Call for Workshop

1. Special Session on Natural Language Processing

Scope and Objectives:

Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence.

This special session will provide researchers and engineers a forum in the areas of NLP to exchange their new ideas, which may contribute to boost this area.

The Session topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Algorithm and theory for natural language processing
Language resource for natural language processing
Application issues of NLP
Other topics of relevance in NLP application etc.

Sessions Organizers:

Dr. Peng Jin

School of Computer Science, Leshan Normal University

No.778 Binhe Rd. Shizhong District.614004, Leshan China.

Email: jandp@pku.edu.cn

Dr. Yunfang Wu

Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University

No. 5 Yiheyuan Rd. Haidian District. 100871, Beijing, China.

Email: wuyf@pku.edu.cn

2. International Workshop on Security and Safety in Network & Information System

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Scope and Objectives:

With the rapid development of information security, smart system and its applications, it is important to design methods, an apparatus, and a system for enhancing application reliability of a script-based service. The method includes: analyzing data source information of a script-based service; obtaining current state information of the data source of the script-based service according to the analysis result; and judging the availability state of the script-based service according to the obtained current state information. With the technical solution of the present invention, a related analysis function is added to a script-based service server to analyze related data source information in the script-based service logic and mark the script-based service. In this way, a user can know the state of the script-based service when requesting a service, thus avoiding unnecessary service trials, saving system resources, and improving the user experience.

This international workshop aims to identify and explore the different issues and challenges related to system reliability, smart system and application in network & information system. Such as, what are the benefits or inconvenience of mobility on security? What are the appropriate mobility models to have a good level of security? How can we build up trusted platforms and trustworthy systems for wireless and mobile networks? How can we authenticate users in open wireless networks? How can we build up security protocol for resource-limited devices? How can we build up a secure architecture for wireless and mobile networks? In addition, novel ideas and research works from end consumers’ perspective, such as privacy, trustworthiness and network survivability, will be embraced by the session.

The Session topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Security Issues in Wireless & Mobile Networks
Key Management in Wireless & Mobile Network
Secure Multicasting/Broadcasting
RFID Mutual Authentication
Public-Key Crypto Algorithm
Secret Sharing Scheme;
Security in Sensor Networks
New Ideas about Information security, Smart System and Network security
System reliability and application
Software system reliability and safety
Safety-critical system and its application
Intelligent information processing

Sessions Organizers:

Dr. Xinhong Hei

School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology,

P.O. Box666, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, P. R. China.

Email: heixinhng@xaut.edu.cn

Dr. Qingqi Pei

State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Network , Xidian University.

P.O. Box338, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, P. R. China.

Email: qqpei@mail.xidian.edu.cn

Dr. Yulong Shen

State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Network , Xidian University.

P.O. Box338, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, P. R. China.

Email: ylshen@ mail.xidian.edu.cn

3. Special Session on Computational Intelligence and Security in Digital Image Applications

Scope and Objectives:

Image processing and its applications involve many computational intelligence and security problems. It's an important branch of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

This special session will provide researchers and engineers in the field of image processing and its applications a chance to exchange their new ideas, which may contribute much to boosting related theoretical researches and industrial applications.

The Session topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Image representation and feature extraction
Information security in image processing and applications
Image classification and annotation
Other related topics in image processing and applications.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Due: August 15, 2013

Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 30, 2013

Camera-Ready Paper Submission Due: September 10, 2013

Sessions Organizers:

Dr. Zhong-Qiu Zhao

7/F, Department of Computer Science, Sir Run Run Shaw Building,

Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.

School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, China.

No. 193 Tunxi Rd. 230009, Hefei, China.

Email: zhongqiuzhao@gmail.com

Dr. Donghui Hu

School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, China.

No. 193 Tunxi Rd. 230009, Hefei, China.

Email: hudh@hfut.edu.cn