From Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Wed Apr 1 04:59:44 2009 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (CHBEIR Richard) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:59:44 +0200 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Postdoctoral position on Web-based and XML information retrieval Message-ID: <1238576384.49d32d002dec0@webmail.u-bourgogne.fr> Sorry for cross-postings ########################### Call For PostDoc Position ########################## The Information and Image Based System Management research group at the Laboratoire LE2I-CNRS (http://www.le2i.com) is seeking excellent post doctoral candidates with strong background in Web-based Technologies and/or distributed information systems for a one year appointment starting by October 2009. The prospective candidates must: ===================================================== * have a PhD (5 years or less) in Computer Science or equivalent degree. * not have the French citizenship and have never worked in France * have knowledge in the theoretical aspects of one or more of the following: - Web and XML databases - information retrieval and indexing * have well-developed social skills directed to work in a team; * have a good command of English (some knowledge of French is desirable, but not required) The position offers: ==================== * a full time (non renewable) appointment for a period of 12 months, starting by October 2009 * about 2000 euros net monthly salary * health and social security package (married candidate must seek extra heath coverage for family members) * attractive and good working environments Application details: =================== please apply as soon as possible. A first selection of candidates will be carried out on June 08th. * Please send: - a CV (including publication record) - a brief research description presenting your Phd and related research interests (1-2 page(s)) - your two best publications * The application must be sent by email to: Dr Kokou Yetongnon (kokou at u-bourgogne.fr) Dr Richard Chbeir (richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr) -- #################################################### # 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 Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Thu Apr 9 16:48:22 2009 From: Richard.Chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (CHBEIR Richard) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 22:48:22 +0200 Subject: [Sigmed-l] SITIS'09: Call For Papers Message-ID: <1239310102.49de5f16cd95e@webmail.u-bourgogne.fr> ################################################################################################# The 5th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems (SITIS'09) November 29 - December 3, 2009 Farah Kenzi Hotel Marrakech, Morocco http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/SITIS In cooperation with ACM SigApp.fr, IFIP TC 2 WG 2.13, IEEE (pending) ################################################################################################# The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi-structured data found in the web. SITIS spans two inter-related research domains that increasingly play a key role in connecting systems across network centric environments to allow distributed computing and information sharing. SITIS 2009 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on research activities centered on the following tracks: * The focus of the track "Information Management & Retrieval Technologies" (IMRT) is on the emerging modeling, representation and retrieval techniques that take into account the amount, type and diversity of information accessible in distributed computing environment. The main topics include data semantics and ontologies, semi-structure data management, spatial information systems, multimedia databases, multimedia networking and qos, information retrieval and search engine, information security, schema mapping and evolution, data warehousing, social network, and applications. * The track "Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems" (WITDS) is devoted to emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for creating an interconnected world in which information can be exchanged easily, tasks can be processed collaboratively, and communities of users with similarly interests can be formed while addressing security threats that are present more than ever before. The main topics include information system interoperability, emergent semantics, agent-based systems, distributed and parallel information management, grid, P2P, web-centric systems, web security and integrity issues. * The track "Open Source Software Development and Solution" (OSSDS) focuses on new software engineering method in distributed and large scaled environments, strategies for promoting, adopting, and using Open Source Solutions and case studies or success stories in specific domains. The main topics include software engineering methods, users and communities' interactions, software development platforms, open source developments and project management, applications domain, case studies. In addition to the above tracks, SITIS 2009 includes workshops. The final list of workshop will be provided later. Submission and publication -------------------------- The conference will include keynote addresses, tutorials, and regular and workshop sessions. SITIS 2009 invites submission of high quality and original papers on the topics of the major tracks described below. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers for technical merit, originality, significance and relevance to track topics. Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double columns publication format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE explore and major indexes. Important dates ---------------- * Paper Submission: June 30th, 2009 * Acceptance/Reject notification: August 15th, 2009 * Camera ready / Author registration: September 1st, 2009 Local organizing committee (Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco) ------------------------------------------------------------ * Aziz Elfaazzikii (Chair) * El Hassan Abdelwahed * Jahir Zahi * Mohamed El Adnani * Mohamed Sadgal * Souad Chraibi * Said El Bachari More details about each track and detailed topics can be found on the conference website: http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/SITIS -- #################################################### # 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 rhill at asis.org Fri Apr 24 08:42:03 2009 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:42:03 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] FW: National Health-Care Summit Backgrounder Message-ID: <0FAF022FF95C490D8267DBC336CBAF28@asist.local> Is anyone interested in representing ASIST at this meeting? We have been invited to send ONE representative. Dick Hill ----- Health-Care Reform, or Health-Care Transformation? Interoperability Summit: Establishing the Infrastructure for Health Assurance & Disease Prevention The National Academy of Sciences June 1 & 2, 2009 [This event is by invitation only] Summit purpose In the last few decades, the visions and promises born from the Information age have brought incredible changes in our lives. As with all changes, there are both, good and bad. Even when the changes, if adopted will have been good, we have many times shunned it, on account of the general comfort surrounding that which we have come to know, against that which is proposed and the unfamiliar, on account of fear. We are restrained equally from realizing the full potential that change is able to gift to us, simply because the left hand is often unaware of what the right hand is doing. In either case, the end-result is the same, where we do not receive the potential benefit, from the change that can either be adopted or implemented. Scientific breakthroughs and advances by mankind have often made apparent ways to improve the quality of our lives, while lowering the costs of health care in the areas of health assurance and disease prevention. ??Not only are we now able to learn and connect discoveries faster, but do so more efficiently and effectively.? At times, our fears have restricted us from incorporating valuable and timely information against a challenge area. ?Consider that there are communities of interests at both, governmental and non-governmental levels, whose activities produce immensely valuable information that can be helpful to Health-Care transformation; whose mission areas can contribute significantly to enhancing U.S. Health-Care system quality and effectiveness.? The core mission areas of these entities may not centrally be directed at driving, or assisting the U.S. Health-Care enterprise and/or practices improve. Yet, they can certainly help. ??In not being connected to the bigger picture, and in perhaps not understanding the relevance of that which on the surface appears to be insignificant information to the whole ? we may have simply ignored valuable information.? Consequentially, we may have failed to act either individually, and/or collectively upon relevant information, and may have also failed to synergize with others that have the insight and expertise, to abridge both the knowledge and human connectivity gaps. >From our professional areas of expertise, each of us can contribute quite significantly to the transformation of the whole.? These valuable links are what we aim to surface and interlink at the Summit.? ?In fact, it is the intention that the proposed summit can, and will solidly propose avenues and means for significant improvement in the American Health-Care enterprise by leveraging the professional expertise and knowledge resident in many of America?s finest scientific organizations. The main purpose of this meeting therefore, is to place forward a set of vital scientific policy recommendations to the President of the United States, and his administration, on just how the United States health care delivery system could / should be transformed rather than merely reformed. Fact remains that multiple administrations, and multiple decade long proposed reforms in the US Health-Care enterprise have failed. We should not be making the same mistakes again. Furthermore, the American Scientific communities have never had a collective and measurable hand in contributing to, improving upon, the American Health-Care enterprise. While the Summit is being spear headed by the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the aim is to invite highly relevant professional scientific organizations that have the wellspring of knowledge and experience, within a multidisciplinary and an interdisciplinary discussion framework relating to U.S. Health-Care transformation, in order to generate forward recommendations to the President. VISION: The Transformation of the American Health Care System from mainly a diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic approach, to one that fosters wellness, and incorporates information and practices which seeks to advance disease prevention, and the arrest of disease manifestation in populations.? Future state of American Health-Care must be able to comprehensively provide Americans with highly competent, advanced, and affordable health care, aided by a highly inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary scientific infrastructure, methods and means, which at the heart will protect, and purvey timely information to enable the implementation of the most effective and efficient medical practices for the patient?s benefit.? This vision acknowledges and asserts that the scientific community has a very large role, and a responsibility toward creating the fertile environment, the conditions, the means and the practices, which can bring about much needed Health-Care transformations. Goal 1: Organize a Scientific Community discussion related to Health Care that will focus on Transformation rather than mere Reform of the Health Care system. Goal 2: Create a holistic view of health by convening all the US Agencies and Departments who own health related information but are not part of the delivery system today (i.e., EPA, USGS, USDA, DOE, Commerce, NOAA, NASA, State, DHS, NSF, etc.) to better understand their independent and unified roles?with the?U.S. Public Health System (NIH, CDC, AHRQ,?FDA, CMS, HRSA, Indian Health Service,?DOD, VA, etc). Goal 3: Convene Professional Societies that have science, technology, and/or engineering expertise which can be of utility to Health-Care transformation;?to unearth cross-pollinating - co-operative and co-opetitive opportunities. Goal 4: Discuss and understand potential societal benefits such as technological, practitional, cost, and quality of life benefits, to be leveraged from inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary activities in the scientific community. Goal 5: Discuss the potential to substantially demonstrate through R&D and operational means ? the emergence of material, technological and practitional innovations, capable of connecting emerging technologies, cutting-edge engineering services and practices to pressing Health-Care area needs such as, cost containment, dramatically enhancing patient quality of life, process and procedural efficiencies and effectiveness, and the need for agile Health-Care structures. Goal 6:? Discuss the prospective establishment of a 'Management and Measurement' mechanism, which aim to tightly integrate functionaries, processes, and technologies to better benefit U.S. Public Health-Care enterprise;? which aim to incorporate emerging concepts,?while stimulating and facilitating the multiplied use of open-source and/or publicly developed technologies, for the purposes of meeting current and emerging public health needs. Goal 7: Produce a Report with Specific actionable recommendations to the President of the United States and his Administration. Conference Chair: Dr. Luis Kun, IRMC / National Defense University Conference Advisory Committee: Society Presidents or Chairs ? to be announced Scientific and Technical Advisory Board: to be announced This meeting is sponsored by the: American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and technically co-sponsored by the: ? International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) & the IFMBE Global Citizen Safety and Security Committee; ? American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) & the AAES Emerging Issues Committee; ? IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS); ? IEEE Society for Social Implications of Technology (SSIT); ? IEEE- Communications Society - eHealth Subcommittee (COMSOC); ? IEEE Reliability Society; ? IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (EOS); ? International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics (ICMCC) ? IEEE USA Medical Technology Policy Committee (MTPC) ? IEEE Committee on Earth Observation (ICEO); ? International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM) ? IEEE Computer Society (CS); ? IEEE Geographical Remote Sensing Society (GRSS); ? American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); ? American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); ? National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE); ? American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME); ? American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE); ? American Nuclear Society (ANS); ? Society of Women Engineers (SWE); ? American Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) _____ Richard B. Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD? 20910 Fax: (301) 495-0810 Voice: (301) 495-0900 ________________________________________ From: Robert Mathews (OSIA) [mailto:mathews at hawaii.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 1:48 PM To: Mr. Richard Hill, Executive Director - ASIS&T Subject: National Health-Care Summit Backgrounder Dear Mr. Hill: It was a pleasure to have been able to speak with you this morning.? Please find enclosed for your consideration, a backgrounder relating to the national health-care transformation summit, to be held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., on 1 & 2 June.? I apologize much, for the time compressed consideration that is being requested of the ASIS leadership. As I had mentioned, this is much beyond our control.? We look forward to hearing from you on the prospect of ASIS participation at this very important meeting.?? As an FYI, I will inform my colleague, and general chair to the summit, Dr. Luis Kun of the National Defense University that we have had a chance to connect.? I shall request that he ring ASIS, to say hello.? Lastly, I am also only too happy to receive your comments on the backgrounder, such that we can improve upon it, and the discussions to follow in June... Sincerely, Robert Mathews. -- ************************************************ * Robert Mathews, D.Phil. * Distinguished Senior Research Scholar * National Security Affairs & U.S Industrial Preparedness * Office of Scientific Inquiry and Applications * Center for Strategic Advancement of Telematics & Informatics * University of Hawai'i * Telephone: 315.853.7853 (NY) / 703.655.7124 (VA/WDC) * Telecopier: 808.933.3473 (HI) / 315.859.1998 (NY) * E.mail: mathews at hawaii dot edu