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Events
On these pages, you can find a selection of events in the field of IST for Knowledge & Content Technologies. We do not aim at publishing a complete events calendar, but provide you with:
- information about meetings and workshops organised by the European Commission,
- references to international conferences or exhibitions where either the Commission or funded research projects are represented,
- downloadable conference presentations given by Commission officials.
Meet us! The events at which the INFSO.E2 staff contribute as speakers, organisers etc. are highlighted in the list below.
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2008
March
- 12-14 March 2008
- iptvworldforum 08 – Delivering mulit-platform television over IP
- London, UK
- This conference/exhibition attracts delegates and speakers from all parts of the television delivery chain, from content producers, owners and distributors, through channel owners and broadcasters, to platform operators. The exhibition is significant and growing, and has achieved the critical mass that makes it a chosen industry meeting and networking venue.
- 16-20 March 2008
- MD2008 – Building the Bridge Between Data and Business Strategy
- San Diego, CA, USA
- The annual DAMA International Symposium and Wilshire Meta-Data Conference is widely recognised as the most comprehensive data management event in the world. This conference addresses the spectrum of data management issues, challenges, and opportunities.
- 30 March - 3 April 2008
- ECIR'08 - The 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval
- Glasgow, Scotland
- ECIR is the major European forum for the presentation of new research results in the broad field of Information Retrieval. The conference encourages the submission of high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished results.
- 31 March - 2 April 2008
- ICWSM 2008 - The 2nd International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- The rapid creation and consumption of social media content continues to drive the evolution of the Internet and the Web. Social media content now accounts for the majority of content published daily on the web. As the space evolves, researcher and industrial practitioners find themselves at a key point for collaborating on research, implementation and deployment of a wide range of analyses and applications. ICWSM will bring together academic and industrial practitioners to present and to discuss new research, applications, thoughts and ideas that are shaping the future of social media analysis.
- 31 March - 2 April 2008
- The Future Of The Internet – Perspectives emerging from R&D in Europe
- Bled, Slovenia
- This event is supported by the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, and the EU vision about the Future Internet from R&D perspectives will be discussed. Further more there will be sessions like 'Technological developments, barriers, challenges', as well as 'Towards a Future Internet, Global Initiative' (with US and Japanese approaches). See the programme.
April
- 12-17 April 2008
- NAB 2008 - National Association of Broadcasters: The world's largest electronic media show
- Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- 21-25 April 2008
- WWW 2008 - The 17th International World Wide Web Conference
- Beijing, China
- The World Wide Web Conference is a global event bringing together key researchers, innovators, decision-makers, technologists, business, and standards bodies working to shape the Web. The main theme of the conference is 'One World, One Web'. The conference will explore how Web access is moving from the desktop to cell phones and TV screens, and how most users are moving from passive browsing experiences on the Internet to active participation in building Web communities.
Visit also the dedicated page for WWW2006, were INFSO/E2 'Content and Knowledge" organised a two-day sessions: 'Semantic Technology - A European perspective' and 'The Next Wave of the Web'.
May
- 7-9 May 2008
- WIAMIS 2008 - The 9th International Workshop on Image for Multimedia Interactive Services
- Klagenfurt, Austria
- WIAMIS is one of the main international fora for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry working in all areas of image, video and audio applications, with a special focus on analysis. The IST project RUSHES is organising a special session dedicated to the challenges on multi-media indexing and retrieval of un-edited audio-visual footage.
- 14-16 May 2008
- IST Africa 2008 - The 3rd Annual Conference
- Windhoek, Namibia
- The event will bring together delegates from leading commercial, government & research organisations across Africa and from Europe, to bridge the Digital Divide by sharing knowledge, experience, lessons learnt and good practice. It will focus on Applied ICT research topics addressing major societal and economic challenges. The programme will combine strategic keynote presentations, technical and policy papers, case studies, workshops, an exhibition and social activities. It will also showcase results from projects currently funded at national and regional level in Africa and Europe as well as those funded under the ICT Programme of the European Commission.
- 15-17 May 2008
- FLAIRS 2008 - The 21st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
- Florida, USA
- FLAIRS-21 will feature technical papers, special tracks, and invited speakers. The special track: Logics, General Ontologies, Categorization and Semantic Annotation is intended to put together four subfields of IA: logics, ontologies, categorization and text annotation. Its aim is to provide an international forum for discussing the latest approaches in these related subfields, their relations to NLP and to AI and to gather a wide range of papers related to them.
- 18-22 May 2008
- SemTech 2008 - The 4th Annual Semantic Technology Conference
- San Jose, California, USA
- The conference is focused on the application of Semantic Technologies to Information Systems and the Web. It is designed to maximize cross-fertilization between those who are building semantically-based products and those who are implementing them. Therefore, we will consider research and/or academic treatments, vendor and/or analyst reports on the state of the commercial marketplace, and case study presentations from developers and corporate users. Interested practitioners, developers and researchers are hereby invited to present a paper. In particular presentations on currently implemented applications of semantic technology in both the enterprise and internet environments are welcome.
- 26-28 May 2008
- Data Mining, Protection, Detection and other Security Technologies 2008 - The 9th International Conference
- Cadiz, Spain
- Data Mining is seen more and more not only as a key technology in business, engineering and science but as one of the key features in several security technologies. This conference aims to become a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry, as well as from academia and public institutions (government and law enforcement agencies), who wish to present and find out the latest information and results in this strategic field of research.
- 28-30 May 2008
- 3DTV-CON 2008 - The 3DTV-Conference: The true vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D video
- Istanbul, Turkey
- The conference involves a wide range of research fields such as capturing 3D scenery, 3D image processing, data transmission and 3D displays. The objective is to provide a medium for pioneering researchers from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to come together, identify and discuss the current problems, share their recent research results, and pool their resources to further 3D vision research to new horizons. The IST 3DTV Network of Excellence is organising the conference. Please find the Call for Papers, deadline 11 January 2008. (PDF, 169KB)
- 28-30 May 2008
- COMMA'08 - The second International Conference on Computational Models of Arguments
- Toulouse, France
- The development of argumentation systems has become an increasingly important and exciting research topic in artificial intelligence, with research activities ranging from developing theoretical models, prototype implementations, and application studies. As a result of this interest in argumentation systems, the International Conference on Computational Models of Argument was started with the intension of being a regular forum in which research related to computational aspects of argumentation will be presented.
June
- 01-05 June 2008
- ESWC08 – The 5th European Semantic Web Conference
- Tenerife, Spain
- ESWC 2008 will present the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies. The conference will also feature a tutorial program, system descriptions and demos, a posters track, a Ph.D. symposium and a number of collocated workshops. The event is sponsored by the IST Projects: NeOn, OKKAM and LUISA. Find the ESWC 2008 preliminary program, and the following workshops and tutorials:
- IRSW 2008 – The 1st International Workshop on Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web, organised by the ICT project OKKAM.
- KRRSW 2008 – The 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Reuse and Reengineering over the Semantic Web, supported by the IST project NeOn.
- SemSearch 2008 – Semantic Search 2008 Workshop, supported by the IST projects X-MEDIA and NeOn, and the ICT project ACTIVE.
- SeMMA 2008 – First International Workshop on Semantic Metadata Management and Applications, supported by the IST project NeOn.
- SemWiki 2008 – The Wiki Way of Semantics: The 3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop, supported by the ICT project KIWI, and the IST project NEPOMUK.
- CISWeb 2008 – The 1st International Workshop on Collective Semantics: Collective Intelligence & the Semantic Web, sponsored by the ICT project WeKnowIt.
- NeOn Tutorial: Ontology Engineering and Plugin Development with the NeOn Toolkit.
- TAO Tutorial: Transitioning Legacy Applications to Ontologies: A Hands-on Tutorial.
- 9-11 June 2008
- ICA3PP-2008 – The 8th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing
- Agia Napa, Cyprus
- The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. The focus will be on architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications.
- 23-26 June 2008
- ICME 2008 – IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo
- Hannover, Germany
- This annual conference brings together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of multimedia. It will feature invited speakers, exhibits, special sessions, tutorials, and paper presentations. The special session topics will include Distributed Video Coding, Peer-to-Peer Networking, and Reconstruction of 3D models from CT and MRI. This event gives a good possibility for research labs and projects to show their results. Please find the Call for papers, deadline 24 December 2007. (PDF, 410KB)
- 28-30 June 2008
- CBMI-2008 - The sixth International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
- London, UK
- CBMI is the main international forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances, industrial needs and product developments in multimedia indexing, search, retrieval, navigation and browsing. The focus of this workshop is the integration of what could be regarded as unrelated disciplines including image processing, information retrieval, human computer integration and semantic web technology with industrial trends and commercial product development. The workshop is sponsored by the IST Projects: K-Space, MESH, RUSHES and X-Media.
July
- 3-4 July 2008
- EuroITV 2008 - European Interactive TV Conference
- Salzburg, Austria
- The annual conference features work on different aspects of interactive television, e.g. IPTV, mobile TV, digital content production, entertainment computing, usability and user experience evaluation, changes in technical requirements and infrastructure, future technologies. The special theme for the EuroITV 2008 conference is: Changing Television Environments.
- 13-17 July 2008
- AAAI-08 - The 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- AAAI-08 promote research in AI and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in related disciplines.
- 14-17 July 2008
- WORLDCOMP'08 – The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and applied Computing
- Las Vegas, USA
- This Congress is composed of 25 Joint Conferences, and is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.
- 20-25 July 2008
- SIGIR 2008 - The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
- Singapore
- SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR).
- 29 July – 1 August 2008
- VIE 2008 - The 5th International Conference on Visual Information Engineering: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Applications
- Xi'an, China
- This conference aims at bringing together leading international researchers, developers, creators, educators, and practitioners in networked media, image processing, machine vision, computer graphics, virtual and augmented environments, and visual communications to share our latest achievements and explore future directions and synergies. VIE 2008 will focus on fostering close links to China by both academia and industry. The event is co-sponsored by the IST projects: K-Space and RUSHES.
September
- 3-5 September 2008
- The TRIPLE-I - The Innovation Conference for Knowledge Management, New Media Technology and Semantic Systems
- Graz, Austria
- The TRIPLE-I Conference series started in 2007 as a joint venture of the conferences I-KNOW, I-MEDIA and I-SEMANTICS. It reflects the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management, new media technologies and semantic systems. This unique concept aims at bridging the gaps between the various communities and their technology fields. The conference focus is on application-oriented research with emphasis on information technologies.
- 4-5 September 2008
- 9th European Conference on Knowledge Management
- Southampton Solet University, UK
- Mini-track on Knowledge Management as a managerial tool in EU research programmes (PDF, 149KB)
- Please note that the deadline for extending papers has been extended by one month.
- 9-13 September 2008
- Reasoning Web 2008 – The fourth REWERSE Summer School
- Venice, Italy
- This REWERSE event will be held after the end of the IST project REWERSE. The focus will be on the actual use of Semantic Web rule languages in the Reasoning on the Web application fields such as Bioinformatics, Web Services, Multimedia, and Natural Language Processing. It will point out which Semantic Web ideas and techniques have actually been adopted so far, which were not (and why), and which application needs are still waiting to be tackled with semantic techniques. The Summer School addresses graduate students in Computer Science, and researchers in academia and industry interested in Semantic Web topics. Furthermore, there are already concrete plans to hold “Reasoning Web 2009” in Bozen-Bolzano in September 2009.
- 24-26 September 2008
- ESTC2008 – The 2nd European Semantic Technology Conference
- Vienna, Austria
- This is an event for those who want to explore the full semantic power. For the 2nd time the dialogue between technology and industry is coming closer and closer.
- 29 September - 2 October
- Broadband World Forum Europe 2008
- Brussels, Belgium
October
- 20-24 October 2008
- SASO 2008 – The 2nd International Conference on Self-organizing Systems
- Venice, Italy
- This year edition is specifically focused at improving our understanding of the properties inherent to self-adaptation and self-organization, a necessary requirement for the effective engineering and building of usable self-adaptive and self-organizing systems. Call for paper deadline: 5 May 2008.
- 22-24 October 2008
- eChallenges e-2008 Conference
- Stockholm, Sweden
- The goal of e-2008 is to stimulate rapid take-up of Research and Technology Development (RTD) results by industry and in particular SMEs, and help open up the European Research Area (ERA) to the rest of the world.
- 26-30 October 2008
- ISWC 2008 – The 7th International Semantic Web Conference
- Karlsruhe, Germany
- ISWC is a major international forum where visionary and state-of-the-art research of all aspects of the Semantic Web is presented. To foster the exchange of ideas and collaboration, ISWC brings together researchers in relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, web engineering, information systems, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. ISWC 2008 will include a Research track, Semantic Web In Use track, a poster and demonstration track, a doctoral consortium, and the Semantic Web Challenge. Find the ISWC'08 Welcome presentation and the ISWC'07 Videos.
- Co-located at ISWC 2008 are RR2008 and FOIS 2008.
- 31 October - 2 November 2008
- RR2008 – The Second International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
- Karlsruhe, Germany
- The conference aims to be the major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. It is co-located with ISWC 2008, and supported by the IST project REWERSE.
- 31 October - 3 November 2008
- FOIS 2008 – The 5th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
- Saarbrücken, Germany
- FOIS is a forum in which to explore the interplay between the theoretical insights of formal ontology and their application to information systems and emerging semantic technologies. It is co-located with ISWC 2008, and supported by the IST project NEPOMUK.
November
- 13-16 November 2008
- ICDIM 2008 – Third International Conference on Digital Information Management
- London, UK
- The ICDIM is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The conference intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology.
December
- 2-4 December 2008
- IMS 2008 – Information Management Solutions
- London, UK
- IMS is the leading event for business, marketing, web and IT professionals needing to drive business performance through effective information management.
2009
January
- 8-11 January 2009
- CES 2009 – Annual Tradeshow for Consumer Technology
- Las Vegas, USA
- The international CES reaches across global markets, connects the industry and enables CE innovations to grow and thrive.
March
- 3-8 March 2009
- CeBIT 2009 - The leading business event for the digital world
- Hannover, Germany
July
- 11-17 July 2009
- IJCAI 2009 - Biennially International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Pasadena, California, USA
- IJCAI is the main international gathering of researchers in AI.