KUPA'07 is the First International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Discovery for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications, which is organized in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA’07) in Regensburg, Germany, on 3-7 September 2007.

Description

Due to recent advancements in communication technology, computing, and storage resources, ubiquitous and pervasive applications are becoming increasingly popular. However, the large scale integration and examination of heterogeneous and independent data and knowledge sources has created new issues and challenges for knowledge management and acquisition.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together academics and industry professionals to discuss recent progress and challenges in knowledge management and discovery for ubiquitous, pervasive, distributed, and heterogeneous environments.

Topics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
  • Knowledge management and discovery for ubiquitous, pervasive, distributed, and/or heterogeneous environments
  • Data mining in sensor networks, mobile and embedded systems
  • Mining temporal and spatial data
  • Data stream mining
  • Sequential pattern mining
  • Link analysis and community discovery
  • Visual data mining
  • Mining from data warehouses
  • Machine learning techniques for distributed environments and applications
  • Agent-based architectures for knowledge management and discovery
  • Knowledge integration and data fusion
  • Security, privacy, and trust issues
  • Applications in communication, internet, industry automation, medicine, multimedia, etc.

Important Dates

Submission of full papers: April 15, 2007
Authors notification: April 30, 2007
Camera-ready copy: June 1, 2007
Author registration: June 1, 2007
KUPA workshop: September 7, 2007

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original papers that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, including web publication. Papers should be submitted in PDF. Submissions must conform to IEEE Computer Society format (two columns, letter size 8.5"x11") and should not exceed 5 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). Check the DEXA website (http://www.dexa.org/guidelines) for more details on formatting guidelines. All submissions will be refereed by at least 2 reviewers, and will be handled electronically through the EDAS system).

By submitting a paper, the author(s) agree to abide by the decision of the Program chairs, and at least one of the authors of each accepted paper would participate in the meeting and present the paper in person (in Regensburg, Germany) should the paper be accepted.

Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and be indexed by the DBLP and the EI.

Workshop Organizers

Honorary General Chairs:
  • T. Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
  • Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Program Chairs (Contact: kupa07 [AT] cs.umanitoba.ca): Program Committee:
  • Abdelhamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
  • Nauman Chaudhry, University of New Orleans, USA
  • Hakan Duman, Essex University, UK
  • Imran Khan, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • Frederique Laforest, LIRIS Lab., Lyon, France
  • Michael Marschollek, Technical University, Germany
  • Paul McCullagh, University of Ulster, UK
  • Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
  • Zhenghao Shi, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Haipeng Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
  • Andreas Wichert, Universidade Technica de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Yuni Xia, Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. Indianapolis, USA
  • Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan
  • Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Web: www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~kupa07