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Newsletter for March 2008

Meetings and Events for the Analytical Professionals


13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, September 9th to 12th, 2008, in Havana, Cuba.
CIARP'2008 is the 13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition and as it is already a tradition this conference will be a forum for the exchange of scientific results and experiences, as well as the sharing of new knowledge, and the increase of the co-operation between research groups in pattern recognition and related areas.

CIARP'2008 (http://wwww.ciarp.org) will be held in Havana, Cuba, from September 9th to 12th, 2008. This conference is organized by the Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition (ACRP), the Advanced Technologies Applications Center (CENATAV) of Cuba; and will be sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neural Computing and Robotics (MACVNR), the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI), the Special Interest Group on Pattern Recognition of the Brazilian Computer Society (SIGPR-SBC), and the Chilean Association for Pattern Recognition (AchiRP).

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7th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems 2008, September 9-10, 2008, Middlesex University, London, UK
Aims and Objectives
This is the 7th in a series of successful international conferences organised by the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Chapter of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. These conferences provide an interdisciplinary forum for research and application of various aspects of cybernetics and systems. The theme of the 2008 conference is Cybernetic Intelligent Systems.

Scope
The programme committee solicits high quality papers containing original contributions in all areas of experimental, theoretical and application-oriented aspects of cybernetic intelligent systems. This will include papers describing 1) Relevant techniques for intelligent systems including, but not limited to, neural networks, evolutionary methods, fuzzy systems, knowledge and agent based approaches. 2) Systems using cybernetic intelligent approaches, such as robotics, control, modelling, instrumentation, communications, machine vision, audio logical systems, safety systems. 3) Industrial applications of cybernetic intelligent systems.

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ECML PKDD 2008 - European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases,15 - 19 September 2008, Antwerp, Belgium
The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) will be located in Antwerp, Belgium, from September 15th to 19th, 2008. This event builds upon a very successful series of 18 ECML and 11 PKDD conferences, which have been jointly organized for the past seven years. It has become the major European scientific event in these fields and in 2008 it will comprise presentations of contributed papers and invited speakers, a wide program of workshops and tutorials, a discovery challenge, a panel, a demo track and an industrial track.
 
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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
 
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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 define and execute strategies within in your organization that that align with corporate goals and drive across all key business functions, including finance, 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!

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Basics of Supply Chain Management (by APICS)
Price: APICS Member $1,095 | Non-Member $1,345

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
 
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Detailed Scheduling and Planning (by APICS)
Price: APICS Member $1,095 | Non-Member $1,345

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.

21 Professional Development Points

Dates
February 19-21, 2008
July 15-17, 2008

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2008 INFORMS Conference on OR/MS Practice - Applying Science to the Art of Business
APRIL 13-15, 2008, BALTIMORE MARRIOTT WATERFRONT, BALTIMORE, MD  
  • Learn how to tap the COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE of analytics in real-world business applications.
  • Take an inside look at BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE strategies deployed by leading companies.
  • Exchange IDEAS AND STRATEGIES with analytic professionals across the enterprise.

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eMetrics Marketing Optimization SummitNext Summits:   
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

  • Become more relevant and valuable to your organization Understand the power of today's tools and techniques
  • Learn from experts and peers
  • Get answers

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
  • Search Analytics
  • 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.

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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

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SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences
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

REGISTRATION DEADLINE
July 7, 2008

HOTEL RESERVATION DEADLINE
July 7, 2008

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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 

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INFORMS Optimization Society: Theory, Computation, and Emerging Applications Atlanta  

Dates:  March 14, 2008 - March 16, 2008 
Location:  Atlanta, GA 
Sponsor:  INFORMS Optimization Society

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9th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference   

Dates:  March 27, 2008 - March 29, 2008 
Location:  College Park, MD 
Sponsor:  INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications 

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American Statistical Association 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings 

August 3 - 7, 2008, Denver, Colorado. To be held at the Denver Convention Center.

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AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia

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.

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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

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The 2008 MULTICONF - Call for Papers

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.

More details about the International Association of Engineers, the journal Engineering Letters and the IAENG International Journal of Computer Science can be found at:
http://www.iaeng.org/about_IAENG.html
http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/index.html
http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html
http://www.iaeng.net/
http://www.iaeng.com/

The official journal web site of Engineering Letters is at: http://www.engineeringletters.com

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