From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Mon Jun 2 09:58:55 2008 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (CHBEIR Richard) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:58:55 +0200 Subject: [Sigmed-l] CSTST 2008 : Deadline submission on June 15th 2008 Message-ID: <1212415135.4843fc9fbc62b@webmail.u-bourgogne.fr> **************************************************************************************************************** The Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST'08) October 27-31, 2008 Cergy-Pontoise/Paris, FRANCE Hosted by the "University of Cergy Pontoise" http://sigappfr.acm.org/cstst08/ **************************************************************************************************************** Sponsorships: IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (Technically Co-sponsored) IEEE France (Technically Co-sponsored) ACM SIGAPP.fr (In Cooperation with) European Neural Network Society (ENNS) European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) 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 CSTST'08 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrates current research in all areas of soft computing, as well as proposals for workshops, industrial presentations, demonstrations, and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. This edition is dedicated to commemorate the memory of Prof. Yasuhiko Dote, Founding Chair of WSTST series of meetings. 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://sigappfr.acm.org/cstst08/). 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. The conference Proceedings will be indexed by ACM Digital Libraries and published with an ISBN. Awards ******* - To commemorate the memory of Prof. Yasuhiko Dote, the Founder and General Chair of the WSTST series of meetings, the Board Chairs of CSTST 2008 are honoured to establish the Professor Yasuhiko Dote Award for the distinguished best paper. Information about the winner will be posted on the conference web site. This Award will include a commemorative plate and a waiver of the registration fees for the following CSTST edition. - "Best student paper" will be awarded of 400 euros. Important Dates ********************** Full Paper Submissions: June 15, 2008 Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 15, 2008 Camera Ready Papers Due: September 17, 2008 Author Registration: September 17, 2008 Conference Dates: October 27-31, 2008 Journal Publication ********************** Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals (to be completed). 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 Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France International Co-Chairs ********************** Sepo Ovaska, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Yukinori Suzuki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London, UK Workshops Co-Chairs ********************** Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan Yinghua Ma, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China 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 ********************** Jean Luc Bourdon, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France 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 Programme Committee ************************************ (Full list is provided on the conference web site) #################################################### # 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 K.Albright at sheffield.ac.uk Fri Jun 6 18:12:44 2008 From: K.Albright at sheffield.ac.uk (Kendra Albright) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:12:44 +0100 Subject: [Sigmed-l] University of Sheffield - Health Informatics Programme Message-ID: <1212790364.4849b65c1eaf9@webmail.shef.ac.uk> The Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield is pleased to announce a new part-time Master?s degree programme in Health Informatics. Delivered via distance learning technology, the Health Informatics International Programme is global in scope and brings together students from around the world to provide the knowledge and skills that will help them to maximise the use of information and ICTs in their health care sector. It equips students with generic tools to enable them to respond to future developments in health care and in information technology while grounding these in the "real world" of current initiatives in information policy, technology and management. Health Informatics is a rapidly developing field that is increasingly viewed as a key driver in modernising health services and in ensuring that patients receive the best possible care. The delivery and use of information within healthcare is particularly important as technology changes so rapidly, for example, the development of electronic patient records, the advent of online communities, the development of new imaging techniques, etc. ICTs present an exciting opportunity to improve how information is collected, stored, retrieved, analysed and shared in health care. ICTs also facilitate communication between different people involved in the processes of health care, i.e., patients, health care professionals, managers and planners of health services. Students undertake the programme over three years. During the first two years students study taught modules via distance-learning and in the final year students undertake their research dissertation. Using state-of-the-art software to ensure a high standard of education, classes will be taught in real-time, face-to-face instruction with ongoing communication with tutors and colleagues. There is a virtual common room, so you can share ideas and experiences 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The deadline for applications is early August prior to the start of the programme at the end of September. For more information or to apply, please visit our website at http://www.shef.ac.uk/is/prospectivepg/courses/health/inter.html or contact: The Graduate Admissions Secretary Department of Information Studies University of Sheffield Regent Court 211 Portobello Street Sheffield S1 4DP UK T: +44 (0)114 222 2660 F: +44 (0)114 278 0300 E: dis at sheffield.ac.uk www.sheffield.ac.uk/is From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Sat Jun 14 14:51:46 2008 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (CHBEIR Richard) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:51:46 +0200 Subject: [Sigmed-l] IEEE/ACM CSTST'08: Extended Deadline Message-ID: <1213469506.48541342f23d2@webmail.u-bourgogne.fr> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] In response to several requests, we are pleased to announce that the paper submission deadline has been extended until July 06, 2008. **************************************************************************************************************** The Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST'08) October 27-31, 2008 Cergy-Pontoise/Paris, FRANCE Hosted by the "University of Cergy Pontoise" http://sigappfr.acm.org/cstst08/ Sponsorships: IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (Technically Co-sponsored) IEEE France (Technically Co-sponsored) ACM SIGAPP.fr (In Cooperation with) European Neural Network Society (ENNS) European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) 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. This edition is dedicated to commemorate the memory of Prof. Yasuhiko Dote, Founding Chair of WSTST series of meetings. 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://sigappfr.acm.org/cstst08/). 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. The conference Proceedings will be indexed by ACM Digital Libraries and published with an ISBN. Awards ******* - To commemorate the memory of Prof. Yasuhiko Dote, the Founder and General Chair of the WSTST series of meetings, the Board Chairs of CSTST 2008 are honoured to establish the Professor Yasuhiko Dote Award for the distinguished best paper. Information about the winner will be posted on the conference web site. This Award will include a commemorative plate and a waiver of the registration fees for the following CSTST edition. - "Best student paper" will be awarded of 400 euros. Important Dates ********************** Full Paper Submissions: July 06, 2008 (extended) Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 15, 2008 Camera Ready Papers Due: September 17, 2008 Author Registration: September 17, 2008 Conference Dates: October 27-31, 2008 Journal Publication ********************** Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals (to be completed). 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 Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France International Co-Chairs ********************** Sepo Ovaska, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Yukinori Suzuki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London, UK Workshops Co-Chairs ********************** Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan Yinghua Ma, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China 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 ********************** Jean Luc Bourdon, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France 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 ************************************ (Full list is provided on the conference web site) #################################################### # 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 drevere at u.washington.edu Sun Jun 29 12:25:49 2008 From: drevere at u.washington.edu (Debra Revere) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Sigmed-l] Announcement: PHI2008 Conference September 18-19, 2008 in Seattle, WA Message-ID: **APOLOGIES FOR DUPLICATE ANNOUNCEMENTS** Public Health Informatics 2008 (PHI2008) - "Envisioning Options for Integrated Public Health Information Systems for Low-Resource Settings: Components, Connections, Partners, Strategies" PHI2008 will be held September 18-19, 2008 in Seattle, WA. This meeting builds on the success of the 1st international PHI conference in September last year at which participants agreed to move forward with organizing the Global Partners in Public Health Informatics -- a partnership of individuals, organizations and research centers dedicated to defining and developing a framework for addressing strategic public health information issues and requirements to drive successful global population health interventions. Through plenary sessions, panel and break-out discussions, and poster sessions PHI2008 will cover a wide scope of global public health informatics topics and will showcase state-of-the-art public health informatics research, development, and applications, with an emphasis on sustainable development strategies and sharing information technologies, data and knowledge. PHI2008 invitees and speakers, drawn from a variety of global health settings, organizations, and institutions, will cover topics such as: * E-health records for improved public health practice * Situational awareness and surveillance * Scalable information and communications technology approaches for improving population health * Decision support and knowledge management * Information policy and human capacity building PHI2008 is open to practitioners, academics, scientists, managers, students, and decision makers from the various disciplines, industries, governmental institutions, international and intergovernmental organizations, agencies and networks that are concerned with improving the public's health on the local, national and global levels through the application of information and communications technologies. More details can be found in the attached flyer. For more information on the program and to register: www.gpphi.org/conferences Early registration is encouraged as there is limited attendance capacity. We look forward to seeing you in Seattle in September 2008! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PHI2008_Handout.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 538328 bytes Desc: URL: From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Sun Jun 29 17:15:58 2008 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (CHBEIR Richard) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:15:58 +0200 Subject: [Sigmed-l] IEEE/ACM CSTST'08: Few days left before Submission Deadline on July 06, 2008 Message-ID: <1214774158.4867fb8ea6b80@webmail.u-bourgogne.fr> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] **************************************************************************************************************** The Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST'08) October 27-31, 2008 Cergy-Pontoise/Paris, FRANCE Hosted by the "University of Cergy Pontoise" http://sigappfr.acm.org/cstst08/ Sponsorships: IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (Technically Co-sponsored) IEEE France (Technically Co-sponsored) ACM SIGAPP.fr (In Cooperation with) European Neural Network Society (ENNS) European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) 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. This edition is dedicated to commemorate the memory of Prof. Yasuhiko Dote, Founding Chair of WSTST series of meetings. 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://sigappfr.acm.org/cstst08/). 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. The conference Proceedings will be indexed by ACM Digital Libraries and published with an ISBN. Awards ******* - To commemorate the memory of Prof. Yasuhiko Dote, the Founder and General Chair of the WSTST series of meetings, the Board Chairs of CSTST 2008 are honoured to establish the Professor Yasuhiko Dote Award for the distinguished best paper. Information about the winner will be posted on the conference web site. This Award will include a commemorative plate and a waiver of the registration fees for the following CSTST edition. - "Best student paper" will be awarded of 400 euros. Important Dates ********************** Full Paper Submissions: July 06, 2008 (extended) Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 15, 2008 Camera Ready Papers Due: September 17, 2008 Author Registration: September 17, 2008 Conference Dates: October 27-31, 2008 Journal Publication ********************** Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals (to be completed). 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 Dominique Laurent, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France International Co-Chairs ********************** Sepo Ovaska, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Yukinori Suzuki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London, UK Workshops Co-Chairs ********************** Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shizuoka University, Japan Yinghua Ma, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China 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 ********************** Jean Luc Bourdon, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France 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 ************************************ (Full list is provided on the conference web site)