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

May 16, 2012

Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development

Filed under: Conferences,Marketing — Patrick Durusau @ 3:35 pm

Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development

June 19—20, 2012
The World Bank Group
1818 H Street NW, Washington DC 20433

From the webpage:

The goal of the workshop is to explore ways to become better providers and connectors of knowledge in a world where the sources of knowledge are increasingly diverse and disbursed. At the World Bank, for example, we are seeking ways to connect with new centers of research, emerging communities of practice, and tap the practical experience of development organizations and the policy makers in rapidly developing economies. Our goal is to find better ways to connect those that have the development knowledge with those that need it, when they need it.

We are also seeking to engage research communities and civil society organizations through an Open Development initiative that makes data and publications freely available. We understand that many other organizations are exploring similar initiatives. The Conference and Knowledge fair will provide an opportunity for knowledge organizations working in development to learn from one another about their knowledge services, practices, and successes and challenges in providing these services.

You can register to attend in person or over the Internet.

As always, networking opportunities are what you make of them. This will be a good opportunity to spread the good news about topic maps.

May 15, 2012

SIAM Data Mining 2012 Conference

Filed under: Conferences,Data Mining — Patrick Durusau @ 7:04 pm

SIAM Data Mining 2012 Conference

Ryan Rosario writes:

From April 26-28 I had the pleasure to attend the SIAM Data Mining conference in Anaheim on the Disneyland Resort grounds. Aside from KDD2011, most of my recent conferences had been more “big data” and “data science” oriented, and I wanted to step away from the hype and just listen to talks that had more substance.

Attending a conference on Disneyland property was quite a bizarre experience. I wanted to get everything I could out of the conference, but the weather was so nice that I also wanted to get everything out of Disneyland as I could. Seeing adults wearing Mickey ears carrying Mickey shaped balloons, and seeing girls dressed up as their favorite Disney princesses screams “fun” rather than “business”, but I managed to make time for both.

The first two days started with a plenary talk from industry or research labs. After a coffee break, there were the usual breakout sessions followed by lunch. During my free 90 minutes, I ran over to Disneyland and California Adventure both days to eat lunch. I managed to run there, wait in line, guide myself through crowds, wait in line, get my food, eat it, and run back to the conference in 90 minutes on a weekend. After lunch on the first two days was another plenary session followed by breakout sessions. The evening of the first two days was reserved for poster sessions. Saturday hosted half-day and full-day workshops.

Below is my summary of the conference. Of course, such a summary is very high level my description may miss things, or may not be entirely correct if I misunderstood the speaker.

I doubt Ryan would claim his summary is “as good as being there” but in the absence of attending, you could do far worse.

Suggestions of papers from the conference that I should read first?

May 5, 2012

HCIR 2012 Symposium

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

HCIR 2012 Symposium

Important Dates:

  • Submission deadline (position and research papers): Sunday, July 29
  • HCIR Challenge:
    • Request access to corpus: Friday, June 1
    • Freeze system and submit brief description: Friday, August 31
    • Submit videos or screenshots demonstrating systems on example tasks: Friday, September 14
    • Live demonstrations at symposium: October 4-5
  • Notification date for position and research papers:
    Thursday, September 6
  • Final versions of accepted papers due: Sunday, September 16
  • Presentations and poster session at symposium: Thursday, October 4-5

Gene Golovchinsky writes:

We are happy to announce that the 2012 Human-Computer Information Retrieval Symposium (HCIR 2012) will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts October 4 – 5, 2012. The HCIR series of workshops has provided a venue for discussion of ongoing research on a range of topics related to interactive information retrieval, including interaction techniques, evaluation, models and algorithms for information retrieval, visual design, user modeling, etc. The focus of these meetings has been to bring together people from industry and academia for short presentations and in-depth discussion. Attendance has grown steadily since the first meeting, and as a result this year we have decided to modify the structure of the meeting to accommodate the increasing demand for participation.

To this end, this year’s event has been expanded to two days to allow more time for presentations and for discussion. In addition to the position papers and challenge reports from previous years, we are introducing a new submission category, the archival paper. Archival papers will be peer-reviewed to a rigorous standard comparable to first-tier conference submissions, and the accepted papers will be published on arXiv.org and indexed in the ACM Digital Library.

It’s Massachusetts in October (think Fall colors) and it sounds like a great conference.

May 3, 2012

Argumentation 2012

Filed under: Conferences,Law,Semantic Diversity — Patrick Durusau @ 6:24 pm

Argumentation 2012: International Conference on Alternative Methods of Argumentation in Law


07-09-2012 Full paper submission deadline

21-09-2012 Notice of acceptance deadline

12-10-2012 Paper camera-ready deadline

26-10-2012 Main event, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic

From the listing of topics for papers, semantic diversity going to run riot at this conference.

Checking around the website I was disappointed the papers from Argumentation 2011 are not online.

May 1, 2012

Tenth workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG-2012)

Filed under: Conferences,Graphs — Patrick Durusau @ 4:45 pm

Tenth workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG-2012)


Papers due: May 7, 2012.

Workshop: July 1, 2012.

Located with ICML-2012.

Description:

There is a great deal of interest in analyzing data that is best represented as a graph. Examples include the WWW, social networks, biological networks, communication networks, food webs, and many others. The importance of being able to effectively mine and learn from such data is growing, as more and more structured and semi-structured data is becoming available. Traditionally, a number of subareas have worked with mining and learning from graph structured data, including communities in graph mining, learning from structured data, statistical relational learning, inductive logic programming, and, moving beyond subdisciplines in computer science, social network analysis, and, more broadly network science. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from a variety of these areas, and discuss commonality and differences in challenges faced, survey some of the different approaches, and provide a forum for to present and learn about some of the most cutting edge research in this area. As an outcome, we expect participants to walk away with a better sense of the variety of different tools available for graph mining and learning, and an appreciation for some of the interesting emerging applications for mining and learning from graphs.

April 28, 2012

COCOON 2012

Filed under: Conferences,Graphs — Patrick Durusau @ 6:09 pm

COCOON 2012 18th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference

Sydney, Australia – August 20-22, 2012.

So you don’t have to check your calendar, Balisage ends on August 10th, leaving you plenty of time to make COCOON 2012.

If this listing of papers doesn’t motivate you to attend, it should at least give you some ideas of to be thinking about in your work with graphs and topic maps.

April 26, 2012

GOTO Amsterdam 2012

Filed under: Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 6:30 pm

GOTO Amsterdam 2012

Finally, a use of goto that we can all agree on!

May 24th and 25th for the conference. May 26th for training.

If you need some motivation/justification other than it being in Amsterdam, see the schedule.

A multi-track conference that no matter what track you pick, you will not be disappointed but will regret missing the other track.

Berlin Buzzwords 2012 Program

Filed under: Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 6:29 pm

Berlin Buzzwords 2012 Program

The program for Berlin Buzzwords 2012 is up and what follows is my take on some of the reasons to attend. I should have listed all the presentations but then it would be too long to read. Besides, it is at the website anyway.

WARNING: Partial and Arbitrary Listing of Presentations!

  • Analyzing Hadoop Source Code with Hadoop
  • Machine Learning in the cloud with Mahout and Whirr
  • Real Time Datamining and Aggregation at Scale
  • Large scale graph computation with Apache Giraph
  • Introducing Cascalog: Functional Data Processing for Hadoop
  • Automata Invasion
  • Hydra – an open source processing framework
  • Serious network analysis using Hadoop and Neo4j

Berlin Buzzwords will take place June 4th and 5th 2012 at Urania Berlin (http://www.uraniaberlin.de) Tickets are available.

BTW, Berlin is a great place to be in the summer! As usual, your blog posts, tweets, etc. about the conference will be greatly appreciated!

April 23, 2012

“AI on the Web” 2012 – Saarbrücken, Germany

Filed under: Artificial Intelligence,Conferences,Heterogeneous Data — Patrick Durusau @ 5:59 pm

“AI on the Web” 2012 – Saarbrücken, Germany

Important Dates:

Deadline for Submission: July 5, 2012

Notification of Authors: August 14, 2012

Final Versions of Papers: August 28, 2012

Workshop: September 24/25, 2012

From the website:

The World Wide Web has become a unique source of knowledge on virtually any imaginable topic. It is continuously fed by companies, academia, and common people with a variety of information in numerous formats. By today, the Web has become an invaluable asset for research, learning, commerce, socializing, communication, and entertainment. Still, making full use of the knowledge contained on the Web is an ongoing challenge due to the special properties of the Web as an information source:

  • Heterogeneity: web data occurs in any kind of formats, languages, data structures and terminology one can imagine.
  • Decentrality: the Web is inherently decentralized which means that there is no central point of control that can ensure consistency or synchronicity.
  • Scale: the Web is huge and processing data at web scale is a major challenge in particular for knowledge‐intensive methods.

These characteristics make the Web a challenging but also a promising chance for AI methods that can help to make the knowledge on the Web more accessible for humans and machines by capturing, representing and using information semantics. The relevance and importance of AI methods for the Web is underlined by the fact that the AAAI – as one of the major AI conferences – has been featuring a special track “AI on the Web” for more than five years now. In line with this track and in order to stress this relevance within the German AI community, we are looking for work on relevant methods and their application to web data.

Look beyond the Web, to the larger world of information of the “deep” web or the even larger world of information, web or not, and what do you see?

Heterogeneity, Decentrality, Scale.

What we learn about AI for the Web may help us with larger information problems.

ICDM 2012

Filed under: Conferences,Data Mining,Database,Machine Learning,Pattern Recognition,Statistics,Visualization — Patrick Durusau @ 5:56 pm

ICDM 2012 Brussels, Belgium | December 10 – 13, 2012

From the webpage:

The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) has established itself as the world’s premier research conference in data mining. It provides an international forum for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software and systems, and applications.

ICDM draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems, and high performance computing. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state-of-the-art in data mining. Besides the technical program, the conference features workshops, tutorials, panels and, since 2007, the ICDM data mining contest.

Important Dates:

ICDM contest proposals: April 30
Conference full paper submissions: June 18
Demo and tutorial proposals: August 10
Workshop paper submissions: August 10
PhD Forum paper submissions: August 10
Conference paper, tutorial, demo notifications: September 18
Workshop paper notifications: October 1
PhD Forum paper notifications: October 1
Camera-ready copies and copyright forms: October 15

April 17, 2012

HBaseCon 2012: A Glimpse into the Development Track

Filed under: Conferences,HBase,NoSQL — Patrick Durusau @ 7:11 pm

HBaseCon 2012: A Glimpse into the Development Track by Jon Zuanich.

Jon posted a reminder about the development track at HBaseCon 2012:

  • Learning HBase Internals – Lars Hofhansl, Salesforce.com
  • Lessons learned from OpenTSDB – Benoit Sigoure, StumbleUpon
  • HBase Schema Design – Ian Varley, Salesforce.com
  • HBase and HDFS: Past, Present, and Future – Todd Lipcon, Cloudera
  • Lightning Talk | Relaxed Transactions for HBase – Francis Liu, Yahoo!
  • Lightning Talk | Living Data: Applying Adaptable Schemas to HBase – Aaron Kimball, WibiData

Non-developers can check out the rest of the Agenda. 😉

Conference: May 22, 2012 InterContinental San Francisco Hotel.

April 11, 2012

2012 PyData Workshop Videos

Filed under: BigData,Conferences,Python — Patrick Durusau @ 6:16 pm

2012 PyData Workshop Videos

From the webpage:

Check out these videos from the 2012 PyData Workshop, held on March 2nd & 3rd at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA, and attended by a core group of data scientists interested in Python and Pythonistas interested in big data.

Joining a solid line-up of speakers was Guido van Rossum, author of the Python language, who engaged in an open panel discussion on the intersection of the Python language and the growth of the scientific community.

You can find all currently published videos below, but stay tuned as we’ll be releasing videos for many of the talks from this two day event.

The videos thus far (10 April 2012):

  • 2012 PyData Workshop Panel with Guido van Rossum
  • Python in Big Data with an overview of NumPy & SciPy
  • The Disco MapReduce Framework
  • Image Processing in Python with scikits-image
  • Boosting NumPy with Numexpr and Cython
  • Data Analysis in Python with Pandas
  • Advanced matplotlib Tutorial with library author John Hunter

Subjects are out there, you just have to find them.

April 6, 2012

Cassandra Europe 2012 (Slides)

Filed under: Cassandra,Conferences,NoSQL — Patrick Durusau @ 6:45 pm

Cassandra Europe 2012 (Slides)

Slides are up from Cassandra Europe, 28 March 2012.

From the program:

  • Andrew Byde – Acunu Analytics: Simple, Powerful, Real-time
  • Gary Dusbabek – Cassandra at Rackspace: Cloud Monitoring
  • Eric Evans – CQL: Then, Now, and When
  • Nicolas Favre-Felix – Cassandra Storage Internals
  • Dave Gardner – Introduction to NoSQL and Cassandra
  • Jeremy Hanna – Powering Social Business Intelligence: Cassandra and Hadoop at the Dachis Group
  • Sylvain Lebresne – On Cassandra Development: Past, Present and Future
  • Richard Low – Data Modelling Workshop
  • Richard Lowe – Cassandra at Arkivum
  • Sam Overton – Highly Available: The Cassandra Distribution Model
  • Noa Resare – Cassandra at Spotify
  • Denis Sheahan – Netflix’s Cassandra Architecture and Open Source Efforts
  • Tom Wilkie – Next Generation Cassandra

March 31, 2012

23rd International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2012)

Filed under: Conferences,Machine Learning — Patrick Durusau @ 4:10 pm

23rd International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2012)

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: May 17, 2012

Notification: July 8, 2012

Camera ready copy: July 20, 2012

Early registration deadline: August 30, 2012

The conference: October 29 – 31, 2012

From the call for papers:

The 23rd International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2012) will be held in Lyon, France, at Université Lumière Lyon 2, on October 29-31, 2012. The conference is on the theoretical foundations of machine learning. The conference will be co-located with the 15th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2012)

…

Topics of Interest: We invite submissions that make a wide
variety of contributions to the theory of learning, including the
following:

  • Comparison of the strength of learning models and the design and
    evaluation of novel algorithms for learning problems in
    established learning-theoretic settings such as

    • statistical learning theory,
    • on-line learning,
    • inductive inference,
    • query models,
    • unsupervised, semi-supervised and active learning.
  • Analysis of the theoretical properties of existing algorithms:
    • families of algorithms could include
      • boosting,
      • kernel-based methods, SVM,
      • Bayesian networks,
      • methods for reinforcement learning or learning in
        repeated games,

      • graph- and/or manifold-based methods,
      • methods for latent-variable estimation and/or clustering,
      • MDL,
      • decision tree methods,
      • information-based methods,
    • analyses could include generalization, convergence or
      computational efficiency.
  • Definition and analysis of new learning models. Models might
    • identify and formalize classes of learning problems
      inadequately addressed by existing theory or

    • capture salient properties of important concrete applications.

.

Curious: Do you know of any research comparing the topics of interest for a conference against the terms used in presentations for the conference?

DS 2012 : The 15th International Conference on Discovery Science

Filed under: Conferences,Data Mining,Machine Learning — Patrick Durusau @ 4:09 pm

DS 2012 : The 15th International Conference on Discovery Science

Important Dates:

Important Dates for Submissions

Full paper submission: 17 th May, 2012
Author notification: 8th July, 2012
Camera-ready papers due: 20th July, 2012

Important dates for all DS 2012 attendees

Deadline for early registration: 30th August, 2012
DS 2012 conference dates: 29-31 October, 2012

From the call for papers:

DS-2012 will be collocated with ALT-2012, the 23rd International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory. The two conferences will be held in parallel, and will share their invited talks.

…

DS 2012 provides an open forum for intensive discussions and exchange of new ideas among researchers working in the area of Discovery Science. The scope of the conference includes the development and analysis of methods for automatic scientific knowledge discovery, machine learning, intelligent data analysis, theory of learning, as well as their application to knowledge discovery. Very welcome are papers that focus on dynamic and evolving data, models and structures.

…

We invite submissions of research papers addressing all aspects of discovery science. We particularly welcome contributions that discuss the application of data analysis, data mining and other support techniques for scientific discovery including, but not limited to, biomedical, astronomical and other physics domains.

…

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Logic and philosophy of scientific discovery
  • Knowledge discovery, machine learning and statistical methods
  • Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery
  • Data Streams, Evolving Data and Models
  • Change Detection and Model Maintenance
  • Active Knowledge Discovery
  • Learning from Text and web mining
  • Information extraction from scientific literature
  • Knowledge discovery from heterogeneous, unstructured and multimedia data
  • Knowledge discovery in network and link data
  • Knowledge discovery in social networks
  • Data and knowledge visualization
  • Spatial/Temporal Data
  • Mining graphs and structured data
  • Planning to Learn
  • Knowledge Transfer
  • Computational Creativity
  • Human-machine interaction for knowledge discovery and management
  • Biomedical knowledge discovery, analysis of micro-array and gene deletion data
  • Machine Learning for High-Performance Computing, Grid
    and Cloud Computing
  • Applications of the above techniques to natural or social sciences

I looked very briefly at prior proceedings. If those are any indication, this should be a very good conference.

HotSocial 2012

Filed under: Conferences,Data Mining,Social Media — Patrick Durusau @ 4:09 pm

HotSocial 2012: First ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics on Interdisciplinary Social Networks Research August 12, 2012, Beijing, China (in conjunction with ACM KDD 2012, August 12-16, 2012) http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~fu/hotsocial/

Important Dates:

Deadline for submissions: May 9, 2012 (11:59 PM, EST)
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2012
Camera-ready version: June 12, 2012
HotSocial Workshop Day: Aug 12, 2012

From the post:

Among the fundamental open questions are:

  • How to access social networks data? Different communities have different means, each with pros and cons. Experience exchanges from different communities will be beneficial.
  • How to protect these data? Privacy and data protection techniques considering social and legal aspects are required.
  • How the complex systems and graph theory algorithms can be used for understanding social networks? Interdisciplinary collaboration are necessary.
  • Can social network features be exploited for a better computing and social network system design?
  • How do online social networks play a role in real-life (offline) community forming and evolution?
  • How does the human mobility and human interaction influence human behaviors and thus public health? How can we develop methodologies to investigate the public health and their correlates in the context of the social networks?

Topics of Interest:

Main topics of this workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • methods for accessing social networks (e.g., sensor nets, mobile apps, crawlers) and bias correction for use in different communities (e.g., sociology, behavior studies, epidemiology)
  • privacy and ethic issues of data collection and management of large social graphs, leveraging social network properties as well as legal and social constraints
  • application of data mining and machine learning in the context of specific social networks
  • information spread models and campaign detection
  • trust and reputation and community evolution in the online and offline interacted social networks, including the presence and evolution of social identities and social capital in OSNs
  • understanding complex systems and scale-free networks from an interdisciplinary angle
  • interdisciplinary experiences and intermediate results on social network research

Sounds relevant to the “big data” stuff of interest to the White House.

PS: Have you noticed how some blogging software really sucks when you do “view source” on pages? Markup and data should be present. It makes content reuse easier. WordPress does it. How about your blogging software?

March 27, 2012

Tommie says: Balisage Submissions Due in 25 Days!

Filed under: Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 7:17 pm

Tommie Usdin wrote to say:

It is time to stop thinking that you should get started on your Balisage paper and START writing. A successful Balisage submission is:

  • fresh
  • interesting
  • well thought out
  • carefully written.

This can’t be done in an hour. Not even by someone as smart and creative as you are!

If you have any questions about Balisage, if you want to bounce your paper concept off someone for a little pre-submission feedback, or if we can help you in any way, please write to info@balisage.net.

The Balisage Call for Participation is at: http://www.balisage.net/Call4Participation.html

A symposium on Quality Assurance and Quality Control in XML will precede Balisage this year. Read about it at: http://balisage.net/QA-QC/, and consider submitting a paper for the symposium, too.

Help make Balisage the conference you want it to be.

For the calendar challenged, that means 20 April 2012.

Let’s be honest with each other. Every year we cross the border into Canada thinking “This will be the year some model of my gender choice invites me to stay in Montreal.”

As a presenter (that is a person who submits a very good paper that is accepted), you will increase your odds of being noticed by a model.

How much?

Presenters who have overstayed in Canada are in violation of Canadian immigration laws, so I can’t name names. You understand. Let’s say as opposed to being an attendee (which is a lot of fun), your odds really go up.

😉

Seriously, if you are interested in the next wave of markup techniques and strategies, Balisage is the one conference to attend all year.

There are conferences where there is a lot of hand waving (wringing?) about the future, which are good for a few laughs.

Balisage is where the future of markup is being made real, one paper at a time.

March 24, 2012

HBASE CON2012

Filed under: Conferences,HBase — Patrick Durusau @ 7:35 pm

HBASE CON2012

Early Bird Registration ends 6 April 2012

May 22, 2012
InterContinental San Francisco Hotel
888 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

From the webpage:

Real-Time Your Hadoop

Join us for HBaseCon 2012, the first industry conference for Apache HBase users, contributors, administrators and application developers.

Network. Share ideas with colleagues and others in the the rapidly growing HBase community. See who is speaking ›

Learn. Attend sessions and lightning talks about what’s new in HBase, how to contribute, best practices on running HBase in production, use cases and applications. View the agenda ›

Train. Make the most of your week and attend Cloudera training for Apache HBase, in the 2 days following the conference. Sign up ›

BTW, if you attend, you get a voucher for a free ebook: HBase: The Definitive Guide from O’Reilly.

As rapidly as solutions are developing, conferences look like a major source of up to date information.

March 18, 2012

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences – Proceedings – TM Value-Add

Filed under: Conferences,Knowledge Economics,Systems Research — Patrick Durusau @ 8:51 pm

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is the sponsor of the Knowledge Economics conference I mentioned earlier today.

It has a rich history (see below) and just as importantly, free access to its proceedings back to 2005, via the CS Digital Library (ignore the wording that you need to login).

I did have to locate the new page which is: HCISS Proceedings 1995 –.

The proceedings illustrate why a topic map that captures prior experience can be beneficial.

For example, the entry for 1995 reads:

  • 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’95)
  • 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’95)
  • 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’95)
  • 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’95)

Those are not duplicate entries. They all lead to unique content.

The entry for 2005 reads:

  • Volume No. 5 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 5
  • Volume No. 7 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 7
  • Volume No. 3 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 3
  • Volume No. 6 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 6
  • Volume No. 9 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 9
  • Volume No. 2 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 2
  • Volume No. 1 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 1
  • Volume No. 8 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 8
  • Volume No. 4 – Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 4

Now that’s a much more useful listing. 😉

Don’t despair! That changed in 2009 and in the latest (2011), we find:

  • 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

OK, so we follow that link to find (in part):

  • David J. Nickles, Daniel D. Suthers, “A Study of Structured Lecture Podcasting to Facilitate Active Learning,” hicss, pp.1-10, 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2011
  • J. Lucca, R. Sharda, J. Ruffner, U. Shimp, D. Biros, A. Clower, “Ammunition Multimedia Encyclopedia (AME): A Case Study,” hicss, pp.1-10, 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2011

    • (emphasis added)

Do you notice anything odd about the pagination numbers?

Just for grins, 2008, all the articles are one page long – pp 28, pp 29.

BTW, all the articles appear (I haven’t verified this) to have unique DOI entries.

I am deeply interested in the topics covered by HICSS, so if I organize the proceeding into a more useful form, how do I make that extensible by other researchers?

That is I have no interest in duplicating the work already done for these listings but rather adding value to them and at the same time, being open to more value being added to my work product.

Here are some observations to start a requirements process.

The pages with the HTML abstracts of the articles have helpful links (such as more articles by the same author and co-authors). Could duplicate the author/co-author links but why? Additional maintenance duty.

Conferences should have a one page display, 1995 to current year, with each conference expanding into tracks and each track into papers (with authors listed). Mostly for browsing purposes.

Should be searchable across these proceedings only. (A feature apparently not available at the CS Digital Library site.)

Search should include title, author, exact phrase (as CS Digital Library does) but also subjects.

What am I missing? (Lots I know so be gentle. 😉 )

BTW, be aware of: HICSS Symposium and Workshop Reports and Monographs (also free for downloading)

Knowledge Economics (Grand Wailea Maui, HI 2013)

Filed under: Conferences,Knowledge Economics,Knowledge Management — Patrick Durusau @ 8:50 pm

KE HICSS 2013 : Knowledge Economics: HICSS-46 (2013)

When Jan 7, 2013 – Jan 10, 2013
Where Grand Wailea Maui, HI
Submission Deadline Jun 15, 2012
Notification Due Aug 15, 2012
Final Version Due Sep 15, 2012

A conference running to catch up with Steve Newcomb’s advocacy of knowledge integration mappings as economic assets. (See Knowledge Economics II)

Additional details about the Minitrack may be found at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/KMEconomics.pdf

Join our “Knowledge Economics” LinkedIn group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Knowledge-Economics-4351854?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

Knowledge Management is continuously gaining importance in research and practice, since economically growth economies are more reliant on the contribution of knowledge intensive businesses. Various methodologies to identify, capture, model and simulate knowledge transfers have been elaborated within the business scope. These methodologies comprise both the technical, as well as the organizational aspect of knowledge, being transferred in organizations.

This minitrack aims to provide insight on the knowledge economics and emphasizes a holistic view on the economic implications of knowledge, including the value and economics of repositories and the overall value of knowledge. Further on, implications of the knowledge society and knowledge based policy are covered within the scope of this minitrack.

Possible contributions regarding the economics of knowledge management and transfer may include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Value and economics of repositories
  • Implications of the knowledge society
  • Policy generation and implementation in the knowledge society
  • Knowledge based theory
  • Knowledge based society
  • Economics of knowledge co-creation and Business Process Management (BPM)
  • Costs associated with knowledge management and knowledge transfer
  • Tangible and intangible (business) value of knowledge management systems
  • Methods for measuring the costs and benefits of projects involving knowledge management systems
  • Measuring, managing and promoting intellectual capital
  • Economics of inner and cross-organizational knowledge transfer
  • Business models involving knowledge management and knowledge transfer
  • The role of human, intellectual and social capital in knowledge management and knowledge transfer
  • Economics of knowledge transfer across developed and emerging economies
  • Value creation through education based knowledge transfer
  • Benefits and costs of considering knowledge in the analysis of business processes
  • Economics of sustainable knowledge management – potentials, barriers and critical success factors
  • Motivations and financial expectations of cross-border knowledge transfer
  • Contribution of knowledge management systems to firm performance and competiveness
  • Economics of talent management
  • Financial effects of the Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) position, knowledge managers, and other knowledge management related resources
  • Financial rewards systems related to knowledge management and knowledge transfer
  • Frameworks, models and theories related to the economics of knowledge management and transfer

Both conceptual and empirical papers with a sound research background are welcomed. All submissions must include a separate contribution section, explaining how the work contributes to a better understanding of knowledge management and economics.

March 13, 2012

Data and Machine Learning at Pycon 2012

Filed under: Conferences,Python — Patrick Durusau @ 8:14 pm

Some data and machine learning talks from PyCon US 2012

Marcel Caraciolo has mined the online videos from PyCon US 2012 to list the following:

  1. Practical Machine Learning with Python
  2. Python for data lovers, explore it, analyze it, map it
  3. Python and HDFS – Fast Storage for Large Data
  4. Restful APIs with TastyPie
  5. Storm: The Hadoop of Realtime Stream Processing
  6. Data, Design and Meaning
  7. Graph Processing with Python
  8. Pandas: powerful data analysis tools for Python
  9. Sage: Open Source Math with Python
  10. High Performance Python 1
  11. High Performance Python 2
  12. Introduction to Interactive Predictive Analytics with Python in scikit-learn
  13. Plotting with matplotlib
  14. Ipython in-depth: high-production interactive and parallel python
  15. Data analysis in Python with pandas
  16. Social network analysis with Python
  17. Bayesian statistics made as simple as possible
  18. IPython: Python at your fingertips

Marcel has embedded all those videos at his post.

Question: Which videos do you think are important for data mining/topic maps? From: PyCon 2012.

Care to share as a comment to this post? Thanks!

March 10, 2012

Lang.Next 2012

Filed under: Conferences,Programming — Patrick Durusau @ 8:20 pm

Lang.Next 2012

April 2-4, 2012 – Redmond, WA

From the post:

Lang.NEXT 2012 is a cross-industry conference for programming language designers and implementers on the MIcrosoft Campus in Redmond, Washington. With three days of talks, panels and discussion on leading programming language work from industry and research, Lang.NEXT is the place to learn, share ideas and engage with fellow programming language design experts and enthusiasts. Native, functional, imperative, object oriented, static, dynamic, managed, interpreted… It’s a programming language geek fest.

Suspects for recruited presentations:

  • Andy Gordon, Microsoft
  • Andy Moran, Galois
  • Donna Malayeri, Microsoft
  • Dustin Campbell, Microsoft
  • Erik Meijer, Microsoft
  • Gilad Bracha, Google
  • Herb Sutter, Microsoft
  • James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington
  • Jeroen Frijters, Sumatra Software
  • John Cook, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
  • Kim Bruce, Pomona College
  • Kunle Olukotun, Stanford
  • Luke Hoban, Microsoft
  • Mads Torgersen, Microsoft
  • Martin Odersky, EPFL, Typesafe
  • Martyn Lovell, Microsoft
  • Peter Alvaro, University of California at Berkeley
  • Robert Griesemer, Google
  • Walter Bright, Digital Mars
  • William Cook, University of Texas at Austin

Tweets, blogs, slides/paper, videos? for those of us unable to attend would be appreciated!

March 7, 2012

NoSQL Matters 2012 – Speakers

Filed under: Conferences,NoSQL — Patrick Durusau @ 5:43 pm

NoSQL Matters 2012 – Speakers

NoSQL Matters – Cologne, Germany – May 29-30, 2012.

Rather than run the risk of playing favorites, I listed all the speakers for the conference. Even only one or two of them would be worth attending the conference. To have all of them together, this is a must attend type conference!

From the webpage:

Key-Note

  • Luca Garulli – From Values to Documents, from Relations to Graphs – A Survey and Guide through the unexhausted areas of NoSQL
  • Doug Judd – Scaling in a Non-Relational World

Overview

  • Dirk Bartels – NoSQL. A Technology for Real Time Enterprise Applications?
  • Pavlo Baron – DistributedDB (Playfully Illustrated)
  • Peter Idestam-Almquist – NewSQL Database for New Real-Time Applications
  • Tim Lossen – From MySQL to NoSQL to „Nothing“
  • Daniel McGrath – Rocket U2 Databases & The MultiValue Model
  • Martin Scholl – NoSQL: Back to the Future or It Is Simply Yet Another Database Feature?

Specific Databases

  • Jonathan Ellis – Apache Cassandra: Real-World Scalability, Today
  • Muharem Hrnjadovic – MongoDB Sharding
  • Doug Judd – Hypertable
  • Jan Lehnardt – The No-Marketing Bullshit Introduction to Couchbase Server 2.0
  • Mathias Meyer – RIAK
  • Salvatore Sanfillipo – Redis
  • Martin Schönert – AvocadoDB

Graph

  • Luca Garulli – Design your Application Using Persistent Graphs and OrientDB
  • Peter Neubauer – Neo4J, Gremlin, Cypher: Graph Processing for All
  • Pere Urbon-Bayes – From Tables to Graph. Recommendation Systems, a Graph Database Use Case Analysis

Application

  • Timo Derstappen – NoSQL: Not Only a Fairy Tale
  • Chris Harris – Building Hybrid Applications with MongoDB, RDBMS & Hadoop
  • Alex Morgner – structr – A CMS Implementation Based On a Graph Database

Other

  • Olaf Bachman – NoNoSQL@Google
  • Matt Casters – Crazy NoSQL Data Integration with Pentaho
  • Vincent Delfosse – UML As a Schema Candidate for NoSql
  • Oliver Gierke – Data Access 2.0? Please Welcome: Spring Data!
  • Alexandre Morgaut – Wakanda: NoSQL for Model-Driven Web Applications
  • Bernd Ocklin – MySQL Cluster: The Realtime Database You Haven’t Heard About

February 24, 2012

Cassandra Europe! Wednesday March 28 – London

Filed under: Cassandra,Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 5:02 pm

Cassandra Europe! Wednesday March 28 – London

From the announcement:

Acunu is proud to announce the first Apache Cassandra Europe Conference in London on March 28. This is a packed one-day event with two tracks – ‘Case Studies’ and ‘Cassandra 101 – Beat the learning curve’. Get your early bird ticket!

Who should attend?

If you’re using Cassandra and looking for better support or performance tips, or if you’re wondering what all the fuss is about and want to learn more, you should attend!

Experts from Acunu will be on hand to share insights and we’ll have a drop-in room where attendees can turn up for help and advice with Cassandra problems.

We’ll be tweeting with hashtag #cassandraeu. For any comments or questions, contact Konrad Kennedy.

Sign up -win an iPad2!

An iPad2 drawing isn’t enough to get me to London but a Cassandra conference could tip the balance. How about you?

February 20, 2012

Understand Neo4j Commercial License Options

Filed under: Conferences,Neo4j — Patrick Durusau @ 8:35 pm

Understand Neo4j Commercial License Options by Andreas Kollegger.

Webinar: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:00 PST // 18:00 GMT

Register

Description:

In this fast-paced 30 minute webinar, Andreas Kollegger walks through the different types of Neo4j open source and commercial licenses. Learn how to decide what type of license, commercial or open source, is right for your situation.

I assume if you intend to make money in some way from your software you already have a lawyer. If you don’t, get one. Then have your lawyer look at the various licenses from Neo4j (or any other software source) and the plans for your software. The take his advice.

Lay discussions of licensing options for software always give me the shakes. IBM, MS and others have troops of lawyers for a reason. It isn’t because they like collecting lawyers. “….Go and do likewise.” Luke 37:10.

February 19, 2012

From Data to Knowledge

Filed under: BigData,Conferences — Patrick Durusau @ 8:40 pm

From Data to Knowledge: Machine-Learning with Real-time and Streaming Applications / May 7-11 2012, University of California, Berkeley.

From the website:

We are experiencing a revolution in the capacity to quickly collect and transport large amounts of data. Not only has this revolution changed the means by which we store and access this data, but has also caused a fundamental transformation in the methods and algorithms that we use to extract knowledge from data. In scientific fields as diverse as climatology, medical science, astrophysics, particle physics, computer vision, and computational finance, massive streaming data sets have sparked innovation in methodologies for knowledge discovery in data streams. Cutting-edge methodology for streaming data has come from a number of diverse directions, from on-line learning, randomized linear algebra and approximate methods, to distributed optimization methodology for cloud computing, to multi-class classification problems in the presence of noisy and spurious data.

This workshop will bring together researchers from applied mathematics and several diverse scientific fields to discuss the current state of the art and open research questions in streaming data and real-time machine learning. The workshop will be domain driven, with talks focusing on well-defined areas of application and describing the techniques and algorithms necessary to address the current and future challenges in the field. Sessions will be accessible to a broad audience.

This looks really good!

Despite the fact that I am unsure that “big data” is as important as our skill at extracting (conferring?) meaning from it. To put it another way, I think careful analysis of a small amount of data is just as likely to be useful as coarse analysis of a large amount of data.

February 17, 2012

FOSDEM Videos

Filed under: Conferences,Open Source — Patrick Durusau @ 5:05 pm

FOSDEM – 2012 – First videos uploaded!

Some of the videos for FOSDEM 2012 have been uploaded with more on the way. So check back or watch for announcements.

I was delighted to find that the video server, http://video.fosdem.org/ has videos going back to 2005!

I don’t know that a FOSDEM video would be a real crowd pleaser at your house but you won’t know unless you ask. 😉

February 15, 2012

International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing

Filed under: Conferences,Information Sharing,Knowledge Management — Patrick Durusau @ 8:32 pm

International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing

Regular Paper Submission: April 17, 2012
Authors Notification (regular papers): June 12, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: July 4, 2012

From the call for papers:

Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline concerned with the analysis and technical support of practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute and enable the adoption and leveraging of good practices embedded in collaborative settings and, in particular, in organizational processes. Effective knowledge management is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage, and a key to the success of contemporary organizations, bolstering the collective expertise of its employees and partners.

Information Sharing (IS) is a term used for a long time in the information technology (IT) lexicon, related to data exchange, communication protocols and technological infrastructures. Although standardization is indeed an essential element for sharing information, IS effectiveness requires going beyond the syntactic nature of IT and delve into the human functions involved in the semantic, pragmatic and social levels of organizational semiotics.

The two areas are intertwined as information sharing is the foundation for knowledge management.

Part of IC3K 2012 – International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management.

Although all three conferences at IC3K 2012 will be of interest to topic mappers, the line:

Although standardization is indeed an essential element for sharing information, IS effectiveness requires going beyond the syntactic nature of IT and delve into the human functions involved in the semantic, pragmatic and social levels of organizational semiotics.

did catch my attention.

I am not sure that I would treat syntactic standardization as a prerequisite for sharing information. If anything, syntactic diversity increases more quickly than semantic diversity, as every project to address the latter starts by claiming a need to address the former.

Let’s start with extant syntaxes, whether COBOL, relational tables, topic maps, RDF, etc., and specify semantics that we wish to map between them. To see if there is any ROI. If not, stop there and select other data sets. If yes, then specify only so much in the way of syntax/semantics as results in ROI.

Don’t have to plan on integrating all the data from all federal agencies. Just don’t do anything inconsistent with that as a long term goal. Like failing to document why you arrived at particular mappings. (You will forget by tomorrow or the next day.)

International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development

Filed under: Conferences,Knowledge Management,Ontology — Patrick Durusau @ 8:32 pm

International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development

Regular Paper Submission: April 17, 2012
Authors Notification (regular papers): June 12, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: July 4, 2012

From the call for papers:

Knowledge Engineering (KE) refers to all technical, scientific and social as-pects involved in building, maintaining and using knowledge-based systems. KE is a multidisciplinary field, bringing in concepts and methods from several computer science domains such as artificial intelligence, databases, expert systems, decision support systems and geographic information systems.

Ontology Development (OD) aims at building reusable semantic structures that can be informal vocabularies, catalogs, glossaries as well as more complex finite formal structures representing the entities within a domain and the relationships between those entities. Ontologies, have been gaining interest and acceptance in computational audiences: formal ontologies are a form of software, thus software development methodologies can be adapted to serve ontology development. A wide range of applications is emerging, especially given the current web emphasis, including library science, ontology-enhanced search, e-commerce and business process design.

Part of IC3K 2012 – International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management.

KDIR 2012 : International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information

Filed under: Conferences,Information Retrieval,Knowledge Discovery — Patrick Durusau @ 8:31 pm

KDIR 2012 : International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information

Regular Paper Submission: April 17, 2012
Authors Notification (regular papers): June 12, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: July 4, 2012

From the call for papers:

Knowledge Discovery is an interdisciplinary area focusing upon methodologies for identifying valid, novel, potentially useful and meaningful patterns from data, often based on underlying large data sets. A major aspect of Knowledge Discovery is data mining, i.e. applying data analysis and discovery algorithms that produce a particular enumeration of patterns (or models) over the data. Knowledge Discovery also includes the evaluation of patterns and identification of which add to knowledge. This has proven to be a promising approach for enhancing the intelligence of software systems and services. The ongoing rapid growth of online data due to the Internet and the widespread use of large databases have created an important need for knowledge discovery methodologies. The challenge of extracting knowledge from data draws upon research in a large number of disciplines including statistics, databases, pattern recognition, machine learning, data visualization, optimization, and high-performance computing, to deliver advanced business intelligence and web discovery solutions.

Information retrieval (IR) is concerned with gathering relevant information from unstructured and semantically fuzzy data in texts and other media, searching for information within documents and for metadata about documents, as well as searching relational databases and the Web. Automation of information retrieval enables the reduction of what has been called “information overload”.

Information retrieval can be combined with knowledge discovery to create software tools that empower users of decision support systems to better understand and use the knowledge underlying large data sets.

Part of IC3K 2012 – International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management.

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