SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue Januar 2008 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 Papers: 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR'08), Deadline: March 3 2. Call for Workshop Proposals: ECCBR'08, Deadline: March 7 3. Call for Papers: Third IEEE Workshop on Agile Cooperative Process-Aware Information Systems (ProGility'08), Deadline: March 3 4. Call for Papers: 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'08), Deadline: March 21 5. Call for Papers: 8th Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'08), Deadline: January 21 6. Call for Workshop Proposals: KI'08, Deadline: January 25 7. Call for Papers: Sixth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES'08), Deadline: April 11 8. Open positions at Enkia, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 9. Open positions at International University Bruchsal, Germany ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... CALL FOR PAPERS 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ECCBR 2008 1-4 September 2008, Trier (Germany) http://2008.eccbr.org/ ECCBR 2008 is the 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) following a series of successful European conferences and workshops. This four-day conference will be held at the University of Trier in Germany. The conference programme will include invited talks, oral and poster presentations as well as workshops (see separate calls) on both fundamental and applied research in CBR. Additionally, the Industry Day will focus on industrial-strength technology and industrial applications of CBR. A new element of the ECCBR programme is the Computer Cooking Contest (CCC) intended as a CBR system competition (see separate call) demonstrating the application of case retrieval, adaptation, and combination methods for cooking recipes. Submission Topics The ECCBR 2008 Program Committee invites submissions of original research and application papers on all aspects of Case-Based Reasoning, such as: - Representation, modelling, acquisition, adaptation, maintenance and visualization of cases, similarity measures, ontologies, and other knowledge relevant for CBR - Methods and tools for retrieval, reuse, revision and retention in CBR - Theoretical foundations of CBR - Human Computer Interaction: CBR user interfaces, conversational CBR, personalization user modelling and context, explanation - Distributed CBR including agent architectures, service-oriented architectures or peer-to-peer networks for or involving CBR - Integration of CBR with other methods, such as: rule-based reasoning, ontological reasoning, model-based reasoning, constraint satisfaction problem solving and optimisation, information retrieval, machine learning, natural language processing, etc. - CBR systems for specific tasks such as: planning, scheduling, design, workflow management and process enactment, diagnosis, decision support, classification - Analogical reasoning, cognitive models, creative reasoning, and argumentation approaches based on or related to CBR - Formal, empirical, and psychological evaluations of CBR models, components, and systems - Methodologies and tools to support the development, operation, and maintenance of CBR applications - Applications of CBR, for example in customer support, electronic commerce, pattern recognition, image processing, legal reasoning, education, manufacturing, process control, signal processing, robotics, ambient intelligence - CBR-related areas such as: knowledge and experience management, corporate memories, decision support, information retrieval, instance-based learning, software reuse and engineering redesign In addition to those general aspects, ECCBR 2008 will put a particular focus on two special areas with relevance to CBR. We call for conference submissions as well as workshops related to the following areas: The Role of CBR in the Future Internet (Area Chair: Enric Plaza) With the Web 2.0 and 3.0 and particularly with the emergence of social networks and social software, there is a new opportunity for CBR to support the sharing and reuse of experience from/for communities of people. Related to this area, the following topics are relevant: - Acquisition, representation and processing of personal experience, opinions, and practical knowledge - Social tagging and folksonomies as representations for CBR - Natural language processing for case extraction from text - Reuse of experience in Wikis, Blogs, RSS-feeds and all kinds of multi-media formats - Emergent semantics from usage of experience in a community of users - Combination of experience from different users or sources (ensemble effect, collaborative recommendation) - CBR in the context of the semantic web and service-oriented architectures CBR in Healthcare (Area Co-Chairs: Isabelle Bichindaritz, Stefania Montani) The opportunities for applying CBR in healthcare are significantly increasing during the past years and expand its application beyond traditional medical diagnosis. The following topics are relevant: - Evidence-based medicine and CBR - Medical decision-support systems (partially) using CBR - CBR in point-of-care diagnostics, personalized monitoring, and prediction of adverse events - CBR and knowledge discovery from electronic health records - Case-based processing of medical guidelines - CBR in enabling technologies for those with physical disabilities or chronic health problems - Integration of CBR-based solutions in health care environments - CBR in medical imaging - Theoretical framework for CBR in medical reasoning - Applications of CBR in bioinformatics Submissions Authors must submit a full paper with a maximum of 15 pages through the ECCBR web site by the paper submission deadline. The details of the submission procedure will be published in time at the ECCBR web site. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Review Criteria Submissions must be identified as either research or application papers and will be reviewed using criteria appropriate to their category. Review criteria for research papers will include scientific significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity. Review criteria for application papers will include practical or economic significance, potential to lead to more powerful technology, technical quality, and clarity. Further, as we aim at highlighting contributions to the special areas amongst the submissions on the above topics, the authors must indicate whether a submission should be considered to one of these areas. Important Dates March 3, 2008 Paper submission deadline April 14, 2008 Acceptance notification May 12, 2008 Camera-ready copy due Conference Chairs Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier Local Chair Mirjam Minor, University of Trier Industry Day Chair Workshop Chair Stefan Wess, empolis Martin Schaaf, University of Hildesheim Computer Cooking Contest Chair Ralph Traphöner, empolis ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR 2008) Trier, Germany September 1st - 4th, 2008 http://2008.eccbr.org/ The organizing committee of the 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR 2008) invites proposals for the Workshop Program. Workshops will be held, at least, on one day during the conference from Sept. 1st to 4th, 2008. General Information: ECCBR 2008 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. Workshops will last about 4 hours. 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 allocated in each workshop for general discussions. As in past conferences, a time slot of about 20 minutes 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. The workshop organizing committee will be responsible for: 1. Producing a Call for Papers/Participation for their workshop. It should clarify how paper submission, selection and presentation will be conducted by the organizing committee. Furthermore, 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. ECCBR 2008 will provide: - A meeting place for the workshop. - Printing of the workshop notes. Important Dates for Workshops: March 7, 2008 Deadline for workshop proposal submission March 16, 2008 Notification of acceptance for workshop proposals May 30, 2008 Suggested deadline for workshop paper submission June 22, 2008 Notification of acceptance for workshop papers July 18, 2008 Final camera ready copies to be received by workshop organizers August 8, 2008 Final camera ready copies for each workshop to be received by workshop coordinator September 1-4, 2008 Workshops held at ECCBR 2008 (in parallel) 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. An example layout for a proposal can be found at the end of this call. 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 workshop was 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 at least two people with experiences in the 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 March 7, 2008 to the workshop coordinator: eccbr-ws2008 'at' uni-trier.de. Proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and prospective organizers will be notified of their decision no later than March 16, 2008. Other 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 (Martin Schaaf) by July 18, 2008. ECCBR 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 ECCBR 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 ECCBR 2008 conference registration fee. Please note that all workshop participants must register for the conference while workshops must be open to all registered participants of ECCBR 2008. Please send proposals and further inquiries to: Martin Schaaf Institute of Computer Science, Intelligent Information Systems University of Hildesheim Phone: +49 (5121) 883 - 757 FAX: +49 (5121) 883 - 757 Email: eccbr-ws2008 'at' uni-trier.de ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... CALL FOR PAPERS Third IEEE Workshop on Agile Cooperative Process-Aware Information Systems (ProGility 2008) http://is.tm.tue.nl/staff/heshuis/progility/ PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 3, 2008 Held at the 17th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2008), Rome, Italy, June 23-25, 2008 http://www.wetice.org Workshop theme --------------------------------------- The economic success of an enterprise more and more depends on its ability to react to changes in its environment in a quick and flexible way. Business trends such as increasing product and service variability, fast time-to-market, and increasing division of labor along a global supply chain of goods and services force enterprises to collaborate with each other in networks that are dynamic, flexible, ad-hoc, and adaptive. Thus enterprises are developing a growing interest in new concepts, systems, and solutions which help them to flexibly align their organizational structures, business processes, and supporting information systems to these new requirements and to optimize interactions with customers and business partners. While there has been major progress in disciplines that are interested in structured and unstructured intra-organizational business processes, the agile enterprise is still a vision. Agility in this context refers to the ability of an enterprise to rapidly set up new business processes and projects in order to quickly adapt to changes in the environment. To support these changes, traditional enterprises have to align their existing information systems while virtual enterprises need to customize and integrate the individual partner processes. In order to meet its business objectives, the agile enterprise continuously re-aligns its business processes as well as the interactions with its partners and customers to meet the current requirements. Building upon the success of last year's workshop, the goal of the third ProGility workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from different communities such as BPM, software engineering, service-oriented computing, artificial intelligence, and CSCW/Groupware who share an interest in flexibility of cooperative process-aware information systems and team support in both an intra- and inter-organizational setting. The workshop aims at discussing the current state of ongoing research and sharing practical experiences. Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality and technical quality. Papers should clearly establish the research contribution and the relation to previous research. The workshop will also provide opportunity for demonstration sessions, where participant can present advanced prototypes based on their research. Topics --------------------------------------- Workshop topics include, but are not limited to: * ad-hoc establishment of process-aware collaborations, * adaptive processes, * agile management of business processes, * autonomic processes, * configurable processes, * cross-organizational processes, * data-driven processes (e.g.,case handling), * dynamic composition of processes, * electronic contracts, * emergent workflows, * evolving choreographies, * flexible groupware, * knowledge-intensive processes, * workflow change and exception handling, * process evolution, * process interoperability, * process lifecycle management, * process monitoring, * process mining and learning, * process security and conformance, * processes matching and similarity of processes, and solutions related to these topics in terms of: * architectures, * infrastructures (middleware), * methods and tools, * patterns, * semantics, * user interfaces. Important Dates --------------------------------------- Deadline for paper submission: March 3, 2008 Decision to paper authors: April 21, 2008 Final version of accepted papers due to IEEE: May 26, 2008 WETICE-2008: June 23-25, 2008 For accepted papers at least one of the authors has to register and participate in WETICE'08. Submission Guidelines --------------------------------------- Papers must be written in English. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere, and should refer to related state-of-the-art work. Authors of accepted papers must present the paper at WETICE in order have the paper included in the post-conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Press. Papers must be formatted in the IEEE Proceedings Format (LaTeX formatting macros, Word format) which is single spaced, two columns, 10pt Times/Roman font. Length of full papers must not exceed 6 pages (IEEE Proceeding style, double column including figures, tables and references). Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 2 pages. Papers should include a title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words and no more than eight keywords. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF). Please upload first your abstract and then your paper via the submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ProGility2008. Chairs --------------------------------------- Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Jan Mendling, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Mirjam Minor, University of Trier, Germany Programme Committee --------------------------------------- Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy Christoph Bussler, BEA Systems, USA Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany Marlon Dumas, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mati Golani, Braude College, Israel Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Yanbo Han, Chinese Academy of Science, China Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, Germany Rania Khalaf, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Heiko Maus, DFKI, Germany Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Massimo Mecella, Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK Bela Mutschler, Daimler Research, Germany Gil Regev, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, Netherlands Hajo Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Ulm, Germany Michael Rosemann, QUT Brisbane, Australia Rainer Ruggaber, SAP Research, Germany Shazia Sadiq, Univ. Queensland, Australia Wasim Sadiq, SAP Research, Australia Pnina Soffer, Univ. of Haifa, Israel Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Lucineia Thom, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Mathias Weske, HPI Potsdam, Germany Werner Wild, Evolution Consulting, Austria Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Call for Papers - BPM 2008 6th International Conference on Business Process Management Milan, Italy, 1-4 September 2008 http://bpm08.polimi.it BPM 2008 is the sixth conference in a series that provides the most distinguished specialized forum for researchers and practitioners in business process management (BPM). The conference has a record of attracting innovative research of highest quality related to all aspects of business process management including theory, frameworks, methods, techniques, architectures, and empirical findings. Traditionally, the BPM conference attracts the most prestigious researchers in the field and abides to the highest academic standards. Each submission is reviewed by at least three reviewers, and the acceptance rate in previous editions has been around 14%. The BPM conference also aims at bridging the viewpoints of leading research outcomes with practical demands. In addition to the main research track, BPM 2008 will include an industrial papers track. Accordingly, the conference encourages industry practitioners to submit experience and application papers reporting on innovative industrial implementations and applications of business process management methods and techniques, with particular focus on their impact on information technology use or business practice. These papers have to go beyond mature prototypes and potentially applicable methods and techniques, and must draw upon industry experience or empirical data. Awards will be given to the best papers in different categories. In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE, an Elsevier Science Journal). BPM 2008 will be held in Milan, Italy and will be organized by the Information Systems group of the Department of Electronics and Information of Politecnico di Milano. The Politecnico di Milano is a Technical University in Italy, established in 1863, offering degrees in Engineering, Architecture, and Industrial Design, with approximately 42,000 students. The event will be conducted at the main Leonardo Campus of Politecnico di Miano. The campus is located in the scientific university area of Milan, with an easy access from the town center. With 1.3 million people, Milan offers a continuously growing environment for the development of technological services, fashion and design. Topics include, but are not limited to: PROCESS MODELING AND ANALYSIS - Process modeling languages, notations and methods - Reference process models - Variability and configuration of process models - Process simulation and static analysis - Process metadata and semantic reasoning - Process patterns, repositories, and standards PROCESS ARCHITECTURES AND PLATFORMS - Process-oriented software architectures - Service-oriented architectures for BPM - Workflow management systems - Security aspects of business process execution - Automated planning for business process execution - Resource management in business process execution MANAGEMENT OF PROCESS EXECUTION DATA - Process tracing and monitoring - Process performance measurement - Process mining and learning - Process data warehousing - Data streaming in business processes PROCESS EVOLUTION AND FLEXIBILITY - Process exception handling - Process change management - Adaptive and context-aware processes - Case handling - Process-enhanced groupware NON-TRADITIONAL BPM SCENARIOS - Knowledge-intensive processes - Data-driven processes - Distributed and mobile processes - Inter-process planning and coordination - Grid and scientific workflows MANAGEMENT ISSUES AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES - Business process lifecycle management - Success factors and measures in BPM - BPM governance and compliance management - BPM maturity - Adoption and practice of BPM - Case Studies and Experience Reports in BPM Conference Paper Submission BPM 2008 invites research submissions on all topics related to business process management, including but not limited to those listed above. Research papers should be submitted electronically via the BPM 2008 web site by uploading a self-contained PDF file. All submissions must be received no later than 21 March 2008 at 11:59 pm Western Samoa time. Research papers must be in English. They must be original research contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference. The length of the paper should not exceed 16 pages. Papers should be formatted in LNCS format (for details see www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above. The paper must clearly state the research problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. Submissions received too late, in another format than PDF, or sent by fax or post will be rejected. The same will happen with papers which are not in English or exceed the page limit. Industrial papers must follow the same format requirements and length constraints as research papers. All industrial submissions will be treated in the same way as research papers regarding review process and quality requirements. All accepted papers will be contained in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag. For each accepted paper, at least one author should register to the conference and should plan to present the paper. Workshops The conference will be complemented by workshops. Workshops are meant to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences between active researchers, and stimulate discussions on new and emerging issues in line with the conference topics. Workshops may concentrate in-depth on research topics, or may also be devoted to application and/or standardization issues. Demonstrations Submissions are invited for demos to be included in the BPM 2008 Demonstration Track. The demo track is intended to showcase innovative business process management tools and applications, and will provide an opportunity to show and discuss emerging technologies with researchers and practitioners in the BPM field. All demonstration proposals should consist of two parts. The first part (maximum four pages) should contain a short description of the system, a summary of its novel characteristics, a statement on the scope and limitations of the system and its significance to the field of BPM, and the list of functions and features to be demonstrated. This part will be included in the proceedings in case of acceptance. The second part is an appendix of no longer than six pages explaining the demonstrated scenario and illustrating how the presentation will be conducted (i.e. the demo script) and possibly some screenshots. This part will not be included in the proceedings but is valuable input for the review process. Authors are encouraged to include in their submissions links to mockups, videos, or animations of the proposed demonstration. Submissions must adhere to the conference paper submission formatting guidelines and are limited to four pages for the first part and six for the appendix. Demo proposals should be submitted at the BPM conference submission system. Demo proposals will undergo a strict review process in line with that of the main conference. Demo proposals will be assessed on the basis of their innovation, technical advances and challenges, overall practical attractiveness, relevance and presentation. All accepted demo proposals (without appendix) will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag. There will be a best demo award based on the demo proposal and the presentation at the conference. Tutorials and Panel Discussions Tutorials and panel discussions will complement the core of the BPM 2008 conference. Tutorials will provide the opportunity to introduce one selected topic and to discuss related trends and challenges. Panel discussions will allow the open conversation of BPM-related topics. The local organizers are able to facilitate contacts to local industry representatives, if this is of interest for an organizer of a panel. Proposals for tutorials and panel discussions should include: the title; name, brief biography of each participant; an outline of the theme, goals, planned activities and intended audience. Proposals should be submitted in electronic form (plain text or PDF) to the Tutorial/Panel Chairs. Conference Dates Paper submission deadline (strict): 21 March 2008 Notification of acceptance: 12 May 2008 Camera-ready papers deadline: 13 June 2008 Conference: 2-4 September 2008 Workshop Dates Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 16 May 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 16 June 2008 Camera-ready papers deadline: 7 July 2008 Workshops: 1 September 2008 Demo Dates Deadline for demo submissions: 21 March 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 12 May 2008 Camera-ready papers deadline: 13 June 2008 Demos: 2-4 September 2008 Tutorial / Panel Dates Deadline for submissions: 16 May 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 16 June 2008 Tutorials: 2-4 September 2008 Panels: 2-3 September 2008 General Chairs Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy Program Chairs: Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia and Queensland University of Technology, Australia Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany Industry Chair: Ming-Chien Shan, SAP Labs Palo Alto, USA Organization Chair: Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Industry Sponsorship Chair: Chiara Francalanci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Workshop Chairs: Massimo Mecella, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Demo Chairs Malu Castellanos, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA Andreas Wombacher, EPFL, Switzerland Tutorial/Panel Chairs: Vincenzo d'Andrea, University of Trento, Italy Heiko Ludwig, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Steering Committee Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales Fabio Casati, University of Trento Joerg Desel, Catholic University Eichstätt Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology Arthur ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano Matthias Weske, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Univ. of Potsdam Program Committee Wil van der Aalst, The Netherlands Alistair Barros, Australia Boualem Benatallah, Australia Djamal Benslimane, France M. Brian Blake, USA Shawn Bowers, USA Chris Bussler, USA Jorge Cardoso, Portugal Jinjun Chen, Australia Peter Dadam, Germany Jörg Desel, Germany Valeria De Antonellis, Italy Asuman Dogac, Turkey Schahram Dustdar, Austria Johann Eder, Austria Gregor Engels, Germany Maria Grazia Fugini, Italy Manfred Hauswirth, Ireland Harald Gall, Switzerland Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, USA Claude Godart, France Peter Green, Australia Paul Grefen, The Netherlands Arthur ter Hofstede, Australia Kees van Hee, The Netherlands Marta Indulska, Australia Stefan Jablonski, Germany Gerti Kappel, Austria Ekkart Kindler, Denmark Akhil Kumar, USA Frank Leymann, Germany Heiko Ludwig, USA Zongwei Luo, Hong Kong Peri Loucopoulos, UK Axel Martens, USA Jan Mendling, Australia Mirjam Minor, Germany Mike Papazoglou, The Netherlands Cesare Pautasso, Switzerland Barbara Pernici, Italy Olivier Perrin, France Marco Pistore, Italy Calton Pu, USA Frank Puhlmann, Germany Jolita Ralyte, Switzerland Hajo Reijers, The Netherlands Wolfgang Reisig, Germany Stefanie Rinderle, Germany Michael Rosemann, Australia Domenico Sacca, Italy Mohand Said-Hacid, France Shazia Sadiq, Australia Wasim Sadiq, Australia Heiko Schuldt, Switzerland Carine Souveyet, France Jianwen Su, USA Stefan Tai, USA Farouk Toumani, France Kunal Verma, USA Barbara Weber, Austria Mathias Weske, Germany Andreas Wombacher, Switzerland Michael zur Muehlen, USA ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Dear Colleagues, We wish you a Happy New Year and all the Best for 2008. Please remind that the deadline for Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2008 will be approaching soon (January, 21). Please find detailed information about the submission procedure at www.data-mining-forum.de. We are looking forward receiving your contributions in time. Kind regards, Christiane Schatte Conference Secretary ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... CALL FOR PAPERS MATES 08 - Sixth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies September 23 - 26, 2008 in Kaiserslautern, Germany www.wi2.uni-trier.de/mates08 AIMS & SCOPE The German Conference on Multi-Agent system Technologies (MATES) provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers to present and discuss latest advances in research work as well as prototyped or fielded systems of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. The conference covers the whole range of agent- and multi-agent technologies and aims to promote its theory and applications. For the sixth time, the German special interest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence organizes this international conference in cooperation with the steering committee of MATES and thereby continues this very successful track of events. MATES 2008 will be co-located with the 31st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2008) and will take place from September 23 to 26, 2008 in Kaiserslautern. The participants of MATES 2008 will also have full access to the concurrently running program of the KI 2008 conference. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest of MATES 2008 include all aspects of agent-oriented computing and agent technologies. Moreover, the principles and methods of agent-oriented computing in the context of service-oriented architectures (SOA) are of interest for the MATES community. Furthermore, Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a new emerging area for the application for agent-oriented computing, including, for example, agent-based mobile environments or sensor networks. We solicit research papers that report on recent advances in the area of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems in general. Also papers reporting on the successful application of agent technologies in any kind of domain are very welcome. Additionally, we encourage the submission of elaborated vision and challenge papers that discuss mid-term and long-term directions for research and application. Topics of interest for MATES 2008 include, but are not limited to: * Adaptive agents and multi-agent learning * Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of teams, coalitions, groups, and organizations * Agents and autonomic computing * Agent and multi-agent architectures * Agents and peer-to-peer computing * Agents and pervasive computing * Agents for Ambient Intelligence * Agent-based service discovery, matchmaking, brokering, and composition * Agent communication languages * Agents for e-business and e-government * Agent technologies in the context of service-oriented computing and architectures * Agent to non-agent interoperability * Agents in novel applications * Application of agent-technologies in industrial practice * Artificial social systems: Conventions, norms, institutions; trust and reputation * Autonomous robots and robot teams * Commitment, delegation, responsibility, and obligations in artificial and hybrid societies * Complex systems and their management * Coordination, negotiation, argumentation, and conflict resolution * Deployed agent-based business applications * Hybrid human and agent societies * User modelling and interface agents * Embodied conversational actors and believable agents * Mobile agents * Model-driven design of multi-agent systems * Multi-agent planning and scheduling * Multi-agent platforms and tools * Multi-agent (social) simulation and (cognitive) modelling with agents * Practical aspects of programming agent systems: Robustness, fault tolerance, scalability and performance measurement * Roles and structures, adaptive learning and cognition in organizational models * Semantics of the dynamics of organizational models * Standards for agents and multi-agent systems DOCTORAL MENTORING PROGRAM MATES 2008 will include a doctoral mentoring program, aimed at PhD students at advanced stages of their research. This program will provide an opportunity for students to interact closely with established researchers in their fields, to receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managing their careers. PROCEEDINGS and SUBMISSION Papers must be submitted in Springer LNCS Format and should not exceed 12 pages. The proceedings of MATES 2008 will appear in the Springer-Verlag series, “Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence” (LNAI). AWARDS MATES will issue a "MATES 2008 Best Paper Award". Important Dates * Submission Deadline: 11.4.2008 * Notification of Acceptance: 30.5.2008 * Camera Ready Copy: 27.6.2008 * Conference Date: 23.-26.9.2008 - 23.9.2008: KI 2008 Workshops and Tutorials (open for MATES participants) - 24.-25.9.2008: MATES 08 Main Conference Program - 26.9.2008: MATES 08 Doctoral Mentoring Program CONFERENCE OFFICIALS Program Co-Chairs: Ralph Bergmann (U Trier, Germany) Gabriele Lindemann (HU Berlin, Germany) General Co-Chairs: Stefan Kirn (U Hohenheim, Germany) Michal Pechoucek (CTU Prag, CZ) Steering Committee: Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, Germany) Stefan Kirn (U Hohenheim, Germany) Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Jörg P. Müller (TU Clausthal, Germany) Rainer Unland (U Essen, Germany) Gerhard Weiss (SCCH Hagenberg, Austria) Local Arrangements: Stefan Zinsmeister (DFKI, Germany) CONTACTS Ralph Bergmann Universität Trier Wirtschaftsinformatik II D-54286 Trier Deutschland Tel: +49-651-2013876 Fax: +49-651-2013396 Email: bergmann 'at' uni-trier.de Gabriela Lindemann Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Institut für Informatik Rudower Chaussee 25 D-10099 Berlin Deutschland Tel. +49-30-20933170 Fax. +49-30-20933168 Email: lindeman 'at' informatik.hu-berlin.de ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Enkia Corporation has openings for software engineers with background in artificial intelligence and case-based reasoning. The ideal candidate will combine knowledge of algorithms with software engineering technologies and best practices. Responsibilities ---------------- AI Engineers play a crucial role in our software development team. The successful candidate is expected to be a strong contributor in the design, implementation, testing, and validation of Enkia's core product suite. In addition, he/she will assist the business development team with technical know-how, requirements analysis, proof-of-concept demonstrations, and rapid prototyping to meet customer needs. Qualifications -------------- * BS (minimum) or MS (preferred) in computer science or related field. * Background in artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, or appropriate subarea is a plus. * Demonstrated proficiency in Java is essential. * Experience with artificial intelligence algorithms (e.g., CBR, kNN, SVM) and standard software tools (e.g., Weka, MatLab, Mathematica) is desirable. * Experience with modern software technologies (e.g., Java, XML, JDBC, SQL, Swing) and best practices (e.g., RUP, XP, MSDF) on Windows and Linux platforms. * Experience with open source tools is a plus (e.g., Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Ant, junit, cvs, Eclipse, Bugzilla). How To Apply ------------ Please email cover letter and resume to: apply4jobs "at"enkia.com. In your letter, mention how you heard about us, describe your background, and explain why you are interested in this opportunity. For more information visit http://www.enkia.com/opportunities.html. Enkia Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. About Enkia ----------- Enkia, a privately held company based in Atlanta, Georgia, has leveraged years of leading-edge research from Georgia Tech's artificial intelligence (AI) lab into best-of-breed software to address problems in areas of intelligent information analysis and classification as well as automated problem diagnostics and maintenance. Enkia is in constant demand by companies and government agencies to develop AI solutions for increasing productivity, decreasing costs, and supporting time-critical decision making. To meet this demand, we are looking for motivated individuals of exceptional ability. As part of our team, you will improve our technologies, develop solutions for our customers, learn new skills, and grow your career. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... The International University in Germany (IU) is an English medium private university (www.i-u.de) dedicated to excellence in teaching and research. It offers accredited degree programs in Information Technology, Business Administration and Communication Management. IU invites applications for several open positions in Computer Science, at the professorial and research associate level. All positions require a very good command of English, verbal and written. Applicants can find detail information on the IU web site. Electronic submission at http://www.i-u.de/nav-main/discover-iu/open-positions.html is preferred. Most positions are available from April 1st, 2008, except where otherwise indicated. The International University in Germany is an equal opportunity employer and strives to increase the percentage of female and international employees. Ian Cloete ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................