Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

December 1, 2011

DC-2012 Metadata for Meeting Global Challenges

Filed under: Conferences,Dublin Core,Metadata,RDF,Semantic Web — Patrick Durusau @ 7:39 pm

DC-2012 Metadata for Meeting Global Challenges 3-7 September 2012, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

DEADLINES & IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission Deadline: 23 March 2012
Author Notification: 25 May 2012
Final Copy: 29 June 2012

From the call for papers:

DC-2012 will explore the global, national and regional roles of metadata in addressing global challenges such as food security, the digital divide, and sustainable development. Metadata plays a significant role globally in information systems shaping how we know, monitor and change social and governmental systems affecting everything from the environment, human rights and justice to education and peace. DC-2012 will bring together in Kuching the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing languages of description to meet these global challenges. Beyond the conference theme, papers, reports, and poster submissions are welcome on a wide range of metadata topics, such as:

  • Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices
  • Metadata quality (methods, tools, and practices)
  • Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS)
  • Application profiles
  • Metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices)
  • Metadata interoperability across domains, languages, time, structures, and scales.
  • Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, curation, institutional repositories, publishing)
  • Domain metadata (e.g., for corporations, cultural memory institutions, education, government, and scientific fields)
  • Bibliographic standards (e.g., RDA, FRBR, subject headings) as Semantic Web vocabularies
  • Accessibility metadata
  • Metadata for scientific data, e-Science and grid applications
  • Social tagging and user participation in building metadata
  • Usage data (paradata/attention metadata)
  • Knowledge Organization Systems (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies, authority files, folksonomies, and thesauri) and Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS)
  • Ontology design and development
  • Integration of metadata and ontologies
  • Search engines and metadata
  • Linked data and the Semantic Web (metadata and applications)
  • Vocabulary registries and registry services

November 29, 2011

18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012)

Filed under: Conferences,Knowledge Management — Patrick Durusau @ 9:06 pm

18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012)

Important Submission Dates:

  • Abstract Submission: April 18th, 2012
  • Full Paper Submission: April 25th, 2012
  • Notification:June 6th, 2012
  • Camera-Ready: June 30th, 2012
  • Tutorial & Workshop Proposal: May 16th, 2012
  • Demo Submission: July 2nd, 2012
  • Demo Notification: July 23rd, 2012
  • Demo Camera-Ready Version: August 4th, 2012
  • Poster Submission: August 13th, 2012
  • Poster Notification: September 3rd, 2012

Somewhere further up on the page they said:

Galway, Ireland at the Aula Maxima located in the National University of Ireland Galway Quadrangle from October 8-12, 2012.

I don’t know. With a name like Aula Maxima I was expecting something a bit more impressive. Still, it’s Ireland and so a lot to be said for the location, impressive buildings or no.

From the call for papers:

The 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, etc.

The special focus of the 18th edition of EKAW will be on “Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management that matters”. We are explicitly calling for papers that have a potentially high impact on a specific community or application domain (e.g. pharmacy and life sciences), as well as for papers which report on the development or evaluation of publicly available data sets relevant for a large number of applications. Moreover, we welcome contributions dealing with problems specific to modeling and maintenance of real-world data or knowledge, such as scalability and robustness of knowledge-based applications, or privacy and provenance issues related to organizational knowledge management.

In addition to the main research track, EKAW 2012 will feature a tutorial and workshop program, as well as a poster and demo track. Moreover, there will be a Doctoral Consortium giving new PhD students a possibility to present their research proposals, and to get feedback on methodological and practical aspects of their planned dissertation.

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. The LNCS volume will contain the contributed research papers as well as descriptions of the demos presented at the conference. Papers published at any of the workshops will be published in dedicated workshop proceedings.

EKAW 2012 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application-oriented aspects of knowledge engineering and knowledge management. In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit papers about methods, tools and methodologies relevant with regard to the following topics:

November 28, 2011

Interesting papers coming up at NIPS’11

Filed under: Biomedical,Conferences,Neural Networks — Patrick Durusau @ 7:13 pm

Interesting papers coming up at NIPS’11

Yaroslav Bulatov has tracked down papers that have been accepted for NIPS’11. Not abstracts or summaries but the actual papers.

Well worth a visit to take advantage of his efforts.

While looking at the NIPS’11 site (will post that tomorrow) I ran across a paper on a proposal for a “…array/matrix/n-dimensional base object implementations for GPUs.” Will post that tomorrow as well.

November 27, 2011

6th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2012

Filed under: Artificial Intelligence,Conferences,Distributed Systems — Patrick Durusau @ 8:57 pm

6th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2012

Important Dates:

Full paper submission: April 10, 2012
Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2012
Final (camera ready) paper due: June 1, 2012
Symposium: September 24-26, 2012

From the call for papers:

Intelligent computing covers a hybrid palette of methods and techniques derived from classical artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, multi-agent systems a.o. Distributed computing studies systems that contain loosely-coupled components running on different networked computers and that communicate and coordinate their actions by message transfer. The emergent field of intelligent distributed computing is expected to pose special challenges of adaptation and fruitful combination of results of both areas with a great impact on the development of new generation intelligent distributed information systems. The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers involved in intelligent distributed computing to allow cross-fertilization and synergy of ideas and to enable advancement of researches in the field.

The symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of intelligent distributed computing ranging from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications. Papers acceptance and publication will be judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions.

November 23, 2011

Search Solutions 2011: Highlights and Reflections

Filed under: Conferences,Findability,Searching — Patrick Durusau @ 7:37 pm

Search Solutions 2011: Highlights and Reflections by Tony Russell-Rose.

Of particular interest:

Probably the main one for me was Ricardo Baeza-Yates presentation “Beyond the Ten Blue Links”, which discussed Yahoo’s ongoing quest to satisfy the implicit and explicit needs of web search users, presented as a set of seven “challenges”. Some of these challenges you might have expected, such as Query Assistance (e.g. suggestions, related searches, and so on) and Universal Search (i.e. dealing with mixed media results). But other challenges were more unprecedented, e.g. “Post Search User Experience” and “Application Integration”. Both of these suggest a wider re-framing of the search problem, in which findability is just one (small) part of the overall search experience. In this context, the focus is no longer on low-level activities such as selecting relevant documents, but on recognising and providing support for the completion of higher-level tasks. This is interesting in its own right, but it also underlines Search Solutions policy of bringing together the web and enterprise search communities: in this instance, we clearly can learn a lot from each other.

The entire post merits you attention (the proceedings are online by the way) but I think Tony’s point about findability illustrates a weakness in at least how I have approached topic maps from time to time.

That is to approach topic maps as an excellent solution to authoring, finding, or maintaining information about subjects, without stopping to ask why we want to author, find or maintain the information about subjects?

However interesting or clever I find search, string comparison, networks/graphs, graph algorithms, etc., they are unlikely to be of interest to mainstream users.

Or at best, such concerns are a means to an end and not considered interesting enough to bother learning the names of the algorithms that others (including me) think are so bloody important.

Not that I think SC 34/WG 3 needs to expand its brief to include “higher-level tasks” but that in promoting topic maps, we should try to find “higher-level” tasks where topic maps can offer a substantial advantage.

Comments?

November 17, 2011

AI2012: The 25th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Filed under: Artificial Intelligence,Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 8:39 pm

AI2012: The 25th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Dates:

When May 28, 2012 – May 30, 2012
Where York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canad
Submission Deadline Jan 16, 2012
Notification Due Feb 20, 2012
Final Version Due Mar 5, 2012

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Agent Systems
AI Applications
Automated Reasoning
Bioinformatics and BioNLP
Case-based Reasoning
Cognitive Models
Constraint Satisfaction
Data Mining
E-Commerce
Evolutionary Computation
Games
Information Retrieval
Knowledge Representation
Machine Learning
Multi-media Processing
Natural Language Processing
Neural Nets
Planning
Robotics
Search
Smart Graphics
Uncertainty
User Modeling
Web Applications

The “usual suspects,” in other words. 😉

November 11, 2011

Are You a Cassandra Jedi?

Filed under: Cassandra,Conferences,NoSQL — Patrick Durusau @ 7:38 pm

Are You a Cassandra Jedi?

Cassandra Conference, December 6, 2011, New York City

From the call for speakers:

BURLINGAME, Calif. – November 9, 2011 –DataStax, the commercial leader in Apache Cassandra™, along with the NYC Cassandra User Group, NoSQL NYC, and Big Data NYC are joining together to present the first Cassandra New York City conference on December 6. This all day, two-track event will focus on enterprise use cases as well as the latest developments in Cassandra. Early bird registration is now open here.

Coming on the heels of a sold-out DataStax Cassandra SF earlier this year, the event will feature some of the most interesting Cassandra use-cases from up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Cassandra NYC will be keynoted by Jonathan Ellis, chairman of the Apache Cassandra project, who will highlight what’s new in Cassandra 1.0, and what’s in store for the future. Additional confirmed speakers include Nathan Marz, lead engineer for the Storm project at Twitter and Jim Ancona, systems architect at Constant Contact.

“With the recent 1.0 release, we are seeing users doing amazing new things with Cassandra that are going beyond even our expectations and imagination,” said Ellis. “We look forward to sharing these stories with the broader community, to further hasten the adoption and usage of Cassandra to meet their real-time, big data challenges.”

Call for Speakers and Press Registration

The call for speakers is now also open for the event. Submissions can be made to lynnbender@datastax.com.

Press interested in attending the event may contact Zenobia@intersectcom.com for a complimentary press pass.

The event will be held at the Lighthouse International Conference Center on 59th St.

I am not sure about “early bird” registration for an event less than a month away but this sounds quite interesting. I hope the presentations will be recorded and posted for asynchronous access.

29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2012)

Filed under: Conferences,Machine Learning — Patrick Durusau @ 7:38 pm

29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2012) June 26 to July 1 2012

Dates:

  • Workshop and tutorial proposals due February 10, 2012
  • Paper submissions due February 24, 2012
  • Author response period April 9–12, 2012
  • Author notification April 30, 2012
  • Workshop submissions due May 7, 2012
  • Workshop author notification May 21, 2012
  • Tutorials June 26, 2012
  • Main conference June 27–29, 2012
  • Workshops June 30–July 1, 2012

From the call for papers:

The 29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2012) will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, from June 26 to July 1 2012.

ICML 2012 invites the submission of engaging papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research in all aspects of machine learning. We welcome submissions of innovative work on systems that are self adaptive, systems that improve their own performance, or systems that apply logical, statistical, probabilistic or other formalisms to the analysis of data, to the learning of predictive models, to cognition, or to interaction with the environment. We welcome innovative applications, theoretical contributions, carefully evaluated empirical studies, and we particularly welcome work that combines all of these elements. We also encourage submissions that bridge the gap between machine learning and other fields of research.

FOSDEM

Filed under: Conferences,Graphs — Patrick Durusau @ 7:38 pm

FOSDEM: Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting

FOSDEM is probably the largest free and non-commercial open source event, taking place in Brussels, Belgium on 4 and 5 February 2012. Being a developer-oriented conference, it is the open source communities and developers that make it what it is. (emphasis added)

The first round call for:

is still open (as of 11/11/11).

A second round call for short talks is forthcoming.

Developer rooms for FOSDEM 2012 include one on graph processing.

FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting

November 9, 2011

Accel Partners announces $100M Big Data Fund…

Filed under: Conferences,Funding — Patrick Durusau @ 7:42 pm

Accel Partners announces $100M Big Data Fund — to invest in Hadoop, NoSQL and other cool stuff

From the post:

Venture firm Accel Partners has carved out a $100 million “big data” fund to invest in companies focused on building new IT infrastructure or on applications than run on that new infrastructure.

Accel, based in Palo Alto, Calif., at the heart of Silicon Valley’s venture capital community, has invested in companies like Facebook, Dropbox, Cloudera and Etsy.

As such, the firm has seen how companies like Facebook have been forced to exploit new technologies to store and analyze their huge amounts of data more efficiently. In Facebook’s case, it has used open source project Hadoop to help it process the billions of messages it receives each day. NoSQL database technology is another way companies have become more efficient in storing data.

All big Web companies, including Google, Yahoo and Twitter, and increasingly large enterprise companies, are building applications on these platforms.

Ping Li, the partner at Accel (pictured right) who has led the firm’s investments in in companies such as Cloudera — which commercialized the Hadoop technology — said the new fund will be invested in two types of companies: (1) companies building out the new infrastructure, including in storage, security and management; and (2) companies building applications on top of that infrastructure (spanning, for example, business intelligence, collaboration, mobile and vertical apps).

He said these companies will span just about every sector, from enterprise to gaming — all of which will require new kinds of data-intensive platforms, he said. Investments will be made globally, he added.

Over the last 30 years, legacy data platforms, including relational databases, drove the emergence of significant companies like Oracle, SAP and Symantec, Li said. Likewise, big data will usher in a new era of multi-billion software companies, Li says.

The firm has carved out the $100 million from its existing funds, so this does not represent a fresh dollop of cash, Li said.

Accel also plans to host a “big data” conference in Spring, 2012, to drive discussion on technology trends in the sector, Li said.

You may not get part of this $100 million but attempting to do so will be good practice for next time.

I will keep watch for the Spring 2012 conference.

November 8, 2011

Toad Virtual Expo – 11.11.11 – 24-hour Toad Event

Filed under: Conferences,Hadoop,HBase,Hive,MySQL,Oracle,Toad — Patrick Durusau @ 7:46 pm

Toad Virtual Expo – 11.11.11 – 24-hour Toad Event

From the website:

24 hours of Toad is here! Join us on 11.11.11, and take an around the world journey with Toad and database experts who will share database development and administration best practices. This is your chance to see new products and new features in action, virtually collaborate with other users – and Quest’s own experts, and get a first-hand look at what’s coming in the world of Toad.

If you are not going to see the Immortals on 11.11.11 or looking for something to do after the movie, drop in on the Toad Virtual Expo! 😉 (It doesn’t look like a “chick” movie anyway.)

Times:

Register today for Quest Software’s 24-hour Toad Virtual Expo and learn why the best just got better.

  1. Tokyo Friday, November 11, 2011 6:00 a.m. JST – Saturday, November 12, 2011 6:00 a.m. JST

  2. Sydney Friday, November 11, 2011 8:00 a.m. EDT – Saturday, November 12, 2011 8:00 a.m. EDT

  3. Tel Aviv Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:00 p.m. IST – Friday, November 11, 2011 11:00 p.m. IST
  4. Central Europe Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:00 p.m. CET – Friday, November 11, 2011 10:00 p.m. CET
  5. London Thursday, November 10, 2011 9:00 p.m. GMT – Friday, November 11, 2011 9:00 p.m. GMT
  6. New York Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:00 p.m. EST – Friday, November 11, 2011 4:00 p.m. EST
  7. Los Angeles Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:00 p.m. PST – Friday, November 11, 2011 1:00 p.m. PST

The site wasn’t long on specifics but this could be fun!

Apache Lucene Eurocon 2011 – Presentations

Filed under: Conferences,Lucene,Solr — Patrick Durusau @ 7:45 pm

Apache Lucene Eurocon 2011 – Presentations

From the website:

Apache Lucene Eurocon 2011, held in Barcelona between October 17-20 was a huge success.The conference was packed with technical sessions, developer content, user case studies, panels, and networking opportunities, Lucene Revolution featured the thought leaders building and deploying Lucene/Solr open source search technology. Compelling speakers and unmatched networking opportunities created a unique community of practice and experience, so you too can unlock the power, versatility and cost-effective capabilities of search across industries, data, and applications.

If you missed the chance attend the Apache Lucene Eurocon or any part of it, you can still get your hands on what the speakers delivered. We have posted most of the presentations here for below download and review, along with videos of select speakers (as available).

Many thanks to Lucid Imagination for the conference and making these conference materials available. Not like being there but does extend the conversations to include those not present.

Making Data Work – O’Reilly Strata Conference – Santa Barbara – Feb. 28 – March 1, 2012

Filed under: BigData,Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 7:45 pm

Making Data Work – O’Reilly Strata Conference – Santa Barbara – Feb. 28 – March 1, 2012

Important Dates:

  • Best Pricing ends November 10, 2011
  • Early Registration ends January 12, 2012
  • Standard Registration ends February 27, 2012
  • Conference February 28 – March 1, 2012

Conference program topics:

  • Data: Big data and the Hadoop ecosystem, real-time data processing and analytics, crowdsourcing, data acquisition and cleaning, data distribution and markets, data science best practice, predictive analytics, machine learning, data security
  • Business: From research to product, data protection, privacy and policy, becoming a data-driven organization, training, recruitment, management for data, the changing role of business intelligence
  • Interfaces: Visualization and design principles, mobile strategy, applications & futures, augmented reality and immersive interfaces, dashboards, sensors, mobile & wireless, physical interfaces and robotics

Moving to Big Data – 7 December 2011 – 9 AM PT

Filed under: BigData,Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 7:45 pm

Moving to Big Data

Free O’Reilly online conference, 7 December 2011 – 9 AM PT until 10:30 AM PT.

Short presentations but you should pick up talking points and vocabulary for further exploration.

From the website:

Everyone buys in to the mantra of the data-driven enterprise. Companies that put data to work make smarter decisions than their competitors. They can engage customers, employees, and partners more effectively. And they can adapt faster to changing market conditions. It’s not just internal data, either: a social, connected web has given us new firehoses to drink from, and combining public and private data yields valuable new insights.

Unfortunately for many businesses, the information they need is languishing in data warehouses. It’s accessible only to Business Intelligence experts and database experts. It’s encased in legacy databases with arcane interfaces.

Big Data promises to unlock this data for the entire company. But getting there will be hard: replacing decades-old platforms and entire skill sets doesn’t happen overnight. In this online event, we’ll look at how Big Data stacks and analytical approaches are gradually finding their way into organizations, as well as the roadblocks that can thwart efforts to become more data-driven.

November 6, 2011

TimesOpen: Social Media on Nov 14

Filed under: Conferences,Social Media — Patrick Durusau @ 5:45 pm

TimesOpen: Social Media on Nov 14

I won’t be in New York for this event but if you are around, well worth the time to attend! Social media content (and its semantics) are going to figure prominently in some future topic map applications. Get a glimpse of the future!

We’re excited to announce the next TimesOpen event, a discussion of what’s next in social media technology, interfaces and business models–Monday, November 14, starting at 6:30 p.m. in the Times Building conference facility on the 15th floor. Registration is open. There is no cost to attend. Seats are limited.

BTW, if you do attend, I would appreciate a pointer to your posts about the event. Thanks!

November 3, 2011

NoSQL Exchange – 2 November 2011

Filed under: Acunu,BigData,Cassandra,Conferences,CouchDB,leveldb,MongoDB,NoSQL,RethinkDB,Riak,Scala,Tokutek — Patrick Durusau @ 7:20 pm

NoSQL Exchange – 2 November 2011

It doesn’t get much better or fresher (for non-attendees) than this!

  • Dr Jim Webber of Neo Technology starts the day by welcoming everyone to the first of many annual NOSQL eXchanges. View the podcast here…
  • Emil Eifrém gives a Keynote talk to the NOSQL eXchange on the past, present and future of NOSQL, and the state of NOSQL today. View the podcast here…
  • HANDLING CONFLICTS IN EVENTUALLY CONSISTENT SYSTEMS In this talk, Russell Brown examines how conflicting values are kept to a minimum in Riak and illustrates some techniques for automating semantic reconciliation. There will be practical examples from the Riak Java Client and other places.
  • MONGODB + SCALA: CASE CLASSES, DOCUMENTS AND SHARDS FOR A NEW DATA MODEL Brendan McAdams — creator of Casbah, a Scala toolkit for MongoDB — will give a talk on “MongoDB + Scala: Case Classes, Documents and Shards for a New Data Model”
  • REAL LIFE CASSANDRA Dave Gardner: In this talk for the NOSQL eXchange, Dave Gardner introduces why you would want to use Cassandra, and focuses on a real-life use case, explaining each Cassandra feature within this context.
  • DOCTOR WHO AND NEO4J Ian Robinson: Armed only with a data store packed full of geeky Doctor Who facts, by the end of this session we’ll have you tracking down pieces of memorabilia from a show that, like the graph theory behind Neo4j, is older than Codd’s relational model.
  • BUILDING REAL WORLD SOLUTION WITH DOCUMENT STORAGE, SCALA AND LIFT Aleksa Vukotic will look at how his company assessed and adopted CouchDB in order to rapidly and successfully deliver a next generation insurance platform using Scala and Lift.
  • ROBERT REES ON POLYGLOT PERSISTENCE Robert Rees: Based on his experiences of mixing CouchDB and Neo4J at Wazoku, an idea management startup, Robert talks about the theory of mixing your stores and the practical experience.
  • PARKBENCH DISCUSSION This Park Bench discussion will be chaired by Jim Webber.
  • THE FUTURE OF NOSQL AND BIG DATA STORAGE Tom Wilkie: Tom Wilkie takes a whistle-stop tour of developments in NOSQL and Big Data storage, comparing and contrasting new storage engines from Google (LevelDB), RethinkDB, Tokutek and Acunu (Castle).

And yes, I made a separate blog post on Neo4j and Dr. Who. 😉 What can I say? I am a fan of both.

October 28, 2011

Strata Conference: Making Data Work

Filed under: Conferences,Data,Data Mining,Data Science — Patrick Durusau @ 3:15 pm

Strata Conference: Making Data Work Proceedings from the New York Strata Conference, Sept. 22-23, 2011.

OK, so you missed the live video feeds. Don’t despair, videos are available for some and slides appear to be available for all. Not like being there or seeing the videos but better than missing it altogether!

A number of quite remarkable presentations.

October 27, 2011

HCIR 2011

Filed under: Conferences,Information Retrieval — Patrick Durusau @ 4:46 pm

HCIR 2011 Papers

From the homepage:

The Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval took place all day on Thursday, October 20th, 2011, at Google’s main campus in Mountain View, California. There was a reception on Wednesday evening before the workshop, which attracted about a hundred participants.

By my count fourteen (14) papers and twenty-eight (28) posters.

Quite a gold mine of material and I look forward to a long weekend with them!

Enjoy!

PS: Interesting that papers from prior conferences only start to be available starting in 2010.

October 26, 2011

Collective Intelligence 2012: Deadline November 4, 2011

Filed under: Conferences,Crowd Sourcing — Patrick Durusau @ 6:59 pm

Collective Intelligence 2012: Deadline November 4, 2011 by Panos Ipeirotis.

From the post:

For all those of you interested in crowdsourcing, I would like to bring your attention to a new conference, named Collective Intelligence 2012, being organized at MIT this spring (April 18-20, 2012) by Tom Malone and Luis von Ahn. The conference is expected to have a set of 15-20 invited speakers (disclaimer: I am one of them), and also accepts papers submitted for publication. The deadline is November 4th, 2011, so if you have something that you would be willing to share with a wide audience interested in collective intelligence, this may be a place to consider.

If you do attend, please share your thoughts on the papers as relevant to crowdsourcing and topic map authoring. Thanks!

October 19, 2011

NAFIPS 2012 : North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society

Filed under: Conferences,Fuzzy Logic,Fuzzy Matching,Fuzzy Sets — Patrick Durusau @ 3:16 pm

NAFIPS 2012 : North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society

Dates:

When Aug 6, 2012 – Aug 8, 2012
Where Berkeley, CA
Submission Deadline Jan 29, 2012
Notification Due Mar 11, 2012
Final Version Due Apr 15, 2012

From the announcement:

Aims and Scope

NAFIPS 2012 aims to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners to present the latest achievements and innovations in the area of fuzzy information processing, to discuss thought-provoking developments and challenges, to consider potential future directions.

Topics

The topics cover all aspects of fuzzy systems and their applications including, but not limited to:

  • fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic
  • mathematical foundations of fuzzy sets and fuzzy systems
  • approximate reasoning, fuzzy inference models, and soft computing
  • fuzzy decision analysis, decision making, optimization, and design
  • fuzzy system architectures and hardware
  • fuzzy methods in data analysis, statistics and imprecise probability
  • fuzzy databases and information retrieval
  • fuzzy pattern recognition and image processing
  • fuzzy sets in management science
  • fuzzy control and robotics
  • possibility theory
  • fuzzy sets and logic in ontology, web, and social networks
  • fuzzy preference modelling
  • fuzzy sets in operations research and manufacturing
  • fuzzy database mining and financial forecasting
  • fuzzy neural networks
  • evolutionary and hybrid systems
  • intelligent agents and ambient intelligence
  • learning, adaptive, and evolvable fuzzy systems

October 18, 2011

The Second International Workshop on Diversity in Document Retrieval (DDR-2012)

Filed under: Conferences,Information Retrieval,Semantic Diversity — Patrick Durusau @ 2:40 pm

The Second International Workshop on Diversity in Document Retrieval (DDR-2012)

Dates:

When Feb 12, 2012 – Feb 12, 2012
Where Seattle WA, USA
Submission Deadline Dec 5, 2011
Notification Due Jan 10, 2012
Final Version Due Jan 17, 2012

From the webpage:

In conjunction with WSDM 2012 – the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Overview
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When an ambiguous query is received, a sensible approach is for the information retrieval (IR) system to diversify the results retrieved for this query, in the hope that at least one of the interpretations of the query intent will satisfy the user. Diversity is an increasingly important topic, of interest to both academic researchers (such as participants in the TREC Web and Blog track diversity tasks), as well as to search engines professionals. In this workshop, we solicit submissions both on approaches and models for diversity, the evaluation of diverse search results, and on applications and presentation of diverse search results.

Topics:

  • Modelling Diversity:
    • Implicit diversification approaches
    • Explicit diversification approaches
    • Query log mining for diversity
    • Learning-to-rank for diversification
    • Clustering of results for diversification
    • Query intent understanding
    • Query type classification
  • Modelling Risk:
    • Probability ranking principle
    • Risk Minimization frameworks and role diversity
  • Evaluation:
    • Test collections for diversity
    • Evaluating of diverse search results
    • Measuring the ambiguity of queries
    • Measuring query aspects importance
  • Applications:
    • Product & review diversification
    • Opinion and sentiment diversification
    • Diversifying Web crawling policy
    • Graph analysis for diversity
    • Summarisation
    • Legal precedents & patents
    • Diverse recommender systems
    • Diversifying in real-time & news search
    • Diversification in other verticals (image/video search etc.)
    • Presentation of diverse search results

While typing this up, I remembered the “little search engine that could” post (Going Head to Head with Google (and winning)). Are we really condemned to have to manage unforeseeable complexity or is that a poor design choice we made for search engines?

After all, I am not really interested in the entire WWW. At least for this blog I am interested in probably less than 1/10 of 1% of the web (or less). So if I had a search engine for all the CS/Library/Informatics publications, blogs, subject domains relevant to data/information, I would pretty much be set. A big semantic field and one that is changing, but not anything like search everything that is connected (or not, for the DeepWeb) to the WWW.

I don’t have an answer for that but I think it is an issue that may enable management of semantic diversity. That is we get to declare the edge of the map. Yes, there are other things beyond the edge but we aren’t going to include them in this particular map.

October 17, 2011

Science Conference Proceedings Portal

Filed under: Bibliography,Computer Science,Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 6:41 pm

Science Conference Proceedings Portal

From the website:

Welcome to the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information’s (OSTI) Science Conference Proceedings Portal. This distributed portal provides access to science and technology conference proceedings and conference papers from a number of authoritative sites (professional societies and national labs, largely) whose areas of interest in the physical sciences and technology intersect those of the Department of Energy. Proceedings and papers from scientific meetings can be found in these fields, among others: particle physics, nuclear physics, chemistry, petroleum, aeronautics and astronautics, meteorology, engineering, computer science, electric power, fossil fuels. From here you can simultaneously query any or all of the listed organizations and collections for scientific and technical conference proceedings or papers. Simply enter your search term(s) in the “Search” box, check one or more of the listed sites (or check “Select All”), and click the “Search” button.

One of the conference organizations listed is the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

No doubt a very good site but I wonder about conferences that only appear as Springer publications, for example? Or that are concerned with computers but only appear as publications of other publishers or organizations?

Question: In a week, how many indexes that include computer science conferences can you find? How do they differ in terms of coverage?

October 13, 2011

Open – Videos

Filed under: Conferences,HTML — Patrick Durusau @ 6:56 pm

Open – Videos

For those of you who don’t think HTML5 and developers are all that weird:

Full-length videos from the first two TimesOpen events, HTML5 and Beyond, and Innovating Developer Culture, are now available. Approximately five (5!) hours in total, there’s a lot of good information.

We have the lineup in place for the next TimesOpen on Personalization & Privacy, taking place Tuesday October 25, 6:30 p.m., at the Times Building. Details and registration information will be posted soon (like next week).

October 4, 2011

Berlin Graph Coding Dojo 27 Oct. 2011

Filed under: Conferences,Graphs — Patrick Durusau @ 7:55 pm

From Pere Urbón Bayes, news of a Berlin Graph Coding Dojo, 27 October 2011.

I won’t be there but here are a couple of questions to explore over coffee/beer: Are relational tables, columns, key-value stores, triple stores, etc., restrictions on a more general underlying graph? If so, how do we exploit that underlying graph to merge information is held in disparate data sources?

Graph databases, together with graph processing problems, are a trendy topic right now. Neo4j is a well known graph database, but there are also others like OrientDB, DEX, etc. and there are also a big set of graph processing toolsets like Blueprints, Apache Hamma, Google Pregel like systems, etc. So from recomendations systems to routing problems graph processing is an amazing thing to have in your toolset.

With the objective to have together experts and newbies, and for all of them to have the oportunity to learn new things by doing we launch the Berlin Graph Coding Dojo. Next 27 of October 2012[2011] we will meet with the main task of learning and practicing new graph related tasks.

There will be enought food for more experienced people, but also for the ones who just say, ei! graphdbs are cool, lets gonna see what can I do in a short time with theme.

If interested, no mather your level of experience with this topic, show up next 27 of October at the Berlin Coworking Space. Bring your laptop, and in a couple of hours your will for sure solved a new thing using graphs.

For more information you can join: graph-b@googlegroups.com

Lots of thanks to the Berlin Coworking Space for making this event possible. Also if you want to be an sponsor, collaborate, give your five cents, whatever!, contact us!.

Details
27/October/2011 19:30h
Berlin Coworking Space [http://g.co/maps/j2tmb]
Adalbertstr. 7-8
10999 Berlin

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– @purbon
– http://www.purbon.com

I won’t be there but here is a question to explore over coffee/beer: To what extent are relational tables, columns, key-value stores, triple stores, etc., restrictions on a more general underlying graph?

September 29, 2011

Balisage 2012 Dates!

Filed under: Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 6:36 pm

Mark your calendars!

August – Montreal – St. Catherine’s Blvd. – Markup – Balisage

What more need I say?

Oh, the dates:

August 6, 2012 — Pre-conference Symposium
August 7 — 10, 2012 – Balisage: The Markup Conference

Start lobbying now for travel funds and conference fees!

(Start writing your topic map paper as well.)

September 23, 2011

How To Write an Academic Paper in Text Mining

Filed under: Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 6:07 pm

How To Write an Academic Paper in Text Mining by Matthew Hurst.

From the post:

I’m completing a set of reviews for a reasonably high quality conference that touches on data mining and text mining problems. Perhaps the industrial setting has jaded me with respect to academic papers, but there seems to be some key points that – for me – really matter in the writing of a good paper (and implicitly in the selection of interesting areas of research).

Please read and take Matthew’s advice to heart.

He missed my favorite: Check your citations! I read published papers that have citations to non-existent materials. Or at least not with a particular title or in a particular journal. Most can be found but poor citation practice doesn’t give a lot of confidence in the more important aspects of your paper.

September 22, 2011

Skills Matter – Autumn Update

Filed under: Conferences,Government Data,NoSQL,Scala — Patrick Durusau @ 6:26 pm

Skills Matter – Autumn Update

Given the state of UK airport security, about the only reason I would go to the UK would be for a Skills Matter (un)conference, eXchange, or tutorial! And that is from having only enjoyed them as recorded presentations, slides and code. Actual attendance must bring a lot of repeat customers.

On the schedule for this Fall:

Skills Matter Partner Conferences

Skills Matter has partnered with Silicon Valley Comes to the UK, WIP, Novoda, FuseSource and David Pollak, to provide you with the following fantastic (un)Conferences & Hackathon’s:

Skills Matter eXchanges

We’ll also be running some pretty cool one- and two-day long Skills Matter eXchanges, which are conferences featuring 45 minute long expert talks and lots of breaks to discuss what you have learned. Expect in-depth, hands-on talks led by real experts who are there to be quizzed, questioned and interrogated until you know as much as they do, or thereabouts! In the paragraphs below, you’ll be able to find out about the following eXchanges we have planned for the coming months:

Skills Matter Progressive Technology Tutorials

Skills Matter Progressive Technology Tutorials offer a collection of 4-hour tutorials, featuring a mix in-depth and hands-on workshops on technology, agile and software craftsmanship. In the paragraphs below, you’ll be able to find out about the following eXchanges we have planned for the coming months:

September 16, 2011

Strata 2011 Live Video Stream

Filed under: BigData,Conferences,Data — Patrick Durusau @ 6:43 pm

Strata 2011 Live Video Stream

From the webpage:

In case you don’t have the luck to be in New York around this time, but want to get a glimpse at what’s happening at the Strata Conference listen up: O’Reilly kindly provides live broadcasts from keynotes, talks and workshops. You can see the full schedule of broadcasts here: http://datavis.ch/oBT4EO.

Strata doesn’t ring a bell in your head? It’s one of the biggest conferences focused on data and the business around it organized by O’Reilly.

Strata Conference covers the latest and best tools and technologies for this new discipline, along the entire data supply chain—from gathering, cleaning, analyzing, and storing data to communicating data intelligence effectively. With hardcore technical sessions on parallel computing, machine learning, and interactive visualizations; case studies from finance, media, healthcare, and technology; and provocative reports from experts and innovators, Strata Conference showcases the people, tools, and technologies that make data work.

This is the other reason I buy O’Reilly publications.

September 8, 2011

JavaZone 2011 Videos

Filed under: Conferences,Java — Patrick Durusau @ 5:51 pm

JavaZone 2011 Videos

These just appeared online today and you are the best judge of the ones that interest you.

If you think some need to be called out, give a shout!

September 6, 2011

SIGKDD 2011 Conference

Filed under: Conferences,Knowledge Capture,Knowledge Management,Knowledge Representation,Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA),Probalistic Models,SIGKDD,Topic Models (LDA) — Patrick Durusau @ 7:14 pm

A pair of posts from Ryan Rosario on the SIGKDD 2011 Conference.

Day 1 (Graph Mining and David Blei/Topic Models)

Tough sledding on Probabilistic Topic Models but definitely worth the effort to follow.

Days 2/3/4 Summary

Useful summaries and pointers to many additional resources.

If you attended SIGKDD 2011, do you have pointers to other reviews of the conference or other resources?

I added a category for SIGKDD.

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