ICSC 2011
Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic ComputingSeptember 19-21, 2011
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
September 19-21, 2011
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
http://www.ieee-icsc.org/
ICSC2011 Online Space
Semantic Computing addresses technologies that facilitate the derivation of semantics from content and connecting semantics into knowledge, where “content” may be anything such as video, audio, text, conversation, process, program, device, behavior, etc.
The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2011) continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying emerging research topics and defining the future of the field. The event is located in Palo Alto, CA on the campus of Stanford University. The technical program of ICSC2011 includes workshops, invited keynotes, paper presentations, panel discussions, industrial “show and tells”, demonstrations, and more. Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited.
The main goal of the conference is to foster the dialog between experts in each sub-discipline. Therefore we especially encourage submissions of work that is interesting to multiple areas, such as multimodal approaches.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Semantics based Analysis
Semantic Integration
Applications using Semantics
Semantic Interfaces
CFP can be found here.
September 19-21, 2011
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
http://www.ieee-icsc.org/
ICSC2011 Online Space
Semantic Computing addresses technologies that facilitate the derivation of semantics from content and connecting semantics into knowledge, where “content” may be anything such as video, audio, text, conversation, process, program, device, behavior, etc.
The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2011) continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying emerging research topics and defining the future of the field. The event is located in Palo Alto, CA on the campus of Stanford University. The technical program of ICSC2011 includes workshops, invited keynotes, paper presentations, panel discussions, industrial “show and tells”, demonstrations, and more. Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited.
The main goal of the conference is to foster the dialog between experts in each sub-discipline. Therefore we especially encourage submissions of work that is interesting to multiple areas, such as multimodal approaches.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Semantics based Analysis
- Natural language processing
- Image and video analysis
- Audio and speech analysis
- Data and web mining
- Behavior of software, services and networks
- Security
Semantic Integration
- Metadata and other description languages
- Ontology integration
- Interoperability and service integration
Applications using Semantics
- Search engines and question answering
- Semantic web services
- Content-based multimedia retrieval and editing
- Context-aware networks of sensors, devices and applications
- Machine translation
- Creative art description
- Medicine and biology
- Semantic programming languages and software engineering
- System design and synthesis
- GIS
Semantic Interfaces
- Natural language interfaces
- Multimodal interfaces
- Human centered computing
CFP can be found here.
Call for Papers
The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC 2011)
September 19th-21st, 2011
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
The field of Semantic Computing addresses the derivation of semantic information from content and the connection of semantics to knowledge, where "content" may be anything including video, audio, text, processes, services, hardware, networks, etc.
The fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2011) continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying emerging research topics and defining the future of the field. The event is located in Palo Alto, CA on the campus of Stanford University. The technical program of ICSC 2011 includes workshops, invited keynotes, paper presentations, panel discussions, industrial 'show and tells', demonstrations, and more. Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or ongoing work are invited.
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (8-page technical paper), Short Papers (4-page technical paper), Demonstration Papers and Posters (2 page technical paper), and Workshop and Special Session Proposals. More information is available on the ICSC 2011 web page. The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication in internationally renowned journals.
AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (but are not limited to):
Semantics based Analysis
Semantic Integration
Applications using Semantics
Semantic Interfaces
IMPORTANT DATES:
The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC 2011)
September 19th-21st, 2011
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
The field of Semantic Computing addresses the derivation of semantic information from content and the connection of semantics to knowledge, where "content" may be anything including video, audio, text, processes, services, hardware, networks, etc.
The fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2011) continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying emerging research topics and defining the future of the field. The event is located in Palo Alto, CA on the campus of Stanford University. The technical program of ICSC 2011 includes workshops, invited keynotes, paper presentations, panel discussions, industrial 'show and tells', demonstrations, and more. Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or ongoing work are invited.
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (8-page technical paper), Short Papers (4-page technical paper), Demonstration Papers and Posters (2 page technical paper), and Workshop and Special Session Proposals. More information is available on the ICSC 2011 web page. The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication in internationally renowned journals.
AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (but are not limited to):
Semantics based Analysis
- Natural language processing
- Image and video analysis
- Audio and speech analysis
- Data and web mining
- Behavior of software, services and networks
- Services and networks
- Security
- Privacy
- Analysis of social networks
Semantic Integration
- Metadata and other description languages
- Database schema integration
- Ontology integration
- Interoperability and service integration
- Semantic programming languages and software engineering
- Semantic system design and synthesis
Applications using Semantics
- Search engines and question answering
- Semantic web services
- Content-based multimedia retrieval and editing
- Context-aware networks of sensors, devices and applications
- Devices and applications
- Digital library applications
- Machine translation
- Music description
- Medicine and Biology
- GIS systems and architecture
Semantic Interfaces
- Natural language interfaces
- Multimodal interfaces
- Human centered computing
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Feb 22nd, 2011: Special Session Proposals
- Feb 22nd, 2011: Workshop Proposals
- May 17th, 2011: Regular & Short Paper Submission (extended)
- May 17th, 2011: Demo Descriptions & Posters (extended)
- June 28th, 2011: Notification Date
- July 21st, 2011: Camera-Ready & Registration (extended)
Important Dates:
- Feb 22nd, 2011: Special Session Proposals
- Feb 22nd, 2011: Workshop Proposals
- May 17th, 2011: Regular & Short Paper Submission (extended)
- May 17th, 2011: Demo Descriptions & Posters (extended)
- June 28th, 2011: Notification Date
- July 21st, 2011: Camera-Ready & Registration (extended)
Best Paper Award:
- Or Biran and Owen Rambow. Identifying Justifications in Written Dialogs
Sponsor Program:
- Platinum Level ($10,000) - Dinner Sponsor
- Gold Level ($5,000) - Reception Sponsor
- Silver Level ($2,500) - Job Fair/Coffee Break Sponsor
Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs
David A. Evans, Evans LLC, USA
Stanley Peters, Stanford University, USA
Phillip Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA
Conference Co-Chairs
Peter Berger II, Alitora Systems, USA
Gerald Friedland, ICSI Berkeley, USA
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Brian Harrington, Oxford University, UK
Robert Mertens, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research, USA
Workshop Co-Chairs
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Giovanni Pilato, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Ian Oliver, Nokia, Finland
Publicity Co-Chairs
Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea
Rodrigo Capobianco Guido, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Iryna Gurevych, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Latifur Khan, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Atsushi Kitazawa, NEC, Japan
Jennifer Lindo, Orbis,USA
Nadine Ludwig, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany
David Ostrowski, Ford, USA
Ilja Radusch, TU Berlin, Germany
Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Panel Co-Chairs
Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA
Mark Wood, Eastman Kodak, USA
Demo Co-Chairs
Christian Bauckhage, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Anne Jude Hunt, First Retail, Inc
Publication Co-Chairs
Sergio Guadarrama, ICSI, Berkeley, USA
Nadine Ludwig, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany
Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Anne Jude Hunt, First Retail, Inc
Amita Kumar, Stanford University, USA
Finance Chair
Taehyung Wang, California State University Northridge, USA
Registration Co-Chairs
Ke Hao, University of California, Irvine, USA
Chengjia Huo, University of California, Irvine, USA
Advisory Committee
Hojjat Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA
Jake Aggarwal, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Ramazan Aygun, University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA
Ruzena Bajcsy, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA
Paul Croll, Computer Sciences Corporation, USA
Charles Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University, USA
Eero Hyvonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Mitsuru Ishizuka , University of Tokyo, Japan
Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine, USA
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Martha Palmer, University of Colorado, USA
Raymond Paul, Department of Defense, USA
C. V. Ramamoorthy, University of California Berkeley, USA
Amit Sheth, Wright State University, USA
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA
Jeffrey Tsai, Asia University, Taiwan
Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Chuo University, Japan
Lotfi Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley
Hojjat Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA
Jake Aggarwal, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Ramazan Aygun, University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA
Ruzena Bajcsy, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA
Paul Croll, Computer Sciences Corporation, USA
Charles Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University, USA
Eero Hyvonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Mitsuru Ishizuka , University of Tokyo, Japan
Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine, USA
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Martha Palmer, University of Colorado, USA
Raymond Paul, Department of Defense, USA
C. V. Ramamoorthy, University of California Berkeley, USA
Amit Sheth, Wright State University, USA
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA
Jeffrey Tsai, Asia University, Taiwan
Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Chuo University, Japan
Lotfi Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley
Program Committee (Tentative)
Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
Agnese Augello, University of Palermo, Italy
Kathy Baker, US Government, USA
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research, USA
Stephen Beale, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMBC), USA
Michael Bloodgood, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Thorsten Brants, Google
Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Italy
Matt Cooper, FXPAL, USA
Jason Corso, SUNY at Buffalo, USA
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Zhongli Ding, Google
Thanh Duc.Tran, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany
Nick Evans, Eurecom, France
Nicola Fanizzi, Universita 'di Bari, Italy
David Farwell, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Stefania Galizia, INNOVA S.p.A., Italy
William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Yuanbo Guo, Microsoft, USA
Takako Hashimoto, Chiba University of Commerce, Japan
Johannes Heinecke, FT/IMG/RD/TECH/ACTS/FAST, France
Stacie Hibino, Eastman Kodak Company, USA
Tracy Holloway.King, Microsoft, USA
Wolfgang Hürst, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland
Ichiro Ide, Nagoya University, Japan
Hasan Jamil, Wayne State University, USA
Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Maria Jose.Ibanez, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Cliff Joslyn, PNNL, USA
Artem Katasonov, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Rüdiger Klein, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Lars Knipping, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
Stanley Kok, University of Maryland, USA
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, ITI, Greece
Christian Konig, Microsoft Research
Freddy Lecue, University of Manchester, UK
Lin Lin, American National Standards Institute, USA
Alexander Loui, Eastman Kodak Company, USA
Mathias Lux, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Rabinarayan Mahapatra, Texas A&M, USA
Dennis Mcleod, University of Southern California, USA
Marge Mcshane, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMBC), USA
Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK
Adrian Mocan, SAP AG, Germany
Martin Müller, Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
Shinichi Nagano, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
Costanza Navarretta, Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark
Jyotishman Pathak, Mayo Clinic, USA
Carlos Pedrinaci, The Open University, UK
Nick Pendar, Uptake Networks, USA
Antonio Picariello, Universita` di Napoli "Federico II"
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA
Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
William Schuler, The Ohio State University
Alkis Simitsis, HP, USA
Ravi Sinha, University of North Texas
Doo Soon.Kim, University of Texas, USA
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
Heiko Stoermer, University of Trento, Italy
Ioan Toma, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Clare Voss, Army Research Lab, USA
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK
Rene Witte, Concordia University, Canada
Pia-Ramona, Wojtinnek University of Oxford, UK
Jack Xie, Motorola, USA
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore
Sören Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
Agnese Augello, University of Palermo, Italy
Kathy Baker, US Government, USA
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research, USA
Stephen Beale, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMBC), USA
Michael Bloodgood, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Thorsten Brants, Google
Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Italy
Matt Cooper, FXPAL, USA
Jason Corso, SUNY at Buffalo, USA
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Zhongli Ding, Google
Thanh Duc.Tran, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany
Nick Evans, Eurecom, France
Nicola Fanizzi, Universita 'di Bari, Italy
David Farwell, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Stefania Galizia, INNOVA S.p.A., Italy
William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Yuanbo Guo, Microsoft, USA
Takako Hashimoto, Chiba University of Commerce, Japan
Johannes Heinecke, FT/IMG/RD/TECH/ACTS/FAST, France
Stacie Hibino, Eastman Kodak Company, USA
Tracy Holloway.King, Microsoft, USA
Wolfgang Hürst, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland
Ichiro Ide, Nagoya University, Japan
Hasan Jamil, Wayne State University, USA
Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Maria Jose.Ibanez, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Cliff Joslyn, PNNL, USA
Artem Katasonov, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Rüdiger Klein, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Lars Knipping, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
Stanley Kok, University of Maryland, USA
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, ITI, Greece
Christian Konig, Microsoft Research
Freddy Lecue, University of Manchester, UK
Lin Lin, American National Standards Institute, USA
Alexander Loui, Eastman Kodak Company, USA
Mathias Lux, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Rabinarayan Mahapatra, Texas A&M, USA
Dennis Mcleod, University of Southern California, USA
Marge Mcshane, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMBC), USA
Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK
Adrian Mocan, SAP AG, Germany
Martin Müller, Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
Shinichi Nagano, Toshiba Corporation, Japan
Costanza Navarretta, Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark
Jyotishman Pathak, Mayo Clinic, USA
Carlos Pedrinaci, The Open University, UK
Nick Pendar, Uptake Networks, USA
Antonio Picariello, Universita` di Napoli "Federico II"
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA
Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
William Schuler, The Ohio State University
Alkis Simitsis, HP, USA
Ravi Sinha, University of North Texas
Doo Soon.Kim, University of Texas, USA
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
Heiko Stoermer, University of Trento, Italy
Ioan Toma, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Clare Voss, Army Research Lab, USA
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK
Rene Witte, Concordia University, Canada
Pia-Ramona, Wojtinnek University of Oxford, UK
Jack Xie, Motorola, USA
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore
Workshops
IEEE ICSC 2011: The Fifth IEEE International Conference
on Semantic Computing, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
September 19-21, 2011
http://www.ieee-icsc.org/
The IEEE ICSC 2011 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops will focus on specific topics of the main conference. The organizer(s) of approved workshops are responsible for advertising the workshop, distributing the call for papers, gathering submissions, and conducting the paper review process.
The following workshop proposals have now been accepted:
Workshop co-chairs:
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Giovanni Pilato, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Ian Oliver, Nokia, Finland
Any general questions regarding ISM2011 Workshops and workshop proposals should be directed to Dr. Shu-Ching Chen at chens@cs.fiu.edu
IEEE ICSC 2011: The Fifth IEEE International Conference
on Semantic Computing, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
September 19-21, 2011
http://www.ieee-icsc.org/
The IEEE ICSC 2011 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops will focus on specific topics of the main conference. The organizer(s) of approved workshops are responsible for advertising the workshop, distributing the call for papers, gathering submissions, and conducting the paper review process.
The following workshop proposals have now been accepted:
- IEEE Computer Society Intradisciplinary Workshops
- Workshop on Semantic Software Engineering (TCSEM + TCSE)
- Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Computing (TCSEM + TCMC)
- Workshop on Semantic Communication (TCSEM + TCCC)
- Workshop on Semantics, Security, and Privacy (TCSEM + TCSP)
- Workshop on Semantic Music Composition and Performance (TCSEM + TCCGM)
- Workshop on Semantic Learning Technologies (TCSEM + TCLT)
- Workshop on Semantic Distributed Systems (TCSEM + TCDP)
- Workshop on Semantic Biomedical Computing (TCSEM + TCBI)
- Workshop on Ontologies for Systems Integration and Standards
- Workshop on Semantic Annotation for Computational Linguistic Resources
Workshop co-chairs:
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Giovanni Pilato, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Ian Oliver, Nokia, Finland
Any general questions regarding ISM2011 Workshops and workshop proposals should be directed to Dr. Shu-Ching Chen at chens@cs.fiu.edu
IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY INTRADISCIPLINARY WORKSHOPS
in conjunction with
THE 5th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC COMPUTING
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, USA
September 19-21, 2011
in conjunction with
THE 5th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC COMPUTING
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, USA
September 19-21, 2011
Semantic Computing addresses technologies that derives and uses semantics from content, where “content” may be anything such as video, audio, text, conversation, process, program, device, behavior, etc.
Interdisciplinary (Intra-disciplinary within Computer Society) in nature, the ultimate success of Semantic Computing requires new, synergized technologies be developed from various areas. The joint workshops are organized by multiple technical committees of IEEE, where each addresses: (a) analysis of existing content to derive semantics; (b) manipulation and synthesis of content based on (user and system) semantics, in a specific technical area.
- Workshop on Semantic Software Engineering (TCSEM + TCSE) Details
- Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Computing (TCSEM + TCMC) Details
- Workshop on Semantic Communication (TCSEM + TCCC) Details
- Workshop on Semantics, Security, and Privacy (TCSEM + TCSP) Details
- Workshop on Semantic Music Composition and Performance (TCSEM + TCCGM) Details
- Workshop on Semantic Learning Technologies (TCSEM + TCLT) Details
- Workshop on Semantic Distributed Systems (TCSEM + TCDP)
- Workshop on Semantic Biomedical Computing (TCSEM + TCBI) Details
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (8-page technical paper) and Short Papers (4-page technical paper). More information is available on the ICSC 2011 web page. To facilitate intra-disciplinary research, participants of joint workshops will register at a workshop rate without a full conference registration. Papers accepted by the workshops will be published in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference and workshops will be selected for publication in internationally renowned journals.
IMPORTANT DATES
May 28th, 2011: Regular & Short Paper Submission
June 28th, 2011: Notification Date
July 21st, 2011: Camera-Ready & Registration (extended)
CONTACTS
- TC ON BIONFORMATICS (TCBI), Xuewen Chen, xwchen@ku.edu
- TC ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS (TCCC), Burkhard Stiller, stiller@ifi.uzh.ch
- TC ON COMPUTER GENERATED MUSIC (TCCGM), Denis Baggi, denis.baggi@supsi.ch
- TC ON DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING (TCDP), Jie Wu, jiewu@temple.edu
- TC ON LEARNING TECHNOLOGY (TCLT), Demetrios Sampson, Sampson@unipi.gr
- TC ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING (TCMC), Shu-Ching Chen, chens@cs.fiu.edu
- TC ON SEMANTICS, SECURITY, AND PRIVACY (TCSP), Hilarie Orman, hilarie@purplestreak.com
- TC ON SEMANTIC COMPUTING (TCSEM), Phillip C-Y Sheu, psheu@uci.edu
- TC ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (TCSE), Elliot Chikofsky, e.chikofsky@computer.org
Workshop on Semantic Music Composition and Performance
in conjunction with
THE 5th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC COMPUTING
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, USA
September 19-21, 2011
Sponsored by
IEEE CS Technical Committee on Computer Generated Music
IEEE CS Technical Committee on Semantic Computing
in conjunction with
THE 5th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC COMPUTING
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, USA
September 19-21, 2011
Sponsored by
IEEE CS Technical Committee on Computer Generated Music
IEEE CS Technical Committee on Semantic Computing
Semantic Computing addresses technologies that derives and uses semantics from content, where “content” may be anything such as video, audio, text, conversation, process, program, device, behavior, etc.
Interdisciplinary (Intra-disciplinary within Computer Society) in nature, the ultimate success of Semantic Computing requires that new, synergized technologies be developed from various areas. The workshop on Semantic Composition of Music addresses composition, performance and experience of music based on single user or group intention. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Composition Models, Personal and Group Intention
- Improvisational Structures
- Musicological and Cognitive Analysis
- Multilayer Composition
- Learning/Generating Models of Music
- Musical Sounds in Semantic Contexts
- Semantics of Non-Objectifiable Musical Elements
- Semantics of Rhythm and Rhythmic Shifts
- Recognition and Re-use of Music Information
- Human/Computer Interaction for Music Composition
- Web, the Composer and the Audience
- Extracting Music Semantics from Audio
- Extracting Music Semantics from Music Sheets
- Extracting Music Semantics from Performance
SUBMISSIONS AND REGISTRATION
Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (8-page technical paper) and Short Papers (4-page technical paper). More information is available on the ICSC 2011 web page. To facilitate intra-disciplinary research, workshop participants will register at a special workshop rate without a full conference registration. Papers accepted by the workshop will be published in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the workshop will be selected for publication in internationally renowned journals.
IMPORTANT DATES
May 28th, 2011: Regular & Short Paper Submission
June 28th, 2011: Notification Date
July 21st, 2011: Camera-Ready & Registration (extended)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Denis Baggi, The University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (Chair)
- Goffredo Haus, State University of Milan
- Shlomo Dubnov, U.C. San Diego
- Adriano Baratè, Laboratory for Musical Informatics, Milan
- Luca Ludovico, Laboratory for Musical Informatics, Milan
Workshop
Ontologies for Systems Integration and Standards
in conjunction with
THE 5th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC COMPUTING
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, USA
September 19-21, 2011
Ontologies for Systems Integration and Standards
in conjunction with
THE 5th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC COMPUTING
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, USA
September 19-21, 2011
Ontologies have the potential to facilitate both the creation and exploitation of technical standards. There are tens of thousands of existing traditional standards which effectively define the characteristics of products, devices, systems and their permitted values, tolerances and relationships. Even without ontologies, there is a challenge to represent such standards in a form where the established agreements can be exploited in an electronic environment, either singly or integrated into a consistent body of knowledge. For example, there are hundreds of standards related to fasteners - bolts, screws, rivets and other types, with their dimensions, materials and other characteristics. These are being brought together through application of dictionary standards like ISO 13584 and 22745. There are standards which define simple lists of permitted values for properties, such as country codes and currency codes. Information models have been created for physical products, buildings, factories and geographical entities. These standards provide an existing body of knowledge that provides a rich source of material which could potentially be codified and exploited using ontological tools to capture all or selected parts of the content and the related implicit knowledge.1
This half-day workshop will build upon the findings documented in the 2009 Ontology Summit2 where the role of ontology for specifying standards will be extended to the use of ontology for systems and service integration in general, as well as the use of ontology for technical standards. New developments in ontology-based systems integration and use-cases will be presented and discussed.
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (8-page technical paper) and Short Papers (4-page technical paper). More information is available on the ICSC 2011 web page. Papers accepted by the workshops will be published in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference and workshops will be selected for publication in internationally renowned journals.
IMPORTANT DATES
May 28th, 2011: Regular & Short Paper Submission
June 28th, 2011: Notification Date
July 21st, 2011: Camera-Ready & Registration (extended)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ram D. Sriram, NIST (Workshop Co-Chair)
Steven R. Ray, CMU (Workshop Co-Chair)
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Note:
1. This paragraph paraphrases a summary developed at the 2009 Ontology Summit held at NIST in Gaithersburg MD.
2. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2009_Communique
Note:
1. This paragraph paraphrases a summary developed at the 2009 Ontology Summit held at NIST in Gaithersburg MD.
2. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2009_Communique
Call for Demonstration Proposals for ICSC2011
IEEE ICSC 2011: The Fifth IEEE International Conference
on Semantic Computing, Pittsburg, PA, USA
September 19-21, 2011
http://www.ieee-icsc.org/
The IEEE ICSC 2011 organizing committee invites proposals for demonstrations to be given at the conference. The demonstrations provide a forum for researchers as well as industry participants to demonstrate working systems, applications, tools or showcases of base technologies to the conference atteendees. The goal of the demonstrations is to show a spectrum ranging from research prototypes to pilots developed and even products that use semantic technology and provide functionality based on semantics in the context of semantic computing. For submissions to this event, it is very important to describe the demonstration setup, functionality and benefit to the viewer of the demonstration. Technical background discussion can be presented at the actual demonstration or can be submitted as an industry track or regular conference paper; the focus of the demonstration themselves should be to show the functionality to viewers. It is expected that the demonstrations are highly interactive.
Topics for demonstrations include but are not limited to:
* Content and Information Management
* Knowledge Engineering
* Data Mining
* Semantic Database Theory and Systems
* Service-oriented Architectures and Computing
* Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services
* Multimedia Semantics
* Audio and Speech Processing
* Natural Language Processing
* Semantic Search Technologies and Applications
* User Interfaces
Demonstrations are ideally demonstrating a system or application that clearly shows the benefit of using and deploying semantics and semantic technologies. In addition, tools and base technologies that implement or use semantic technology or semantic approaches are invited for demonstration.
Demonstration Setup
The demonstrations are planned to be a single event during a conference reception function, open to all conference attendees, with the goal of open and constructive discussions. One table will be provided with power as well as an Internet connection. Posters can be put up behind or next to the tables (depending on the space) either on pin boards or the wall. Demonstrators must bring any additional equipment they require as no equipment will be provided by the conference.
Demonstration Submissions
Authors submitting papers to the demonstrations must submit a 2-page paper that clearly outlines the demonstration that will be set up and the functionality a visitor to the demonstration can observe. The technical background, such as the architecture or algorithms, should not be described in detail; such a description would be better submitted to the industry track or main conference paper track. Including links to supporting material, e.g. a video on the web or a web-based demo itself, is highly encouraged. All submissions must be in double-column IEEE format and follow the specific submission guidelines on the ICSC2011 web page. The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and the accepted demonstration submissions will be included in the conference proceedings.
Important Dates
Demo Submission: May 17th, 2011 (extended)
Notification: June 28th, 2011
Camera Ready: July 21st, 2011 (extended)
Conference: September 19th-21st, 2011
Submissions
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit demo proposals to the demo co-chairs:
Christian Bauckhage, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Anne Jude Hunt, First Retail, Inc
at
icschome@gmail.com
no later than May 17th, 2011.
IEEE ICSC 2011: The Fifth IEEE International Conference
on Semantic Computing, Pittsburg, PA, USA
September 19-21, 2011
http://www.ieee-icsc.org/
The IEEE ICSC 2011 organizing committee invites proposals for demonstrations to be given at the conference. The demonstrations provide a forum for researchers as well as industry participants to demonstrate working systems, applications, tools or showcases of base technologies to the conference atteendees. The goal of the demonstrations is to show a spectrum ranging from research prototypes to pilots developed and even products that use semantic technology and provide functionality based on semantics in the context of semantic computing. For submissions to this event, it is very important to describe the demonstration setup, functionality and benefit to the viewer of the demonstration. Technical background discussion can be presented at the actual demonstration or can be submitted as an industry track or regular conference paper; the focus of the demonstration themselves should be to show the functionality to viewers. It is expected that the demonstrations are highly interactive.
Topics for demonstrations include but are not limited to:
* Content and Information Management
* Knowledge Engineering
* Data Mining
* Semantic Database Theory and Systems
* Service-oriented Architectures and Computing
* Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services
* Multimedia Semantics
* Audio and Speech Processing
* Natural Language Processing
* Semantic Search Technologies and Applications
* User Interfaces
Demonstrations are ideally demonstrating a system or application that clearly shows the benefit of using and deploying semantics and semantic technologies. In addition, tools and base technologies that implement or use semantic technology or semantic approaches are invited for demonstration.
Demonstration Setup
The demonstrations are planned to be a single event during a conference reception function, open to all conference attendees, with the goal of open and constructive discussions. One table will be provided with power as well as an Internet connection. Posters can be put up behind or next to the tables (depending on the space) either on pin boards or the wall. Demonstrators must bring any additional equipment they require as no equipment will be provided by the conference.
Demonstration Submissions
Authors submitting papers to the demonstrations must submit a 2-page paper that clearly outlines the demonstration that will be set up and the functionality a visitor to the demonstration can observe. The technical background, such as the architecture or algorithms, should not be described in detail; such a description would be better submitted to the industry track or main conference paper track. Including links to supporting material, e.g. a video on the web or a web-based demo itself, is highly encouraged. All submissions must be in double-column IEEE format and follow the specific submission guidelines on the ICSC2011 web page. The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and the accepted demonstration submissions will be included in the conference proceedings.
Important Dates
Demo Submission: May 17th, 2011 (extended)
Notification: June 28th, 2011
Camera Ready: July 21st, 2011 (extended)
Conference: September 19th-21st, 2011
Submissions
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit demo proposals to the demo co-chairs:
Christian Bauckhage, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Anne Jude Hunt, First Retail, Inc
at
icschome@gmail.com
no later than May 17th, 2011.
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Note:
1. Every demo paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of ICSC 2011 MUST be presented during the conference.
2. Every demo paper accepted for ICSC 2011 MUST have attached to it at least one registration at the full member/nonmember rate. Thus, for a paper for which all authors are students, one student author will be required to register at the full registration rate.
Note:
1. Every demo paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of ICSC 2011 MUST be presented during the conference.
2. Every demo paper accepted for ICSC 2011 MUST have attached to it at least one registration at the full member/nonmember rate. Thus, for a paper for which all authors are students, one student author will be required to register at the full registration rate.
ICSC 2011 Industry Session Call for Papers
Program Goals and Format:
The goals of the ICSC 2011 Industry Session are to foster exchanges between practitioners and the academics, to promote novel solutions to today's challenges in the area of Semantic Computing and applications, to provide practitioners in the field an early opportunity to evaluate leading-edge research, and to identify new issues and directions for future research and development efforts. Similar to regular papers, the papers in the industry session will undergo a review process and will appear in the conference proceedings. However, the selection criteria for industry papers are slightly different. In particular, papers should describe technologies, methodologies, applications, prototypes or experiences of clear industry relevance. A main goal of this session is to present research work that exposes the academic and research communities to challenges and issues important for the industry. Therefore, the papers in this session will be evaluated primarily by the novelty and applicability of the insights from its industrial solutions, instead of the originality of its algorithmic content.
Topics of Interest:
Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to those identified in the main conference CFP, as well as those listed below:
1. Development of new semantic systems, architecture, and standards
2. Employment of smenatic computing tools and interfaces
3. Employment of large scale semantic systems
4. Benchmarking and performance evalaution of semnatic systems
5. Innovative solutions for performance optimization
6. Mobile semantic systems and services
7. Multimedia semantic content analysis and retrieval systems
8. Modeling issues and case studies of semnatic computing
9. Game and entertainment applications
10. e-Business and other applications
11. Analysis of industry-specific trends and challenges
Important Dates:
May 17th, 2011: Submission of papers (extended)
June 28th, 2011: Notification of acceptance
July 21st, 2011: Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due (extended)
Industrial Paper Submission:
Industrial papers should be submitted via the ICSC 2011 online paper submission system. For easy identification, all industrial papers should have as their title "Industry Track: rest of title." Industry Session papers should be no longer than 8 pages with the same submission guidelines available on the ICSC 2011 web page. Only electronic submission will be accepted. All industrial papers will be peer-reviewed and published in the conference proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Submissions must not be published or submitted for another conference.
Industry Session Co-Chairs:
Peter Berger II, Alitora Systems, USA
Keynotes
Keynote
Keynote
Keynote (Workshop on Ontologies for Systems Integration and Standards)
Topical Presentation
Topical Presentation
Topical Presentation
Topical Presentation
Keynote
Keynote
Finding it Now: Stream Mining in Real Time
by Mihaela van der Schaar,
University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract
Speaker Bio
by Mihaela van der Schaar,
University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract
Speaker Bio
Keynote (Workshop on Ontologies for Systems Integration and Standards)
Realizing Efficiency & Interoperability: SOA & Semantic Technology in the Business Mission Area (BMA), U.S. DoD
by Dennis E. Wisnosky,
Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer of the Department of Defense
Business Mission Area, Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer
Abstract
Speaker Bio
by Dennis E. Wisnosky,
Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer of the Department of Defense
Business Mission Area, Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer
Abstract
Speaker Bio
Topical Presentation
Topical Presentation
Merging Propositional and Distributional Information
by Ed Hovy,
University of Southern California
Abstract
by Ed Hovy,
University of Southern California
Abstract
Topical Presentation
Applications of Semantic Computing in Biomedical Informatics
by Mark A. Musen,
Stanford University
Abstract
Speaker Bio
by Mark A. Musen,
Stanford University
Abstract
Speaker Bio
Topical Presentation
Semantic Web Authoring: Bridging Disciplines, Archives, and Scholarly Nuances
by Craig Dietrich,
Lecturer
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
This talk will discuss the digital humanities’ growing relationship with the Semantic Web and demonstrate in-progress projects that are taking advantage of Semantic Web technology to create pioneering born-digital work. Digital humanities projects depend on computer systems that can store and deliver disparate content and relationships between content—needs that derive from the diverse and often overlapping types of knowledge present in humanities scholarship. Projects also rely on source content from archives with varying access levels and privacy—important considerations when archives store cultural and sometimes sacred material. These requirements have led digital humanists to push beyond rigid relational paradigms for storage and presentation of scholarly material, towards the flexibility of Semantic Web technology. Of the Semantic Web’s many affordances, one of the exciting possibilities for scholarship is brought by RDF’s flattened content hierarchy. With knowledge stored in triples, authors can effectively connect any scholarly concept to any other. Publishing systems based on RDF therefore have the capacity to store and deliver unique knowledge structures based on the organization of an individual author’s scholarship. The resulting projects capture the nuances of evidence and argument yet remain connected to broader conversations.
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by Craig Dietrich,
Lecturer
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
This talk will discuss the digital humanities’ growing relationship with the Semantic Web and demonstrate in-progress projects that are taking advantage of Semantic Web technology to create pioneering born-digital work. Digital humanities projects depend on computer systems that can store and deliver disparate content and relationships between content—needs that derive from the diverse and often overlapping types of knowledge present in humanities scholarship. Projects also rely on source content from archives with varying access levels and privacy—important considerations when archives store cultural and sometimes sacred material. These requirements have led digital humanists to push beyond rigid relational paradigms for storage and presentation of scholarly material, towards the flexibility of Semantic Web technology. Of the Semantic Web’s many affordances, one of the exciting possibilities for scholarship is brought by RDF’s flattened content hierarchy. With knowledge stored in triples, authors can effectively connect any scholarly concept to any other. Publishing systems based on RDF therefore have the capacity to store and deliver unique knowledge structures based on the organization of an individual author’s scholarship. The resulting projects capture the nuances of evidence and argument yet remain connected to broader conversations.
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Craig Dietrich
Lecturer
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
Craig Dietrich is on the faculty of the University of Southern California‘s Institute for Multimedia Literacy, part of the School of Cinematic Arts, where he teaches scholarly multimedia and digital studies classes. He is a Senior Researcher at USC’s Humanities and Critical Code Studies lab and the University of Maine’s Still Water lab for network art and culture, and since 2004 the Info Design Director of the Vectors Journal where he has developed authoring environments for critically-acclaimed interactive scholarship projects. Recent collaborations include the Mukurtu Archive and Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal content managers based on Aboriginal cultural protocols; ThoughtMesh, a folksonomic online publishing system; the Dynamic Backend Generator, a MySQL-based relational data writing canvas; and Scalar, an interpretive scholarship platform developed in collaboration with digital archives and university presses. He is presently in production of Magic, an interactive documentary about code, media, and collaboration. His presentations and papers are situated at the intersection of software and trans-nationalism, having compared relational database paradigms to big-box retail chains, linked Bataille’s Formlessness to RSS feeds, and championed custom, agile software over large content management systems for digital humanities production.
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Lecturer
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
Craig Dietrich is on the faculty of the University of Southern California‘s Institute for Multimedia Literacy, part of the School of Cinematic Arts, where he teaches scholarly multimedia and digital studies classes. He is a Senior Researcher at USC’s Humanities and Critical Code Studies lab and the University of Maine’s Still Water lab for network art and culture, and since 2004 the Info Design Director of the Vectors Journal where he has developed authoring environments for critically-acclaimed interactive scholarship projects. Recent collaborations include the Mukurtu Archive and Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal content managers based on Aboriginal cultural protocols; ThoughtMesh, a folksonomic online publishing system; the Dynamic Backend Generator, a MySQL-based relational data writing canvas; and Scalar, an interpretive scholarship platform developed in collaboration with digital archives and university presses. He is presently in production of Magic, an interactive documentary about code, media, and collaboration. His presentations and papers are situated at the intersection of software and trans-nationalism, having compared relational database paradigms to big-box retail chains, linked Bataille’s Formlessness to RSS feeds, and championed custom, agile software over large content management systems for digital humanities production.
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Going beyond shallow semantics
by Martha Palmer,
Professor
Linguistics and Computer Science
Faculty Fellow of Institute of Cognitive Science
University of Colorado
Shallow semantic analyzers, such as semantic role labeling and sense tagging, are increasing in accuracy and becoming commonplace. However, they only provide limited and local representations of words and individual predicate-argument structures. This talk will address some of the current challenges in producing deeper, connected representations of eventualities. Available resources, such as VerbNet, FrameNet, and TimeBank, that can assist in this process, will also be discussed, as well as some of their limitations.
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by Martha Palmer,
Professor
Linguistics and Computer Science
Faculty Fellow of Institute of Cognitive Science
University of Colorado
Shallow semantic analyzers, such as semantic role labeling and sense tagging, are increasing in accuracy and becoming commonplace. However, they only provide limited and local representations of words and individual predicate-argument structures. This talk will address some of the current challenges in producing deeper, connected representations of eventualities. Available resources, such as VerbNet, FrameNet, and TimeBank, that can assist in this process, will also be discussed, as well as some of their limitations.
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Martha Palmer
Professor
Linguistics and Computer Science
Faculty Fellow of Institute of Cognitive Science
University of Colorado
Martha Palmer is a Full Professor at the University of Colorado with joint appointments in Linguistics and Computer Science and is an Institute of Cognitive Science Faculty Fellow. She recently won a Boulder Faculty Assembly 2010 Research Award. Beginning with her dissertation work at Edinburgh and her first job as a Research Scientist at Unisys, her research has been focused on trying to capture the meanings of words in representations that the computer can use to build up meanings of complex sentences and documents. These representations can in turn be used to improve the computer's ability to perform question answering, information retrieval, and machine translation. Current approaches rely on techniques for applying supervised machine learning algorithms, which use vast amounts of annotated training data. Therefore, she and her students, both at Colorado and previously at the University of Pennsylvania, are engaged in providing data with word sense tags and semantic role labels for English, Chinese, Arabic, and Hindi, funded by DARPA and NSF. They also use machine learning algorithms to develop automatic sense taggers and semantic role labelers, and to extract bilingual lexicons from parallel corpora. A more recent focus is the application of these methods to biomedical journal articles and clinical notes, funded by NIH. She is a co-editor for both the Journal of Natural Language Engineering and LiLT, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology. She is a past President of the Association for Computational Linguistics, past Chair of SIGLEX and SIGHAN, and is currently the Director of the 2011 Linguistics Institute to be held in Boulder, Colorado.
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Professor
Linguistics and Computer Science
Faculty Fellow of Institute of Cognitive Science
University of Colorado
Martha Palmer is a Full Professor at the University of Colorado with joint appointments in Linguistics and Computer Science and is an Institute of Cognitive Science Faculty Fellow. She recently won a Boulder Faculty Assembly 2010 Research Award. Beginning with her dissertation work at Edinburgh and her first job as a Research Scientist at Unisys, her research has been focused on trying to capture the meanings of words in representations that the computer can use to build up meanings of complex sentences and documents. These representations can in turn be used to improve the computer's ability to perform question answering, information retrieval, and machine translation. Current approaches rely on techniques for applying supervised machine learning algorithms, which use vast amounts of annotated training data. Therefore, she and her students, both at Colorado and previously at the University of Pennsylvania, are engaged in providing data with word sense tags and semantic role labels for English, Chinese, Arabic, and Hindi, funded by DARPA and NSF. They also use machine learning algorithms to develop automatic sense taggers and semantic role labelers, and to extract bilingual lexicons from parallel corpora. A more recent focus is the application of these methods to biomedical journal articles and clinical notes, funded by NIH. She is a co-editor for both the Journal of Natural Language Engineering and LiLT, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology. She is a past President of the Association for Computational Linguistics, past Chair of SIGLEX and SIGHAN, and is currently the Director of the 2011 Linguistics Institute to be held in Boulder, Colorado.
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Finding it Now: Stream Mining in Real Time
by Mihaela van der Schaar,
Professor
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Multimedia Communications and Systems Laboratory
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Multimedia data is now produced by more and more sources and in more and more formats: documents, email, transactions, tweets, audio files, videos, sensor readouts. With the proliferation of the sources and formats of data, the extraction of information from these data is becoming ever more challenging. Magnifying this is that the information must frequently be extracted from many distinct data streams: information about an attack on the British pound sterling might come from Hong Kong and New York as well as London, and from news reports as well as from trading records. Magnifying the challenge still further is that the information must frequently be extracted in real time to be of value: it is of little use to know today that cardiac monitors warned yesterday of a sudden and catastrophic heart attack. In this talk, I will start by outlining these problems, which have led to the emergence of a new and exciting field of research: multimedia stream mining. Subsequently, I will introduce the novel methods required to perform multimedia stream mining, such as constructing, managing, and adapting applications for the extraction of information in real time. Such applications are built as topologies of classifiers deployed on a set of processing nodes. In order to meet the demands imposed by the nature of the problem, it is critical that these processing nodes be heterogeneous (so different nodes can play different roles) and that the application be distributed (so that the nodes can operate largely independently but still function in a coordinated way). I will conclude this talk by arguing that multimedia stream mining requires the development of novel processing and computing paradigms, such as stream computing and semantic computing as well as the design of new user interfaces and applications.
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by Mihaela van der Schaar,
Professor
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Multimedia Communications and Systems Laboratory
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Multimedia data is now produced by more and more sources and in more and more formats: documents, email, transactions, tweets, audio files, videos, sensor readouts. With the proliferation of the sources and formats of data, the extraction of information from these data is becoming ever more challenging. Magnifying this is that the information must frequently be extracted from many distinct data streams: information about an attack on the British pound sterling might come from Hong Kong and New York as well as London, and from news reports as well as from trading records. Magnifying the challenge still further is that the information must frequently be extracted in real time to be of value: it is of little use to know today that cardiac monitors warned yesterday of a sudden and catastrophic heart attack. In this talk, I will start by outlining these problems, which have led to the emergence of a new and exciting field of research: multimedia stream mining. Subsequently, I will introduce the novel methods required to perform multimedia stream mining, such as constructing, managing, and adapting applications for the extraction of information in real time. Such applications are built as topologies of classifiers deployed on a set of processing nodes. In order to meet the demands imposed by the nature of the problem, it is critical that these processing nodes be heterogeneous (so different nodes can play different roles) and that the application be distributed (so that the nodes can operate largely independently but still function in a coordinated way). I will conclude this talk by arguing that multimedia stream mining requires the development of novel processing and computing paradigms, such as stream computing and semantic computing as well as the design of new user interfaces and applications.
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Mihaela van der Schaar
Professor
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Multimedia Communications and Systems Laboratory
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Mihaela van der Schaar is Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include multimedia networking, communication, processing, and systems, multimedia stream mining, dynamic multi-user networks and system designs, online learning, network economics and game theory. She is an IEEE Fellow, a Distinguished Lecturer of the Communications Society for 2011-2012, the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing. She received an NSF CAREER Award (2004), the Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2005), the Okawa Foundation Award (2006), the IBM Faculty Award (2005, 2007, 2008), the Most Cited Paper Award from EURASIP: Image Communications Journal (2006), the Gamenets Conference Best Paper Award (2011) and the 2011 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award Best Paper Award. She received three ISO awards for her contributions to the MPEG video compression and streaming international standardization activities, and holds 33 granted US patents. For more information about her research visit: http://medianetlab.ee.ucla.edu/
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Professor
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Multimedia Communications and Systems Laboratory
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Mihaela van der Schaar is Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include multimedia networking, communication, processing, and systems, multimedia stream mining, dynamic multi-user networks and system designs, online learning, network economics and game theory. She is an IEEE Fellow, a Distinguished Lecturer of the Communications Society for 2011-2012, the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing. She received an NSF CAREER Award (2004), the Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2005), the Okawa Foundation Award (2006), the IBM Faculty Award (2005, 2007, 2008), the Most Cited Paper Award from EURASIP: Image Communications Journal (2006), the Gamenets Conference Best Paper Award (2011) and the 2011 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award Best Paper Award. She received three ISO awards for her contributions to the MPEG video compression and streaming international standardization activities, and holds 33 granted US patents. For more information about her research visit: http://medianetlab.ee.ucla.edu/
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Dennis E. Wisnosky
Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer of the Department of Defense (DoD)
Business Mission Area, Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer
Mr. Dennis E. Wisnosky is the Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area (BMA) within the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO).
As Chief Architect and CTO, Mr. Wisnosky is responsible for providing expert guidance and oversight in the design, development, and modification of the federated architectures supporting the Department's Business Mission Area. This role incorporates oversight of the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA); the corporate level systems, processes, and data standards that are common across the DOD, in addition to the business architectures of the services and defense agencies.
Mr. Wisnosky is leading the transformation of architecture-driven business systems and services development, and deployment. He ensures that Business Process Models are based on a standardized representation, enabling the analysis and comparison of end-to-end business processes leading to the re-use of the most efficient and effective process patterns and elements throughout the DoD Business Mission Area. A key principle in DoD business transformation is its focus on data ontology and semantic web methods. Mr. Wisnosky also serves as an advisor on the development of requirements and extension of DoD net-centric enterprise services in collaboration with the office of the DOD Chief Information Officer (CIO).
Mr. Wisnosky is a PADI certified Rescue Diver, and an Instrument Rated Private Pilot in Multiengine Aircraft. He and his wife live in Naperville, Illinois; they have three daughters and eight grandchildren.
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Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer of the Department of Defense (DoD)
Business Mission Area, Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer
Mr. Dennis E. Wisnosky is the Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area (BMA) within the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO).
As Chief Architect and CTO, Mr. Wisnosky is responsible for providing expert guidance and oversight in the design, development, and modification of the federated architectures supporting the Department's Business Mission Area. This role incorporates oversight of the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA); the corporate level systems, processes, and data standards that are common across the DOD, in addition to the business architectures of the services and defense agencies.
Mr. Wisnosky is leading the transformation of architecture-driven business systems and services development, and deployment. He ensures that Business Process Models are based on a standardized representation, enabling the analysis and comparison of end-to-end business processes leading to the re-use of the most efficient and effective process patterns and elements throughout the DoD Business Mission Area. A key principle in DoD business transformation is its focus on data ontology and semantic web methods. Mr. Wisnosky also serves as an advisor on the development of requirements and extension of DoD net-centric enterprise services in collaboration with the office of the DOD Chief Information Officer (CIO).
Mr. Wisnosky is a PADI certified Rescue Diver, and an Instrument Rated Private Pilot in Multiengine Aircraft. He and his wife live in Naperville, Illinois; they have three daughters and eight grandchildren.
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Mark A. Musen, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University
Dr. Musen is Professor of Biomedical Informatics Research at Stanford University, where he is head of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. He holds an MD from Brown University and a PhD from Stanford.
Dr. Musen conducts research related to intelligent systems, the Semantic Web, reusable ontologies and knowledge representations, and biomedical decision support. His long-standing work on a system known as Protégé has led to an open-source technology now used by thousands of developers around the world to build intelligent computer systems and new computer applications for e-science and the Semantic Web. He is known for his research on the application of intelligent computer systems to assist health-care workers in guideline-directed therapy and in management of clinical trials. He is principal investigator of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, one of the eight National Centers for Biomedical Computing supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Early in his career, Dr. Musen received the Young Investigator Award for Research in Medical Knowledge Systems from the American Association of Medical Systems and Informatics and a Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. In 2006, he was recipient of the Donald A. B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics from the American Medical Informatics Association. He has been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics and the Association of American Physicians. Dr. Musen sits on the editorial boards of several journals related to biomedical informatics and computer science. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Medical Informatics (Springer-Verlag, 1997) and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Applied Ontology.
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Stanford University
Dr. Musen is Professor of Biomedical Informatics Research at Stanford University, where he is head of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. He holds an MD from Brown University and a PhD from Stanford.
Dr. Musen conducts research related to intelligent systems, the Semantic Web, reusable ontologies and knowledge representations, and biomedical decision support. His long-standing work on a system known as Protégé has led to an open-source technology now used by thousands of developers around the world to build intelligent computer systems and new computer applications for e-science and the Semantic Web. He is known for his research on the application of intelligent computer systems to assist health-care workers in guideline-directed therapy and in management of clinical trials. He is principal investigator of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, one of the eight National Centers for Biomedical Computing supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Early in his career, Dr. Musen received the Young Investigator Award for Research in Medical Knowledge Systems from the American Association of Medical Systems and Informatics and a Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. In 2006, he was recipient of the Donald A. B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics from the American Medical Informatics Association. He has been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics and the Association of American Physicians. Dr. Musen sits on the editorial boards of several journals related to biomedical informatics and computer science. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Medical Informatics (Springer-Verlag, 1997) and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Applied Ontology.
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The Role of Natural Language Processing in Web Search
by Jan Pedersen,
Microsoft
Web Search is the mostly widely used natural language interface, yet the underlying technology is famously bereft of classical natural language processing techniques. In fact, much of the Web Search experience is driven by little more than exact string matching. I will explore role of large-scale semantic meta-data in this phenomenon and increasing use of statistical natural language techniques to address the more challenging problems in Web Search.
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by Jan Pedersen,
Microsoft
Web Search is the mostly widely used natural language interface, yet the underlying technology is famously bereft of classical natural language processing techniques. In fact, much of the Web Search experience is driven by little more than exact string matching. I will explore role of large-scale semantic meta-data in this phenomenon and increasing use of statistical natural language techniques to address the more challenging problems in Web Search.
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Applications of Semantic Computing in Biomedical Informatics
by Mark A. Musen,
Stanford University
Since the advent of work on knowledge-based systems in the 1960s, biomedicine has provided a highly visible testbed for work in semantic computing. Because the adoption of high-throughput techniques in the life sciences has led to an explosion of data, semantic technologies have become essential for the routine indexing, integration, and analysis of experimental results. At the same time, the increasing adoption of electronic health records and recent legislative mandates for health-care institutions to share and integrate patient data have caused semantic computing to spread throughout the clinical arena as well. Biomedicine provides an exciting, real-world application area in which semantic technology is offering benefits that are important scientifically, medically, and economically. The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is one of eight National Centers for Biomedical Computing created by the National Institutes of Health. Numerous biomedical investigators use semantic technologies developed by the NCBO to address a wide range of clinical and biological tasks. I will discuss the role of semantic computing in biomedicine, and I will highlight specific projects that collaborate with the NCBO to provide an overview of how semantic computing is driving new advances in healthcare, clinical research, and e-science.
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by Mark A. Musen,
Stanford University
Since the advent of work on knowledge-based systems in the 1960s, biomedicine has provided a highly visible testbed for work in semantic computing. Because the adoption of high-throughput techniques in the life sciences has led to an explosion of data, semantic technologies have become essential for the routine indexing, integration, and analysis of experimental results. At the same time, the increasing adoption of electronic health records and recent legislative mandates for health-care institutions to share and integrate patient data have caused semantic computing to spread throughout the clinical arena as well. Biomedicine provides an exciting, real-world application area in which semantic technology is offering benefits that are important scientifically, medically, and economically. The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is one of eight National Centers for Biomedical Computing created by the National Institutes of Health. Numerous biomedical investigators use semantic technologies developed by the NCBO to address a wide range of clinical and biological tasks. I will discuss the role of semantic computing in biomedicine, and I will highlight specific projects that collaborate with the NCBO to provide an overview of how semantic computing is driving new advances in healthcare, clinical research, and e-science.
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Merging Propositional and Distributional Information
by Eduard Hovy,
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
Despite hundreds of years of study on semantics, theories and representations of semantic content—the actual meaning of the symbols used in semantic propositions—remain impoverished. The traditional extensional and intensional models of semantics are difficult to actually flesh out in practice, and no large-scale models of this kind exist. Recently, researchers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have increasingly treated topic signature word distributions (also called ‘context vectors’, ‘topic models’, ‘language models’, etc.) as a de facto placeholder for semantics at various levels of granularity. This talk argues for a new kind of semantics that combines traditional symbolic logic-based proposition-style semantics (of the kind used in older NLP) with (computation-based) statistical word distribution information (what is being called Distributional Semantics in modern NLP). The core resource is a single lexico-semantic ‘lexicon’ that can be used for a variety of tasks. I show how to define such a lexicon, how to build and format it, and how to use it for various tasks. Combining the two views of semantics opens many fascinating questions that beg study, including the operation of logical operators such as negation and modalities over word(sense) distributions, the nature of ontological facets required to define concepts, and the action of compositionality over statistical concepts.
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by Eduard Hovy,
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
Despite hundreds of years of study on semantics, theories and representations of semantic content—the actual meaning of the symbols used in semantic propositions—remain impoverished. The traditional extensional and intensional models of semantics are difficult to actually flesh out in practice, and no large-scale models of this kind exist. Recently, researchers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have increasingly treated topic signature word distributions (also called ‘context vectors’, ‘topic models’, ‘language models’, etc.) as a de facto placeholder for semantics at various levels of granularity. This talk argues for a new kind of semantics that combines traditional symbolic logic-based proposition-style semantics (of the kind used in older NLP) with (computation-based) statistical word distribution information (what is being called Distributional Semantics in modern NLP). The core resource is a single lexico-semantic ‘lexicon’ that can be used for a variety of tasks. I show how to define such a lexicon, how to build and format it, and how to use it for various tasks. Combining the two views of semantics opens many fascinating questions that beg study, including the operation of logical operators such as negation and modalities over word(sense) distributions, the nature of ontological facets required to define concepts, and the action of compositionality over statistical concepts.
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Realizing Efficiency & Interoperability: SOA & Semantic Technology in the Business Mission Area (BMA), U.S. DoD
by Dennis E. Wisnosky,
Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer of the Department of Defense (DoD)
Business Mission Area, Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is leading the transformation of architecture-driven business systems/services development and deployment. Key principles to achieving DoD business transformation are: capabilities delivered as services within a SOA, enterprise architecture standards, domain ontologies, and the utilization of semantic technology to support data interoperability and business intelligence. Mr. Wisnosky discuss the strategy and give a high-level overview of the work being done towards realizing efficiency and interoperability within the DoD BMA.
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by Dennis E. Wisnosky,
Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer of the Department of Defense (DoD)
Business Mission Area, Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is leading the transformation of architecture-driven business systems/services development and deployment. Key principles to achieving DoD business transformation are: capabilities delivered as services within a SOA, enterprise architecture standards, domain ontologies, and the utilization of semantic technology to support data interoperability and business intelligence. Mr. Wisnosky discuss the strategy and give a high-level overview of the work being done towards realizing efficiency and interoperability within the DoD BMA.
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Please download the registration form here.
FAX or mail your completed form (with a check if paid by check) to the following address:
Registration Chair:
Ke Hao c/o Prof. Phillip Sheu FAX: +1 949/824-2228
Department of EECS
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
USA
Email any question regarding registration to Ke Hao at khao1@uci.edu
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Regular Papers should be no longer than eight (8) pages, Short Papers should be no longer than four (4) pages, Demonstration Papers and Posters should be no longer than two (2) pages.
All paper submissions will be carefully reviewed by at least three experts and reviews will be returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure the high quality of the accepted papers. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. Please only submit original material where copyright of all parts is owned by the authors declared and which is not currently under review elsewhere. Please see the IEEE policies for further information.
Technical Paper Submission Instructions
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A copyright form needs to be submitted upon acceptance of the paper and is not required at this stage.
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1. Every paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of ICSC 2011 MUST be presented during the conference.
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