by Flemming Nielson and Ender Yüksel
The third annual meeting of the ERCIM Working Group on Models and Logics for Quantitative Analysis (MLQA) took place on Monday 5 September 2011 as part of the 22nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2011) organized by the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. More than twenty researchers, from senior researchers to PhD students, attended this meeting.
by Erwin Schoitsch and Amund Skavhaug
The annual ERCIM/EWICS DECOS Dependable Cyber-physical Systems Workshop (formerly “Dependable Embedded Systems Workshop”) was held in Naples, Italy on 22 September 2011 in conjunction with SAFECOMP 2011. The workshop was organized by the ERCIM Dependable Embedded Systems Working Group, together with EWICS TC7 (European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems Technical Committee 7) and the DECOS Interest Group (DIG) “Dependable Embedded Components and Systems, an IP in FP6”.
by Gareth J. F. Jones and Martha Larson
MediaEval is an international multimedia benchmarking initiative offering innovative new tasks to the multimedia community. MediaEval 2011 featured tasks incorporating social media search, analysis of affect and location placing of images.
by Nicola Ferro
Since 2000, CLEF has played a successful role in stimulating research and promoting evaluation in a wide range of key areas in the information access and retrieval domain. In 2010, a radical innovation and renewal process led to the establishment of the CLEF Initiative, whose mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with emphasis on multilingual and multimodal information
by Joaquim Jorge
INESC-ID and The IFIP Technical Committee on Human-Computer Interaction (TC13) closed yet another successful instance of its bi-annual event last September.