SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue January 2007 Newsletter of the German Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management www.fgwm.de Subscribe or unsubscribe via http://www.fgwm.de Send contributions to: 'bergmann' or 'minor' at 'uni-trier.de' TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Call for Workshop Proposals: 7th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ICCBR 2007 2. Extended deadline (February 7, 2007): 5th IAPR International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM'07) 3. Meeting of the "Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement der GI" (http://www.fgwm.de/) Held in Conjunction with WM 2007 (Potsdam, 28.-30.3.07) 4. Call for Papers: 5th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR'07) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 7th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ICCBR 2007 Belfast, Northern Ireland 13-16 August 2007 http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr07/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- ICCBR 2007 Workshops: The organising committee of the 7th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ICCBR 2007 invites proposals for the Workshop program. Workshops will be held on 15 August 2007 in the Europa hotel in Belfast, Northern Ireland. General Information: ICCBR 2007 workshops will provide an informal setting in which participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active cross-fertilization of ideas. Workshops that explore interactions between sub-areas of CBR, focus on unique or interdisciplinary applications of CBR, and investigate newly evolving areas of CBR are particularly encouraged. The format and content of each workshop will largely be determined by each workshop organizing committee although "mini-conference" proposals are discouraged. To stimulate interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, ample time should be allotted in each workshop for general discussion. As in past conferences, a time slot of about 20 minutes each will be provided for the presentation of workshop summaries to all conference attendants during the main conference. These summaries should be presented by (one of) each workshop's organizers. Each workshop organizing committee will be responsible for: 1. Producing a Call for Participation for their workshop. It should clarify the process by which the organizing committee will review and select the papers and presentations. In addition, the submission procedure, format, and dates should be included, and be in accordance with the dates listed below; 2. Review and select presentations and papers; 3. Edit their workshop's notes and send them to the workshop coordinator (contact details below) in accordance with the dates listed. ICCBR 2007 will provide: * A meeting place for the workshop. * Printing of the workshop notes. Important Dates for Workshops: February 12, 2007 Deadline for workshop proposal submission February 19, 2007 Notification of acceptance for workshop proposals February 26, 2007 Deadline for calls for workshop participation April 30, 2007 Deadline for workshop paper submission May 28, 2007 Notification of acceptance for workshop papers June 25, 2007 Final camera ready copies to be received by workshop organizers July 16, 2007 Final camera ready copies for each workshop to be received by workshop coordinator August 15, 2007 Workshops held at ICCBR 2007 Submission of Workshop Proposals Members from all areas of the CBR and related communities are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshop proposals should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, the goals of the workshop, and the size of the interested community. Proposals should identify one or more chairs and a program committee. Proposals should be 2-4 pages and contain the following information: * Proposed title of the workshop. * Contact information for the proposer, including the names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email address. * A brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals and the technical issues that will be its focus. * A brief discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. * A draft call for papers. * A preliminary workshop agenda and schedule for the workshop. This should include a brief description of how the organizers intend to conduct the workshop (e.g., discussions, panel discussions, paper presentations, invited talks or other types of communication). * If available, a list of interested participants or groups. If a similar workshops were held in the past, include information about received submissions and attendance. * Intended means of advertising the workshop. * Contact information, including the names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses (if available) of the proposed workshop organizing committee. This committee should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. Ideally, these people should not be from the same institution. Workshop proposals should be submitted via e-mail. Please forward an electronic copy in pdf format as soon as possible but no later than February 12, 2007 to the workshop coordinator: davils@uncc.edu (Subject: ICCBR 2007 Workshop Proposal) Proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and prospective organizers will be notified of their decision no later than February 26, 2007. Other Information Workshop papers should be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is the format required for the final camera ready copy, with a maximum of 10 pages. Authors' instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Any special audio-visual requirements and special room requirements must be arranged with the workshop coordinator. ICCBR reserves the right to cancel any workshop if deadlines are missed, if too few submissions are received, or if too few attendees register for the workshop to support the costs of holding it. In special cases, the ICCBR organizing committee may suggest the consolidation of workshops, to prevent the need for cancellation. To cover costs, it may be necessary to charge workshop participants a workshop fee in addition to the normal ICCBR 2007 conference registration fee. Please, note that all workshop participants must register for the conference, and that the workshops must be open to all registered participants of ICCBR 2007. Contact: Please send proposals and further inquiries to: David Wilson University of North Carolina at Charlotte Phone: +1 704-687-8585 Fax: +1 704-687-6065 Email: davils@uncc.edu Deepak Khemani IIT Madras, India Phone: +91-44-22574365 Fax: +91-44-22574352 Email: khemani@iitm.ac.in ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... We like to inform you that due to the frequent request we have extended the deadline of paper submission to 7 February, 2007. Please see http://www.mldm.de ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... The annual meeting of the "Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement der GI" will take place at the Kongresshotel in Potsdam: (http://www.kongresshotel-potsdam.de) ************************************* THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2007, at 4 p.m. ************************************* in conjunction with the Wissensmanagement 2007 (www.wm-tagung.de) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *AMR 2007 - 5th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ July 5-6, 2007, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris VI, France http://amr2007.lip6.fr To improve today$(B!G(Bs retrieval tools and thus the overall satisfaction of a user, it is necessary to develop intelligent methods that are able to support the user in the search process, e.g. by providing additional user adapted information about the search results as well as the data collection itself and especially by adapting the retrieval tool to the user$(B!G(Bs needs and interests. The goals of the workshop are to intensify the exchange of ideas between different research communities, to provide an overview of current activities in this area and to point out connections between the diverse involved research communities and research in AI. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics of interest: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The workshop focuses especially on researchers that are working on feature extraction techniques for multimedia, computer linguistic approaches, (dynamic) data analysis methods, and visualization methods as well as user interface design. Therefore, contributions to the workshop should focus on, but are not limited to: - Multimedia retrieval systems (for text, image, audio, video and mixed-media) - Theoretical foundations of multimedia retrieval and mining - Intelligent multimedia data modelling, indexing and structure extraction - Adaptive Hypermedia and web based systems - Metadata for multimedia retrieval - Multimedia and multi-modal mining - Semantic content analysis for multimedia - Semantic web and ontologies - Adaptive query languages - Similarity measures (especially user adaptive measures) - User and preference modelling (including feedback models) - Methods for adaptive data visualization and user interfaces ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 26, 2007 Deadline for paper submission April 23, 2007 Notification of acceptance/rejection May 9, 2007 Deadline for final paper submission ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions: (cf. http://amr2007.lip6.fr/submission.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers should have about 10 pages but should not exceed 15 pages and should be submitted electronically in PDF or postscript format. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Committee: (cf. http://amr2007.lip6.fr/commitees.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Chair Nozha Boujemaa INRIA, Rocquencourt, France Program Chairs Marcin Detyniecki CNRS, LIP6, Paris, France Andreas Nuernberger University of Magdeburg, Germany * * * Further details can be found on the Web page of the workshop: http://amr2007.lip6.fr * * * ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................