[AISWorld] IRI 2012 Call for Participation

[Mohd Anwar]

====CALL FOR PARTICIPATION====
IEEE IRI 2012
13th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration
8-10 August 2012
Las Vegas, USA
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri2012/

==IRI 2012 HIGHLIGHTS==
We have an exciting program designed to appeal to researchers and
practitioners from academia, industry, and government. It includes:
* Three keynote talks
* One Panel focused on BIGDATA
* Four special Sessions: power and energy, robotics, energy and education
* Presentations of research papers
* Four Workshops related to: Social Computing, Data Integration and
Mining, Recognizing Inference in Text, and Health Informatics

==KEYNOTE SPEAKERS==
Title: Outline of a Restriction-Centered Theory of Reasoning and
Computation in an Environment of Uncertainty and Imprecision
Keynote Speaker: Lotfi A. Zadeh,,Professor in the Graduate School,
Computer Science Division
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Director of Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Title: Information neighborhoods for visualization and monitoring
strategies of real stochastic behavior trajectories: computational aspects
Keynote Speaker: Christopher Terence John Dodson, Emeritus Professor of
Mathematics
School of Mathematics, Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Title: Knowledge synthesizing and reusing by cognitive computing Moving
beyond "prescriptive programming" and Von Neumann
Keynote Speaker: Guy Paillet, Founder & Senior Researcher at CogniMem
Technologies Inc. Partner at Norlitech LLC, Co-founder at General Vision
Inc.

==PANEL==
Panel Title: Using Information Re-Use and Integration Principles in Big Data
Panel Moderator:  Gordon Lee, San Diego State University
Panelists:	Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
Stuart Rubin, SSC PAC, Navy
Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University
Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas
James McCaffrey, Microsoft

The IEEE IRI conference serves as a forum for researchers and
practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss,
and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world
solutions. This conference explores three major tracks: information reuse,
information integration, and reusable systems. Information reuse explores
theory and practice of optimizing representation; information integration
focuses on innovative strategies and algorithms for applying integration
approaches in novel domains; and reusable systems focus on developing and
deploying models and corresponding processes that enable Information Reuse
and Integration to play a pivotal role in enhancing decision-making
processes in various application domains. The conference includes, but is
not limited to, the areas listed below:
* Large Scale Data and System Integration
* Component-Based Design and Reuse
* Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies
* Database Integration
* Structured/Semi-structured Data
* Middleware & Web Services
* Reuse in Software Engineering
* Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
* Sensory and Information Fusion
* Reuse in Modeling & Simulation
* Automation, Integration and Reuse Across Applications
* Information Security & Privacy
* Survivable Systems & Infrastructures
* AI & Decision Support Systems; Heuristic Optimization and Search
* Knowledge Acquisition and Management
* Fuzzy and Neural Systems
* Soft/Evolutionary Computing
* Case-Based Reasoning
* Natural Language Understanding
* Knowledge Management and E-Government
* Command & Control Systems (C4ISR)
* Human-Machine Information Systems
* Biomedical & Healthcare Systems
* Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection
* Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering
* Space and Robotic Systems
* Multimedia Systems
* Service-Oriented Architectures
* Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems
* Information Integration in Grid, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
Environment
* Systems of Systems
* Semantic Web and Emerging Applications
* Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments

If you plan to attend, please hurry up on travel arrangements. The
discounted conference rate is available at the Tuscany Suites & Casino
(http://www.tuscanylv.com/). Information on the conference program and
registration is available at: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri2012/
See you in Las Vegas!
IEEE IRI 2012 organization committee




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Mohd Anwar, Ph.D.
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh