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News
RVO Task force "Technologies of RVO information structures" (IPI RAS) news:

1) AstroGrid installations at IPI RAS and at the Joint Supercomputer Center are updated.

2) Data mining facilities of Weka oriented on usage of ensemble of classification algorithms (called Ensembled Weka) has been incorporated into AstroGrid as CEA-application.

3) A work on extension of AstroGrid with Semantic Information Integration Capability is under way. The paradigm used is a "scientific problem driven" approach that assumes creation of "subject mediators".

The first prototype of the mediation infrastructure has been developed and checked applying it to a distant galaxy discovery problem. Details...

ADBIS’2007 Key note presentations are available:

Timos K. Sellis, Alkis Simitsis
ETL Workflows: From Formal Specification to Optimization (.pps)

Gerhard Weikum (Max Plank Institute on Informatics)
Harvesting and Organizing Knowledge from the Web (.pps)

Paolo Atzeni (Università Roma Tre)
Schema and Data Translation (.pps)

Events
May 20 - 21, 2008

Symposium "Ontological modeling: state and directions of investgation and application" Zvenigorod, Russia (http://synthesis.ipi.ac.ru/synthesis/ontology)

Participation by invitation

October 12 - 16, 2008

10th National Russian Research Conference "Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods and Technologies" (RCDL'2008) is planned in Dubna, Russia (http://www.rcdl.ru/)

Submission of Extended Abstracts: April 15, 2008

September 6 - 10, 2008

12th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2008), is planned in Pori, Finland (http://www.mii.lt/ADBIS2008)

Submission of papers: March 01, 2008

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