SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue November 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. Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the "Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement der GI" Held in conjunction with LWA 2008 (in German) 2. Call for Papers: German Workshop on Experience Management GWEM'09 Held in conjunction with WM 2009 in Solothurn, Switzerland Extended deadline: November 14 3. Call for Papers: 8th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ICCBR'09, Deadline: February 16, 2009 4. Call for Participation: Second Computer Cooking Contest 2009 5. Call for Papers: Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning at FLAIRS 2009 Deadline: November 23 6. Call for Papers: Special issue of the AIJ on Preferences Statement of interest: due to December, 15 7. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Special Issue, Deadline: December 15 8. Open PhD and PostDoc positions, FH St. Gallen 9. Open postdoc position in computational biology, Seattle USA ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Wie an der letzten LWA in Würzburg beschlossen wurde (http://lwa08.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/Wiki.jsp?page=LWA08), wird die LWA 2009 in Darmstadt stattfinden. Der genaue Termin steht noch nicht fest. Christoph Lange und Jochen Reutelshöfer werden die Organisation des Tracks der Fachgruppe WM übernehmen. Die LWA-Workshop-Reihe ist interessant, da sie die Möglichkeit gibt, aus der aktuellen Arbeit zu berichten, ohne schon ein formal veröffentlichungsreifes Paper zu haben, und sich informell mit KollegInnen der eigenen sowie thematisch benachbarter Fachgruppen auszutauschen. So war auch die Teilnahme an der diesjährigen LWA wieder sehr lohnenswert. Ulrich Reimer, Sprecher der Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement der GI ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... --> DEADLINE EXTENDED to November 14th 2008 <-- CALL FOR PAPERS "5th German Workshop on Experience Management" http://www.uni-siegen.de/fb5/wijpvp/gwem09/index.html within the 5th Conference "Professional Knowledge Management - Experiences and Visions" March 25 - 27, 2009 in Solothurn/Switzerland http://www.km-conference2009.org/ Motivation ========== Efficient utilization of experience is gaining in importance since expertise, "know how", applied knowledge can be assessed as one of the most important resources and the key issue for successfully competing organizations in almost every sector of economy. In the context of this workshop as well as the workshops previously held in this series, 'experience' is mainly considered as a form of knowledge obtained during the solution of problems. Therefore, similar but not identical issues from approaches developed in Knowledge Management, all aspects of the whole lifecycle of 'experience' are in the focus of this workshop: Analyzing, modeling, storing, retrieving, developing, and reusing experience are major challenges to Experience Management (EM) and hence can be in the center of contributions to this workshop. Based on these lifecycle-oriented issues, aspects of applying EM in "real world" scenarios (e.g. in manufacturing industry, commerce etc.) coming from a variety of scientific communities are as well of great interest. Hence, besides the traditionally strong focus of this workshop series on the design, development and integration of intelligent systems and methods for managing experience, subjects relevant in Experience Management may be contributed by different communities from computer science (e.g. aspects of collaborative/"Web 2.0" techniques in the development/use/distribution of experiences), mathematics (e.g. analysis and design of algorithms from machine learning, CBR, network analysis), social science (e.g. modeling and analysis of usage and development of experience in networks, acceptance of experience-based derived solutions), and business administration/economics (e.g. assessing the economic value of EM in enterprises). The overall objective of this workshop is to provide an interdisciplinary forum where practitioners and researchers can exchange ideas, concepts and solutions concerning the design and implementation of Experience Management systems, present practical experiences from applications in any domain, and discuss future research directions. Topics of Interest ================== Submissions from all areas contributing to the development and application of intelligent EM systems are welcome. We explicitly encourage paper submissions which are not mainstream but from communities within mathematics, social sciences or economics in order to obtain a more interdisciplinary view on the subject. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * modeling, representation, discovery, and use of experience * retrieval techniques * aspects of experiences lifecycles * methods and approaches for integrating EM into organizations and their (business) processes * software engineering issues of EM systems * case studies for EM from any application domain (e.g. manufacturing industry, commerce, science) * aspects of EM in organizations Intended Audience ================= The target group includes researchers and practitioners who are interested in developing, applying and analyzing EM systems and the scenarios they can be used in. Submission guideline ==================== Accepted contributions will be published in the conference (printed, long version of up to ten pages) or workshop (online, short version of up to five pages) proceedings. All submitted papers should not exceed ten pages and have to be formatted according to the following instructions: http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/lni/ All contributions must be submitted via EasyChair http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wm2009workshops as PDF file OR via email to barth 'at' fb5.uni-siegen.de. Timetable ========= >>> >>> ATTENTION >>> >>> Extended submission deadline for workshop contributions: >>> >>> November 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance or rejection of the papers: December 15, 2008 Camera-ready copy of the papers due: January 16, 2009 --> GWEM at WM2009 in Solothurn, Switzerland: March 25-27, 2009 ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers for The Eighth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Seattle, Washington (USA) 20 - 23 July 2009 http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ICCBR-09 Program Committee invites submissions of original theoretical research, applied research and deployed application papers on all aspects of Case-Based Reasoning for the main technical program. ICCBR is the leading international meeting on case-based reasoning. Previous ICCBR conferences have been held in Sesimbra, Portugal (1995), Providence, Rhode Island, USA (1997), Seeon Monastery, Germany (1999), Vancouver, BC, Canada (2001), Trondheim, Norway (2003), Chicago, Illinois, USA (2005) and Belfast, Northern Ireland (2007). ICCBR'09 will be held in Seattle, Washington from 20 July to 23 July 2009, on the week following IJCAI-09, which will also take place on the west coast of the North America in Pasadena, California. In order to expand the frontiers of CBR as a scientific field, we would like to (1) emphasize the connections between CBR and related areas, and (2) explore new problems and industrial solutions. Another primary objective of ICCBR-09 is to encourage new members to join the CBR community and regularly attend / participate in this premier CBR conference. Thus, the ICCBR-09 program will include several new ideas along with the regular keynote addresses, technical program, applications track and workshop sessions. Details on these elements of the program can be found on the ICCBR-09 web site. ------------------------------------------- ICCBR-09 Program Highlights ------------------------------------------- Doctoral Consortium ICCBR-09 will hold the 1st CBR Doctoral Consortium (DC) with the following objectives: (1) To provide a supportive setting for feedback on students' current research and guidance on future research directions, (2) To offer each student comments and fresh perspectives on their work from faculty and students outside their own institution, and (3) To promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research. The DC gives early stage postgraduate students the important opportunity to discuss their research ideas and get very valuable feedback. Computer Cooking Contest The 2nd Computer Cooking Contest (CCC) will take place at ICCBR-09 and aims to attract new people to deal with AI technologies such as case-based reasoning, semantic technologies, search and information extraction. The CCC is an open competition. Any individual, student, research group and professional is invited to submit software that creates a recipe, such as for a single dish or even a three course menu, i.e., recipes for a starter, a main dish and a dessert. The input will be a database of basic recipes from which appropriate recipes must be selected, modified or even combined. The queries to the system consist of a number of desired ingredients and other requirements for the dish or menu. Industry / Applications Track Presentations ICCBR-09 invites submissions for a special presentation-onlytrack of deployed applications on all aspects of Case-Based Reasoning. The applications track provides an opportunity for both industry and academic application developers to showcase their work in 20-30 minute high-quality presentations, without the need to write a paper. This event takes place on one day and is an excellent way for industry members to interact with students and academic researchers. Presenters must submit an email expressing their interest and a short (one paragraph) description of their work to cheetham 'at' research.ge.com by the specified deadline. Please make the subject of this email "ICCBR-09 Applications Track Submission." Opportunities are also available to sponsor ICCBR-09 and have an official conference presence. Workshops ICCBR-09 invites proposals for full day or half day workshops as part of the Workshop Program. ICCBR-09 workshops will provide an informal setting in which participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss topics with a selected CBR focus in an environment that encourages the exchange of ideas. Recent ICCBR workshop focus areas have included: health sciences, textual CBR, computer gaming, process workflows, context awareness, uncertainty, and knowledge discovery. --------------------------------------------------------------- Main Technical Program Paper Submission --------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: o Submission deadline: 16 Feb 2009 o Notification of acceptance: 10 April 2009 o Camera ready copy due: 1 May 2009 o Conference dates: 20-23 July 2009 Submission Topics: The ICCBR-09 Program Committee invites submissions of original theoretical research, applied research and deployed application papers on all aspects of Case-Based Reasoning. Example submission areas include, but are not limited to: o Case and knowledge representation, acquisition, modeling, visualization, maintenance and management for CBR o CBR system design issues (e.g., indexing, retrieval, similarity assessment and adaptation) o System architectures and integration of CBR with other methods o Collaborative agent architectures involving CBR o Analogical reasoning, cognitive models, and creative reasoning approaches based on CBR o Formal, empirical, and psychological evaluations of CBR models and systems o Methodologies for developing CBR applications o Lazy-learning, instance-based learning and case-based learning o Case-based planning topics including plan adaptation, retrieval from a plan library and plan similarity o Case-based approaches to scheduling, design and robot navigation o CBR and knowledge discovery, data mining, text mining o CBR software reuse and engineering redesign o Explanations, Context, and confidence in CBR o Peer-to-Peer Networks and CBR o CBR in the Semantic Web o CBR foundations o Conversational CBR o Textual CBR o Distributed CBR o CBR and uncertainty o CBR in design, diagnosis, health, law, education o Knowledge management in CBR, case and experience-based knowledge management o Case-based recommender systems o Applications of CBR (e.g., in customer support, education, electronic commerce, pattern recognition, image processing, legal reasoning, manufacturing and medicine) o Adaptive interfaces, user modeling, customization & personalization using CBR o Computer models of case-based argumentation o Fielded applications of CBR Proceedings: All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). Review Criteria: Each submission must be identified as theoretical/Methodological research, applied research, or deployed application paper and will be reviewed using criteria appropriate to its category. The criteria are as follows: o Paper Category: Theoretical/Methodological research paper Review Criteria: Scientific significance; originality; technical quality; and clarity o Paper Category: Applied research paper Review Criteria: Significance for scientific research or innovative commercial deployment; originality; technical quality; and clarity o Paper Category: Deployed application paper Review Criteria: Demonstrated practical, social, environmental or economic significance; originality; treatment of issues of engineering, management & user acceptance; and clarity. Submission Procedure: Authors must submit a full paper by the conference paper submission deadline. ICCBR-09 is employing the EasyChair conference system, and submissions must be made via the ICCBR-09 EasyChair Conference Site (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=iccbr09). Detailed submission instructions will be made available on the ICCBR-09 web site. Submission Format: Papers MUST be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is the format required for the final camera ready copy, with a maximum of 15 pages. Authors' instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at Springer's Information for LNCS Authors page (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Authors of accepted papers are required to transfer their copyrights to Springer. All submissions are required to be in electronic format. Multiple Submission Policy: Papers submitted to other conferences or journals must state this fact. If a paper will appear in another conference or journal, it must be withdrawn from ICCBR-09. This restriction does not apply to papers appearing in proceedings of specialized workshops. Author Registration Policy: In order for a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors must register for the conference by the camera-ready copy deadline. -------------------------- People Involved -------------------------- General Program Chairs: o David C. Wilson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. (davils 'at' uncc.edu) o Lorraine McGinty, University College Dublin, Ireland. (lorraine.mcginty 'at' ucd.ie) Local Conference Chair: o Isabelle Bichindaritz, University of Washington at Tacoma, USA. (ibichind 'at' u.washington.edu) Application Track Chairs: o William E. Cheetham, General Electric Research, USA. (cheetham 'at' crd.ge.com) o Kareem S. Aggour, General Electric Research, USA. (aggour 'at' crd.ge.com) Workshops Coordinator: o Sarah-Jane Delany, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. (sarahjane.delany 'at' dit.ie) Doctoral Consortium Chair: o Susan Fox, Macalester College, MN, USA. (fox 'at' macalester.edu) Cooking Contest Chairs: o Mirjam Minor, University of Trier, Germany. (minor 'at' uni-trier.de) o David Leake, Indiana University, USA. (leake 'at' cs.indiana.edu) o Armin Stahl, DFKI, Germany. (Armin.Stahl 'at' dfki.de) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... ************************************************************************* CALL FOR PARTCIPATION 2nd Computer Cooking Contest CCC 2009 @ ICCBR 2009 July 21, 2009, Seattle, Washington, USA www.computercookingcontest.net ************************************************************************* Who says that only human beings are able to cook delicious meals? We aim to teach our computers the haute cuisine and therefore we need your creativity and ideas! Come to the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR'09) in Seattle and participate in the Computer Cooking Contest (CCC)! Write your own software application for the live competition. Show that your program is more creative than the average kitchen user. Let your computer's recipe creations be evaluated by a professional cook and an international jury of scientists! Rationales ********** Once upon a time in the past, when we still were students, we wondered whether there could be a software which would relieve us from the task of matching the content of our fridge to a dish. Given a restricted set of ingredients, the task is to cook something, where something does taste good. Ideally, something moreish. Once upon a time in the present, when we were not students anymore, we wondered whether there could be a software which would relieve us from the task of explaining what we are doing, e.g. case-based reasoning, to a broader audience. Given the technological state of the art, the task is to demonstrate something, where something solves a problem. Ideally, something moreish. Glue the two together and you get it: The Computer Cooking Contest! It will attract new people, e.g. students, to deal with AI technologies such as case-based reasoning, semantic technologies, search and information extraction. Also cooking is fun, in particular when using a computer for the design of the menu. Furthermore, the contest will attract the public. Since everybody knows something about cooking, people will be curious what a computer might do about it. Furthermore, we all have noticed the increasing interest of the public audience in cooking, stipulated by the growing insight that good food is mandatory for health. Hence, the Computer Cooking Contest offers the opportunity to explain the benefits of our technologies intelligible to all. Competition *********** The Computer Cooking Contest is an open competition. Any individual, student, research group and professional is invited to submit software that creates a recipe for a single dish or even a three course menu. The input will be a database of basic recipes from which appropriate recipes must be selected, modified, or even combined. The queries to the system consist of a number of wanted ingredients and other requirements for the dish or menu. The overall competition is structured into a main compulsory task and two additional challenge tasks. The Compulsory Task involves answering queries that require the selection and modification of recipe for a single dish. A sample query could be to "cook a main dish with turkey, pistachio, and pasta without garlic". An appropriate answer would be to select a recipe for pistachio chicken and to replace chicken by turkey. The Adaptation Challenge is to answer queries that require an adaptation of both the list of ingredients and the preparation directions. This challenge will operate on a restricted recipe base. The Menu Challenge requires the composition of a three-course menu based on the available recipes. For example we might ask: "I have a filet of beef, carrots, celery, field garlic and cucumber. Potatoes are available, too. For the dessert, we have oranges and mint. A soup would be preferable for the starter." In this case, a Caldo Verde as a starter, filet steak with baked potatoes, and an orange ice cream with mint flavour would be a good solution. Please note that for most of the queries there is not a single correct or best answer. Usually many different solutions are possible, depending on your creativity or the creativity of your software. We also do not imply any restriction on the technology to be used. Case-based reasoning is one candidate technology, but other approaches are certainly suitable as well. The only restriction we impose is that the given database of recipes must be used as a starting point. We will not provide a formal query language. Queries will be described in free text but the software to be developed can use any kind of user interaction (structural/formula-based, conversation, text-based). Evaluation Criteria ******************* All systems will be evaluated with respect to scientific/technical quality (technical originality of the approach, usability of the software, maintainability, and scalability) and with respect to the culinary quality of the created recipes (appropriate to the query, tasty, cookable, creative). The evaluation will involve a peer-review of the papers describing the system and an assessment by an international jury of experts including a professional cook. Competition Procedure and Timeline ********************************** December 1, 2008: Publication of Contest Conditions and Material A detailed description of the competition rules, an initial database of recipes in XML format, and a first set of queries will be published. The format will be very similar to last year's but the content will be new. April 24, 2009: Qualifying Examination To this deadline, the contest participants must submit: - an up-to-10-page technical description of the system, - the URL of the running system (web interface) or the executable software (must run on Windows). In a peer review process, the submitted papers and the systems will be evaluated and the best contestants will be selected for participation in the final. The finalists may - of course - continue to improve their systems for the final. July 21, 2009: Computer Cooking Contest The finalist systems will be demonstrated at the Computer Cooking Contest at ICCBR. At least one person per finalist must register for ICCBR, demonstrate the system and give a technical presentation at the CCC workshop. The technical descriptions of the finalist systems will be published in the ICCBR workshop proceedings. The systems will be evaluated according to the initial set of queries and a confidential set of new queries. The new queries will be different, but similar in type and difficulty to the first set. The recipe base will be the same as in the qualifying. The evaluation will be performed by an international jury. Separate prices will be awarded for the compulsory tasks and for the two challenges. Contact: Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers in case you have any questions. Mirjam Minor, University of Trier, Germany minor 'at' uni-trier.de Armin Stahl, DFKI, Germany armin.stahl 'at' dfki.de David Leake, Indiana University, USA leake 'at' cs.indiana.edu ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... The 22nd. International FLAIRS Conference Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning Sanibel Island Florida, USA May 19-21, 2009 In cooperation with The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Following successful special tracks on Case-Based Reasoning at FLAIRS over the past seven years, we are inviting papers for the Ninth Special Track on CBR at the 22st International FLAIRS Conference. CBR is an Artificial Intelligence problem solving and analysis methodology that retrieves and adapts previous experiences to fit new contexts. This forum is intended to gather AI researchers and practitioners with an interest in CBR to present and discuss developments in CBR theory and application. Submissions are solicited on CBR topics, including but not limited to: * Foundations of CBR * Methods for CBR (e.g., representation, indexing, retrieval, adaptation) * Evaluation Methods for CBR Systems and Integrations * Practical Applications of CBR * Textual CBR * CBR and Creativity * CBR and Design * Distributed CBR * Case Base Maintenance * Spatio-temporal CBR * CBR in the Health Sciences * CBR Integrations * Case Based Planning * CBR & Games Program Committee (tentative, * means still not confirmed) * David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory (USA) * Esma Aimeur, Université de Montréal (Canada) * * Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim (Germany) * * Eva Armengol, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA (Spain) * Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh (USA) * Robin Burke, Depaul University (USA) * Bill Cheetham, GE Research (USA) * Sarah Jane Delany, Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland) * Mehmet Göker, Center for Advanced Research PriceWaterhouseCoopers, (USA) * Pedro González Calero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) * Luc Lamontagne, Université Laval (Canada) * David B. Leake, Indiana University (USA) * * Hector Munoz-Avila, Lehigh University (USA) * Aswin Ram, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) * Frode Sørmo, Volve (Norway) * * Raja Sooriamurthi, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) * * Rosina Weber, Drexel University(USA) * Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Gordon University (Scotland) Contact Assoc. Prof. Ian Watson Department of Computer Science University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand ian @ cs.auckland.ac.nz Dr. Santiago Ontañón Cognitive Computing Lab Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta (Georgia) 30318 santi @ cc.gatech.edu Important Dates Paper submissions due: 23 November 2008 Notification letters sent: TBA Camera ready copy due: TBA Track: (during conference exact date to be determined) Submission Guidelines Interested authors must submit completed manuscripts by 23 November 2008. Submission guidelines can be obtained by referring to the conference website (http://www.flairs-22.info/). Papers will be refereed and those accepted for presentation will appear in the conference proceedings, which will be published by AAAI press. Questions regarding the track should be addressed to Ian Watson and Santiago Ontañón. Invited Speaker for the CBR Track Ashok Goel Design Intelligence Laboratory Georgia IOnstitute of Technology ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... C A L L F O R P A P E R S Special issue of the ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Journal Representing, Learning, and Processing Preferences: Theoretical and Practical Challenges http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb12/kebi/si-ai =================================================== Background and Scope =================================================== The topic of preferences has recently attracted considerable attention in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and plays an increasingly important role in several AI-related research fields, including, e.g., agents, constraint satisfaction, decision theory, planning, machine learning, and argumentation. Representing and processing knowledge in terms of preferences appears to be especially appealing from an AI perspective, notably as it allows one to specify desires in a declarative way, to combine qualitative and quantitative modes of reasoning and to deal with inconsistencies and exceptions in a quite flexible manner. Even though methods for dealing with preferences in a formal way have been developed in research areas such as operations research, game and decision theory, and social choice for quite a while, AI research has made novel and complementary contributions to preference handling during the last decade. Besides, having contemporary application fields such as electronic auctions, e-commerce, and recommender systems in mind, AI research has raised new problems and put emphasis on additional aspects such as combinatorial structure of the alternatives, algorithmic issues and complexity, and the absence of a decision analyst in the loop (which is typical for many applications). Despite the existence of some established representation frameworks that allow for building and handling preference models in an effective and tractable way, research in the preference field has remained very active and still faces many challenges, such as comparing the expressivity and complexity of existing modeling languages, combining different representation modes and frameworks, supporting the knowledge acquisition task by discovering, learning, and adapting user preferences based on different types of feedback, handling preferences in multi-agent systems and group decision making, and developing efficient and theoretically sound algorithms for preference aggregation and revision, just to mention a few. The aim of this special issue is to provide an up-to-date picture of the current trends in the AI research on handling user preferences. Especially welcome are contributions that bridge the gap between the rather particulate approaches existing so far, thereby helping to establish a coherent theoretical foundation of preferences in AI, as well as interdisciplinary work that combines or integrates approaches from other fields, such as operations research, databases, or game and decision theory. =================================================== Submission Information =================================================== All manuscripts must adhere to the submission guidelines of the AI journal and should be submitted to the journal in the usual way (that is, not to the guest editors directly). To give notice of submitting to the special issue, please put "Special Issue on Preferences" in the subject heading of your email to aij 'at' ida.liu.se. We kindly ask prospective authors to express, as far as possible, their intention to submit a paper. To this end, please send an email including a tentative title and a short abstract to all guest editors. =================================================== Timetable =================================================== * Intention: December 15th, 2008 * Submission: February 15th, 2009 * Notification: June 15th, 2009 * Revised papers: July 30th, 2009 =================================================== Guest Editors =================================================== Carmel Domshlak, Israel Institute of Technology dcarmel 'at' ie.technion.ac.il Eyke Hüllermeier, University of Marburg, Germany mail 'at' eyke.de Souhila Kaci, IUT de Lens, France, kaci 'at' cril.univ-artois.fr Henri Prade, University of Toulouse, France, prade 'at' irit.fr ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Dear all, As we discussed at ECCBR '08, we are organizing a special issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine journal on CBR in the health sciences mostly based on papers presented at ECCBR '08. However we are extending the call for papers to the CBR in biology and medicine community. You are invited to submit a paper to this special issue with the following timeline: December 15 - submissions due March 15 - decision due May 15 - camera ready papers due Instructions for preparing your paper can be found at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505627/authorinstructions We will update you about the submission process for this special issue as soon as we receive more information from the journal. Do not hesitate to contact us should you have any question. Kind regards, Isabelle and Stefania ibichind 'at' u.washington.edu ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Offene Doktorandenstellen / Postdoc-Stellen Institut für Informations- und Prozessmanagement Fachhochschule St. Gallen Das Institut für Informations- und Prozessmanagement (http://www.ipmsg.ch/) vertritt den Bereich Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Fachhochschule St. Gallen und ist neben der Lehre im Bachelor- und Masterstudium, der berufsbegleitenden Weiterbildung auch in Dienstleistungsprojekten und in der angewandten Forschung tätig. Am Institut laufen zur Zeit drei nationale Forschungsprojekte, die im Verbund mit anderen Partnern durchgeführt werden (siehe http://www.ipmsg.ch/). Eine Reihe weiterer nationaler Projekte sowie EU-Projekte sind in Vorbereitung. Zur Mitarbeit in den anstehenden Forschungsprojekten haben wir eine Reihe von Doktoranden- und Postdoc-Stellen zu besetzen, auf denen folgende Themenstellungen zu bearbeiten sind: . Model-driven Development . Referenzmodelle: Generalisierung von Modellen, Instanziierung von Referenzmodellen, Referenzmodellhierarchien . Semantic Web und Social Software . Text Mining Doktoranden und Doktorandinnen arbeiten in den laufenden Forschungsprojekten mit und fokussieren sich dabei auf ein bestimmtes Thema für ihre Promotion, die aus formalen Gründen am Fachbereich Informatik und Informationswissenschaft der Universität Konstanz erfolgen wird, wo der Forschungsleiter des Instituts, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Reimer, das Promotionsrecht besitzt. Postdocs arbeiten ebenfalls in den Forschungsprojekten und haben die Möglichkeit, die Verantwortung für ein Projekt zu übernehmen. Dabei haben sie auch die Gelegenheit, sich durch Veröffentlichungen und Vorträge weiter zu profilieren. In einem gewissen Umfang sollen die Stelleninhaber auch Aufgaben in der Lehre übernehmen. Bewerberinnen und Bewerber auf eine Doktorandenstelle sollten ein abgeschlossenes Informatikstudium (Diplom- oder Masterabschluss) besitzen, die Fähigkeit zu selbstständigem Arbeiten aufweisen sowie Interesse an anwendungsnahen Forschungsthemen haben. Für eine Postdoc-Stelle ist die Promotion zusätzliche Voraussetzung. Die Einstellung erfolgt für zunächst auf 3 Jahre (mit Möglichkeit zur Verlängerung). Für weitere Auskünfte steht Ihnen Prof. Dr. Ulrich Reimer gerne zur Verfügung: (ulrich.reimer fhsg.ch, +41 71 288 7659) Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen schicken Sie bitte an: ulrich.reimer fhsg.ch ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Postdoctoral position in computational biology A postdoctoral fellow position in computational biology will be shortly available at University of Washington, Seattle, WA. The candidate will join a multi-disciplinary group working on edge-cutting research problems in computational biology. Job Description We seek a highly motivated and diligent researcher at the early stage of academic career with the ability to carry out research projects independently. The position will provide the opportunity to contribute to gene expression analysis, biomarker discovery, proteomics analysis, statistical genomics and network construction. This position will be funded from a 5-year NIH basic research grant that starts in Fall 2008. The successful candidate will work with a team of multi-disciplinary investigators at University of Washington (including Dr. Roger Bumgarner in biotechnology/genomics, Dr. Adrian Raftery in statistics, and Dr. Ka Yee Yeung in computational biology). The candidate will be expected to participate in data analysis, algorithm and software development, to work cooperatively with collaborators, to actively publish and present results, and other duties as required. The applicant must have a Ph.D. in biostatistics, statistics, computer science, computational biology or any physical sciences with a strong background in mathematics and computing. The applicant is also expected to demonstrate excellent programming skills to solve complex research problems. Location Seattle, WA in the Pacific Northwest is widely considered to be one of the top US cities for young professionals. Seattle offers residents a mild climate, a multitude of cultural activities, several professional sports teams, superb cuisine and outdoor activities including cycling, hiking, skiing, snowboarding, boating etc. Application Interested candidates should send the following materials to Dr. Ka Yee Yeung (kayee 'at' u.washington.edu): · A cover letter highlighting your background and relationship to this position · A Curriculum Vitae (CV) · The names and contact details of at least three references. The review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Under-represented minorities are especially encouraged to apply. http://faculty.washington.edu/kayee/postdoc.htm ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................