From rhill at asis.org Fri Dec 14 08:26:41 2007 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:26:41 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] CFP ASIS&T AM 08 Message-ID: <410-2200712514132641770@RHILL-IBM> People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People October 24-29, 2008 Hyatt Regency, Columbus, OH Complete Call: HTTP://WWW.ASIS.ORG/Conferences/am08/AM08cfp.HTML ASIS&T 2008 will focus on how people transform information as well as how information transforms people. Submissions by researchers and practitioners are solicited on a wide range of human-centered approaches to topics. TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS Contributed papers http://www.softconf.com/asis/AM08_Contributed_Papers/submit.html The submission of original, recent, formally conducted research and projects, theoretical developments, or innovative practical applications is encouraged. Accepted papers will be published in the digital conference proceedings. Contributed posters/short papers http://www.softconf.com/asis/AM08_Posters/submit.html Two types of posters/short papers are encouraged. Contributed research posters present new and promising work or preliminary results of research projects. Contributed ?best practices? posters present the results of design projects, practical implementations or industry innovations. The final version of these short papers will be published in the digital conference proceedings. During the conference, presenters are expected to display their work as a poster, incorporating text and illustrations as appropriate. Technical sessions and panels http://www.softconf.com/asis/AM08-Panels/submit.html Technical sessions and panels present topics for discussion such as cutting-edge research and design, analyses of emerging trends, opinions on controversial issues, reports by practitioners on current information science and technology projects, and contrasting viewpoints from experts in complementary professional areas. The final versions of these submissions will be published in the digital conference proceedings. Pre- and Post-conference sessions http://www.softconf.com/asis/AM08_Pre-Post_Cons/submit.html Pre- and Post-conference sessions present topics such as theoretical research, management strategies, and new and innovative systems or products, typically for purposes of concept development or continuing education. Purely promotional programs are excluded. Formats may include seminars, courses, workshops, and symposia. Sessions are scheduled for half to a full day and require a registration fee beyond the regular conference fee. Submission Deadlines Jan.21, 2008 Proposals due for contributed papers, technical sessions panels, and pre- or Post-conferences Feb. 25, 2008 Proposals due for contributed posters/short papers March 31, 2008 Authors/proposers notified of acceptance May 27, 2008 Final versions due for conference proceedings Any problems with electronic submissions should be directed to: Richard Hill (rhill at asis.org) _____ Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From jandrews at cas.usf.edu Thu Dec 20 09:37:02 2007 From: jandrews at cas.usf.edu (Andrews, James) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:37:02 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] ASIS&T Chapter & SIG wiki References: Message-ID: <7DCB81B2D76D0C448915FB5CDE6AB4F50B1FA0@MAILBOX2.cas.usf.edu> Hi all, I was curious if any of our members has some particular interest or expertise in wikis and might be interested in looking at the below in more detail. maybe someone might help us get a presence there. thanks, and happy holidays, jim andrews > ///////// > > Dear SIG and Chapter Leaders, > > As was mentioned at Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, we have created a wiki > for SIGs and Chapters (http://www.asis.org/wiki/chapters-sigs/ ) because: > * It will give each chapter and SIG a space to have their own > wiki pages without having to create and maintain their own wiki > software. > * It will allow chapters and SIGs to easily collaborate on > projects with other groups, including planning panels for Annual Meeting > or regional events. > * It might be a good place to hold the Annual Reports (all > members of a chapter can work on the report in one place and then > chapters and SIGs can learn from each other and get new ideas or ask > for help from another chapter). Although I know we are working on > streamlining that process. > * It will allow us to update general reference documents quickly > as we develop new procedures or ideas to make things run more smoothly. > > We encourage you to explore the wiki and create as many additional > pages as you like to help you facilitate the activities of your > Chapter or SIG and learn from the activities of others. > > There is a Wiki FAQ linked from the home page > (http://www.asis.org/wiki/chapters-sigs/index.php/ASIST_Chapters-SIGs_Wi > ki_FAQ) that will introduce you to the wiki and how to use it. There are > also extra links at the bottom and top of the home page to help > you. > > If you are looking for examples of use, the New England chapter has > posted their Annual Report, the International Information Issues SIG > is using it for planning their InfoShare procedures, and we've created > a page for the Annual Reports and Awards Submission > Project/Conversation that we started at the Chapter Leaders Breakfast > at Annual Meeting (under Chapters > Reference and All Chapters Area). > Amy Wallace sent an email about it a while ago and we've posted > that email on the page and you can just "edit" the page to add your > comments about the various points (Caryn already started in the "how > should we share this information" section). > > Please let us know if you have any questions about, comments on, > problems with or ideas for the wiki. It's for you, so if something > would make it better for you, we can make it so (probably). > > All our best for the holiday season, > > Caryn Anderson, Membership Chair > Beata Panagopolous, Chapter Assembly Director > Amy Wallace, Deputy Chapter Assembly Director > KT Vaughan, SIG Cabinet Director > Shelley Warwick, Deputy SIG Cabinet Director > > > Caryn Anderson > Doctoral Studies Program Manager > GSLIS, Simmons College > 300 The Fenway, P-310H > Boston, MA 02115 > caryn.anderson at simmons.edu > 617.521.2829 > http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/doctoral/ > _______________________________________________ > Sig-l mailing list > Sig-l at asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sig-l > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From snhaque at syr.edu Thu Dec 20 11:39:32 2007 From: snhaque at syr.edu (Saira Haque) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:39:32 -0600 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Post-doc - history of public health Message-ID: <82a0475e0712200839u60b3e8feu7d33a5fc6a06bba4@mail.gmail.com> FYI - you or someone you know might be interested. Happy New Year! Saira >The Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins >University is seeking a three-year postdoctoral fellow to work on a >history of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from >World War II to the present. It is expected that at the end of the >three years, the fellow, in collaboration with Institute faculty, >will have completed a draft of a publishable history of the school. >Candidates must have a PhD in history or related discipline and have >a record of relevant scholarly publications. Research experience in >the history of 20th-century public health and medicine is preferred. >The fellowship carries with it a starting salary of $42,000, health >benefits, and a $10,000 research fund. (The fellowship is subject to >funding by the School of Public Health.) Prospective fellows should >send a letter of interest, c.v., a writing sample, and three letters >of recommendation to: Dr. Harry M Marks, Institute of the History >of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, >1900 East Monument St. Baltimore, MD. 21205. Review of applications >will begin February 1, 2008. Starting date will be July 1, 2008. >Johns Hopkins University is an AA/EOE and actively encourages >applications from minority and women scholars. > > >Harry M. Marks >Institute of the History of Medicine >The Johns Hopkins University >1900 E. Monument Street >Baltimore, MD 21205 >410 955 4899 > >-- -- Saira N. 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URL: From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Wed Dec 26 16:48:00 2007 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (CHBEIR Richard) Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:48:00 +0100 Subject: [Sigmed-l] IEEE CSTST'08: Call for Papers Message-ID: <1198705680.4772cc103a10e@webmail.u-bourgogne.fr> The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST'08) ----- To commemorate the memory of Prof. Yasuhiko Dote, Japan (Founding Chair of WSTST series of meetings) ----- Technically Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (pending approval) and in Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP.fr (pending approval) October 26-30, 2008 Cergy-Pointoise, FRANCE Hosted by the "University of Cergy Pontoise" Description ----------- The International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST'08) brings together international soft computational intelligence researchers, developers, practitioners, and users. The aim of CSTST (previously called WSTST) is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. CSTST'08 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrates current research in all areas of soft computing, as well as proposals for workshops, industrial presentations, demonstrations, and tutorials. Topics ------- We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere. The papers can be theoretical, practical and application oriented on the following themes (but not limited to): * Information and Data Management * Intelligent Hybrid Systems * Fusion of Soft and Hard Computing * Data and Web Mining * Decision Support Systems * Natural Language Processing * Intelligent Agent-based Systems, Cognitive and Reactive Distributed AI Systems * Internet Modeling * Multimedia Information Systems * Information Retrieval * Human-Computer Interface * XML-based Languages * Security and Access Control * Information Content Security * Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management * Applications o E-Learning, eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment o Image and speech signal processing, prediction, and control o Robotics o Biology and medicine o Business and management o Artificial societies o Chemicals, pharmaceuticals and materials o Environment engineering Paper Submission ----------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF files and should be uploaded using the conference website (http://cstst.insa-lyon.fr). Full paper submissions should be in ACM format with a limit of 6 pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 independent reviewers of the PC. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. Workshop/tutorial Submission ----------------------------- A workshop/tutorial proposal must be about 2--5 pages long and contain the following information: * Title; * Summary; * Topics; * Format and duration; * Organizers (attach short CVs, limit of 2 pages each); * Proposed program committee (workshops only); * Expected submission and acceptance rate (workshops only); * Type (academic and/or industrial) and number of expected participants; * Significance in relation to topics of the main conference and details of any previous workshops. Proceedings of all CSTST'08 workshops are to be published as a single volume to be distributed at the conference. All the workshop papers should be limited to 6 pages in ACM format. Workshop/tutorial proposals are reviewed based on the quality of the proposal, its relation to the main conference topics, and the likelihood to attract enough participants. Proposals must be sent by email to rchbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Important Dates --------------- Full Paper Submissions: June 15, 2008 Proposals for Workshops and Tutorials: April 30, 2008 Notification of Workshop & Tutorial Acceptance: May 15, 2008 Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 15, 2008 Camera Ready Papers Due: September 17, 2008 Author Registration: September 17, 2008 Conference Dates: October 26-30, 2008 Journal Publication ------------------- Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals. 1. Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS) (ISSN 1554-1010) 2. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (ISSN 0973-1873) Committees ----------- Honorary Chair -------------- Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, U.S.A General Co-Chairs ----------------- Youakim Badr, INSA-Lyon, France Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Yukio Ohsawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Bourgogne, France Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan International Co-Chairs ----------------------- Sepo Ovaska, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Yukinori Suzuki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Frederic Andres, NII, Japan International Advisory Board ---------------------------- James Keller, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Cihan H. Dagli, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Hidenori Kimura, University of Tokyo, Japan Fumio Harashima, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland Takeshi Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan Azuma Ohuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan Toru Yamaguchi, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan Kensuke Kawai, Toshiba Co., Japan Local Arrangement Co-Chairs ---------------------------- Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Jean Luc Bourdon, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Local Arrangement Secretary ---------------------------- Virginie Sans, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Local Arrangement committee ---------------------------- Sonia Katchadourian, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Cl?mence Driol, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France International Program Committee --------------------------------- to be announced --eof-- #################################################### # Richard CHBEIR, Ph.D. in Computer Science # # Associate Professor # # Laboratoire LE2I (UMR - CNRS) # # Bourgogne University # # Aile de l'Ing?nieur # # Office GS 16 # # BP 47870 # # 21078 Dijon CEDEX France # # Tel.: +333 80 39 36 55 # # Fax: +333 80 39 68 69 # # Email: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr # # Web: http://www.le2I.com # #################################################### From elworthi at MIT.EDU Fri Dec 28 14:43:16 2007 From: elworthi at MIT.EDU (Louisa Worthington Rogers) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:43:16 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] invitation to join new mailing list: ESI (Engineering and Science Informatics) Message-ID: <004501c84989$e5a80480$e0013312@mitlibraries.ms.mit.edu> The following message is being cross-posted. Please excuse the duplication: ------------------------------------------- This message announces a new ESI (Engineering and Science Informatics) email list, esi at mit.edu. This list is meant to provide a place for discussion of engineering and science data management issues for anyone, including librarians and scientific data managers working with the burgeoning mass of digital data coming out of the engineering and science research communities. This includes, but is not limited to, preliminary audits, pilot projects, planning for data management, the creation of standards and workflows, use of new and old technologies, the social aspects of data sharing, and moving data into a system in which it can be preserved and reused. To subscribe to the list, send a message to esi-request at mit.edu with "subscribe" (no quotes) in the body of the message. Leave the subject line blank. 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