Programme

 

Day 1 - January 22, 2009
Inaugural Session - 9:00 Hrs to 10:30 Hrs       Keynote Title: Intelligent Media: Promises and Challenges       Keynote Abstract:       Intelligent processing of multimedia promises to enhance many application areas including mobile computing, global information discovery, and human computer interaction by increasing the speed, effectiveness, and quality of interaction. Recent advances have improved our ability to support multimodal input integration, coordinated multimedia presentation design, as well as combined text, graphics, audio, and video understanding.       Exciting new possibilities include multimedia question/answering, cross media summarization and personalization, global media analysis, human behaviour understanding, and natural engagement (e.g., speech, gaze, gesture) with computers using lifelike characters across media, languages, and cultures.         This presentation will share some of these possibilities, outline remaining challenges, and point directions forward.           For Presentations and Photographs, Click Here	Inauguration by       Mr. Alexius Collette   CEO, Philips Electronics India   Ltd., Bangalore       Inaugural Keynote Speaker:       Dr. Mark Maybury   Executive Director,   Information Technology   Division, MITRE Corporation,   USA       Summit Chair:       Dr. P. Anandan   Managing Director   Microsoft Research India   Bangalore
Session 1 - 11:00 Hrs to 12:45 Hrs           Session Theme: Multimedia Information Access       Growing popularity of YouTube, Flickr and others exemplify the increasing importance of multimedia on the web. Advances in content-based image/audio/video retrieval, not withstanding, the issue of understanding user intent (semantic querying) continues to pose challenges. Semantic querying demands novel content extraction and indexing techniques- the focus of several premier research conferences.  Other pressing challenges include enhancing user experience through intuitive and multimodal interfaces. Understanding the user, the types of responses expected, and the technology challenges will be the focus on this session.       This session will -             ● Examine the issues in  multimedia  access       ● Users intent , queries and expectations       ● Semantic querying vs. metadata       ● Alternate approaches to Indexing and retrieving         multimedia – speech to text conversion and indexing         approach       ● Personalized multimedia information access       ● Technological challenges in rich multimedia         experiences           Keynote Abstract           Digital libraries (DLs) in general and technical, medical or cultural preservation applications in particular offer a rich set of multimedia objects like audio, music, images, videos,  and also 3D models. However, instead of handling these objects consistently as regular documents - in the same way we treat textual Documents - most applications handle them differently. Considering that textual documents are only one media type among many, it’s clear that this type of document is handled quite specially. A full-text search engine lets users retrieve a specific document based on its content that typically is, one or more words that appear in it. Content-based retrieval of other media types is an active research area, and, e.g., in the case of 3D documents, only pilot applications exist. The deficits in handling non-textual documents are especially annoying in the present situation, where the proportion of classical text (journals, books, and so on) is decreasing.           It’s ever easier to create a digital image, a video, or a 3D object, but our libraries, be they classical public libraries or company-internal repositories, are not equipped with the tools to provide all the services for nonstandard documents that are available for books, journals, or technical specification sheets. As more and more artifacts in the technical and engineering world are digitally born, the content categorization, abstraction, and adequate representation, which by the way must coexist with long-term archival demands, is vital to all disciplines. In the case of 3D documents, numerous outstanding research problems are on the agenda and the talk will address a few of them along with first and promising results.                       For Presentations and Photographs, Click Here	Keynote Speaker:       Prof. Dieter Fellner   Director   Institute for Computer   Graphics Research (IGD)   Germany       Panelists:       Dr. Sandya Prasad   Director, BEA Oracle       Prof. Shridhar Iyer   Associate Professor   IIT Bombay       Dr. Shailesh Kumar   Senior Scientist   Multi-MediaSciences and   Information Sciences Group   Yahoo! Labs       Anchor:       Mr. Srikanth Iyer   Co-Founder and COO   Edurite Technologies
Session 2 - 14:15 Hrs to 16:00 Hrs           Session Theme: Mobile Information Access       Key Issues           With the stupendous growth of mobile communication, user demands have moved towards mobility and ubiquity for content access. Adding mobility to the content services that have become popular on the Internet –audio (iTunes), video (Youtube) or text (WebPages), and moving from ecommerce to m-commerce is a natural progression. Content providers and technologists are working on a host of issues – from intelligent network services to content discovery on mobile sets to revenue models to regulatory models.       This session will -             ● Mobile Content Discovery: How do we facilitate finding mobile         content?  How different it is from the web?  Will it be more voice         command driven and less of URL typing?       ● Mobile Digital Rights Management issues: Protecting content while         keeping it easily accessible by consumers demands careful balancing.       ● Mobile Search Experience: Do we see a future where a context-         aware, server-driven system will emerge, where the network will         push relevant and useful content to users?         ● Mobile Access business models: How do we enable a broad spectrum         of business models such as subscription, rental, pay-per-view, preview         and super-distribution, applicable digital content types and range of         formats?               Keynote Abstract:               The number of mobile phone subscribers is approaching 4 billion today with over a billion phones sold each year. While the vast majority of phones sold are basic mobile phones, an increasing number of them are smartphones that are programmable. For example, 115 million out of the 1 billion phones sold worldwide in 2007 were smartphones; the percentage of mobile smartphones sold is projected to go up to 50% in North America by 2012. Smartphones, in addition to being used as phones, are primarily used today like mini PCs for accessing email and the Internet. However, smartphones are much more powerful devices and can be viewed as "computing, communication and sensing" in a package. Each smartphone is capable of performing a variety of sensing tasks using its communication radios, GPS, accelerometer, microphone, camera and other sensors increasingly embedded in the device. The sensors enable the device to get rich contextual information that can assist in delivering a suite of relevant information to the mobile user that would not be possible otherwise.           Location is a prime example of context that can be obtained using various sensors on the mobile phones. For example, mobile smartphones with GPS can derive accurate absolute location information while phones without GPS can still obtain coarse-grained location information by sensing cellular signals. Moreover, relative location information can be obtained simply by sensing for WiFi or Bluetooth signals and can also provide context for interesting applications. Apart from location, other contextual information that can be sensed on mobile smartphones include audio (microphone), video (camera), motion (accelerometers), etc. In this talk, the speaker provides examples of novel applications that exploit the sensors on the mobile phone in order to deliver rich and useful information – information ranging from advertisements to location of potholes on roads! Finally, the speaker touches upon work on improving user interface for information access on mobile phones.                          For Presentations and Photographs, Click Here	Keynote Speaker:       Dr. Ram Ramjee   Senior Researcher   Microsoft Research India   Bangalore       Panelists:       Mr. Navneet Singh   Head of Mobile Engineering   Google India       Mr. N. Srinivasa Rao   Vice-President - Engineering   Services   Celstream Technologies   Pvt. Ltd.       Mr. Hareesh Ramanna   Industrial Consultant       Mr. Narasimha Suresh   Founder and Chief   Executive Officer   TELiBrahma       Anchor:       Dr. Bhaskar Harita   Wireless and Media   Consultant
Session 3 - 16:30 Hrs to 18:15 Hrs           Session Theme: Multilingual Information Access       Keynote Issues           Multilingual issues range from relatively simple tasks such as standardized coding (e.g. UTF-8) and internationalization to state-of-the-art machine translation.  There has been significant progress in cross-lingual information retrieval.   This session will examine the impact of multilingual content on existing access needs, new types of applications calling for synthesis of results from different language sources, as well as technology availability and gaps.         This session will -             ● How do we effectively deliver multilingual information to the user?       ● How do we facilitate the illiterate, non-English speakers in rural areas         fully leverage the available information, in pursuit of their livelihood?        ● How do we differently deliver a user query (e.g. spoken), interpret         and/or translate in multiple stages to access information.       ● How to make effective use of machine translation, both at the query         and result stage.               Keynote Abstract           Multilingual information access (MLIA) is a multidisciplinary area in which methodologies and tools developed in the fields of information retrieval, natural language processing and human-computer interfaces converge.  MLIA addresses more focused information access needs beyond ranked document retrieval; it calls for additional post retrieval processing to enable users to make sense of the retrieved documents. This additional processing may take the form of machine translation of snippets, summarization and subsequent translation of summaries and/or information extraction.             MLIA helps to facilitate the illiterate, non-English speakers in rural areas to fully leverage web content, in pursuit of their livelihood.   Effective multilingual and multimodal user interfaces employing automatic speech recognition can overcome the limitations posed by illiteracy as well as inability to speak English.   Other applications of MLIA include providing effective voting coverage, providing online medical benefits, and generating cultural awareness.   Besides these social motivations, there are several e-commerce applications (e.g. EBay in Chinese) that benefit from robust MLIA.  Providing multilingual support for the intelligence community and military assists is essential to combat counterterrorism.           The speaker identifies various key enabling technologies required for MLIA, which includes Language Resources; Cross Lingual Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, Multilingual Text Extraction and Mining; Multilingual Speech Recognition. The speaker notes that MLIA involves a convergence of technologies that need to be combined through effective user interfaces.  Further, it also requires a convergence of the academic and commercial worlds, as well as dedicated research funding.  Noting the fact that the Asia-Pacific region has become a hotbed of activity in MLIA due to the proliferation of languages in these countries, the author notes that the increased globalization of the world in all areas, including economic, socio-cultural, and entertainment aspects as well as mobile devices such as the Iphone are sparking renewed interest in this area.                       For Presentations and Photographs, Click Here	Keynote Speaker:       Prof. Rohini Srihari   CEO, Janya Inc., USA &   Associate Professor   Dept. of Computer Science   & Engineering   University at Buffalo   State University of New York       Panelists:       Dr. U.B. Pavanaja   CEO   Vishva Kannada Softech       Dr. A. Kumaran   Head, Multilingual Systems   Research Group   Microsoft Research India   Bangalore       Prof. Vasudeva Varma   Associate Professor   IIIT Hyderabad       Anchor:       Dr. A.G.Ramakrishnan   Associate Professor   Dept. of Electrical   Engineering   Indian Institute of   Science   Bangalore
19:00 Hrs onwards Thomson Innovation Award Ceremony Keynote Title: The use of patent analytics in measuring innovation Keynote Abstract:   The use of patent analytics to measure innovation is an established practice which is used by governments, academia and industry to inform policy decisions, track trends and for technological and commercial intelligence purposes. This use of patents to measure innovation is built on a number of research findings. For example, it has been shown that a positive correlation exists between the number of applications for patents and R&D expenditure by industry1 and by country/region2. This research briefing describes the techniques used to measure certain aspects of patenting activity by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) headquartered in India. The techniques are used to identify the most innovative SMEs in India in order to determine the winners of the Innovation Award 2009 from the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters to be awarded at InfoVision 2009, Bangalore.   For Presentations and Photographs, Click Here	Keynote Speaker:   Mr. Bob Stembridge Thomson Reuters, UK   Giving away of Thomson Reuters Innovation Award by Mr. N.S. Parthasarathy Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer MindTree Ltd. Chair:   Dr. A.R. Upadhya Director National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore
Day 2 - January 23, 2009
Session 4 - 9:00 Hrs to 10:45 Hrs Session Theme: Consumer Created Content Key Issues   The rate of growth of consumer generated content (CCC) has surpassed that of traditional content.  Huge volumes of CCC, has made it worthwhile to explore the issues of access of such data.  This session will examine information access needs and applications that are emerging due to the novel properties exhibited by this new type of content.   This session will - ● Accessing Content in weblogs, chat rooms, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, customer reviews, etc. ● Use and usability of CCC:  Examine how such content is used, and made usable and accessible. ● Newer type of access needs of CCC :  The collaborative nature of such data leads to newer types of access needs - to automatically nature of update calendars and address books based on information exchanged in social networking sites ● CCC mining for prediction: Monitor blog discussions for imminent turmoil due to social, cultural or religious differences. ● Issue of validity and veracity of CCC. Keynote Abstract Collective intelligence is a form of knowledge resulted from collaboration among users.  Web2.0 sites, with their active user participation and rich interactivity, provide the perfect setting for conducting research on mining collective intelligence for realizing innovative applications.  In this talk, we will focus on collective intelligence that can be derived from ratings data generated by users as they review objects at Web 2.0 sites.  While users give rating scores as a simple way to evaluate objects, the rating scores are inherently biased by the user behaviors.  Through collective intelligence, we aim to uncover these behaviors so as to understand the rating scores and to give the rated objects a fairer evaluation.   We show that computational models can be developed to discover these behaviors from the rating networks.  The experimental performance of these models on both the real and synthetic datasets will also be shown.       For Presentations and Photographs, Click Here	Keynote Speaker:       Prof. Ee-Peng Lim   School of Information   Systems, Singapore   Management University   Singapore       Panelists:       Mr. John Blossom   President   Shore Communications,   USA       Ms. Manjula Kandala   Manager TechPub   VM Ware       Mr. Vivek Karambil   Director, Interwoven       Anchor:       Prof. Shalini R. Urs   Executive Director   International School of   Information Management   University of Mysore
Session 5 - 11:15 Hrs to 13:00 Hrs Session Theme: eScience, eResearch and Cyber Infrastructure   Today science facilities such as satellites, telescopes, lasers; synchrotrons routinely generate huge (in terabytes) data every day. Scientists require efficient access to geographically distributed leading edge data storage, computational and network resources in order to manage and analyse these data in a timely and cost effective way. E-Science builds the infrastructure that facilitates such data analysis and management. Complexity of software and backend infrastructural issues, data management and data curation are the two major challenges of eScience.   This Session will - ● Data Access Issues: How do we facilitate accessing of data from different organizations on heterogeneous systems in a uniform way? ● Data Integration and annotation (Semantic provenance): How do we develop Domain-specific provenance information (metadata) framework to automatically interpret, integrates, and process data from industrial-scale experiment protocols? ● Data Curation: The curation of digital scientific data will in future require a multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach. How do we ensure the continued understand ability and usability of the digital objects ? Keynote Abstract   The revolutionary changes in technologies brought the scientific and engineering communities to embrace new e-infrastructures/e-science technologies such as grid compuing and Cloud Computing. Governments are realizing the importance of grids as a means of enabling scientific progress and enhancing national competitiveness. GARUDA is a collaboration of science researchers and experimenters on a nation wide grid of computational nodes, mass storage and scientific instruments that aims to provide the technological advances required to enable data and compute intensive science for the 21st century. GARUDA aims at strengthening and advancing scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid computing technologies. The strategic objectives of GARUDA are to: Create a test bed for the research and engineering of technologies, architectures, standards and applications in Grid Computing; Bring together all potential research, development and user groups who can  contribute to  Grid computing; Create the foundation for next generation grids and address long term research issues in Grid computing. Applications of national importance that require aggregation of geographically distributed resources are deployed and Demonstrated on  GARUDAGrid,  such as Disaster Management and Flood forecasting system and Bio-informatics Portals that are characterized by intensive computing and data access requirements. This talk is to give an introduction on e-infrastuctures world wide, an overview of Grid Computing, and present as  a case study GARUDA Project.       For Presentations and Photographs, Click Here	Keynote Speaker:       Dr. B.B. Prahlad Rao   CDAC, Bangalore       Panelists:       Mr. Zakir Thomas   Project Director, OSDD   Head, Director General's   Technical Cell, CSIR       Mr. Subramanya S.   Director STSD   HP STSD       Mr. Bruno Goveas   Head, Marketing and   Product Management   Akamai Technologies       Anchor:       Mr. M.N. Vidyashankar, IAS   Chief Electoral Officer &   Ex-officio Principal   Secretary to Govt.,   DPAR (Elections),   Karnataka
Session 6 - 14:30 Hrs to 16:15 Hrs           Session Theme - Enterprise Content and Communication       Key Issues       The creation, communication, use and archiving  of  information within an organization in all its forms – not just the Internet oriented/ web based one but data spread across the entire organization  poses unique challenges of its own to the content manager and organizational communication specialist.  Enterprise Content Management (ECM) covers document management, workflow and collaboration management, and content type ranging from B2E (business to employee) to B2B to B2G (government) to E2B.  According to Gartner the ECM is approximately USD 3 billion. Data integration across different sources appears to be the grand challenge facing the ECM community.       The Session will -             ● Integration approaches and tools including data warehouse ETL tools,         virtual integration; Message mapping middleware; object to relational         mapping ; document management and portal management       ● Integration technologies focusing on self describing XML document         approaches, schema standardization, data cleansing, schema         mapping and matching       ● Newer challenges posed by new tools and technologies         such as cloud computing, web services; social networking and         other web 2.0 platforms               Keynote Abstract           For the past two decades, public and private sector executives have struggled to develop effective ways of sharing what their organizations know. Driven by concerns such as downsizing, the impending retirement of baby boomers, terrorism, the troubling economy, and a host of other organizational challenges, many leaders have sought ways to share knowledge with both internal and external stakeholders. Despite the best efforts of many innovative leaders, few organizations have achieved the desired level of knowledge sharing. This is certainly not due to a lack of energy, enthusiasm, or excitement on the part of executives.           Today, ample resources exist for the executive who wishes to manage their organizational intellectual property - many proven tools and techniques exist to manage today’s knowledge assets. But what about the future? Will today’s baby-boomer based practices pass the test of time? Are our current processes the most relevant ones for the next generation of organizational leaders? This talk will focus on what we should be doing now (or soon) to ensure the next generation of organizational leaders know what we knew. In other words, are we creating organizational memories today, which will be useful to the leaders who follow us?                 For Presentations and Photographs, Click Here	Keynote Speaker:       Prof. John Girard   Associate Professor   Minot State University, USA       Panelists:       Mr. Jagdish Vasishtha   Managing Director   Injoos Web Solutions Ltd.       Mrs. Usha Mohan   Managing Director   Triumph India Software   Services, Bangalore       Ms. Vasudha Rangarajan   Project Manager   EMC       Anchor:       Mr. Mahesh Vyas   Managing Director & CEO   CMIE
Vision Talk and Wrap-up: 16:45 to 17:45 Hrs           Vision Talk Title: Information Management: Challenges, Opportunities     and Technology Trends                 For Presentations and Photographs, Click Here	Vision Talk by       Dr. C. Mohan   IBM Fellow and IBM India Chief Scientist       Chair       Mr. M.N. Vidyashankar,   IAS   Chief Electoral Officer &   Ex-officio Principal   Secretary to Govt.,   DPAR (Elections),   Karnataka