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

January 18, 2013

ISWC 2013 : The 12th International Semantic Web Conference

Filed under: Conferences,Semantic Web — Patrick Durusau @ 7:17 pm

ISWC 2013 : The 12th International Semantic Web Conference

Dates:

When Oct 21, 2013 – Oct 25, 2013
Where Sydney, Australia
Abstract Registration Due May 1, 2013
Submission Deadline May 10, 2013
Notification Due Jul 3, 2013
Final Version Due Aug 5, 2013

ISWC is the premier venue for presenting innovative systems and research results related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data. We solicit the submission of original research papers for ISWC 2013’s research track, dealing with analytical, theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of all areas of the Semantic Web. Submissions to the research track should describe original, significant research on the Semantic Web or on Semantic Web technologies, and are expected to provide some principled means of evaluation.

To maintain the high level of quality and impact of the ISWC series, all papers will be reviewed by at least three program committee members and one vice chair of the program committee. To assess papers, reviewers will judge their originality and significance for further advances in the Semantic Web, as well as the technical soundness of the proposed approaches and the overall readability of the submitted papers. We will give specific attention to the evaluation of the approaches described in the papers. We strongly encourage evaluations that are repeatable: preference will be given to papers that provide links to the data sets and queries used to evaluate their approach, as well as systems papers providing links to their source code or to some live deployment.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Management of Semantic Web data and Linked Data
  • Languages, tools, and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data
  • Database, IR, NLP and AI technologies for the Semantic Web
  • Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web
  • Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
  • Cleaning, assurance, and provenance of Semantic Web data, services, and processes
  • Semantic Web Services
  • Semantic Sensor Web
  • Semantic technologies for mobile platforms
  • Evaluation of semantic web technologies
  • Ontology engineering and ontology patterns for the Semantic Web
  • Ontology modularity, mapping, merging, and alignment
  • Ontology Dynamics
  • Social and Emergent Semantics
  • Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
  • Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security
  • User Interfaces to the Semantic Web
  • Interacting with Semantic Web data and Linked Data
  • Information visualization of Semantic Web data and Linked Data
  • Personalized access to Semantic Web data and applicationsSemantic Web technologies for eGovernment, eEnvironment, eMobility or eHealth
  • Semantic Web and Linked Data for Cloud environments

Submission

Pre-submission of abstracts is a strict requirement. All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair conference submission System https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2013.

January 16, 2013

RuleML 2013

Filed under: Conferences,Machine Learning,RuleML — Patrick Durusau @ 7:56 pm

RuleML 2013

Important Dates:

Abstract submission: Feb. 19, 2013
Paper submission: Feb. 20, 2013
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 12, 2013
Camera-ready copy due: May 3, 2013
RuleML-2013 dates: July 11-13, 2013

From the call for papers:

The annual International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) is an international conference on research, applications, languages and standards for rule technologies. RuleML is the leading conference for building bridges between academia and industry in the field of rules and its applications, especially as part of the semantic technology stack. It is devoted to rule-based programming and rule-based systems including production rules systems, logic programming rule engines, and business rules engines/business rules management systems; Semantic Web rule languages and rule standards (e.g., RuleML, SWRL, RIF, PRR, SBVR); Legal RuleML; rule-based event processing languages (EPLs) and technologies; hybrid rule-based methods; and research on inference rules, transformation rules, decision rules, production rules, and ECA rules.

The 7th International Symposium on Rules and the Web (RuleML 2013) will be held on July 11-13, 2013 just prior to the AAAI conference in the Seattle Metropolitan Area, Washington. Selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Topics:

  • Rules and automated reasoning
  • Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust
  • Rule-based event processing and reaction rules
  • Rules and the web
  • Fuzzy rules and uncertainty
  • Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning
  • Non-classical logics and the web (e.g modal and epistemic logics)
  • Hybrid methods for combining rules and statistical machine learning techniques (e.g., conditional random fields, PSL)
  • Rule transformation, extraction, and learning
  • Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules
  • Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats
  • Rule-based distributed/multi-agent systems
  • Rules, agents, and norms
  • Rule-based communication, dialogue, and argumentation models
  • Vocabularies and ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts and deontic primitives)
  • Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution
  • Rules in online market research and online marketing
  • Applications of rule technologies in health care and life sciences
  • Legal rules and legal reasoning
  • Industrial applications of rules
  • Controlled natural language for rule encoding (e.g. SBVR, ACE, CLCE)
  • Standards activities related to rules
  • General rule topics

A number of those seem quite at home in a topic maps setting.

January 10, 2013

Hadoop Summit North America 2013

Filed under: Conferences,Hadoop — Patrick Durusau @ 1:47 pm

Oldest and Largest Apache Hadoop Community Event in North America Opens Call for Papers by Kim Rose.

Dates:

Early Bird Registration ends February 1, 2013

Abstract Deadline: February 22, 2013

Conference: June 26-27, 2013 (San Jose, CA)

From the post:

Hadoop Summit North America 2013, the premier Apache Hadoop community event, will take place at the San Jose Convention Center, June 26-27, 2013. Hosted by Hortonworks, a leading contributor to Apache Hadoop, and Yahoo!, Hadoop Summit brings together the community of developers, architects, administrators, data analysts, data scientists and vendors interested in advancing, extending and implementing Apache Hadoop as the next-generation enterprise data platform.

This 6th Annual Hadoop Summit North America will feature seven tracks and more than 80 sessions focused on building, managing and operating Apache Hadoop from some of the most influential speakers in the industry. Growing 30 percent to more than 2,200 attendees last year, Hadoop Summit reached near sell-out crowds. This year, the Summit is expected to be even larger.

Apache Hadoop is the open source technology that enables organizations to more efficiently and cost-effectively store, process, manage and analyze the ever-increasing volume of data being created and collected every day. Yahoo! pioneered Apache Hadoop and is still a leading user of the big data platform. Hortonworks is a core contributor to the Apache Hadoop technology via the company’s key architects and engineers.

The Hadoop Summit tracks include the following:

  • Hadoop-Driven Business / Business Intelligence: Will focus on how Apache Hadoop is powering a new generation of business intelligence solutions, including tools, techniques and solutions for deriving business value and competitive advantage from the large volumes of data flowing through today’s enterprise.
  • Applications and Data Science: Will focus on the practice of data science using Apache Hadoop, including novel applications, tools and algorithms, as well as areas of advanced research and emerging applications that use and extend the Apache Hadoop platform.
  • Deployment and Operations: Will focus on the deployment, operation and administration of Apache Hadoop clusters at scale, with an emphasis on tips, tricks and best practices.
  • Enterprise Data Architecture: Will focus on Apache Hadoop as a data platform and how it fits within broader enterprise data architectures.
  • Future of Apache Hadoop: Will take a technical look at the key projects and research efforts driving innovation in and around the Apache Hadoop platform.
  • Apache Hadoop (Disruptive) Economics: Focusing on business innovation, this track will provide concrete examples of how Apache Hadoop enables businesses across a wide range of industries to become data-driven, deriving value from data in order to achieve competitive advantage and/or new levels of productivity.
  • Reference Architectures: Apache Hadoop impacts every level of the enterprise data architecture from storage and operating systems through end-user tools and applications. This track will focus on how the various components of the enterprise ecosystem integrate and interoperate with Apache Hadoop.

The Hadoop Summit North America 2013 call for papers is now open. The deadline to submit an abstract for consideration is February 22, 2013. Track sessions will be voted on by all members of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem using a free voting system called Community Choice. The top ranking sessions in each track will automatically be added to the Hadoop Summit agenda. Remaining sessions will be chosen by a committee of industry experts using their experience and feedback from the Community Choice.

Discounted early bird registration is available now through February 1, 2013. To register for the event or to submit a speaking abstract for consideration, please visit: www.hadoopsummit.org/san-jose/

Sponsorship packages are also now available. For more information on how to sponsor this year’s event please visit: www.hadoopsummit.org/san-jose/sponsors/

I am sure your Hadoop based topic maps solution would be welcome at this conference.

And, it makes a nice warm up for the Balisage conference in August.

Markup Olympics (Balisage) [No Drug Testing]

Filed under: Conferences,XML,XML Database,XML Schema,XPath,XQuery,XSLT — Patrick Durusau @ 1:46 pm

Markup athletes take heart! Unlike venues that intrude into the personal lives of competitors, there are no, repeat no drug tests for presenters at Balisage!

Fear no trainer betrayals or years of being dogged by second-raters in the press.

Eat, drink, visit, ???, present, in the company of your peers.

The more traditional call for participation, yawn, has the following details:

Dates:

15 March 2013 – Peer review applications due
19 April 2013 – Paper submissions due
19 April 2013 – Applications due for student support awards due
21 May 2013 – Speakers notified
12 July 2013 – Final papers due

5 August 2013 – Pre-conference Symposium on XForms
6-9 August 2013 – Balisage: The Markup Conference

From the call:

Balisage is where people interested in descriptive markup meet each year in August for informed technical discussion, occasionally impassioned debate, good coffee, and the incomparable ambience of one of North America’s greatest cities, Montreal. We welcome anyone interested in discussing the use of descriptive markup to build strong, lasting information systems.

Practitioner or theorist, tool-builder or tool-user, student or lecturer — you are invited to submit a paper proposal for Balisage 2013. As always, papers at Balisage can address any aspect of the use of markup and markup languages to represent information and build information systems. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

  • XML and related technologies
  • Non-XML markup languages
  • Big Data and XML
  • Implementation experience with XML parsing, XSLT processors, XQuery processors, XML databases, XProc integrations, or any markup-related technology
  • Semantics, overlap, and other complex fundamental issues for markup languages
  • Case studies of markup design and deployment
  • Quality of information in markup systems
  • JSON and XML
  • Efficiency of Markup Software
  • Markup systems in and for the mobile web
  • The future of XML and of descriptive markup in general
  • Interesting applications of markup

In addition, please consider becoming a Peer Reviewer. Reviewers play a critical role towards the success of Balisage. They review blind submissions — on topics that interest them — for technical merit, interest, and applicability. Your comments and recommendations can assist the Conference Committee in creating the program for Balisage 2013!

How:

More IQ per square foot than any other conference you will attend in 2013!

December 19, 2012

TSD 2013: 16th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue

Filed under: Conferences,Natural Language Processing,Texts — Patrick Durusau @ 10:50 am

TSD 2013: 16th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue

Important Dates:

When Sep 1, 2013 – Sep 5, 2013
Where Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic
Submission Deadline Mar 31, 2013
Notification Due May 12, 2013
Final Version Due Jun 9, 2013

Subjects for submissions:

  • Speech Recognition
    —multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling,
  • Corpora and Language Resources
    —monolingual, multilingual, text, and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries,
  • Speech and Spoken Language Generation
    —multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing,
  • Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
    —multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution,
  • Semantic Processing of Text and Speech
    —information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection,
  • Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
    —machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies,
  • Automatic Dialogue Systems
    —self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues,
  • Multimodal Techniques and Modelling
    —video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotion and personality modelling.

It was TSD 2012 where I found the presentation by Ruslan Mitkov presentation: Coreference Resolution: to What Extent Does it Help NLP Applications? So, highly recommended!

December 13, 2012

European Data Forum Call for Contribution

Filed under: BigData,Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 5:14 pm

European Data Forum Call for Contribution

Submissions by 22nd Feb 2013, 02.00pm CET.

Conference: Dublin, Ireland on April 9-10, 2013.

From the call:

The European Data Forum (EDF) is a regularly scheduled (yearly) meeting place for industry, research, policy makers, and community initiatives to discuss the challenges and opportunities of (Big) Data in Europe. These aspects have both a technical (in terms of technology and infrastructure needed to master the volumes, heterogeneity, and dynamicity of Big Data), and a socio-economic component (speaking about emerging types of products and services and their commercialization, innovation and business models, but also policies and regulations).

Our aim is to bring together all stakeholders involved in the data value chain to exchange ideas and develop actionable roadmaps addressing these challenges and opportunities in order to strengthen the European data economy and its positioning worldwide. The roadmaps will be offered as a contribution to the definition of research, development, and policy activities at the level of the European Union institutions and those of its member states.

An equally important goal of the European Data Forum is to create and foster a truly European Big Data community. This emerging community will enable promising ideas to move from the stage of research questions all the way to successful deployment and the acquisition of capital; in the same time, its stakeholders will mutually reinforce commercial strategies that require a forward-looking, dynamic, and well-integrated EU-wide industry and venture capital.

The next edition of the EDF will be held in Dublin, Ireland on April 9-10, 2013. The program will consist of a mixture of presentations and networking sessions by industry, academics, policy makers, and community initiatives on topics ranging from research and technology development, to training and knowledge transfer, and commercialization.

We are seeking inspiring presentations addressing fundamental technical, application, socio-economic and policy-related topics related to Big Data management and analytics. The presentations will vary in format and focus depending on the main expected audience and their contributors. They will be reviewed by the Organization Committee of the Forum according to their relevance to the scope and purpose of the event and the specific topics we foresee to target, which are listed in the following:

Sounds like a great opportunity to meet other “big data” types!

December 3, 2012

2013 International Supercomputing Conference

Filed under: Conferences,HPC,Supercomputing — Patrick Durusau @ 1:26 pm

2013 International Supercomputing Conference

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline Sunday, January 27, 2013
23:59 pm, AoE
Full Paper Submission Deadline Sunday, February 10, 2013
23:59 pm, AoE
Author Notification Sunday, March 10, 2013
Rebuttal Phase Starts Sunday, March 10, 2013
Rebuttal Phase Ends Sunday, March 17, 2013
Notification of Acceptance Friday, March 22, 2013
Camera-Ready Submission Sunday, April 7, 2013

From the call for papers:

  • Architectures (multicore/manycore systems, heterogeneous systems, network technology and programming models) 
  • Algorithms and Analysis (scalability on future architectures, performance evaluation and tuning) 
  • Large-Scale Simulations (workflow management, data analysis and visualization, coupled simulations and industrial simulations) 
  • Future Trends (Exascale HPC, HPC in the Cloud) 
  • Storage and Data (file systems and tape libraries, data intensive applications and databases) 
  • Software Engineering in HPC (application of methods, surveys) 
  • Supercomputing Facility (batch job management, job mix and system utilization and monitoring and administration tools) 
  • Scalable Applications: 50k+ (ISC Research thrust). The Research Paper committee encourages scientists to submit parallelization approaches that lead to scalable applications on more than 50,000 (CPU or GPU) cores
  • Submissions on other innovative aspects of high-performance computing are also welcome. 

Did I mention it will be in Leipzig, Germany? 😉

November 24, 2012

BIOKDD 2013 :…Biological Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Filed under: Bioinformatics,Biomedical,Conferences,Data Mining,Knowledge Discovery — Patrick Durusau @ 11:24 am

BIOKDD 2013 : 4th International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

When Aug 26, 2013 – Aug 30, 2013
Where Prague, Czech Republic
Abstract Registration Due Apr 3, 2013
Submission Deadline Apr 10, 2013
Notification Due May 10, 2013
Final Version Due May 20, 2013

From the call for papers:

With the development of Molecular Biology during the last decades, we are witnessing an exponential growth of both the volume and the complexity of biological data. For example, the Human Genome Project provided the sequence of the 3 billion DNA bases that constitute the human genome. And, consequently, we are provided too with the sequences of about 100,000 proteins. Therefore, we are entering the post-genomic era: after having focused so many efforts on the accumulation of data, we have now to focus as much effort, and even more, on the analysis of these data. Analyzing this huge volume of data is a challenging task because, not only, of its complexity and its multiple and numerous correlated factors, but also, because of the continuous evolution of our understanding of the biological mechanisms. Classical approaches of biological data analysis are no longer efficient and produce only a very limited amount of information, compared to the numerous and complex biological mechanisms under study. From here comes the necessity to use computer tools and develop new in silico high performance approaches to support us in the analysis of biological data and, hence, to help us in our understanding of the correlations that exist between, on one hand, structures and functional patterns of biological sequences and, on the other hand, genetic and biochemical mechanisms. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) are a response to these new trends.

Topics of BIOKDD’13 workshop include, but not limited to:

Data Preprocessing: Biological Data Storage, Representation and Management (data warehouses, databases, sequences, trees, graphs, biological networks and pathways, …), Biological Data Cleaning (errors removal, redundant data removal, completion of missing data, …), Feature Extraction (motifs, subgraphs, …), Feature Selection (filter approaches, wrapper approaches, hybrid approaches, embedded approaches, …)

Data Mining: Biological Data Regression (regression of biological sequences…), Biological data clustering/biclustering (microarray data biclustering, clustering/biclustering of biological sequences, …), Biological Data Classification (classification of biological sequences…), Association Rules Learning from Biological Data, Text mining and Application to Biological Sequences, Web mining and Application to Biological Data, Parallel, Cloud and Grid Computing for Biological Data Mining

Data Postprocessing: Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Filtering, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Representation and Visualization, Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Evaluation (calculation of the classification error rate, evaluation of the association rules via numerical indicators, e.g. measurements of interest, … ), Biological Nuggets of Knowledge Integration

Being held in conjunction with 24th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications – DEXA 2013.

In case you are wondering about BIOKDD, consider the BIOKDD Programme for 2012.

Or the DEXA program for 2012.

Looks like a very strong set of conferences and workshops.

November 22, 2012

SC12 Salt Lake City, Utah (Proceedings)

Filed under: Conferences,HPC,Supercomputing — Patrick Durusau @ 10:41 am

SC12 Salt Lake City, Utah

Proceeding from SC12 are online!

ACM Digital Library: SC12 Conference Proceedings

IEEE Xplore: SC12 Conference Proceedings

Everything from graphs to search and lots in between.

Enjoy!

November 20, 2012

Balisage 2013 – Dates/Location

Filed under: Conferences,XML,XML Database,XML Query Rewriting,XML Schema,XPath,XQuery,XSLT,XTM — Patrick Durusau @ 3:19 pm

Tommie Usdin just posted email with the Balisage 2013 dates and location:

Montreal, Hotel Europa, August 5 – 9 , 2013

Hope that works with everything else.

That’s the entire email so I don’t know what was meant by:

Hope that works with everything else.

Short of it being your own funeral, open-heart surgery or giving birth (to your first child), I am not sure what “everything else” there could be?

You get a temporary excuse for the second two cases and a permanent excuse for the first one.

Now’s a good time to hint about plane fare plus hotel and expenses for Balisage as a stocking stuffer.

And to wish a happy holiday Tommie Usdin and to all the folks at Mulberry Technology who make Balisage possible all of us. Each and every one.

November 18, 2012

LucidWorks Announces Lucene Revolution 2013

Filed under: Conferences,Lucene,LucidWorks — Patrick Durusau @ 4:50 pm

LucidWorks Announces Lucene Revolution 2013 by Paul Doscher, CEO of LucidWorks.

From the webpage:

LucidWorks, the trusted name in Search, Discovery and Analytics, today announced that Lucene Revolution 2013 will take place at The Westin San Diego on April 29 – May 2, 2013. Many of the brightest minds in open source search will convene at this 4th annual Lucene Revolution to discuss topics and trends driving the next generation of search. The conference will be preceded by two days of Apache Lucene, Solr and Big Data training.

BTW, the call for papers opened up on November 12, 2012, but you still have time left: http://lucenerevolution.org/2013/call-for-papers

Jan. 13, 2013: CFP closes
Feb 1, 2013: Speakers notified

November 14, 2012

Videos From PyData NYC

Filed under: Conferences,Python — Patrick Durusau @ 1:48 pm

Videos From PyData NYC

From the post:

If you weren’t able to attend PyData NYC, or would like another opportunity to watch a talk or tutorial, you now have the chance. Conference videos are posted on Vimeo at: https://vimeo.com/channels/pydata.

Four talks by the Continuum team were among the many great presentations at PyData. Be sure and check out their videos as well as the others.

Francesc Alted gave a tutorial on PyTables. He explained the basics of using HDF5 through PyTables and how it leverages HDF5 to allow Python to perform efficient computations over extremely large datasets that do not fit in memory.

Stephen Diehl spoke on Blaze, a next-generation NumPy sponsored by Continuum. It is designed as a foundational set of abstractions on which to build out-of-core and distributed algorithms. He explained how Blaze generalizes many of the ideas found in popular PyData projects such as Numpy, Pandas, and Theano into one generalized data-structure.

Hugo Shi and Travis Oliphant taught a tutorial on SciPy that included an overview of the modules that are most relevant for data analysis.

Stefan Urbanek presented, Python for Business Intelligence, an introduction to business intelligence, data warehousing and online analytical processing with Cubes.

A welcome alternative to the upcoming season of tawdry news conferences.

November 13, 2012

Managing Conference Hashtags

Filed under: Conferences,Semantic Web,Tagging,Tweets — Patrick Durusau @ 5:13 pm

David Karger tweets today:

Ironically amusing that ontology researchers can’t manage to agree on a canonical tag for their conference #iswc #iswc12 #iswc2012

If that’s true for ontology researchers, what chance does the rest of the world have?

Just to help ontology researchers along a bit (in LTM syntax):

*****

/* typing topics */

[conf = "conference"]

/* scoping topics */

[SWTwiiter01 : conf = "Semantic Web, Twitter hashtag 01."]

[SWTwiiter02 : conf = "Semantic Web, Twitter hashtag 02."]

[SWTwiiter03 : conf = "Semantic Web, Twitter hashtag 03."]

[iswc2012 : conf = "ISWC 2012, The 11th International Semantic Web Conference"
("#iswc" / SWTwitter01)
("#iswc12" / SWTwitter02)
("#iswc2012" / SWTwitter03)]

*****

I added the “conf” typing topic to the scoping topics to distinguish those tags from other for:

ISWC (International Standard Musical Work Code)

Welcome to ISWC 2013! The International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC)

Wikipedia – ISWC, also lists:

International Speed Windsurfing Class

But missed:

International Student Welcome Committee

There remains the task of distinguishing tags in the wild from tags for these other subjects.

Once that is done, all the tweets about the conference, under these or other tags, can be collocated for a full set of tweets about the conference.

Other subjects and relationships, such as person, date, location, topic, tags, retweets, etc., can be just as easily added.

Personally I would make the default sort order for Tweet a function of date/time, quite possibly mis-using sortname for that purpose. People are accustomed to seeing Tweets in time order and fancy collocation can wait until they select an author, subject, tag, etc.

November 9, 2012

AWS re:Invent Sold Out – Register for the Live Stream!

Filed under: Amazon Web Services AWS,Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 4:25 pm

AWS re:Invent Sold Out – Register for the Live Stream! by Jeff Barr.

November 28 and 29, 2012.

From the post:

I’m happy to be able to report that we have sold all of the available seats at AWS re:Invent! The halls here are ablaze with excitement and we’re all working 18 hours per day to bring you a conference that will be fun, informative, and memorable. We’ve lined up an amazing array of speakers and a good time will be had by all.

If you didn’t register in time or if you simply can’t make it to Las Vegas, you can register for the live stream of the re:Invent keynotes. This stream is free and it will be delivered over Amazon CloudFront.

The entire team of AWS evangelists is committed to doing everything possible to bring the excitement of the conference online. We’ll be live-blogging, tweeting (using the #reinvent hashtag), posting pictures, posting videos, and posting the slide decks to the Amazon Web Services SlideShare page.

Way cool! The program is stunning.

I would rather be in Los Vegas but will instead be moving meetings that conflict with the stream.

November 6, 2012

Open Source Science Fair

Filed under: Conferences,TimesOpen — Patrick Durusau @ 11:52 am

Open Source Science Fair

Thursday, November 15, 7-10:30 p.m.
The New York Times
620 Eight Avenue
New York, NY
15th Floor

From the webpage:

Every year, the TimesOpen series brings together the NYC developer community for technical talks on various topics. We’ve enjoyed great speakers, insightful discussions and a lot of live coding. This year we’re trying something new: an open source science fair and symposium.

To kick off the night, we’ll have our science fair. Contributors to the open source community will tell us a little bit about their projects and set up areas to show off their work. We won’t have any model volcanoes, potato clocks or flatworms — but we will have booths, lightning talks and pull requests.

After the exhibitors, our speakers (so far, Jeremy Ashkenas of The New York Times, Rebecca Murphey of Bocoup and Zach Holman of GitHub) will talk about how to launch, scale and contribute to open source projects. No science fair is complete without awards, so we’ll end the night with some ribbons and prizes!

It would be pretty hard to get one of those model volcanoes on an airplane. 😉

Despite that, this is a must-attend event if you can.

November 4, 2012

AWS re:Invent

Filed under: Amazon Web Services AWS,Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 4:33 pm

AWS re:Invent

November 27-29, 2012 The Venetian – Las Vegas, NV.

From the webpage:

Amazon Web Services invites you to AWS re: Invent, our first global customer and partner conference. Your whole team can ramp up on everything needed to thrive in the AWS Cloud. AWS re: Invent will feature deep technical content on popular cloud use cases, new AWS services, cloud migration best practices, architecting for scale, operating at high availability and making your cloud apps secure.

Sessions: There are 16 tracks and 150+ sessions. The choices are going to be really hard.

A “streaming” registration was due to appear a month before the conference but as of 4 November 2012, no such option is available.

Unlike some conferences, it looks like conference content is going to be limited to registered attendees who physically attend the conference.

Welcome to the world of the cloud!

Update: Streaming video of keynotes, videos and slides to be posted for free! See: AWS re:Invent Sold Out – Register for the Live Stream!. Be sure to send a nice note to Jeff about this announcement.

October 31, 2012

MongoSV 2012

Filed under: Conferences,MongoDB — Patrick Durusau @ 2:54 pm

MongoSV 2012

From the webpage:

December 4th Santa Clara, CA

MongoSV is an annual one-day conference in Silicon Valley, CA, dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB.

There are five (5) tracks, morning and afternoon sessions, a final session followed by a conference party from 5:30 PM to 8 PM.

Any summary is going to miss something of interest for someone. Take the time to review the schedule.

While you are there, register for the conference as well. A unique annual opportunity to mix-n-meet with MongoDB enthusiasts!

October 8, 2012

Wolfram Data Summit 2012 Presentations [Elves and Hypergraphs = Topic Maps?]

Filed under: Combinatorics,Conferences,Data,Data Mining — Patrick Durusau @ 1:39 pm

Wolfram Data Summit 2012 Presentations

Presentations have been posted from the Wolfram Data Summit 2012:

I looked at:

“The Trouble with House Elves: Computational Folkloristics, Classification, and Hypergraphs” Timothy Tangherlini, Professor, UCLA James Abello, Research Professor, DIMACS – Rutgers University

first. 😉

Would like to see a video of the presentation. Pointers anyone?

Close as I can imagine to being a topic map without using the phrase “topic map.”

Others?

Thursday, September 8

  • Presentation “Who’s Bigger? A Quantitative Analysis of Historical Fame” Steven Skiena, Professor, Stony Brook University
  • Presentation “Academic Data: A Funder’s Perspective” Myron Gutmann, Assistant Director, Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Presentation “Who Owns the Law?” Ed Walters, CEO, Fastcase, Inc.
  • Presentation “An Initiative to Improve Academic and Commercial Data Sharing in Cancer Research” Charles Hugh-Jones, Vice President, Head, Medical Affairs North America, Sanofi
  • Presentation “The Trouble with House Elves: Computational Folkloristics, Classification, and Hypergraphs” Timothy Tangherlini, Professor, UCLA James Abello, Research Professor, DIMACS – Rutgers University
  • Presentation “Rethinking Digital Research” Kaitlin Thaney, Manager, External Partnerships, Digital Science
  • Presentation “Building and Learning from Social Networks” Chris McConnell, Principal Software Development Lead, Microsoft Research FUSE Labs
  • Presentation “Keeping Repositories in Synchronization: NISO/OAI ResourceSync Project” Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
  • Presentation “A New, Searchable SDMX Registry of Country-Level Health, Education, and Financial Data” Chris Dickey, Director, Research and Innovations, DevInfo Support Group
  • Presentation “Dryad’s Evolving Proof of Concept and the Metadata Hook” Jane Greenberg, Professor, School of Information and Library Science (SILS), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Presentation “How the Associated Press Tabulates and Distributes Votes in US Elections” Brian Scanlon, Director of Election Services, The Associated Press
  • Presentation “How Open Is Open Data?” Ian White, President, Urban Mapping, Inc.
  • Presentation “No More Tablets of Stone: Enabling the User to Weight Our Data and Shape Our Research” Toby Green, Head of Publishing, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • Presentation “Sharing and Protecting Confidential Data: Real-World Examples” Timothy Mulcahy, Principal Research Scientist, NORC at the University of Chicago
  • Presentation “Language Models That Stimulate Creativity” Matthew Huebert, Programmer/Designer, BrainTripping
  • Presentation “The Analytic Potential of Long-Tail Data: Sharable Data and Reuse Value” Carole Palmer, Center for Informatics Research in Science & Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Presentation “Evolution of the Storage Brain—Using History to Predict the Future” Larry Freeman, Senior Technologist, NetApp, Inc.

Friday, September 9

  • Presentation “Devices, Data, and Dollars” John Burbank, President, Strategic Initiatives, The Nielsen Company
  • Presentation “Pulling Structured Data Out of Unstructured” Greg Lindahl, CTO, blekko
  • Presentation “Mining Consumer Data for Insights and Trends” Rohit Chauhan, Group Executive, MasterCard Worldwide
  • Presentation
    “Data Quality and Customer Behavioral Modeling” Daniel Krasner, Chief Data Scientist, Sailthru/KFit Solutions
  • No presentation available. “Human-Powered Analysis with Crowdsourcing and Visualization” Edwin Chen, Data Scientist, Twitter
  • Presentation “Leveraging Social Media Data as Real-Time Indicators of X” Maria Singson, Vice President, Country and Industry Research & Forecasting, IHS Chris Hansen, Director, IHS Dan Bergstresser, Chief Economist, Janys Analytics
  • No presentation available. “Visualizations in Yelp” Jim Blomo, Engineering Manager, Data-Mining, Yelp
  • Presentation “The Digital Footprints of Human Activity” Stanislav Sobolevsky, MIT SENSEable City Lab
  • Presentation “Unleash Your Research: The Wolfram Data Repository” Matthew Day, Manager, Data Repository, Wolfram Alpha LLC
  • Presentation “Quantifying Online Discussion: Unexpected Conclusions from Mass Participation” Sascha Mombartz, Creative Director, Urtak
  • Presentation “Statistical Physics for Non-physicists: Obesity Spreading and Information Flow in Society” Hernán Makse, Professor, City College of New York
  • Presentation “Neuroscience Data: Past, Present, and Future” Chinh Dang, CTO, Allen Institute for Brain Science
  • Presentation “Finding Hidden Structure in Complex Networks” Yong-Yeol Ahn, Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Presentation “Data Challenges in Health Monitoring and Diagnostics” Anthony Smart, Chief Science Officer, Scanadu
  • No presentation available. “Datascience Automation with Wolfram|Alpha Pro” Taliesin Beynon, Manager and Development Lead, Wolfram Alpha LLC
  • Presentation “How Data Science, the Web, and Linked Data Are Changing Medicine” Joanne Luciano, Research Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Presentation “Unstructured Data and the Role of Natural Language Processing” Philip Resnik, Professor, University of Maryland
  • Presentation “A Framework for Measuring Social Quality of Content Based on User Behavior” Nanda Kishore, CTO, ShareThis, Inc.
  • Presentation “The Science of Social Data” Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist, bitly
  • Presentation “Big Data for Small Languages” Laura Welcher, Director of Operations, The Rosetta Project
  • Presentation “Moving from Information to Insight” Anthony Scriffignano, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Data & Insight, Dun and Bradstreet

PS: I saw this in Christophe Lalanne’s A bag of tweets / September 2012 and reformatted the page to make it easier to consult.

September 28, 2012

2013 Workshop on Interoperability in Scientific Computing

Filed under: Conferences,Interoperability,Science,Scientific Computing — Patrick Durusau @ 10:52 am

2013 Workshop on Interoperability in Scientific Computing

From the post:

The 13th annual International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2013) will be held in Barcelona, Spain from 5th – 7th June 2013. ICCS is an ERA 2010 ‘A’-ranked conference series. For more details on the main conference, please visit www.iccs-meeting.org The 2nd Workshop on Interoperability in Scientific Computing (WISC ’13) will be co-located with ICCS 2013.

Approaches to modelling take many forms. The mathematical, computational and encapsulated components of models can be diverse in terms of complexity and scale, as well as in published implementation (mathematics, source code, and executable files). Many of these systems are attempting to solve real-world problems in isolation. However the long-term scientific interest is in allowing greater access to models and their data, and to enable simulations to be combined in order to address ever more complex issues. Markup languages, metadata specifications, and ontologies for different scientific domains have emerged as pathways to greater interoperability. Domain specific modelling languages allow for a declarative development process to be achieved. Metadata specifications enable coupling while ontologies allow cross platform integration of data.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from across scientific disciplines whose computational models require interoperability. This may arise through interactions between different domains, systems being modelled, connecting model repositories, or coupling models themselves, for instance in multi-scale or hybrid simulations. The outcomes of this workshop will be to better understand the nature of multidisciplinary computational modelling and data handling. Moreover we hope to identify common abstractions and cross-cutting themes in future interoperability research applied to the broader domain of scientific computing.

How is your topic map information product going to make the lives of scientists simpler?

September 24, 2012

Schedule This! Strata + Hadoop World Speakers from Cloudera

Filed under: Cloudera,Conferences,Hadoop — Patrick Durusau @ 2:38 pm

Schedule This! Strata + Hadoop World Speakers from Cloudera by Justin Kestelyn.

Oct. 23-25, 2012, New York City

From the post:

We’re getting really close to Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2012 (just over a month away), schedule planning-wise. So you may want to consider adding the tutorials, sessions, and keynotes below to your calendar! (Start times are always subject to change of course.)

The ones listed below are led or co-led by Clouderans, but there is certainly a wide range of attractive choices beyond what you see here. We just want to ensure that you put these particular ones high on your consideration list.

Just in case the Clouderans aren’t enough incentive to attend (they should be), consider the full schedule for the conference.

September 20, 2012

25th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

Filed under: Algorithms,Conferences,Parallel Programming — Patrick Durusau @ 7:59 pm

25th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

Submission Deadlines:
Abstracts: February 11 (11:59 pm EST)
Full papers: February 13 (11:59 pm EST)
These are firm deadlines. No extensions will be granted.
Notification: April 15
Camera-ready copy due: May 14

From the call for papers:

This year, SPAA is co-located with PODC. SPAA defines the term “parallel” broadly, encompassing any computational system that can perform multiple operations or tasks simultaneously. Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
  • Parallel and Distributed Data Structures
  • Green Computing and Power-Efficient Architectures
  • Management of Massive Data Sets
  • Parallel Complexity Theory
  • Parallel and Distributed Architectures
  • Multi-Core Architectures
  • Instruction Level Parallelism and VLSI
  • Compilers and Tools for Concurrent Programming
  • Supercomputer Architecture and Computing
  • Transactional Memory Hardware and Software
  • The Internet and the World Wide Web
  • Game Theory and Collaborative Learning
  • Routing and Information Dissemination
  • Resource Management and Awareness
  • Peer-to-Peer Systems
  • Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks
  • Robustness, Self-Stabilization and Security
  • Synergy of Parallelism in Algorithms, Programming and Architecture

Montreal, Canada, July 23 – 25, 2013.

Think about it. Balisage won’t be that far away, could put some vacation time together with the conferences at either end.

September 19, 2012

GT-VMT…Graph Transformation and Visual Modeling Techniques

Filed under: Conferences,Graphs,Networks,Visualization — Patrick Durusau @ 4:43 pm

GT-VMT 2013 : 12th International Workshop on Graph Transformation and Visual Modeling Techniques

Abstract Submission: December 7, 2012

Paper Submission: December 14, 2012

Notification to Authors: January 18, 2013

Camera Ready Submission: February 1, 2013

Workshop Dates: March 23-24, 2013

From the call for papers:

GT-VMT 2013 is the twelfth workshop of a series that serves as a forum for all researchers and practitioners interested in the use of visual notations (especially graph-based), techniques and tools for the specification, modeling, validation, manipulation and verification of complex systems. The aim of the workshop is to promote engineering approaches that provide effective sound tool support for visual modeling languages, enhancing formal reasoning at the syntactic as well as semantic level (e.g., for model specification, model analysis, model transformation, and model consistency management) in different domains, such as UML, Petri Nets, Graph Transformation or Business Process/Workflow Models.

This year’s workshop has a special theme of the analysis of non-functional / extra-functional / quality properties like performance, real-time, safety, reliability, energy consumption. We particularly encourage submissions that focus on the definition and the evaluation of such properties using visual/graph specification techniques, ranging from underlying theory through to their utility in complex system design.

As a summary, topics relevant to the scope of the workshop include (but are not restricted to) the following:

  • visual languages definition and syntax (incl. meta-modelling, grammars and graphical parsing);
  • static and dynamic semantics of visual languages (incl. OCL, graph constraints, simulation, animation, compilation);
  • visual/graph-based analysis in software engineering (incl. testing, verification & validation, static & dynamic analysis techniques);
  • visual/graph constraints (incl. definition, expressiveness, analysis techniques involving constraints);
  • model transformations and their application in model-driven development (incl. in particular, transformations between graphical and textual formalisms);
  • visual modeling techniques and graph transformation applied to patterns;
  • visual modeling techniques and graph transformations for systems with quality properties like performance, real-time, safety, reliability, energy consumption;
  • case studies and novel application areas (e.g. within engineering, biology, etc);
  • tool support and efficient algorithms.

Did I forget to mention the workshop will be held in Rome, Italy? 😉 (March is a great time to be in Rome.)

September 14, 2012

RecSys 2012: Beyond Five Stars

Filed under: Conferences,Recommendation — Patrick Durusau @ 2:48 pm

RecSys 2012: Beyond Five Stars by Daniel Tunkelang.

From the post:

I spent the past week in Dublin attending the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012). This young conference has become the premier global forum for discussing the state of the art in recommender systems, and I’m thrilled to have has the opportunity to participate.

Daniel’s review of RecSys 2012 with lots of links and pointers!

It will take you some time to work through all the hyperlinks so it is a good thing the weekend is upon us!

Enjoy!

September 13, 2012

4th Workshop on Complex Networks, 2013

Filed under: Conferences,Graphs,Networks — Patrick Durusau @ 10:42 am

4th Workshop on Complex Networks, 2013

From the call for papers:

The 4th international workshop on complex networks (CompleNet 2013) aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on areas related to complex networks. In the past two decades we have been witnessing an exponential increase on the number of publications in this field. From biological systems to computer science, from economic to social systems, complex networks are becoming pervasive in many fields of science. It is this interdisciplinary nature of complex networks that this workshop aims at addressing.

Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished papers/abstracts on their research in complex networks. Both theoretical and applied papers are of interest. Specific topics of interest are (but not limited to):

  • Applications of Network Science
  • Behavioral & Social Influence
  • Community Structure in Networks
  • Complex Network in Technology
  • Complex Networks and Epidemics
  • Complex Networks and Mobility
  • Complex Networks in Biological Systems
  • Emergence in Complex Networks
  • Geometry in Complex Networks
  • Information Spreading in Social Media,
  • Link Analysis and Ranking
  • Modeling Human Behavior in Complex Networks
  • Models of Complex Networks
  • Network Evolution
  • Networks as Frameworks
  • Rumor Spreading
  • Search in Complex Networks
  • Shocks and Bursts
  • Social Networks
  • Structural Network Properties and Analysis
  • Synchronization in Networks

Prior programs as a guide to what you will encounter:

CompleNet 2012

CompleteNet 2010 (PDF file)

September 11, 2012

GraphConnect – Agenda – 2012 [San Francisco]

Filed under: Conferences,Graphs,Neo4j — Patrick Durusau @ 10:44 am

GraphConnect – Agenda – 2012


Monday, November 5 Full day Neo4j Tutorial and Community Meetup
Tuesday, November 6 Presentations

In case you have been wavering over registration and plane tickets:

Presentations range from campaign data, commerce, medical, drugs (legal drugs), to lessons for startups (people who want to be enterprises) or enterprises (people who want to be sovereign nations).

Do remember to vote absentee for the US Presidential election on November 6, 2012. That’s not an excuse for missing the conference!

September 5, 2012

IWCS 2013 Workshop: Towards a formal distributional semantics

Filed under: Conferences,Semantics — Patrick Durusau @ 4:43 pm

IWCS 2013 Workshop: Towards a formal distributional semantics

When Mar 19, 2013 – Mar 22, 2013
Where Potsdam, Germany
Submission Deadline Nov 30, 2012
Notification Due Jan 4, 2013
Final Version Due Jan 25, 2013

From the call for papers:

The Tenth International Conference for Computational Semantics (IWCS) will be held March 20–22, 2013 in Potsdam, Germany.

The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested in the computation, annotation, extraction, and representation of meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and statistical approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between.

Topics of Interest

Areas of special interest for the conference will be computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, or multimodal communication. Papers are invited that are concerned with topics in these and closely related areas, including the following:

  • representation of meaning
  • syntax-semantics interface
  • representing and resolving semantic ambiguity
  • shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning
  • hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to representing semantics
  • alternative approaches to compositional semantics
  • inference methods for computational semantics
  • recognizing textual entailment
  • learning by reading
  • methodologies and practices for semantic annotation
  • machine learning of semantic structures
  • statistical semantics
  • computational aspects of lexical semantics
  • semantics and ontologies
  • semantic web and natural language processing
  • semantic aspects of language generation
  • semantic relations in discourse and dialogue
  • semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts
  • multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning
  • semantics-pragmatics interface

Definitely sounds like a topic map sort of meeting!

August 28, 2012

XLDB-2012 Conference Program

Filed under: Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 4:49 pm

XLDB-2012 Conference Program

The program for the Extremely Large Databases Conference, Workshop & Tutorials, September 10-13, 2012, Stanford University has been posted.

From the homepage:

In response to the exploding need for systems and tools capable of managing and analysing extremely large data sets, we are organizing the 6th Extremely Large Database Conference. The main goals of the conference are:

  • Encourage and accelerate the exchange of ideas between users trying to build extremely large databases worldwide and database solution providers
  • Share lessons, trends, innovations, and challenges related to building extremely large databases
  • Facilitate the development and growth of practical technologies for extremely large databases
  • Strengthen, expand, and engage the XLDB community

This year, the XLDB conference focuses on practical solutions.

August 27, 2012

SIGIR 2013 : ACM International Conference on Information Retrieval

Filed under: Conferences,Information Retrieval — Patrick Durusau @ 1:20 pm

SIGIR 2013 : ACM International Conference on Information Retrieval

21 January 2013: Abstracts for full research papers due
28 January 2013: Full research paper due
4 February 2013: Workshop proposals due
18 February 2013: Posters, demonstration, and tutorial proposals due
11 March 2013: Notification of workshop acceptances
11 March 2013: Doctoral consortium proposals due
15 April 2013: All other acceptance notifications
28 July 2013: Conference Begins

From the webpage:

We are delighted to welcome SIGIR 2013 to Dublin, Ireland. SIGIR was last held in Dublin almost 20 years ago in 1994. The intervening years have seen huge growth in the field of information retrieval and we look forward to receiving submissions to help us build an exciting programme reporting latest developments in information retrieval.

Updates to follow but thought you might want extra time to plan for Dublin.

OAIR 2013 : Open Research Areas in Information Retrieval

Filed under: Conferences,Information Retrieval — Patrick Durusau @ 10:46 am

OAIR 2013 : Open Research Areas in Information Retrieval

When May 22, 2013 – May 24, 2013
Where Lisbon, Portugal
Submission Deadline Dec 10, 2012
Notification Due Feb 4, 2013

From the homepage:

Welcome to OAIR 2013 (the 10th International Conference in the RIAO series), taking place in Lisbon, Portugal from May 22 to 24, 2013.

The World Wide Web is the largest source of openly accessible data, and the most common means to connect people and share resources.

However, exploiting these interconnected Webs to obtain information is still an unsolved problem. This conference calls for papers describing recent research in Information Retrieval concerning the integration between a Web of Data and a Web of People, to transform pure data into information, and information into usable knowledge.

The Open research Areas in Information Retrieval (OAIR) conference is a triennial conference, addressing research topics related to the design of robust and large-scale scientific and industrial solutions to information processing.

OAIR 2013 conference is an opportunity to show main research activities, to share knowledge among IR scientific community and to get updates on new scientific work developed by IR community.

This conference is connected to the main IR personalities (see Steering Committee list) and a considerable number of attendances are expected.

We look forward to seeing you in the Europe´s Westernmost and sunniest capital, LISBON!

Topics of interest include:

  • Adapting search to Users
  • Advertising and ad targeting
  • Aggregation of Results
  • Community and Context Aware Search
  • Community-based Filtering and Recommender Systems
  • Community-based IR Theory
  • Community-oriented Content Representation
  • Evaluation of Social IR
  • Improving Web via Social Media
  • Including Crowdsourcing in Search
  • Merging Heterogeneous Web Data
  • Modeling the web of people
  • Personal semantics search
  • Query log analysis
  • Personal semantics search
  • Search over Social Networks
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Social Multimedia and Multimodal IR
  • Social Topic detection
  • Structuring Unstructured Data
  • System Architectures for Social IR
  • User Interfaces and Interactive IR

Having connections to data, assuming anyone knows its whereabouts, isn’t quite the same as making use of it.

August 23, 2012

VLDB 2012 Ice Breaker v0.1

Filed under: Conferences,CS Lectures — Patrick Durusau @ 7:34 pm

VLDB 2012 Ice Breaker v0.1

Apologies for the sudden silence but I started working on an “in house” version of the VLDB program listing to use with this blog.

I reformed the program to add links for all authors to DBLP Computer Science Biblography.

The links resolve but that doesn’t mean they are “correct.” As I work through the program I will be correcting any links that can be made more specific.

As usual, comments and suggestions are welcome!

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