The Ensembl project (http://www.ensembl.org) is a comprehensive genome information system featuring an integrated set of genome annotation, databases and other information for chordate and selected model organism and disease vector genomes. As of release 47 (October 2007), Ensembl fully supports 35 species, with preliminary support for six additional species. New species in the past year includ...

ECCBR 2008 is the 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) following a series of successful European conferences and workshops. This four-day conference will be held at the University of Trier in Germany from 1–4 September 2008. The conference programme will include invited talks, oral and poster presentations as well as workshops (see separate calls) on both fundamental and applie...

Die sechste ANTS (International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence) fand 2008 vom 22. bis 24. September in Brüssel statt. Die ANTS ist eine Veranstaltung die bereits seit 1998 alle zwei Jahre als Treffpunkt für Forscher aus Industrie und Wissenschaft dient und von Marco Dorigo, dem Initiator der ANTS Konferenzreihe und Hauptverantwortlichem, sowie von Mauro Birattari u...

In this paper we present a synthesis of work performed on tow information retrieval models: Bayesian network information retrieval model witch encode (in) dependence relation between terms and possibilistic network information retrieval model witch make use of necessity and possibility measures to represent the fuzziness of pertinence measure. It is known that the use of a general Bayesian netw...

The European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS) is an annual workshop that takes place at changing places in Europe and aims at encouraging and supporting activity in the research and development of multi-agent systems, in academic and industrial efforts. The workshop is primarily intended as a European forum at which researchers and those interested in activities relating to research in t...

In der ersten Märzwoche ist jedes Jahr alles ganz anders in der Familienbildungsstätte im Heinrich-Lübke-Haus in Günne am Möhnesee. Wo letzte Woche noch Kinder spielten, bewegen sich nun Wissenschaftlern aus aller Welt. Der gesamte Komplex ist von Informatikern, über Biologen, Psychologen und Kognitionswissenschaftler bis zu Philosophen übernommen worden. Alle interessieren sich für Forschung a...