner
Recognized for his preeminent contributions to financial theory and
practice, particularly the essence of the capital asset pricing model,
Mr. Treynor’s illustrious career includes author, editor,
teacher, practitioner and mentor. For more information on Jack Treynor
and the Financial Engineer of the Year Award, please click here to read
the press release.
The Gala Dinner honoring Mr. Treynor will be held on February 7, 2008
at the United Nations in New York City. This evening is one of the
premier events on the IAFE calendar and is a phenomenal opportunity to
meet many of the most notable members of the financial engineering
industry. Tables of ten and individual seats are now available. For
more information on the dinner please contact the IAFE office at
646-736-0705.
Thursday, February 7, 2008 United Nations New York City
6:30 Cocktails
7:30 Dinner
Individual Seats - $600
Table of Ten Seats - $5000
Corporate Sponsorships are available
*For seats at the Gala Dinner honoring Jack Treynor or for corporate
sponsorship please contact the IAFE at main@IAFE.org or call us at
(646) 736-0705
August 4-7, 2008 Montreal, Quebec, Canada Hyatt Regency Montreal
Description The life sciences have
become increasingly quantitative as new technologies facilitate
collection and analysis of vast amounts of data ranging from complete
genomic sequences of organisms to satellite imagery of forest
landscapes on continental scales. As a consequence, mathematics and
computational science have become crucial technologies for the study of
complex models of biological processes.
The SIAM Activity Group on Life Sciences brings together researchers
who seek to develop and apply mathematical and computational methods in
all areas of the life sciences. This conference of the activity group
will provide a cross-disciplinary forum for catalyzing mathematical
research relevant to the life sciences. It will facilitate rapid
diffusion of new mathematical and computational methods in the life
sciences, and may stimulate more researchers to work in these important
areas. Mathematicians, life scientists, computational biologists,
bioengineers and others interested in mathematical and computational
analysis of biological systems are encouraged to attend.
Themes
Biomechanics
Cell Signaling
Evolutionary Dynamics
Imaging
Neuroscience
Regulatory Networks
Systems Biology
Important Deadlines
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
January 4, 2008: Minisymposium proposals
February 4, 2008: Abstracts for contributed and minisymposium speakers
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) - 2008 Annual Conference
May 17-21, 2008 Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The most significant industrial engineering event of the year. This is
the ideal place to gather your tools for today, fuel for tomorrow, and
network with the best and brightest in your field.
Educational sessions addressing virtually every aspect of the profession
Awards to recognize superior achievement of top professionals and students
An exhibit hall full of products from companies that value industrial engineers
Opportunities to build your network and reconnect with professional acquaintances
The Association for the Advancement of
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is pleased to present the AAAI 2008
Spring Symposium Series, to be held Wednesday through Friday, March
26–28, 2008 at Stanford University, California.
The titles of the eight symposia are as follows:
AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management. Chair: Knut Hinkelmann (knut dot hinkelmann at fhnw dot ch).
Architectures for Intelligent Theory-Based Agents. Contact: Marcello Balduccini (aita08.aaai@gmail.com)
Creative Intelligent Systems. Contact: Dan Ventura (ventura at cs dot byu dot edu)
Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior. Contact: Eva Hudlicka (Hudlicka at ieee dot org)
Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration. Cohairs:
Deborah L. McGuinness (dlm at ksl dot stanford dot edu) and Peter Fox
(pfox at ucar dot edu)
Social Information Processing. Contact: Kristina
Lerman (lerman@isi dot edu) and David Gutelius (gutelius at ai dot sri
dot com)
Symbiotic Relationships between Semantic Web and
Knowledge Engineering. Cochairs: Mark Musen (musen at stanford dot edu)
and Derek Sleeman (d.sleeman@abdn.ac.uk)
Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science. Chair: Mehran Sahami (sahami at cs dot stanford dot edu)
Symposia will be limited to 40–60 participants
each. Participation will be open to active participants as well as a
limited number of interested individuals on a first-come, first-served
basis. Registration information will be available on the AAAI web site
in December 2007.
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence AAAI-08
AAAI is delighted to announce that the
Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held at
the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, July
13–17, 2008. Please mark your calendars now for AAAI-08, and feel
free to contact us at aaai08@aaai.org with any inquiries.
The purpose of the AAAI-08 conference is to promote research in AI and
scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists,
and engineers in related disciplines.
Timetable for Authors of Regular Papers and Short Papers (Posters)
December 1, 2007–January 25, 2008: Authors register on the AAAI web site
January 25, 2008: Electronic abstracts due
January 30, 2008: Electronic papers due
March 18-20, 2008: Author feedback about initial reviews
March 31, 2008: Notification of acceptance or rejection
April 15, 2008: Camera-ready copy due at AAAI office
The 2008 MULTICONF (website: www.PromoteResearch.org) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper
submissions and session proposals. It consists of the following events:
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08)
International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-08)
International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08)
International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08)
International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-08)
International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-08)
International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-08)
The IMECS 2008 is organized by the International Association of
Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for
the
engineers and the computer scientists. The conference has the focus on
the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied engineering and
computer science subjects. The IMECS conferences serve as good
platforms for our members and the entire engineering community to meet
with each other and to exchange ideas. Our IMECS committees have been
formed with over two hundred and sixty committees members who are
mainly research center heads, faculty deans, department heads,
professors, and research scientists from over 30 countries. The last
IMECS 2007 has attracted more than one thousand participants from over
50 countries.
All submitted papers will be under peer review and accepted papers will
be published in the conference proceeding (ISBN: 978-988-98671-8-8).
The abstracts will be indexed and available at major academic
databases. The accepted papers will also be considered for publication
in the special issues of the journal Engineering Letters, in IAENG
journals and in edited books. Revised and expanded version of the
selected papers may also be included as book chapters in the standalone
edited books under the framework of cooperation between IAENG and
Springer.
