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*AMR 2011 - 9th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval*
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July 18-19, 2011
Universitat de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
http://stel.ub.edu/amr2011/
(co-located with IJCAI 2011)

Systems for searching and organizing multimedia information have matured
during the last few years. However, retrieving specific media objects is
still a challenging task, especially if the query can only be vaguely
defined or a similar object, e.g. a piece of music, should be retrieved.
The main reasons for the problems in multimedia search are still on the
one hand, the users' difficulty in specifying their interests in [...]

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1st European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
- 4th July at the BCS HCI2011 Conference, Newcastle, UK

Key Points:
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- REMINDER: Submission Deadline: 1st May 2011
- We want to stimulate the European HCIR community with a series of workshops similar to successful HCIR events in the states.
- Details are online: http://fitlab.eu/euroHCIR2011/ [...]

Call for Papers - Mobile Family Interaction

Workshop at Mobile CHI 2011, 29 August 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden.

This workshop aims to deepen our understanding of mobile technology use by preteens. The ubiquitous nature of this technology opens up new possibilities for technology use and abuse that need to be considered by parents and governments. This technological change will also affect family interaction and parenthood, bringing up new uses for mobile technology throughout families. [...]

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Workshop on Software Services:
Cloud Computing and Applications based on Software Services

June 6-9, 2011 - Timisoara, Romania

http://sprers.eu/events/2nd-woss

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WoSS intends to be an open forum for academics, practitioners,
and vendors, allowing them to discuss the current trends
as well as scientific and technological challenges in software services. [...]

Call for Papers

The Fourth International Conference on the Applications of the Digital
Information and Web Technologies
August 04-06, 2011
University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point, USA
Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society
Proceedings and workshops will be published by IEEE Xplore.

(http://www.dirf.org/diwt)

diwt at dirf.org

Submissions at http://www.dirf.org/diwt/submission.asp

The Fourth International Conference on the Applications of Digital
Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2011) is a forum for scientists,
engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results,
ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computer
Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software Communication
Technologies and Applications, and other related themes. [...]

SLPAT 2011 -- Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technology
Workshop at ACL-EMNLP, 30 July 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland
http://slpat2011.computing.dundee.ac.uk/

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Paper submission deadline: 22 April 2011
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Call For Papers
ACL-EMNLP 2011
Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technology (SLPAT 2011)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2nd Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technology
will be held in conjunction with the 2011 ACL Conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing (SIGDAT - EMNLP) which will take place on 30 July
2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland. [...]

10th IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING
ICEC 2011 -- www.icec2011.org
5-8 October 2011, Vancouver, Canada

DEADLINE EXTENSION
Following many requests, the submission deadline for ICEC 2011 has been
extended to April 22, 2011, for all categories.

The IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing explores
the application of computational technology to entertainment. The conference
brings together practitioners and researchers interested in the art and
design of entertainment computing applications. ICEC welcomes submissions
on the design, engineering, application and theory of entertainment
technology. We solicit paper, poster and demonstration submissions, as well
as proposals for tutorials and workshops. [...]

24th IEEE International Symposium on
COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS

June 27th - 30th,
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

6th Special Track
Computational Proteomics and Genomics:
Management and Analysis of “omics” Data
http://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/cbms2011

Paper submission deadline: 20 April 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS
Genomics is the study of the genome, i.e. the whole hereditary information
of an organism that is encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA).
Investigation of single genes, their functions and roles is becoming
common practice in today's medical and biological research. Genome-wide
sequencing projects have been completed for many organisms, including Homo
Sapiens. [...]

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The 7th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems (SITIS'11)
November 28 - December 1, 2011
Dijon, France
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/SITIS
In cooperation with ACM SIGAPP.fr, IFIP TC 2 WG 2.13, and IEEE (pending)
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The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi-structured data found in the web. SITIS spans two inter-related research domains that increasingly play a key role in connecting systems across network centric environments to allow distributed computing and [...]

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups
the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific
results. This event is under the umbrella of NetWare 2011. A video of
NetWare 2010 is available at:

http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/NetWare10.html

Note that the submission deadline has been extended to April 13, 2011
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FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AND POSTERS
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ACM Hypertext 2011 Conference
Eindhoven, June 6-9, 2011

http://www.ht2011.org
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HT2011 is now open for registration.
The early-bird registration deadline is May 8, 2011.

Demos and poster submissions are still open until May 1, 2011.
(Notification *will* be given in time to meet the early-bird
registration deadline.)

The purpose of Demos & Posters session is to provide the authors with
the ability to demonstrate their developments,
to tell more about their research and results to interested
participants; to involve participants in discussions about their
work, exchanging ideas, providing feedback. [...]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Please distribute to colleagues. ********************************************************************************************** *****Important Dates****** Deadline for submission:14th April Notification of acceptance:6th May Revised version of papers:14th May Early registration deadline:8th May Workshop:6th June Call for Papers The First Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Hypertext Retrieval (PMHR 2011) Workshop date: June 6, 2011 Location: Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Submission deadline: 4th April 2011 ********************************************************************************************** The workshop has four main goals: ·         to bring together researchers from different areas to exchange ideas for both personalised and multilingual IR. ·         the identification of recent advances in, and major obstacles to research [...]

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################# Mobile Work Efficiency Enhancement #################
################# MobileHCI2011 Workshop - Stockholm #################

1st International Workshop on Mobile Work Efficiency:
Enhancing Workflows with Mobile Devices

@MobileHCI2011, August 30th, Stockholm, Sweden

http://workshops.icts.sbg.ac.at/mobilehci2011/

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Important Dates:
- Submission: 30th April, 2011 (EXTENDED)
- Notification: 15th May, 2011
- Camera-ready: 1st June, 2011
- Workshop: 30th August, 2011 [...]

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BioVis 2011: IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization

at VisWeek 2011 in Providence, RI
October 23-24, 2011

Website: http://www.biovis.net

Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2011
Abstract Submission Deadline: July 8, 2011

*** Contents ***

(1) Aims and Scope
(2) Topics
(3) Symposium Format
(4) Submission Types and Criteria
(5) General Expectations (Ethics Guidelines)
(6) Review Process
(7) Important Dates
(8) Supplemental Material and Formatting Guidelines
(9) Publications
(10) Submission
(11) Paper and Abstract Awards
(12) Organizing Committee
(13) International Program Committee [...]

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DIGITAL CITIES 7 – REAL WORLD EXPERIENCES

International Workshop at C&T 2011

30 June 2011

Brisbane, Australia

http://www.ubioulu.fi/en/DC7

Submission deadline: 30 April 2011

MOTIVATION

The contemporary cityscape is becoming increasingly saturated with different
types of digital computing infrastructure. Everybody is carrying a wireless
device equipped instant messaging and ubiquitous Internet access.
Heterogeneous sensor systems measure and analyze the environment and provide
detailed real-time views from air quality to traffic patterns and weather
conditions. Large public displays are being employed for broadcasting public
and commercial information and to offer interactive services [...]

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It has come to our attention that our Chinese colleagues have been unable to
access the ACII 2011 website (which is hosted by Google) and have been
unable to submit their papers. In addition to creating a mirror site, we
have extended the submission deadline to April 18, 2011.

In order to expedite the review process we ask that authors please submit a
title and an abstract as soon as possible. The full paper must be uploaded
by April 18, 2011. There will be no further extensions. [...]

Using Technology for a More Playful Real Interaction: Urban and Pervasive Games
Workshop @ UCAmI

More info can be found at: http://pervasivegames-ucami11.blogspot.com/

About:
The workshop will focus on games that are based on ubiquitous,
pervasive and ambient intelligence. It will be a showcase to show the
game development, but also an academic endeavor that will provide
tools, theories and frameworks to understand and assess games and the
experience of playing games.
The objective of the workshop will be to show games, but also to share
expertise about working with games [...]

The 2011 VAST Challenge Data Sets and Problems have been released. See http://hcil.cs.umd.edu/localphp/hcil/vast11/

MINI CHALLENGE 1 : Geospatial and Microblogging - Characterization of an Epidemic Spread

MINI CHALLENGE 2 : Cybersecurity - Situational Awareness in Computer Networks

MINI CHALLENGE 3: Text Analytics - Investigation into Criminal Activity

GRAND CHALLENGE: Combines all data sets.

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CfP - Workshop on "Resilience and IT-Risk in Social Infrastructures (RISI 2011)"
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Held in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES) 2011
August 22nd - 26th, 2011 Vienna University of Technology Vienna, Austria
WWW:

Accepted papers will be published in the ARES proceedings.
Submission deadline: April 24, 2011.
The submission server is ready to welcome your submissions: [...]

Invitation for Participation
2011 ICRA Workshop on Robots and Art: Frontiers in Human-Centred Robotics as Seen by the Arts
2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Shanghai International Convention Centre, Shanghai, China
May 13, 2011
Calling the artist within you (the Robotists!)
http://thinkinghead.edu.au/ra2011

The 2011 ICRA Workshop on Robots and Art will explore the intricacies and issues in robot-art collaborations through a series of invited talks, paper presentations, videos and illustrative performances. The workshop will provide a point of reference for the practicing roboticists to appreciate and understand art from the artist's perspective and for the artists to derive [...]