Deadline Extension - The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'12)

Final CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'12)

December 4-7, 2012, Macau SAR, China

http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012/WI/

A Special Event of the Alan Turing Year (Centenary of Alan Turing's birth)
as part of World Intelligence Congress 2012

Turing Keynote Speaker: Edward Feigenbaum
(1994 Turing Award Winner)

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WI'12 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers
and practitioners from diverse fields, to increase the cross-fertilization
of ideas and explore the fundamental roles, interactions as well as
practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence engineering and Advanced
Information Technology on the next generation of Web systems.

Here AI-engineering is a general term that refers to a new area, slightly
beyond traditional AI: brain informatics, human level AI, intelligent
agents, social network intelligence and classical areas, such as knowledge
engineering, knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and
data mining are examples. Advanced Information Technology includes wireless
networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, data/knowledge grids, as well
as service oriented architecture, cloud computing.

Web Intelligence has been recognized as one of the most important as well as
promising direction for scientific research and development in the era of
Web and agent intelligence to bring in the next generation Web systems. The
IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT 2012 joint conferences
(WI-IAT'12) will co-locate with AMT'12, BI'12, and ISMIS'12 as a Congress, a
Special Event of the Alan Turing Year (Centenary of Alan Turing's birth).
The Congress will have a joint opening, keynotes, reception and banquet.

The topics and areas include, but not limited to:
1) Web Intelligence Foundations
2) World Wide Wisdom Web
3) Web Information Retrieval and Filtering
4) Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
5) Semantics and Ontology Engineering
6) Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
7) Web Mining and Farming
8) Social Networks
9) Ubiquitous Intelligence
10) Web Agents
11) Web Services
12) Web Support Systems
13) Intelligent E-Technology

High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Paper
submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column
format. The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers (see the
Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting).

All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis
of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.

Note that WI'2012 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in PDF format.
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE
Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI.

*** Contact Information ***
Ryan Leang Hou U, University of Macau
Email: ryanlhu@umac.mo

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Special issue on Personalization and Behaviour Change - UMUAI

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue on Personalization and Behaviour Change

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction:

The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI)

*** Extended abstract submission deadline: December 1, 2012

*** Paper submission deadline (for accepted abstracts): April 15, 2013

UMUAI Web site: http://www.umuai.org/

Special Issue Web site: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/UMUAI-PBC/

SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:

Digital behaviour intervention is a growing area of research which investigates how interactive systems can encourage and support people to change their behaviour. Personalization plays an important role in this, as the most effective persuasive and motivational strategies are likely to depend on user characteristics such as the user's personality, affective state, existing attitudes, behaviours, knowledge, and goals. Example application areas include health care (e.g., encouraging people to eat more healthily and exercise more), education (e.g., motivating learners to study more), environment (e.g., encouraging people to use less energy and more public transport), and collaborative content development (e.g., incentivising people to annotate resources).

Recently, three research areas separately and from different perspectives have started to focus on personalization and behavior change, by developing complex cognitive models of rational and extra-rational features, involving emotions, persuasion, motivation and argumentation. The first, stemming from a seminal work by B.J. Fogg (2006), is now widely known as Persuasive Technology. Persuasive Technology focuses on interactive technology that can motivate and influence the user. The second research field is Affective Computing. Originating from the seminal work by R. Picard (1997), Affective Computing is interested in the use, understanding and modelling of emotions and affect in computer systems. Finally, Argument and Computation (Simari, Reed, Rahwan & Grasso, 2011) has also emerged in the past decade as a research strand interested in computational models and theories of argumentation and persuasion coming from Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence.

This special issue focuses on how adaptive and personalised systems can motivate people, for instance to improve health, or to use sustainable resources, or to achieve goals or specific skills, by using persuasion and argumentation techniques and/or techniques involving the affective and emotional sphere.

The topics of interest for the special issue include (but are not limited to):

* User models for persuasive and motivational systems (e.g., modeling user engagement, personality and affective states, integrating affective and non-affective aspects)

* Tailored argumentation in persuasive and motivational systems (e.g., persuasive discourse processing; rhetoric and affect; computational models of argumentation tailored to a specific user)

* Theoretical frameworks of personalized persuasive and motivational systems (e.g., relationships between individual differences and persuasive strategies)

* Evaluated applications of personalized behaviour change and motivational strategies(e.g., in intelligent tutoring, health promotion, sustainable transport, sustainable energy, collaborative content development)

* Ethical issues of personalized digital behaviour interventions

* User-centred design and evaluation methodologies of personalized digital behaviour interventions

PAPER SUBMISSION & REVIEW PROCESS

Prospective authors must first submit an extended abstract (no more than 4 single-spaced pages, formatted with 12pt font and 1 inch margins) via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umuaipbc2013) to the special issue editors.

All submitted abstracts will receive an initial screening by the special issue editors. Abstracts that do not pass this initial screening (i.e., the abstracts that are deemed not to have a reasonable chance of acceptance) will not be considered further. The authors of abstracts that pass the initial screening will be invited to submit the full version of the paper.

Formatting guidelines and submission instructions for full papers can be found athttp://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html<http://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html>. UMUAI is an archival journal that publishes mature and substantial research results on the (dynamic) adaptation of computer systems to their human users, and the role that a model of the system about the user plays in this context. Many articles in UMUAI are quite comprehensive and describe the results of several years of work. Consequently, UMUAI gives "unlimited" space to authors (as long as what they write is important). Authors whose paper exceeds 40 pages in journal format (including illustrations and references) are however requested to supply a short justification upon submission that explains why a briefer discussion of their research results would not be advisable.

Full papers should be submitted through EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umuaipbc2013).

IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission of Title and Abstract: Dec 1st, 2012
- Notification of suitability of abstract: Dec 22nd, 2012
- Full Paper Submission: April 15th, 2013
- First round of review notifications: July 15th, 2013
- Revisions of papers due: October 15th, 2013
- Final notifications due: January 15th, 2014
- Final papers due: February 15th, 2014
- Publication of special issue: April 15th, 2014

GUEST EDITORS:
Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen
email: j.masthoff(AT)abdn.ac.uk
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc263

Jaap Ham, Eindhoven University of Technology
email: j.r.c.ham(AT)tue.nl
http://hti.ieis.tue.nl/user/8

Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool
email: floriana(AT)liverpool.ac.uk
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana

If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask the guest editors.

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The 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2012) - Call for Workshop Papers

ICWL 2012

The 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning

2-4 September 2012, Sinaia, Romania

http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2012/

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to one of the 4 fantastic workshops which will be held in conjunction with the ICWL 2012 conference. For more information on submission procedure, important dates, program committee and contacts, please refer to the website of each single workshop
(http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~icwl2012/workshops.php)


International Symposium on Knowledge Management and E-Learning (KMEL 2012) 

Website: http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~kwchiu/kmel2012.htm
Organizers:
  * Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
  * Federick Li, Durham University, UK
  * Maggie M. Wang, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong


International Workshop on Creative Collaboration through Supportive Technologies in Education (CCSTED 2012) 

Website: http://ccsted.ssai.valahia.ro/
Organizers:
  * Gabriel Gorghiu, Valahia University Targoviste, Romania
  * Mikhail Fominykh, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
  * Tommi Inkilä, University of Oulu, Finland
  * David Lamas, Tallinn University, Estonia
  * Margarida Romero, Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain


International Workshop on Learning within and from the 'Smart Cities' (SCiLearn 2012)

Website: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/scilearn2012/index.php
Organizers:
  * Carlo Giovannella, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  * Alke Martens, PH Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education, Germany


International Workshop on New Approaches to Serious Games (IWNASG 2012)

Website: http://www.seriousgamesnet.eu/IWNASG/
Organizers:
  * Carlos Vaz de Carvalho, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
  * Baltasar Fernandez Manjon, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  * Siu Cheung Kong, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
  * Janet C Read, University of Central Lancashire, UK
  * Pedro Latorre, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

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Deadline Extension: 7th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2012)

Deadline Extension - June 15

Call for Papers

SMAP 2012: 7th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization

December 3-4, 2012, Luxembourg-city (Luxembourg)

http://www.smap2012.org

The Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP) workshop is the evolution of the Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization initiative, which was founded during the summer of 2006 in an effort to discuss the state of the art, recent advances and future perspectives for semantic media adaptation and personalization. As social media applications have substantially transformed the way organizations, communities, and individuals interact, the scopes of the workshop are now extended towards this new trend, seeking to bring together researchers from the social web as well as from the semantic web communities, under the umbrella of the media adaptation and personalization domain.

After six successful workshops –in Athens, London, Prague, San Sebastian, Limassol and Vigo-, the SMAP workshop series has consolidated as a reference event in order to discuss about the newest advances in the field. The 7th SMAP workshop will be held in Luxembourg -city, Luxembourg. The 1-track, 2-day conference aims to provide a platform for exchanging fresh ideas and expertise, and for obtaining feedback on ongoing research. Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS).

SMAP 2012 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man, & Cybernetics Society. It is supported by the IEEE CIS Semantic Web Task Force and the IEEE-SMC Technical Committee on Intelligent Internet Systems. Discussions are in progress to get additional sponsoring from the Fonds National de La Recherche Luxembourg (FNR).


Keynote speakers
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 *   Dr. Lora Aroyo, Associate Professor at the Web and Media group, at the Department of Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
 *   Dr. Vania Dimitrova, Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.


Important dates for SMAP 2012
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Submission of full papers:                      15th June 2012 (extended)
Notification of acceptance:                     24th August 2012
Submission of camera ready:                     TBA
Main Workshop:                                  3rd - 4th December 2012


Publications
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All papers presented at the workshop will be published and indexed by the IEEE Computer Society. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a Special Issue journal publication TBA.


Aim and topics
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SMAP covers different issues of semantic technologies and social semantic technologies in their use for content creation, media adaptation and filtering, and user profiling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
 *   Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic and social web.
 *   Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents.
 *   User modelling and dynamic profiling.
 *   Ontologies and reasoning.
 *   Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications.
 *   Web adaptation methods and techniques.
 *   Content customization and adaptation.
 *   Semantic context modelling and extraction.
 *   Context-aware multimedia applications.
 *   Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries.
 *   Multilingual content navigation.
 *   Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities.
 *   Intelligent personalized interfaces.
 *   Multimedia standards.
 *   Hybrid social and semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems.
 *   Social multimedia applications (livecasting, audio-video sharing).
 *   User-generated content mechanisms.
 *   Adaptive / Personalized conversational media.
 *   Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis).
 *   Social web economics and business.
 *   Social network aggregation.
 *   Privacy/Security issues in social and personalized media applications.


Conference Chairs
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 *   Yannick Naudet, Henri Tudor Public Research Centre, Luxembourg
 *   Djamel Khadraoui, Henri Tudor Public Research Centre, Luxembourg
 *   Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece

Program Committee
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 *   Harry Agius, Brunel University, United Kingdom
 *   Panos Alexopoulos, iSOCO, Spain
 *   Christos Anagnostopoulos, Ionian University, Greece
 *   Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
 *   Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece
 *   Frederic Andres, University of Advanced Studies, Tokyo, Japan
 *   Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology, Slovak Republic
 *   Yolanda Blanco-Fernandez, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
 *   Fernando Bobillo, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
 *   Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
 *   Claudia Buzzi, Italian National Research Council, Italy
 *   Silvia Calegari, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
 *   Ivan Cantador, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
 *   George Caridakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 *   Claudia d'Amato, Universita di Bari, Italy
 *   Mathieu d’Aquin, The Open University, UK
 *   Ernesto Damiani, Universita di Milano, Italy
 *   Martine de Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
 *   Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
 *   Mario Doeller, University of Passau, Germany
 *   Muriel Foulonneau, Henri Tudor Public Research Centre, Luxembourg
 *   Panagiotis Germanakos, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
 *   Andrzej Glowacz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
 *   William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
 *   Rajkumar Kannan, BHC, India
 *   Martin Lopez-Nores, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
 *   Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, United Kingdom
 *   Kris Luyten, Hasselt University, Belgium
 *   Ilias Maglogiannis, University of Central Greece, Greece
 *   Ferran Marques, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
 *   Trevor Martin, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
 *   Vasileios Mezaris, Centre of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
 *   Angelos Michalas, Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Greece
 *   Phivos Mylonas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 *   Yannick Naudet, Henri Tudor Public Research Centre, Luxembourg
 *   Viviana Patti, Universita di Torino , Italy
 *   Jose J. Pazos-Arias, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
 *   Petr Saloun, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
 *   Miguel Angel Sicilia, Universidad de Alcala, Spain
 *   Evaggelos Spyrou, Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece
 *   Petros Stefaneas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 *   Zenonas Theodosiou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
 *   Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
 *   Chrisa Tsinaraki, Technical University of Crete, Greece
 *   Michalis Vafopoulos, National Technical University, Greece
 *   David Vallet, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
 *   Paulo Villegas, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
 *   Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece

 
Submission Procedure
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Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least three members of the Workshop Program Committee, based on its originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English, and can present mature research or experimental results as well as promising work in progress. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Papers must be formatted according to the CPS formatting guidelines, with a limit of 6 IEEE 2-column style pages, including all figures, tables, and references. A minimum paper length of 4 IEEE 2-column style pages is also imposed.

Papers must be submitted electronically through the SMAP 2012 website:
http://www.smap2012.org/cms/SMAP2012/content.nsf/id/submission?opendocument&language=EN.

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Social Network Analysis and Mining. Volume 2 Number 2

Social Network Analysis and Mining.

Volume 2 Number 2 is now available on SpringerLink

http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/13278

New measures for characterizing the significance of nodes in wireless ad hoc networks via localized path-based neighborhood analysis Leandros A. Maglaras & Dimitrios Katsaros

A social network evolution model based on seniority Yi-Kuang Ko, Jing-Kai Lou, Cheng-Te Li, Shou-De Lin & Shyh-Kang Jeng

New forms of social and professional digital relationships: the case of Facebook Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Grifoni & Tiziana Guzzo

Modeling blogger influence in a community Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Lei Tang & Philip S. Yu

Facebook as a Small World: a topological hypothesis Barbara Caci, Maurizio Cardaci & Marco E. Tabacchi

Trends in science networks: understanding structures and statistics of scientific networks Miray Kas, Kathleen M. Carley & L. Richard Carley

A new analysis method for simulations using node categorizations Tomoyuki Yuasa & Susumu Shirayama

Do you want to publish your article in this journal?

Please visit the homepage of Social Network Analysis and Mining for full details on:

 - aims and scope

 - editorial policy

 - article submission

Read the most downloaded articles

Anyone can access the most downloaded articles of this journal for free.

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JTEL Summer School 2012: Personalized Support for Self-regulated Learning

Here are the slides from the workshop on "Personalized Support for Self-regulated Learning" Alexander Nussbaumer, Milos and me did at the JTEL Summer School 2012 in Estoril, Portugal. In this workshop we let the students design widget for learning bundles. The workshop is one of the many ROLE workshops at the Summer School. Materials can be downloaded from this website.

Personalised Support for Self-Regulated Learning at JTEL 2012

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John Mylopoulos received Honorary Doctorate from RWTH Aachen University

Actually, this is from the web site of our institute. As we have been deeply involved in this event, we released also some lines on it.


The Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Natural Sciences of RWTH Aachen
University has awarded John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto and University
of Trento) an Honorary Doctoral Degree for his outstanding accomplishments
as a pioneer in the cross-discipline of Conceptual Modeling. John has been a
long-standing cooperation partner of Informatik 5 in several aspects of
Conceptual Modeling, including Metamodeling/Data Integration, Action
Modeling/Cognitive Robotics, and Socio-Technical Modeling/Requirements
Engineering.

Rector Ernst Schmachtenberg and President of Faculty Senate Wolfgang Thomas
conducted the graduation ceremony on May 11, 2012, in the Aula of the RWTH
Main Building; Wolfgang Thomas also impressed as a violinist in the
introductory oboa quartett by Mozart. 

Unusually, the laudation speech was jointly held by representatives from two
different RWTH Schools. Professors Matthias Jarke (Information Systems Group
and Chairman, Fraunhofer ICT Group) and Wolfgang Marquardt (Process
Engineering and Chairman, German National Science Council) highlighted
John's accomplishments and influence both in several areas within Computer
Science and in a wide range of Engineering fields.

Following Jan Van Leeuwen (long-term Chief Editors of Springer Lecture Notes
in Computer Science) and Reinhard Wilhelm (Founding Director of Dagstuhl
Meeting Center), John Mylopoulos was only the third Computer Scientist to
receive an Honorary Ph.D. from RWTH Aachen University. His award ceremony
was embedded in the 40th anniversary of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen
University. In addition to a historical review by Emeriti Walter Oberschelp
and Manfred Nagl, the program included talks by well-known Computer Science
alumni such as DFG Vice President Dorothea Wagner, Cyberdefense Specialist
Peter Martini from Fraunhofer FKIE, and top managers Johannes Helbig (CIO
Deutsche Post, former European as well as German CIO of the Year) and
Christoph Schmallenbach (CIO and HR Director, Generali Germany). 

A festive dinner in the 1200 year old basement of Aachen's City Hall, former
palace of Emperor Charlemagne, concluded the ceremonies.

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JTEL Summer School 2012: How to Build & Develop Responsive Open Learning Environments with the ROLE SDK

Dominik, Dejan and me did a workshop on the ROLE SDK at the JTEL Summer School 2012 in Estoril, Portugal. Despite, the high number of participants all who stayed until the end manage to do their own learrning widget with the SDK. You can download the ROLE SDK and run your own experiments with learning widgets.  Materials and results of the workshops can be reviewed here.

How to Build & Develop Responsive Open Learning Environments with the ROLE SDK

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JTEL Summer School 2012: The European Technology Enhanced Learning Landscape

This week I am attending the JTEL Summer School 2012 in Estoril, Portugal. So, there will be less announcements but eventually some information available on what is going on at the event.
This morning,  we opened the summer school with a joint presentation about the TEL Landscape in Europe. Slides are available on slideshare.The European Technology Enhanced Learning Lanscape

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Detecting Overlapping Communities in Facebook with NodeXL

For the initial public offering of Facebook, I re-publish and extend the main outcomes of this RWTH Aachen  master thesis of my student Arber Ceni  in computer science under my supervision.  Supervision was jointly done with  Marc Smith from Connected Action and  Bernie Hogan from Oxford Internet Institute.

MONC

SPLA

Overlapping vs. Non-overlapping Community Detection

Arber has implemented an importer of Facebook data in NodeXL together with two state-of-the-art algorithms for overlapping community detection, i.e. MONC and SPLA.
The visualization is nicely done. Each node is a pie chart where colors code the percentage of community belonging. You can download and install the importer for free.

Overlapping communities are present in social network sites like Facebook. A Facebook user is on average member of seven communities (paper, slides). Computer scientists and social scientists are interested in analyzing communities. They can detect e.g. formation of trends and voter behavior in the data sets or make use of them for personalized advertisement and stock data. Also for system design data can be used for e.g. system optimization.

Overlapping community detection algorithms (OCDA) are a recent further development of community detection algorithms (CDA). CDA always detect disjoint communities in network data, i.e. each node in the network belongs to exactly one community. A community here is defined sloppily as a more dense sub-network with more intracommunity than intercommunity connections. Because of the fact that in real networks disjoint community membership is extremely rare, OCDA have been proposed.

Some good candidates for OCDA are the following:

K-clique percolation method
+ The first algorithm to detect overlapping communities
+ Yields good results
- Different results for different k
- Doesn't have a good time complexity and fails to analyze large networks

GCE
+ It is fast and accurate
+ Yields the best results on LFR benchmark graphs
+ Able to detect non-overlapping communities
- Needs to specify parameters
- Not good results when nodes don't belong to the same number of communities

MONC
+ Time complexity of only O(n²)
+ Uncovers the whole hierarchical structure of the network in a single run
+ Saves time due to merging of communities
+ The core of the algorithm is free of parameters
- Requires three parameters on the post-processing phase
- The complexity is not proven to be O(n²)

SPLA
+ Has a time complexity of only O(Tn), where T = 100
+ Best results on LFR benchmarks
+ Performs well and is very stable over different ranking criteria
+ Can be easily modified to accommodate different speaker/listener rules
+ Can be used to detect fuzzy and crisp overlapping communities.
- Needs a parameter r

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Seventh European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2012) - Call for Demonstrations and Posters for Exhibition

Call for Demonstrations and Posters for Exhibition

EC-TEL 2012 Seventh European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning

18-21 September 2012, Saarbrücken, Germany

http://ec-tel.eu/

The European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) is a unique opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to address current challenges and advances in the field. Through EC-TEL, established and emerging researchers as well as practitioners, entrepreneurs, and technology developers explore new collaborations, strengthen networks, and compliment their core experience.

Promoting and developing 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills that meet contemporary needs and challenges is a key priority within the European Union and constituent countries. Crucial questions need to be addressed, such as:

How can schools prepare young people for the technology-rich workplace of the future?
How can we use technology to promote informal and independent learning outside traditional educational settings?
How can we use next generation social and mobile technologies to promote informal and responsive learning in the workplace?
This focus on skills, practice and impact is reflected in EC-TEL itself. EC-TEL 2012 is, for the first time, specifically appealing to Technology Enhanced Learning innovators, creative practitioners and other representatives from e-learning more generally. Extended demonstrations of prototypes and ‘TEL in action’ will spark discussions between different but complimentary groups, and be animated and disseminated through live internet radio broadcasts, videos, etc. EC-TEL 2012 will examine and improve the transitions between research, practice and industry.

In this special call we invite contributions for demonstrations and posters that can be exhibited and discussed along the conference. Details of conference topics are available at http://ec-tel.eu/call-for-papers, and in this second call especially we encourage highly visual and engaging demos, such as Serious Games, Virtual Worlds and Immersive Multimedia.

Posters are expected to report on significant work in progress.

A demonstration is your chance to fully engage EC-TEL attendees at a personal level by letting them see, touch, squeeze, or hear your visions for the future of TEL, or demonstrate highly interactive ‘TEL in Action’ (e.g. through videos or real-time learning experiences). We expect that your Demonstration will be a reliably running prototype of your vision that is ready to be tried out, questioned and interacted with. You need to submit a concise description of your prototype, clearly showing how your technological innovation realises a clear learning innovation.

At the conference, all accepted demonstrations will be invited to participate in the EC-TEL 2012 Prototype-SLAM session. The participants of the EC-TEL SLAM session will vote for the best EC-TEL prototype in this session and the winner will be awarded.

IMPORTANT DATES

Round 2 poster & demonstration submission:    15 June 2012
Round 2 poster & demonstration notification:     25 June 2012
2-minute video of demonstration:              02 July 2012

SUBMISSION FORMATS

Submissions will be handled through EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=demos-ectel2012). Max. 1 page. The posters and demonstrations accepted in this second special call will not be published in the proceedings but will be exhibited during the whole conference. Demonstrations accepted in this call can also participate in the EC-TEL 2012 Prototype-SLAM session.

Contact: Davinia Hernández-Leo (davinia.hernandez at upf.edu), Poster and Demonstration Chair

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Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2009 - Download Statistics

	Your eBook downloads			Visit us at springer.com
	Dear Dr. Ralf Klamma, You are surely aware that your book Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2009 is published in both print and electronic formats.Today, we would like to update you on the chapter downloads of your eBook on SpringerLink, Springer's online platform. Since its online publication on Aug 06, 2009, Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2009 has received a total of 8971 chapter download requests. Over the last year(s) the download figures have been as follows: Year Usage 2011 2108 2010 4738 2009 2125 As you can see, in addition to the print book, the electronic version offers a broad readership and increased visibility for your work. This is especially noticeable in the long run: statistical data shows that the usage of electronic publications will continue to be stable for years. For more information on the different book formats and your benefits of publishing with Springer, please click here. Thank you again for publishing with us. We are very pleased to disseminate your book among the scientific community and look forward to working with you on your next book or journal article. Best regards, Alfred Hofmann Springer

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Special Issue on Intelligent Multimedia Processing - JMPT

Call for Papers

Special issue of the Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies:

Intelligent Multimedia Processing

Background and Scope:
Multimedia processing has been emerging as an important technology
to generate content based on images, video, audio, visuals, and scripts.
The past years have witnessed the implementation of large number of
interesting applications of various intelligent computing techniques
such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, and evolutionary computation.

Computational intelligence has been a fertile area of research for the
past decade. There are numerous successful applications of computational
intelligence in many subfields of multimedia, including image and audio
processing and retrieval as well as text processing. However, there are
still numerous open problems in multimedia processing such as multimedia
communication and computing.

This special issue of the Journal of Multimedia Processing and
Technologies targets advances in the area of intelligent multimedia
processing. It aims to attract contributions of leading experts in their
fields addressing important and timely problems in intelligent multimedia
computing.

Major topics for the special issue include, but are not limited to,
the following:

Multimedia processing
Multimedia content analysis
Multimedia context analysis
Multimedia data mining
Multimedia indexing and retrieval
Multimedia interfacing
Multimedia communication
Multimedia sampling techniques
Multimedia filtering
Multimedia recognition and compression
Active multimedia systems

All contributions will be peer-reviewed according to the usual standards
of the journal.

Submission guidelines:
Authors are invited to submit papers to this special issue. The submitted
papers must describe original research which is neither published, nor
currently under review by other journals or conferences. The author
guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at:
http://www.dline.info/jmpt/submission.php

Important Dates:
Submission of manuscripts: August 15, 2012
Author notification: October 15, 2012
Final paper submission: January 15, 2013
Estimated publication date: First quarter of 2013

Guest editor-in-chief for this Special Issue:
Ramzi A. Haraty, Lebanese American University

For more information, please visit the journal's website at:
http://www.dline.info/jmpt/index.php or contact the guest editor-in-chief
at: rharaty@lau.edu.lb

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Deadline Extension: Advanced Future Multimedia Services (AFMS 2012)

Call for Papers

The 2012 FTRA International Workshop on Advanced Future Multimedia Services (AFMS 2012)

http://www.ftrai.org/wcc2012/afms/

Jeju, Korea, November 22-25, 2012

** Important Notices **

1. Submission due: May 20, 2012 (Final Extension)

2. The final versions of ALL accepted papers in the conference/workshop will be included in the special issues of SCI/E indexed international journals for full papers (as of Thomson ISI SCI/SCIE list in 2012) and LNEE, HCIS, JoC for regular papers.


Full Paper :
* Multimedia Tools and Applications - Springer (SCIE)

Regular Paper :
* Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer
* Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer
* International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - InderScience
* Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA Publishing



The 2012 FTRA International Workshop on Advanced Future Multimedia Services
(AFMS 2012) will be held in Jeju, Korea, Nevember 22-25, 2012.

The Workshop on Advanced Future Multimedia Services (AFMS'12) aims at high
quality research contributions in advanced multimedia services for future
technology, with a focus on how to apply advanced and semantic technologies
to the acquisition, generation, storage, processing, and retrieval of
large-scale multimedia information. A main goal of AFMS is to address
emerging research challenges in advanced multimedia technologies. Multimedia
community researchers are encouraged to join the workshop to benefit from
the presentation of results from multimedia based research, which
demonstrate important multimedia applications which could be enhanced by AI,
Semantic Web and other advanced technologies.
AFMS'12 encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes papers that
address challenges of multimedia in general or in the context of specific
domains.



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Topics
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Original contributions, not currently under review to another journal or
conference, are solicited in relevant areas including, but not limited to,
the following:

Track 1: Multimedia Modeling and Processing
- AI and Soft Computing in Multimedia
- Computer Graphics and Simulation
- Multimedia Information Retrieval (images, videos, hypertexts, etc.)
- Internet Multimedia Mining
- Medical Image and Signal Processing
- Multimedia Indexing and Compression
- Virtual Reality and Game Technology
- Current Challenges in Multimedia

Track 2: Multimedia Services and Applications
- Multimedia RDBMS Platforms
- Multimedia in Telemedicine
- Multimedia Embedded Systems
- Entertainment Industry
- E-Commerce and E-Learning
- Novel Multimedia Applications
- Computer Graphics

Track 3. Semantic Multimedia
- Advanced Semantic Descriptors and Similarity Metrics for Multimedia
- Advanced Semantic and Content-based Multimedia Analysis
- Ontology Engineering and Ontology-based Multimedia Mining and Retrieval
- Semantic Web technologies and Multimedia
- Semantic-driven Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval
- Semantic-driven Multimedia Personalization and Adaptation
- Interfaces for Web-scale Multimedia Repositories
- Affective/Emotional Interaction or Interfaces in Multimedia Applications
- Applications of Semantic Multimedia in Social and Web-based Environments
- Collective and Swarm Intelligence for Multimedia Applications
- Multimedia and Digital Convergence
- Intelligent Multimedia Services
- Multimedia Security

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Important Dates
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[Step 1: Conference Process]

Paper submission due: May 20, 2012
1st Author notification: June 20, 2012
Revised paper due: June 30, 2012
2nd Author notification: July 15, 2012
Presentation Material due: July 15, 2012
Conference days: Nov. 22-25, 2012


[Step 2: Journal Process]

Final notification due: Dec. 15, 2012
Camera-ready paper due: Dec. 30, 2013
Journal Publication: 2nd or 3rd Quarter, 2013 (Tentative)



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Paper Submission and Proceeding
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Papers must strictly adhere to page limits (8-10 pages for Full Papers, 4-5
pages for Regular Papers).
Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

All submissions must be made electronically :
http://www.editorialsystem.net/afms2012/

All submissions must be written in English. They must contain no information
identifying the author(s) or their affiliation(s).
All papers must be submitted in an electronic format which conforms to the
workshop proceedings style and submitted as DOC or PDF files.
Papers must strictly adhere to page limits (8-10 pages for Full Papers, 4-5
pages for Regular Papers).
Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.
First, materials (PPT) for presentation of accepted papers will be included
in a symposium proceeding.
As you can see the CFP, final version of all accepted and presented papers
in this conference will be included in Special Issues of the following
international journals indexed by SCI/E and KCIE.
We are planning to accept about many high quality papers for the this
conference, and all of them, after presentation at the symposium, will be
included in these special issues.
Full Papers will be published to SCI/SCIE Indexed Journals (as of Thomson
ISI SCI/SCIE list in 2012).
Regular Papers will be published to International Journals (LNEE, HCIS, JoC,
IJITCC, etc..).


Full Paper :
* Multimedia Tools and Applications - Springer (SCIE)

Regular Paper :
* Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer
* Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer
* International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and
Convergence (IJITCC) - InderScience
* Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA Publishing


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Organizing Committee
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[Steering Chair]
James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Seoul National University of Science &
Technology, Korea

[General Chair]
Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea
Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK

[Program Chair]
Seungmin Rho, Baekseok University, Korea

[Publicity Chair]
Sangoh Park, Chang-Ang University, Korea

[Local Arrangement Chair]
Yang-Sun Lee, Mokwon University, Korea

[Web and System Management Chair]
Jung-Sik Cho, Chung-Ang University, Korea


[Program Committee]
Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Spain
Fu Cheng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Gregorio Martinez
Perez , University of Murcia, Spain Haoyi Xiong , Institut TELECOM SudParis,
France Hiroshi ISHIKAWA , Shizuoka University, Japan Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo,
Australian Institute of Criminology, Australia Mahmoud F. Abaza , Athabasca
University, Canada Maria Teresa Andrade , INESC PORTO, Portugal Markus
Kampmann , Ericsson Research, Ericsson GMbH, Germany Maumita Bhattacharya ,
Charles Sturt University, Australia Michael Schwarz , Universitat of Kassel,
Germany Ruck Thawonmas, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Satoshi Kurihara,
Osaka University, Japan Xinpeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China Yanming
Shen, Dalian University of Technology, China Yao Zhao, Jiaotong University,
China Yuh-Jye Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Yunquan Zhang, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China Zhaobin Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China
Ce-Kuen Shieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Davy Van Deursen,
Ghent University, Belgium Yan-Wen Guo, Zhejiang University, China Eva Cheng,
RMIT University, Australia Weiqiang Wang, Graduate University of Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China Yonghong Tian, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yongdong Zhang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China Oscar Au, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Hong Kong SeungTaek Ryoo, Hanshin University, Korea Debasis Giri, Haldia
Institute of Technology, India


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Contact Information
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If you have any questions about the CFPs and papers submission, please email
to Prof. Seungmin Rho (pc.seungminrho AT gmail.com)

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Special Issue Content Analysis and Indexing for Distributed Multimedia Search & Retrieval in Broadcasting - Springer MTAP

CALL FOR JOURNAL PAPERS

Content Analysis and Indexing for Distributed

Multimedia Search & Retrieval in Broadcasting

Multimedia Tools and Applications (Special Issue)

http://www.springer.com/journal/11042

The transition to digital broadcasting and the concomitant raise of new
media channels has meant a significant increase in communication potential
for media publishers, which can now leverage the advantages of online
digital technologies to increase the value and attractiveness of their
services, thus gaining renewed value from content.

A side effect of such abundance of content is that consumers are overwhelmed
with "information overload". In fact, while digital and Internet services
are in principle more appealing due to opportunity they offer to increase
the number of thematic channels, the richness of distributed content and the
possibility for the users to interact, on the other side share and
contribute as well as the accessibility of such content still remain mostly
unresolved problems.

On the media production side, professionals often experience dual problems
in content selection and organisation for cross-media and interactive
productions. The organization of content into searchable units through the
use of flexible and scalable indexing techniques is seen as one solution to
these problems. In addition, it is of paramount importance to develop the
ability to generate, represent and distribute such informational units
(e.g., indexes) in a way that is consumable and manageable by a wide range
of end user terminals, and seamlessly integrated with web services and
mobile apps. The implementation of this scenario would give birth to a new
paradigm which would radically overcome the traditional notion of multimedia
indexing, search and retrieval based on bidirectional interactions between
users and index servers, paving the way to an ecosystem in which users of
content can at the same time have the role of indexers and publishers, and
where the universe of accessible objects is dynamically changing to meet
usage trends.

We therefore encourage the submission of works addressing single or several
components of a system for the scenario described above. Submissions should
discuss one of the following topics, with a particular emphasis on
illustrating the context of the work in such a scenario.

* Distributed multimedia feature extraction, clustering and classification
* Distributed architectures for multimedia search
* Topic and concept detection, categorization, multimedia genre / format
characterisation
* Natural query interfaces (e.g., based on speech or gesture input)
* Content segmentation and summarization
* Low complexity algorithms for acoustic, visual, and multimodal indexing
* Multimodal personality identification (i.e. leveraging multiple sources
of information)
* Visual and acoustic event detection in multimedia
* Crowd-assisted news production and material selection
* Context based retrieval and indexing of news content
* Efficient indexing of live multimedia streams
* Automated trust estimation, crowd opinion mining
* Analysis of social network activity about multimedia
* Multimedia ontologies and tagging
* HCI for efficient annotation and retrieval
* Automated cross-media and cross-device linking (incl. multiple screens
and control devices)
* User studies, requirements & trends, standardization
* Advanced user experience with multimedia

Tentative schedule
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Manuscript Due: July 1st, 2012
First Round of Reviews: October 1st, 2012

Editors
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Alberto Messina, RAI – Centre for Research and Technological Innovation, Italy; a.messina@rai.it

Andrea Basso, AT&T Labs - Research, USA; basso@research.att.com

Werner Bailer, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, DIGITAL – Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Austria; werner.bailer@joanneum.at

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Deadline Extension: 1st Moodle Research Conference

Call for Papers

1st Moodle Research Conference

14th and 15th of September 2012

Heraklion, Crete, Greece

http://research.moodle.net/

The Moodle Scientific Conference will become a major event for academics,
researchers, experts and practitioners - sharing experiences, research
achievements and innovative developments with Moodle. It is a unique
opportunity to participate in an event dedicated to research and development
(R&D) on learning and teaching carried out with Moodle. The conference will
provide opportunities for sharing, discussing and providing constructive
criticism of research outcomes and methods.

The conference venue is a beautiful location in the historic island of
Crete, Greece. Participants will have opportunities to connect with peers
and learn about new Moodle R&D trends and debate research ideas that could
improve the design of Moodle in the future.

We invite scientists and practitioners to submit manuscripts (full papers or
posters) critically reporting on quantitative and qualitative research
results concerning learning with Moodle.

Topics

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original
unpublished research and recent developments on the following topics:

• Research studies and case studies on teaching with Moodle
• Mobile Learning with Moodle
• Innovative Moodle plugins
• Learning Analytics in Moodle
• Collaborative Learning with Moodle
• Moodle communities of practice
• Interoperability with Moodle
• Accessibility in Moodle
• Adaptivity in Moodle


Paper submission guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit
* Research papers - of up to 8 pages, including figures and references
* Posters and research in progress that should be up to 1000 words in length.


Submission will be made by the conference management system EasyChair
conference management system. All submissions will undergo a blind peer
review process involving two program committee members.
Accepted papers will be published as conference proceedings (with ISBN) in
an open access, online-only version. The proceedings will be available
online approximately one month prior to the conference opening


Important Dates
28 May 2012: Submission of manuscripts (Extended)
11 June 2012: Notification of acceptance
9 July 2012: Submission of final copy of accepted papers
16 July 2012: Early Bird Deadline
14th and 15th September 2012: MoodleSco2012 Conference

Keynote speaker:
Martin Dougiamas, Founder of Moodle

Venue
Creta Maris Beach Resort in Crete[http://www.maris.gr/creta.aspx ].


More Info

URL: http://research.moodle.net/

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16th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2013)

CSCW 2013 

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

16th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing 

San Antonio, TX, Feb 23-27th 

http://cscw.acm.org

CSCW is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on how
technology intersects with social practices. By bringing together top
researchers and practitioners from academia and industry in the area of
social computing, CSCW addresses both the technical and social challenges
encountered when supporting collaboration.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
CSCW invites a wide variety of contribution types. For complete information
about deadlines, submission procedures, and revision timelines, see calls
for participation at http://cscw.acm.org.

Papers
May 25, 2012: Title and Abstract requested June 1, 5:00 p.m. PDT:
Submissions due

Workshops
June 29, 2012, 5:00 p.m. PDT

Videos
October 23, 2012, 5:00 PM PDT

Demos
November 2, 2012, 5PM PDT

Interactive Posters
November 2, 2012, 5:00 p.m. PDT

Panels
November 2, 2012, 5:00 p.m. PDT


PAPERS
http://cscw.acm.org/participation_paper.html

We invite submissions that detail existing practices or inform the design or
deployment of systems. The scope of CSCW includes, but is not limited to,
social computing, technologically-enabled or enhanced communication,
collaboration, information sharing, and coordination. It includes
socio-technical activities at work, in the home, in education, in
healthcare, in the arts, for socializing and for entertainment. To support
diverse and high-quality contributions, CSCW employs a two-phase review
process and does not impose an arbitrary length limit on papers submissions.
Please see the conference website for details about the review process and
aligning paper contribution and length.

Papers co-chairs: Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota & Cliff Lampe,
University of Michigan papers2013@cscw.acm.org


WORKSHOPS
http://cscw.acm.org/participation_workshop.html

Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss and explore emerging areas of CSCW
research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from
industry and academia. Workshops may focus on any aspect of CSCW theory or
practice, established concerns or new ideas; however, radical new ideas
expected to draw a sufficient number of participants are very much encouraged!
The goal of a workshop is to share understandings and experiences, to foster
research communities, to learn from each other and to envision future directions.

Workshops co-chairs: Jeremy Birnholtz, Cornell University & Andy Crabtree,
University of Nottingham
workshops2013@cscw.acm.org


VIDEOS
http://cscw.acm.org/participation_video.html

The CSCW Videos Program provides researchers, designers, and practitioners
with
opportunities to present their cutting-edge work in an interactive fashion
in
front of an expert audience. Videos are ideally suited to demonstrate the
practical application of research results and the functionality of CSCW
systems, visualize the outcome of research and development projects, or
describe inspiring visions of future systems that are grounded in todays
reality. The Videos Program provides a venue to present work that involves
dynamic interaction, ranging from demonstrations of new systems to complex
aspects of group communication and work practice.

Videos co-chairs: Sasa Junuzovic, Microsoft Research & Carman Neustaedter,
Simon Fraser University
videos2013@cscw.acm.org


DEMONSTRATIONS
http://cscw.acm.org/participation_demo.html

CSCW 2013 demonstrations present implementations of new CSCW systems and
concepts. The peer-reviewed demonstrations allow conference participants to
view novel and noteworthy CSCW systems in action, discuss the systems with
those who created them, and try them out. Appropriate demonstrations include

applications, technologies, and research prototypes, and may showcase work that
has been or is being published at CSCW or elsewhere. Demonstrations can also

serve to showcase novel commercial products not previously described in the
research literature. Demonstrations should be interactive and provide attendees
a hands-on experience. The demo forum is not an opportunity for marketing or

sales presentations. Presenters must have been directly involved with the
development of the system and be able to explain the unique and novel
contributions of the system.

Demos co-chairs: Dan Cosley, Cornell University & Travis Kriplean,
University of Washington
demos2013@cscw.acm.org


INTERACTIVE POSTERS
http://cscw.acm.org/participation_poster.html

CSCW 2013 will include an interactive poster category for late-breaking and
preliminary results, smaller results not suitable for a full or short paper,

innovative ideas not yet validated through user studies, early student
research, and other research best presented in an interactive forum. Posters

will be presented in a special Poster Session where researchers will interact
directly with conference attendees. The posters will remain up throughout the
remainder of the conference.

Posters co-chairs: Gary Hsieh, Michigan State University & Chen Zhao, Microsoft
posters2013@cscw.acm.org


PANELS
http://cscw.acm.org/participation_panel.html

Panels are a great way to generate debate and raise new and interesting issues
at CSCW. With panels we want to provide a forum for discussing provocative,
controversial, innovative, emerging, boundary-spanning and boundary-breaking
issues. While paper sessions provide detailed discussions of work recently
completed, panels provide an opportunity to explore what is on the horizon or
what is already here but not adequately recognized, acknowledged or discussed.

Panels co-chairs: Darren Gergle, Northwestern University & Siân Lindley,
Microsoft Research
panels2013@cscw.acm.org

Conference co-chairs: Amy Bruckman, Georgia Tech & Scott Counts, Microsoft Research
chairs2013@cscw.acm.org

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