Special Issue on "Requirement Engineering Processes in Information Systems" - IJBIS

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Int. J. of Business Information Systems

Special Issue on: "Requirement Engineering Processes in Information Systems"

Guest Editors:
Dr. Saqib Saeed, Bahria University, Pakistan
Dr. Sameer Abufardeh, North Dakota State University, USA
Dr. Zaigham Mahmood, University of Derby, UK

Information systems (IS) play a crucial role in decision making by providing appropriate information storage, analysis and distribution support for managers. Most information system projects fail due to weak requirement engineering processes. Problems such as inadequate requirement elicitation, poor requirement analysis and negotiation processes and lack of appropriate requirement management practices hinder the realisation of effective information systems.

Furthermore, diversity in IS application areas has emphasised the need for innovative requirement engineering (RE) methodologies tailored to the needs of application domains. Traditional requirement engineering literature has mainly focused on bespoke development and market-driven requirement engineering has gained little attention.

The objectives of this special issue are twofold: (i) to invite ideas, suggestions and recommendations and publish high quality contributions examining the inherent issues in effective requirement engineering processes and (ii) to invite case studies and disseminate best practices employed by organisations, project managers and practitioners.

We intend to present contributions that will be useful and of interest to academicians from a range of fields including information systems, software engineering and system engineering.

Subject Coverage

We invite contributions with a special focus on computing discipline. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Market-driven requirement engineering (MDRE) vs. requirement engineering in bespoke systems
• Requirement elicitation approaches for information system development
• Quality in requirement engineering processes
• Requirement engineering and software standards
• Requirement triage and advanced requirement prioritisation techniques
• Requirement analysis methodologies
• Requirement traceability
• Requirement management challenges
• Ethnography and requirement elicitation
• Requirement validation and verification mechanisms
• Requirement specification approaches in practice
• Relevant tools, frameworks and methodologies
• Case studies

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. Please read our information on preparing and submitting articles.

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an email to the following:

Dr. Saqib Saeed
Bahria University
Department of Graduate Studies and Applied Sciences
Shangrila Road
Islamabad 44000
Pakistan
saqib.saeed@gmail.com

Important Dates

Deadline for paper submission: 30 May, 2013

Results notification: 30 August, 2013

Final paper submission: 30 October, 2013

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WWW 2013 Workshop - 3rd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2013)

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3rd Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2013)

in conjunction with WWW 2013

May 13, 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

http://www.temporalweb.net/

Proccedings published by ACM

Objectives:
The objective of this workshop is to provide a venue for researchers of all domains (IE/IR, Web mining etc.) where the temporal dimension opens up an entirely new range of challenges and possibilities. The workshop's ambition is to help shaping a community of interest on the research challenges and possibilities resulting from the introduction of the time dimension in Web analysis.

TempWeb focuses on temporal data analysis along the time dimension for Web data that has been collected over extended time periods. A major challenge in this regard is the sheer size of the data it exposes and the ability to make sense of it in a useful and meaningful manner for its users. Web scale data analytics therefore needs to develop infrastructures and extended analytical tools to make sense of these. TempWeb will take place May 13, 2013 in conjunction with the International World Wide Web Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Workshop topics of TempWeb therefore include, but are not limited to following:
• Web scale data analytics
• Temporal Web analytics
• Distributed data analytics
• Web science
• Web dynamics
• Data quality metrics
• Web spam evolution
• Content evolution on the Web
• Systematic exploitation of Web archives
• Large scale data storage
• Large scale data processing
• Time aware Web archiving
• Data aggregation
• Web trends
• Topic mining
• Terminology evolution
• Community detection and evolution

Important Dates:
• Paper submission deadline: February 22, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: March 11, 2013
• Camera-ready copy deadline: April 3, 2013
• Workshop: May 13, 2013

Please post your submission (up to 8 pages) using the ACM template:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
at:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=tempweb2013

Workshop Officials:
PC-Chairs and Organizers:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Julien Masanès (Internet Memory Foundation, France and Netherlands)
Marc Spaniol (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)

Program Committee (tentative):
Eytan Adar (University of Michigan, USA)
Omar Alonso (Microsoft Bing, USA)
Ralitsa Angelova (Google, Switzerland)
Srikanta Bedathur (IIIT-Delhi, India)
Andras A. Benczur (Hungarian Academy of Science)
Klaus Berberich (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany)
Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Philipp Cimiano (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan)
Scott Kirkpatrick (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel)
Michael Matthews (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Christian König (Microsoft Research, USA)
Frank McCown (Harding University, USA)
Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University, USA)
Kjetil Norvag (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Philippe Rigaux (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France)
Thomas Risse (L3S Research Center, Germany)
Pierre Senellart (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Torsten Suel (NYU Polytechnic, USA)
Masashi Toyoda (Tokyo University, Japan)
Peter Triantafillou (University of Patras, Greece)
Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany)

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The 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013)

WISE13 Call for Papers

The 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013)

October 13-15,  2013, Nanjing, China

http://www.wise2013.org

The aim of this fourteenth edition of the conference series on Web Information Systems Engineering is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan, China (2006), Nancy, France (2007), Auckland, New Zealand (2008), Poznan, Poland (2009), Hong Kong, China (2010), and Sydney, Australia (2011), and Paphos, Cyprus (2012).

The proceedings of WISE'13 will be published in 2 separate volumes by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and the best papers will be recommended for publication in special issues of World Wide Web.


Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

* Big Data;
* Cloud Computing;
* Discovering Social Web structures and models;
* Deep/Hidden Web;
* Event Processing and Event-driven Systems;
* Evolution and temporal analysis of the Social Web;
* Integration of the Web and Internet-connected Objects / IoT;
* Linked Open Data;
* Peer-Computing;
* Rich Web UI;
* Search, Text and media extraction, clustering and classification of the Social Web;
* Semantic Web;
* Social Networking;
* Web Agents and Web Intelligence;
* Web-based Applications (e.g., Auction and Negotiation, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Learning, etc.);
* Web-based Business Processes and Web Services;
* Web-based Enterprise Systems and Transactions;
* Web Data Integration;
* Web Data Mashup;
* Web Data Models;
* Web Information Retrieval;
* Web Metrics and Performance;
* Web Mining and Web Warehousing;
* Web Monitoring and Management;
* Web Security and Trust Management;
* Web Tools and Languages;
* Web Visualisation; and
* XML and Semi-structured Data.

Publication
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by Springer LNCS format and MUST NOT exceed 14 pages. A special issue of WWW Journal is scheduled for extended versions of some selected papers from the WISE2013 conference.

Organizing Committee

Honorary General Chair:
Jian Lv, Nanjing University, China

General Co-Chairs:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo!Research Lab, Spain
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia
Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, China

PC Co-Chairs:
Xuemin Lin, ÊUniversity of New South Wales, Australia
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece
Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA

Industry Program Chairs
Min Wang, HP Labs, China
Lei Chei, ÊHKUST, Hong Kong, China

Demo Co-Chairs:
Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Rui Zhang, University of Melbourne, Australia

WISE Challenge Program Chairs:
Weining Qian, East China Normal University, China

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Publication Chair:
Guangyan Huang, Victoria University, Australia

Local Arrangement Chair:
Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China

Financial Chair:
Jing He, Victoria University, Australia

Webmasters:
Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China

WISE Society Representative:
Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia


Important Dates

Research Paper Abstract Submission: 8th May 2013
Research Paper Submission: 15th May 2013
Demonstration Paper Submission: 15th June 2013
Paper Notification of Acceptance: 3rd July 2013
Accepted Paper Camera-ready: 24th July 2013
Workshop Proposal Submission: 4th April 2013
Workshop Proposal Notification: 25th April 2013

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4th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2013)

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4th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2013)

Mining, Modeling and Recommending "Things'' in Social Media

http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2013/

to be held on May 1, 2013, Paris, France

co-located with ACM Hypertext 2013

Important Dates:
** Submission Deadline: Feb 04, 2013
** Notification of Acceptance: Feb 18, 2013
** Final Papers Due: February 28, 2013
** Workshop date: May 1, 2013

In our first workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2010 in
Toronto, Canada), we explored various different models of social
media ranging from user modeling, hypertext models, software
engineering models, sociological models and framework models.
In our second workshop (MSM 2011 in Boston, USA), we addressed
the user interface aspects of modeling social media.  In our third
workshop (MSM 2012 in Milwaukee, USA), we looked at the collective
intelligence in social media, i.e. making sense of the content and
context from social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter,
Google+ and Foursquare by analyzing tweets, tags, blog posts,
likes, posts and check-ins, in order to create a new knowledge
and semantic meaning. With this year's workshop we aim to attract
researchers from all over the world working in the field of social
media mining, modeling and end-user applications. In particular,
we would like to invite researchers working on the important field
of "recommender systems" for social media which is gaining more
and more in importance due to the increasing information overload
problem.

The goal of this workshop is to continue our vibrant discussion on
social media mining and modelling with a special focus on
recommender systems for social media applications.  Hence, the
workshop aims to attract and discuss various novel aspects of social
media mining, modelling and doing recommendations on top of these
data/models. In short the workshop invites topics such as social
media mining methods/techniques, novel approaches to model users
or things in social media, frameworks to harvest and/or display
social media data and new social media recommender
methods/techniques/algorithms or interfaces supporting users for
instance in information finding, meta-data application etc. Thus,
our goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from
all over the world with diverse backgrounds interested in 1)
exploring different perspectives and approaches to mine (complex)
and analyse social media data, 2) modelling social media users and
3) building applications such as recommender systems on top of this
data/models.

We invite submissions which may include the following topics, but
are not limited to:
* novel mining methods/techniques or approaches for social media
* novel approaches to model users or things in social media
* novel frameworks to harvest and/or display social media data
* novel recommender methods/techniques/algorithms or interfaces to
 recommend "things" to people in social media
* new visualisation approaches for recommender systems in social media
* evaluation methods/techniques/reports for mining/modelling or
 recommending things/people in social media
* privacy and security issues  or constraints in social media
 mining/modelling and recommendations
* scalability issues of mining, modelling and recommending
 people/things/etc. in social media
* novel (social media) datasets (incl. a detailed description) which
 are of potential interest for researchers all over the world working
 in the field of social media mining/modelling/analytics and/or
 recommender systems

Submissions: We solicit short position papers (1-2 pages) and
peer-reviewed research papers (4-8 pages) in the ACM conference
paper style.

Please submit your papers using the EasyChair system at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2013.

If you have any questions regarding the workshop or the submission, please email msm2013@googlegroups.com.

Workshop Organizers:
* Alvin Chin, Nokia, Beijing
* Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany
* Christoph Trattner, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Program Committee:
* Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
* Robin Burke, de Paul, USA
* Javier Luis Canovas, Izquierdo INRIA, France
* Ed Chi, Google, USA
* Padraig Cunningham, University College Dublin, Ireland
* Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft Research, USA
* Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain
* Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany
* Geert-Jan Houben, TU-Delft, Netherlands
* Alexander Felfernig, TU-Graz, Austria
* Jill Freyne, CSIRO ICT Center, Australia
* Kris Jack, Mendeley, UK
* Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA
* Alexandros Karatzoglou, Telefonica, Spain
* Claudia Müller-Birn, FU Berlin, Germany
* Else Nygren, Uppsala University, Sweden
* Denis Parra, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Haggai Roitman, IBM Research, Israel
* Alan Said, TU- Berlin, Germany
* James She, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
* Markus Strohmaier, TU Graz, Austria
* Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
* Claudia Wagner, Joanneum Research, Austria
* Zhiyong Yu, Institut Telecom Sud de Paris, France
* Shengdong Zhao, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Arkaitz Zubiaga, New York City University, USA

Proceedings: All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and will be published in the ACM Digital library

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WWW'13 Workshop : Web Intelligence & Communities (WI & C 2013)

WEB INTELLIGENCE & COMMUNITIES (WI&C'13)

CALL FOR PAPERS

5h International Workshop on WEB INTELLIGENCE & COMMUNITIES (WI&C'13)

http://wic.litislab.fr

to be held at the 2013 World Wide Web International Conferences (WWW'13)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2013

*Important Dates:*

Paper submission deadline: February 25th, 2013
Acceptance notification : March 3rd, 2013
Camera ready paper : April 3rd, 2013
Workshop : May 13th or 14th, 2013

Proceedings published in ACM Digital Library series.

*INVITED SPEAKER*

We are honored to have a invited talk from
Prof. Virgílio A. F. Almeida (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
General Chair of WWW'13

*SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP*

Web Intelligence consists of a multidisciplinary area dealing with exploiting data and services
over the Web, to create new data and services using both Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. Communities appear as a
first-class object in the areas of web intelligence and agent technologies, as well as a
crucial crossroads of several sub-domains (i.e. user modelling, protocols, data management,
data mining, content modelling, etc.). These sub-domains impact the nature of the communities
and the applications which are related to them. These applications are numerous, and the
success of well-known Social Network Sites for entertainment should not be allowed to
over-shadow the other application domains, for instance in education, health, design,
knowledge management, and so forth.

The workshop will provide presentation and discussion opportunities for researchers working
on web intelligence applied to collaborative networks, such as virtual communities.
The possibilities and consequences of the web usage for collaborative networks are tremendous
and new tools are required to satisfy users and service providers.

The workshop Web Intelligence and Communities expects contributions on topics such as:
   Multi-agent models and tools for Virtual Communities (VC)
   Services and Grid Services for VC, Service oriented architectures
   Web information mining, filtering and retrieval within/for VC
   Web-based applications and platforms for VC
   Intelligent web interaction, querying, diffusion
   Semantics and ontology engineering for VC
   Self-* models and techniques for VC
   Social networks modelling, virtual communities, social intelligence
   Context-based approach, profile management, personalization and recommendations for/through VC
   Privacy preserving, security, trust-based computing & reputation systems
   Applications: E-* (market, procurement, technologies, health, government, etc.) and VC
   VC and content and knowledge repositories, behaviour modelling and exchange
   Web intelligence, mobility and VC, Ambient Intelligence, Pervasive computing
   Performances evaluation, experiments, user feed-back
   Surveys on WI and VC
   Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration and fusion
   Human-based behaviour patterns and modelling


*SUBMISSIONS*

The Web Intelligence and Communities workshop welcomes the submission of theoretical,
experimental, methodological as well as application papers.
Discussion papers and demonstration papers are also welcome.

Submitted papers should be 10 pages maximum in length (4 pages for the discussion and demonstration papers), including figures and references.
The paper must be formatted in pdf according to style guidelines of ACM SIG Proceedings Template available here:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

All submissions should be done online on the workshop submission web site:  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wic2013

*CO-CHAIRS*

   * Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
   * Pierre Maret, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France
   * Laurent Vercouter, INSA de Rouen, France

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19th ACM SIGKDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (SIGKDD 2013)

19th ACM SIGKDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference - First Call For Papers

August 11-14, 2013, Chicago, USA

http://www.kdd.org/kdd2013

KEY KDD 2013 DATES

Abstracts due: February 15th, 2013
Papers due: February 22nd, 2013
Acceptance notification: May 10th, 2013
Conference: August 11-14, 2013 (in Chicago)

About KDD

ACM KDD is the premier conference on data mining.
Paper submission and reviewing to KDD-2013 will be handled electronically. The paper length is limited to 9 pages, including references, diagrams, and appendices, if any. The format is the standard double-column ACM Tighter Alternate Proceedings Style. As per KDD tradition, reviews are not double-blind, and author names and affiliations should be listed. Authors should consult the conference Website for full details regarding paper preparation and submission guidelines.

Papers submitted to KDD-2013 should be original work and substantively different from papers that have been previously published or are under review in a journal or another conference/workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM and also appear in the ACM Digital Library.

KDD is a dual track conference hosting both a research track and an industrial/government track. Due to the large number of submissions, papers submitted to the research track will not be considered for publication in the industry/government track and vice-versa. Authors are encouraged to carefully read the following and choose an appropriate track for their submissions.


CALL FOR PAPERS - Research Track
We invite submission of papers describing innovative research on all aspects of knowledge discovery and data mining.

Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to: social network analysis, classification and regression methods, semi-supervised learning, unsupervised learning and clustering, graph and link mining, rule and pattern mining, web mining, efficient or distributed mining algorithms, mining temporal and spatial data, probabilistic methods, text mining, security and privacy, optimization techniques, recommender systems, mining sequences, topic and graphical models, matrix and tensor methods, feature selection, online advertising, biological and medical data, anomaly detection, and knowledge discovery from big data.

Papers emphasizing theoretical foundations are particularly encouraged, as are novel modeling and algorithmic approaches to specific data mining problems in scientific, business, medical, and engineering applications. Visionary papers on new and emerging topics are also welcome. Authors are explicitly discouraged from submitting papers that contain only incremental results and that do not provide significant advances over existing approaches.

Application oriented papers that make innovative technical contributions to research are welcome.

Submitted papers will be assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, and clarity of writing. For papers that rely heavily on empirical evaluations, the experimental methods and results should be clear, well executed, and repeatable. Authors are strongly encouraged to make data and code publicly available whenever possible.


CALL FOR PAPERS - Industrial and Government Track

We invite submissions describing implementations of data mining and analytics systems in industrial or government settings. The primary emphasis is on papers that advance the understanding and dealing of practical issues related to deploying analytics technologies in industry and government and highlight new research challenges motivated by analytics and data mining applications. These applications can be in any field including, but not limited to e-commerce, medicine, healthcare, defense, public policy, engineering, law, manufacturing, telecommunications, and government.

Submitted papers will go through a competitive peer review process. We would like to differentiate the Industry & Government track from the Research Track by ensuring that submissions solve real-world problems and focus on deployments.

Submissions must clearly identify in which one of the following three areas they should be evaluated: "deployed", "discovery", and "emerging".

The criteria for submissions in each category is as follows:

Deployed category must describe deployment of a system that solves a non-trivial real-world problem. The focus should be on describing the problem, it's significance, decisions and tradeoffs made when making design choices for the solution, deployment challenges, and lessons learned.

Discovery category must include results that are discoveries with demonstrable value to an industry or government organization. This discovered knowledge must be "externally validated" as interesting and useful; it can not simply be a model that has better performance on some traditional evaluation metrics such as accuracy or area under the curve.

Emerging category do not have to be deployed but must have clear applications to Industry/Government to distinguish them from KDD research papers. They may also provide insight into issues and factors that affect the successful use and  deployment of Data Mining and Analytics. Papers that describe enabling infrastructure for large-scale deployment of Data Mining and analytics techniques also fall in this category.



On Behalf of the KDD-2013 Organizers:

Research Program Co-Chairs:
Inderjit Dhillon (The University of Texas at Austin) & Yehuda Koren (Google)

Industry and Government Program Co-Chairs:
Rayid Ghani (Obama for America) & Ted Senator (SAIC)

General Chairs:
Robert Grossman (University of Chicago and Open Data Group) & Ramasamy Uthurusamy


http://www.kdd.org/kdd2013

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Flyer for the 8th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2013)

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The 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

SIGIR 2013, Dublin, Ireland, 28 July-1 August, 2013

http://www.sigir2013.ie/

IMPORTANT: Regular contributors to SIGIR, please note changes to SIGIR 2013 for authors, as outlined below.

SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit original full papers, short papers, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems. SIGIR 2013 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR theory and foundation, techniques, and applications. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

- Document Representation and Content Analysis (e.g., text representation, document structure, linguistic analysis, multi-lingual IR, cross-lingual IR, NLP for IR, information extraction, sentiment analysis, clustering, classification, topic models, facets, text streams)
- Queries and Query Analysis (e.g., query representation, query suggestion, query reformulation, query intent, conversational search, query log analysis, session analysis, question answering)
- Users and Interactive IR (e.g., user models, user studies, user feedback, search interface, summarization, task models, personalized search)
- Retrieval Models and Ranking (e.g., IR theory, language models, probabilistic retrieval models, feature-based models, learning to rank, combining searches, diversity)
- Search Engine Architectures and Scalability (e.g., indexing, compression, distributed IR, P2P IR, mobile devices)
- Filtering and Recommending (e.g., content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, recommender systems, profiles)
- Evaluation (e.g., test collections, effectiveness measures, experimental design)
- Web IR and Social Media Search (e.g., link analysis, click models/behavioural modelling, social tagging, social network analysis, advertising and search, blog search, microblog search, forum search, community-based QA (CQA), adversarial IR, vertical and local search)
- IR and Structured Data (e.g., XML search, ranking in databases, desktop search, entity search)
- Multimedia IR (e.g., image search, video search, speech/audio search, music IR)
- Other Applications (e.g., digital libraries, enterprise search, genomics IR, legal IR, patent search, text reuse)

IMPORTANT DATES

- Monday 21 January 2013: Abstracts for full research papers due
- Monday 28 January 2013: Full research papers due
- Monday 4 February 2013: Workshop proposals due
- Monday 18 February 2013: Short papers, demonstration, and tutorial proposals due
- Monday 11 March 2013: Notification of workshop acceptances
- Monday 11 March 2013: Doctoral consortium proposals due
- Monday 15 April 2013: All other acceptance notifications
- Sunday 28 July 2013: Conference begins in Dublin

IMPORTANT NOTICE

We'd like to draw your attention to a few changes at SIGIR 2013 for authors.

(1) The full paper track (10 pages) will introduce a new review criterion,
*Reproducibility of Methods*, in addition to the criteria traditionally used at SIGIR.
The full set of review criteria can be found in the FULL PAPER REVIEW CRITERIA section below.
Also, visit the following pages:
http://www.sigir2013.ie/fullpapers.html
http://www.sigir2013.ie/requirements.html

(2) Along with the full paper track, we will have a short paper (4 pages) and demo paper (2 pages) tracks.
Note that SIGIR previously had posters (2 pages) and demo papers (1 page). Visit this page for details:
http://www.sigir2013.ie/posterdemonstrations.html


FULL PAPER REVIEW CRITERIA

Relevance to SIGIR: Is the work presented within the scope of SIGIR?

Originality of Work: Does the work describe a unique problem? Does the work propose a creative solution to an old problem? Is there similar prior art?

Technical Soundness: Are the algorithms and methods used correct? Is the experimental design appropriate? Are the experiments and analyses thorough? Are appropriate statistical tests used?

Quality of Presentation: Are the ideas, methods, results and discussions presented clearly? Is the paper structure appropriate? Is the paper written in good English?

Impact of Ideas or Results: Will this research change practice? Will this work be cited? Will this work generate additional research?

Adequacy of Citations: Are the authors aware of relevant prior art? Do the authors provide a good overview of it? Is the citation list unbiased?

Reproducibility of Methods: Are the descriptions of the methods used detailed and accurate? Given the resources used in the paper, or (if they are unavailable) similar resources, could researchers carry out similar experiments to verify the results? What further description could the authors provide?


Program Committee Chairs

Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Tetsuya Sakai, Microsoft Research Asia, China

General Conference Chairs

Gareth Jones, CNGL, Dublin City University, Ireland
Páraic Sheridan, CNGL, Dublin City University, Ireland

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Professor for databases and information systems at Kaiserslautern University, Gemany

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany is inviting applications for the position of a

Professor (W3, tenured) for Computer Science with an emphasis on "Databases and Information Systems"

The research work of the applicant is expected to provide innovative contributions in the area of databases and information systems. Possible topics of work in this area include:

* Data in the Web and in the Cloud: "Big Data", scalable data analysis, NoSQL-databases, data security and privacy, social networks;
* Mobile and ubiquitous data systems: mobile DBMS, context/situation awareness, ambient intelligence/pervasive computing, data stream processing;
* Large information systems: scientific databases, adaptivity, virtualization, services;
* DBMS core functionality: architecture, transaction management, data models, semantics, query processing, semi-structured data;

Kaiserslautern is one of the important computer science locations in Germany. The Department of Computer Science combines well-founded education with excellence in applications and regularly scores top positions in relevant rankings. The associated research institutes such as the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) and the Max-Planck-Institute for Software Systems offer a range of collaboration opportunities.

Candidates are expected to possess outstanding scientific qualifications in addition to excellent didactic skills and experience in teaching. We also encourage applications from junior scientists. An earned doctoral degree and additional qualifications corresponding to the position profile are regarded as employment requirements. We expressively welcome applicants without German language skills. While courses in the master programs are held in English, our bachelor program courses are taught in German and we expect
such courses to be held in German after the first three years of employment.


In addition, the employment requirements as documented in §49 of the Higher Education Act of the State of Rheinland-Pfalz are applicable. The text can be accessed on the Kaiserslautern University homepage
(http://www.uni-kl.de/wcms/ha1-rechtsvorschrift.html).

The University of Kaiserslautern is striving for raising the number of women in research and teaching. Female academics with the requested qualifications are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants with children are welcome.

Qualified applicants with disabilities will be given preference (please enclose statement).

The State of Rheinland-Pfalz and the University of Kaiserslautern have established a supervision concept that expects faculty members to show a high degree of presence at the university. Moreover, willingness to
participate in university committee work is expected.

Applications containing appropriate documents in German or English language (CV, documentation of scientific career, list of publications, overview of external funding, copies of certificates, as well as one copy of the three most important English publications) should be posted by January 31st 2013 to the following address:

Dekanat des Fachbereichs Informatik
Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern
Postfach 3049
67653 Kaiserslautern
Germany

Please also send the application electronically in PDF format to <dekanat@informatik.uni-kl.de>. Please contact the Dean of the Department of Computer Science, Prof. Dr. Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter
<poetzsch@informatik.uni-kl.de> if you have further questions.

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The 10th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 10th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2013)

http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2013/

June 27-July 2, 2013, Santa Clara Marriott, CA, USA 

(Center of Silicon Valley)

Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC),
IEEE Computer Society



Services account for a major part of the IT industry today. Companies increasingly
like to focus on their core expertise area and use IT services to address all their
peripheral needs. Services Computing is a new science which aims to study and better
understand the foundations of this highly popular industry. It covers the science
and technology of leveraging computing and information technology to model, create,
operate, and manage business services. Like its predecessors, SCC 2013 will contribute
in building the pillars of this important science and shaping the future of Services
Computing.

Services Computing currently shapes the thinking of business modeling, business
consulting, solution creation, service delivery, and software architecture design,
development and deployment. The global nature of Services Computing leads to many
opportunities and challenges and creates a new networked economic structure for
supporting different business models. SCC 2013 will help in bridging the gap between
business services and information technology by driving research in technologies such
as service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process integration and management,
service engineering and grid and cloud computing and Web 2.0.

The International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) covers the whole lifecycle of
innovation research and enabling technologies, which includes enterprise modeling,
business consulting, solution creation, services delivery, services orchestration,
services optimization, services management, services marketing, services delivery and
cloud computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process integration and
management, and Web services technologies and standards.

Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to, the following:

Foundations of Services Computing
- Services Science
- Service Modeling and Implementation
- Service Delivery, Deployment and Maintenance Service
- Value Chains and Innovation Lifecycle
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Standards and Solution Stacks
- Service-based Grid/Cloud/Autonomic Computing
- Services Computing in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs)
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration
- Service Security, Privacy and Trust
- Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS)
- Ontology and Semantic Web for Services Computing
- Services Repository and Registry
- Formal Methods for SOA
- Service Discovery
- Services Engineering Practices and Case Studies

Services-Centric Business Models
- Business Service Analysis, Strategy, Design, Development and Deployment
- Service-Oriented Business Consulting Methodology and Utilities
- Intra- or Inter- Enterprise for Business-to-Business Service Control
- Service Revenue Models and Utility Computing, e.g., Fee-for-Transaction and Fee-for-Service
- Service Strategic Alliance and Partners
- Ontology and Business Service Rules
- Trust and Loyalty in Services-Centric Business Models
- Cultural, Language, Social and Legal Obstacles in Services-Centric Business Models
- Commercialization of Services Computing Technologies
- Industry Service Solution Patterns
- Service Interaction Patterns
- Case Studies in Services-Centric Business Models (e.g., healthcare, financial, aviation, etc)

Business Process Integration and Management
- Mathematical Foundation of Business Process Modeling, Integration and Management
- Business Process Modeling Methodology and Integration Architecture
- Collaborative Business Processes
- Extended Business Collaboration (eBC) Architecture and Solutions
- Business Process-Based Business Transformation and Transition
- Enabling Technologies for Business Process Integration and Management
- Performance Management and Analysis for Business Process Integration and Management
- Security, Privacy and Trust in Business Process Management
- Return On Investment (ROI) of Business Process Integration and Management
- Requirements Analysis of Business Process Integration and Management
- Enterprise Modeling and Application Integration Services, e.g. Enterprise Service Bus
- Monitoring of Services, Process Mining, and Quality of Service
- Case Studies in Business Process Integration and Management
- SOA Tools, Solutions and Services

SOA Tooling Practices and Examples
- Systematic Design Method for SOA Solutions
- SOA based Consulting Services and Design Services
- SOA Delivery Excellence


Please use the SCC 2013 Conference Management System for Research Track to submit your
papers to SCC 2013 Research Track. Please check the Submission section for more submission
details for all tracks.

The technical program of SCC 2013 will include a research track, an application and experience
track, an industry track, and a work-in-progress track. The research track will highlight
foundational work that strives to push beyond the limits of existing business services
platforms and products, including experimental efforts, innovative systems and investigations
that identify weaknesses in the existing services computing technology.

The SCC 2013 research tracks seeks original, UNPUBLISHED research papers reporting substantive
new work in various aspects of services innovation lifecycle management. Research track papers
MUST clearly indicate their contributions to the field of services computing and properly cite
related work in the field, such as those published in the proceedings of ICWS, SCC, CLOUD,
SERVICES, APSCC, ECOWS, and related journals including TSC, JWSR, and IJBPIM.


All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members.
Accepted and presented papers from all SCC tracks will appear in the conference proceedings
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected research track
papers will be invited for potential publication in the IEEE Transactions on Services
Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), and International
Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). Both TSC and JWSR are
indexed by SCI and EI [Link]. According to Thomson Scientific, JWSR is listed in the 2008
Journal Citation Report with an Impact Factor of 1.200. The journal ranks #47 of 99 in the
Computer Science, Information Systems and ranks #37 of 86 in Computer Science, Software
Engineering. SCC Proceedings are EI indexed.

Submitted research & industry track manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style)
pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Unformatted papers
and papers beyond the page limit will not be reviewed. Electronic submission of manuscripts
(in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation
and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, workshop proposals, and review process
can be found at conference website.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and
present the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be granted at
SCC 2013. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time student.

If your paper is application or solution oriented, you can consider submitting it to SCC 2013
Industry Track. Manuscripts submitted to the Research Track focusing on application or
solution descriptions may be recommended to the Application and Experience Track, or Industry
Track for further consideration if the session slots are available.


Important Dates:

Research Track:
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Abstract Submission Deadline: February 11, 2013
Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 11, 2013
Decision Notification (Electronic): March 15, 2013
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: March 25, 2013


Industry Track:
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Abstract Submission Deadline: February 11, 2013
Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 11, 2013
Decision Notification (Electronic): March 20, 2013
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: March 25, 2013


Work-in-Progress Track:
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Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2013
Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 25, 2013
Decision Notification (Electronic): March 25, 2013
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: March 30, 2013




Review Policy

IEEE Policy and professional ethics require that referees treat the contents of papers under
review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is
expected that no one with access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of
the special knowledge, which that access provides. Contents of abstracts submitted to
conference program committees should be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the
same manner. The Conference Publications Chair shall ensure that referees adhere to this
practice.

Organizers of IEEE conferences are expected to provide an appropriate forum for the oral
presentation and discussion of all accepted papers. An author, in offering a paper for
presentation at an IEEE conference, or accepting an invitation to present a paper, is
expected to be present at the meeting to deliver the paper. In the event that circumstances
unknown at the time of submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the
program chair should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute arrangements should be
made. In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for the Conference to require advance
registration together with the submission of the final manuscript.


About IEEE

IEEE is the world's largest professional association advancing innovation and technological
excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community to
innovate for a better tomorrow through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology
standards, and professional and educational activities. IEEE is the trusted "voice" for
engineering, computing and technology information around the globe.


About IEEE Computer Society

With nearly 85,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) is the world's leading organization
of computing professionals. Founded in 1946, and the largest of the 38 societies of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the CS is dedicated to advancing
the theory and application of computer and information-processing technology.


About the Technical Committee on Services Computing

Founded in 2003, IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC)
is a multidisciplinary group whose purpose is to advance and coordinate work in the field of
Services Computing carried out throughout the IEEE in scientific, engineering, standard,
literary and educational areas.

Services Computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the science and technology of
bridging the gap between Business Services and IT Services. The underneath breaking technology
suite includes Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, business
consulting methodology and utilities, business process modeling, transformation and integration.
This scope of Services Computing covers the whole lifecycle of services innovation research
that includes business componentization, services modeling, services creation, services
realization, services annotation, services deployment, services discovery, services composition,
services delivery, service-to-service collaboration, services monitoring, services optimization,
as well as services management. The goal of Services Computing is to enable IT services and
computing technology to perform business services more efficiently and effectively.


Contact Information


If you have any questions or queries on SCC 2013, please send email to
scc DOT ieeecs AT gmail DOT com

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Please join us at IEEE Services Computing Community (http://services.oc.ieee.org/). Press
the "Register" button to apply for a FREE IEEE Web Account. As a member, you will be permitted
to login and participate in the community. This invitation allows you to join a community
designed to facilitate collaboration among a group while minimizing e-mails to your inbox.
As a registered member of the Services Computing Community, you can also access the IEEE Body
of Knowledge on Services Computing (http://www.servicescomputing.tv).

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CHI 2013 workshop on Engaging the Human-Computer Interaction Community With Public Policymaking Internationally

Call for Papers

ACM-CHI 2013 Workshop on

"Engaging the Human-Computer Interaction Community With Public Policymaking Internationally"

http://chi2013.acm.org/

THEME
Public policies can come from governments (multi-national, national and regional), international bodies (the UN), and are often influenced by standards organizations (such as ISO and W3C). There is a complex cycle of influence between human-computer interaction and public policies. Public policies in the area of HCI include rules on how HCI research is performed, guidelines on how interfaces are designed (e.g. accessibility), and how research money is awarded in HCI. Goals of the workshop include increasing the number of documented examples of where public policy and HCI influence each other, and identifying areas where there is a need for research on public policy and HCI. Our long-term goal is to author a white paper on the topic of HCI and public policy.

For this workshop, we encourage the participation of people who have interest in the intersection of HCI and public policy. This can include people who perform research that could potentially influence policymakers, have experience interacting with policymakers, or have experience with international standards committees. For more information about the workshop, you can download the draft version of the extended abstract at: http://triton.towson.edu/~jlazar/CHI2013_policy.doc

Please submit a 3 page position paper, describing your interest and/or experience with public policy and HCI, and providing one specific example of where HCI community and policymakers have influenced each other (positively or negatively), that you want to expand upon in the workshop.

Position papers should be submitted to Jonathan Lazar (jlazar@towson.edu) by Jan 4, 2013. Accepted position papers will be posted on a shared workspace before the workshop, for participants to view. The author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop and register for CHI2013.


Workshop co-organizers:
- Simone Barbosa, PUC-Rio, Brazil
- Jan Gulliksen, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Jonathan Lazar, Harvard University and Towson University, USA
- Tom McEwan, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
- Loïc Martínez Normand, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Philippe Palanque, Université Paul Sabatier, France
- Raquel Prates‎, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Janice Tsai, Microsoft, USA
- Marco Winckler, Université Paul Sabatier, France
- Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer-FIT, Germany

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ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOP PROPOSALS, TUTORIAL PROPOSALS and DEMOS

ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) 2013

Oct 12-16, 2013, Hong Kong, China

http://recsys.acm.org/recsys13/

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the premier annual event on research and applications of recommendation technologies, the Seventh ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2013). The conference will be held on October 12-16, 2013, Hong Kong, China. Previous conferences have been distinguished by a strong level of interaction between researchers and practitioners in the sharing of ideas, problems and solutions, and the 2013 conference will continue in this tradition. The fully-refereed proceedings will be published by the ACM and, like past RecSys proceedings, are expected to be widely read and cited.

All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically in PDF format. RecSys 2013 submissions should be prepared according to the standard ACM SIG proceedings format. For your convenience, we provide paper templates in Microsoft Word and LaTeX on the conference website. More details on the submission procedure are available at http://recsys.acm.org/recsys13/submission.html.

There are two paper submission categories:

Long paper submissions should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. The maximum length is 8 pages in the standard ACM SIG proceedings format. Each accepted long paper will be presented in a plenary session as part of the main conference program. We expect the review process to be highly selective: in 2012, the acceptance rate for full papers was 20%.

Short paper submissions typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. The maximum length is 4 pages in the standard ACM SIG proceedings format. Each accepted short paper will be presented in a poster session. The presentation may include a system demonstration.

Note: Please note that rejected long paper submissions will not be automatically considered as short papers.

We construe recommender systems broadly, including applications ranging from e-commerce to social networking, platforms from web to mobile and beyond, and a wide variety of technologies ranging from collaborative filtering to case-based reasoning. Topics of interest for RecSys 2013 include (but are not limited to):

- Algorithm scalability

- Case studies of real-world implementations

- Computational advertising

- Conversational recommender systems

- Context-aware and multidimensional models

- Evaluation metrics and studies

- Explanations and evidence

- Group recommenders

- Impact studies

- Innovative/New applications

- Machine learning for recommendation

- Novel paradigms

- Personalization

- Preference elicitation

- Recommendation algorithms

- Social recommenders

- User interfaces

- Security, privacy, trust, and reputation

- Semantic web technologies for recommendation

- Theoretical foundations

- User modelling

- User studies

RecSys 2013 is pleased to invite demos, proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference.

The RecSys demo session provides an exciting way for researchers and developers to present new recommender ideas, show off their work, and get valuable feedback from the recommender systems community.

The goal of the workshops is to provide additional venues for presenting research on topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges.

The goal of the tutorials is to provide the larger conference community an opportunity to learn about recommender system concepts and techniques and serve as a venue to share presenters’ expertise with the global community of recommender system researchers and practitioners.

We actively encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit demos and proposals. The details for demos, workshops and tutorials will be announced later.

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Important Dates

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Long/Short Papers:

- Paper Abstract Submission: May 6, 2013

- Paper Submission: May 13, 2013

- Paper Acceptance Notification: July 8, 2013

- Camera-Ready papers due: July 22, 2013

Workshop Proposals:

- Workshop proposals due: April 15, 2013

- Workshop Decisions announced: May 6, 2013

Tutorial Proposals:

- Tutorial proposals due: May 20, 2013

- Tutorial Acceptance Notification: June 24, 2013

- Camera-ready tutorial papers due: July 29, 2013

Demos:

- Demo Submission: May 27th, 2013

- Demo Acceptance Notifications: June 24th, 2013

- Camera-ready demos due: July 29, 2013

- Conference Dates: Oct 12-16, 2013

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Questions?

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More information at: http://recsys.acm.org/2013

LinkedIn group: Recsys 2013

Program Co-chairs (program2013@recsys.acm.org):

Pearl Pu, EPFL Lausanne

George Karypis, University of Minnesota

General Co-chairs (recsys2013@acm.org):

Qyang Yang, Huawei Noah Ark Research Lab & Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong

Local Chair (lichen@comp.hkbu.edu.hk):

Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Publicity Chair (mi_zhang@fudan.edu.cn):

Mi Zhang, Fudan University, China

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Postdoctoral Positions at Microsoft Research, New York City, US

Microsoft Research NYC (http://research.microsoft.com/newyork) seeks outstanding applicants for 2-year postdoctoral researcher positions. In particular, we welcome applicants with a strong academic record in one of the following areas:

* Computational social science: http://research.microsoft.com/cssnyc

* Online experimental social science: http://research.microsoft.com/oess_nyc

* Algorithmic economics and market design: http://research.microsoft.com/algorithmic-economics/

* Machine learning: http://research.microsoft.com/mlnyc/

We will also consider applicants in other focus areas of the lab, including information retrieval, and behavioral & empirical economics. Additional information about these areas is included below. Please submit all application materials by January 11, 2013.

COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE

http://research.microsoft.com/cssnyc

With an increasing amount of data on every aspect of our daily activities -- from what we buy, to where we travel, to who we know -- we are able to measure human behavior with precision largely thought impossible just a decade ago. Lying at the intersection of computer science, statistics and the social sciences, the emerging field of computational social science uses large-scale demographic, behavioral and network data to address longstanding questions in sociology, economics, politics, and beyond. We seek postdoc applicants with a diverse set of skills, including experience with large-scale data, scalable statistical and machine learning methods, and knowledge of a substantive social science field, such as sociology, economics, psychology, political science, or marketing.

ONLINE EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL SCIENCE

http://research.microsoft.com/oess_nyc

Online experimental social science involves using the web, including crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk, to study human behavior in "virtual lab" environments.  Among other topics, virtual labs have been used to study the relationship  between financial incentives and performance, the honesty of online workers, advertising impact as a function of exposure time,  the implicit cost of "bad ads," the testing of graphical user interfaces eliciting probabilistic information and also the relationship between network structure and social dynamics, related to social phenomena such as cooperation, learning, and collective problem solving. We seek postdoc applicants with a diverse mix of skills, including awareness of the theoretical and experimental  social science literature, and experience with experimental design, as well as demonstrated statistical modeling and programming expertise. Specific experience running experiments on Amazon's Mechanical Turk or related crowdsourcing websites, as well as managing virtual participant pools is also desirable, as is evidence of UI design ability.

ALGORITHMIC ECONOMICS AND MARKET DESIGN

http://research.microsoft.com/algorithmic-economics/

Market design, the engineering arm of economics, benefits from an understanding of computation: complexity, algorithms, engineering practice, and data. Conversely, computer science in a networked world benefits from a solid foundation in economics: incentives and game theory. Scientists with hybrid expertise are crucial as social systems of all types move to electronic platforms, as people increasingly rely on programmatic trading aids, as market designers rely more on equilibrium simulations, and as optimization and machine learning algorithms become part of the inner loop of social and economic mechanisms. We seek applicants who embody a diverse mix of skills, including a background in computer science (e.g., artificial intelligence or theory) or related field, and knowledge of the theoretical and experimental economics literature. Experience building prototype systems, and a comfort level with modern programming paradigms (e.g., web programming and map-reduce) are also desirable.

MACHINE LEARNING

http://research.microsoft.com/mlnyc/

Machine learning is the discipline of designing efficient algorithms for making accurate predictions and optimal decisions in the face of uncertainty. It combines tools and techniques from computer science, signal processing, statistics and optimization. Microsoft offers a unique opportunity to work with extremely diverse data sources, both big and small, while also offering a very stimulating environment for cutting-edge theoretical research. We seek postdoc applicants who have demonstrated ability to do independent research, have a strong publication record at top research venues and thrive in a multidisciplinary environment.

Duncan Watts

Principal Researcher

Microsoft Research NYC

102 Madison Ave, 12^th Floor

New York, NY 10016

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Doctoral Consortium at the Third Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 2013)

Doctoral Consortium at the Third Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 2013) 

http://lakconference2013.wordpress.com/dc/

8 April 2013, Leuven, Belgium 

The LAK Doctoral Consortium brings together Ph.D. students working on topics related to Learning Analytics. The doctoral consortium will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in an interdisciplinary and international atmosphere. Prominent professors and researchers in the field of learning analytics will provide feedback to the selected papers and participate actively and contribute to the discussions. The Doctoral Consortium will take place immediately before the LAK 2013 conference.

The intention of this doctoral consortium is to support and inspire Ph.D. students during their ongoing research efforts. Therefore, it is necessary that authors will have neither achieved their Ph.D. degree nor officially submitted their thesis before the doctoral consortium (April 2013). To enforce this rule we require authors to disclose their expected graduation date and their advisor's name when submitting.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATION PROCESS:

In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions should address specifically doctoral work!

Therefore, the following elements have to be addressed in the papers:

- A clear formulation of the research question,
- An identification of the significant problems in the field of research,
- An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions,
- A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far,
- A sketch of the applied research methodology,
- A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem solution,
- A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem.

Accepted students should prepare:

1. An introduction of themselves and the PhD project for the introductory session. Duration: 60 sec max.
2. A 15-20 minute presentation of the PhD project to be used for introducing discussion about their project and its main issues during the small group sessions.
3. Students are also invited to prepare a poster about their Ph.D. for the LAK 2013 poster session.
Submissions should be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dclak2013

The max length of DC submissions should not exceed 6 pages.

All papers will be reviewed after acceptance by at least two senior researchers and one of the accepted doctoral candidates. Additionally, two discussants, members of the doctoral consortium committee, will be appointed to each paper. Discussant comments will be followed by a plenary discussion of the paper. At the end of the consortium there will be a general discussion, including a brainstorming session about current and future research topics in the area.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CALENDAR

Doctoral Consortium application submission: January 31, 2013
Doctoral Consortium application notification: February 15, 2013
Doctoral Consortium acceptance notification and reviews: March 15, 2013
Doctoral Consortium camera-ready versions: March 31, 2013
Doctoral Consortium: April 8th, 2013

Doctoral Consortium Chairs 

Katherine Maillet, Institut National des Télécommunications, France
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

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