ACM 17th Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management
Napa Valley
Marriott Hotel & Spa. Napa Valley, California.
October 26-30, 2008
CIKM 2008
will take place at the Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa, 3425
Solano Avenue, Napa, CA 94558. This is right in the center of beautiful
wine country - North of San Francisco and
about 50 minutes by car/bus/limo.
Since 1992,
the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) has
successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from
the database, information retrieval, and knowledge management
communities. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging
problems facing the development
of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future
research directions through the publication of high quality, applied
and theoretical
research findings. In CIKM 2008, we will continue the tradition of
promoting collaboration among multiple areas. We encourage submissions
of high quality
papers on all topics in the general areas of databases, information
retrieval, and knowledge management. Papers that bridge across these
areas are of special
interest and will be considered for a "Best Interdisciplinary Paper"
award.
As CIKM
2008 will be held in Napa Valley, just one hour to the north of San
Francisco, one of the goals of the conference is to embrace the
innovative spirit of
the Bay Area/Silicon Valley in bridging further the academic-commercial
gap in the database, information retrieval, and knowledge management
communities.
To help
achieve this goal, we will have a series of invited speakers and an
industry day (separate from the industry research track) where
luminaries, primarily
from industry and from the VC (Venture Capital) community, will provide
insights on how DB/IR/KM technologies are/can be leveraged to make a
billion-dollar success.
October
13-14, 2008 9:00AM to 5:00 PM. Congress Center Basel Basel, Switzerland
(co-located with MipTec)
Please join us in Basel for Spotfire's Life Sciences Industry Forum
2008. This year's forum will be filled with opportunities to network
with your peers, learn best practices and explore the latest
innovations in Spotfire.
The preliminary agenda promises two days of presentations and
discussions on harnessing the power of Spotfire to meet the unique
challenges of analyzing life science data. Get valuable training, learn
from customer case studies, and participate in application specific
breakouts for Drug Discovery, Clinical Trials and Pharma Sales
&
Marketing.
SAS' 11th Annual Data Mining Conference,
M2008, Las Vegas, NV. Oct. 27-28
WBCF: 3rd Annual Global Lean, Six Sigma and
Business Improvement Summit 2008
Date: 14-17 Oct 2008 | Location: Ramada Orlando Celebration Hotel and
Convention Center, Orlando FL
WCBF’s 3rd Annual Global Lean, Six Sigma and Business
Improvement
Summit 2008 presents an unrivalled speaker panel headlined by top
business authors Matthew E. May, Kerry Patterson, Dr Mikel J. Harry and
Steven J Spear, complimented by an array of industry leaders, CEOs and
first-class deployment practitioners addressing Lean, Six Sigma and
process excellence for innovation and outstanding performance. Includes
the Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards 2008. To
save up to $600 register by Friday July 25th, 2008.
Fourth
Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment
Conference (AIIDE-08)
AIIDE 2008 will be held October 22 – 24 at Stanford
University, Stanford, California.
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The World Congress on Engineering and Computer
Science 2008
San Francisco, USA, 22-24 October, 2008.
The WCECS 2008 is organized
by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit
international association for the engineers and the computer
scientists. The congress has the focus on the frontier topics in the
theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. The
WCECS conferences serve as good platforms for our members and the
entire engineering community to meet with each other and to exchange
ideas. Our last IAENG conference has attracted more than one thousand
participants from over 30 countries, and our conference committees have
been formed with over two hundred and sixty committee members who are
mainly research center heads, faculty deans, department heads,
professors, and research scientists from over 20 countries. All
submitted papers will be under peer review and accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceeding (ISBN: 978-988-98671-0-2). 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.
More information for the
WCECS 2008 is available at the conference website:
The WCECS 2008 is composed
of the following 15 conferences (all will be held at the same location
and date):
ICCB'08 International Conference
on Computational Biology 2008 ICCS'08 International Conference
on Circuits and Systems 2008 ICCSA'08 International Conference
on Computer Science and Applications 2008 ICCST'08 International Conference
on Communications Systems and Technologies 2008 ICEEA'08 International
Conference on Electrical Engineering and Applications 2008 ICEIT'08 International Conference
on Education and Information Technology 2008 ICIAR'08 International Conference
on Intelligent Automation and Robotics 2008 ICIMT'08 International
Conference on Internet and Multimedia Technologies 2008 ICMHA'08 International
Conference in Modeling Health Advances 2008 ICMLDA'08 International
Conference on Machine Learning and Data Analysis 2008 ICMSC'08 International
Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Control 2008 ICSCA'08 International
Conference on Soft Computing and Applications 2008 ICSEEM'08 International
Conference on Systems Engineering and Engineering Management 2008 ICSPIE'08 International
Conference on Signal Processing and Imaging Engineering 2008
The Seventh IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2007),
Omaha, NE. Oct. 28-31
The AAAI Spring Symposium Series will be held November 7–9,
2008,
at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia adjacent to
Washington, DC.
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16th National Quality Education Conference
November 16-18, 2008 • Silver Legacy
Resort • Reno, NV >> more
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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
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
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)
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)
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
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
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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
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
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
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.
The AAAI Spring Symposium Series will be held March 23–25,
2009, at Stanford University, Stanford, California.
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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
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/
