Social Learning Analytics to study Teachers' Large-scale Professional Networks (eTwinning)

Riina gave a presentation on the TELLNET project at the OST conference in Tallinn, Estonia. She has already uploaded the slides to slideshare.

Social Learning Analytics to study Teachers' Large-scale Professional Networks (eTwinning) from European Schoolnet

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International Workshop on Cloud Education Environments powered by ROLE Project

International Workshop on

Cloud Education Environments

Workshop website: http://ges.galileo.edu/cloud-education-environments-workshop/

Guatemala, 15 & 16 / November 2012.

This workshop will focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results, as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing and testing cloud education environments, both from a teaching and a learning perspective. Best papers will be selected for submission of an extended version in a Special Issue on Cloud Education Environments of the Journal of Universal Computer Science.

Cloud Learning Environments (CLEs) consider the cloud as a large ecosystem, which is not owned by any educational organization. Within this ecosystem, learners and educators act as the users and producers of cloud-based learning services. They have complete control over the choice, use and sharing of the learning tools and content provided by these services. This approach has the potential to enable and facilitate both formal and informal learning. It allows learners to learn anywhere and at anytime. It also facilitates collaboration among learners and educators. Additionally, the openness, sharing and reusability of learning tools and content on the web are technically enabled and promoted.

Topics of Interest:

1.     Learning Tools

a.     Learning tools experiences and Cases of Study

b.     Social Environments

c.      Content and Multimedia Applications

d.     Story Telling Tools

e.     Other type of tools

2.     Pedagogical Approaches and Learning Contexts

a.     Personalized Learning Environments

b.     Self Regulated Learning

c.      Learning Artifacts

d.     Pedagogical approaches for multiple learning environments.

e.     Modeling Languages

f.      Assessment approaches

3.     Orchestration

a.     Orchestration approaches for learning using several tools

b.     Prototype experiences of learning orchestration

c.      User Interface Management

4.     Interoperability

a.     Standards and Specifications

b.     Internet of Services and Technology Enhanced Learning

c.      Reference Implementations

d.     Virtual Learning Environments and Tools integration

e.     Integration Experiences and Cases of Study

f.      Authentication and identity handling on service based scenarios

g.     Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), with education purposes.

5.     Business Models

a.     Learning as a Service

b.     Service models of educational institutions

c.      Ethical Aspects

Important Dates:

* Extended Abstracts (2 pages): 30 Sept

* Notification of acceptance: 10 Oct

* Camera-ready submissions (6 pages): 4 Nov

Authors are asked to prepare their papers according to the IEEE guidelines: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting.

Conference language

English is the official conference language. Online participation (presentation of papers only) is also possible.

Proceedings:

The proceedings will be published on the Web (online) with an ISSN number for the proceedings.

Each workshop paper will be peer-reviewed (members of the Programme Committee). Following the Formatting Guidelines.

Best papers will be selected for submission of an extended version in a Special Issue on Cloud Education Environments of the Journal of Universal Computer Science.

Organizers

Rocael Hernandez Rizzardini, Galileo University, Guatemala

Hans-Christian Schmitz, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany

Alexander Mikroyannidis, The Open University, United Kingdom

Programme Committee

To be announced

Organization Committee

Byron Linares, Galileo University, Guatemala

Venue, Travel, Accommodation 

Workshop will be held in Antigua Guatemala, UNESCO world-heritage. 

Workshop venue and hotel: Portal Hotel, transportation airport-hotel-airport is available (45 mins by private transportation). Portal Hotel is one of the most lovely and nice hotels in Antigua Guatemala., secure transportation

Optional tours will be arranged to Guatemalan must-see attractions such as largest Ancient Mayan city Tikal and its amazing Pyramids, Lake Atitlan and others. Special 2012 end-of-age Mayan tours will be available. If schedule allows, we recommend spending at least 3 days in our country.

Flying to Guatemala: Major U.S. airlines fly to Guatemala (United, AA, others) and major European Airlines (Lufthansa, KLM, others) have connections through U.S. hubs such as Miami. Iberia has a direct flight from Madrid to Guatemala. South American airlines such as Taca & Copa have also many daily flights.

The local organization group is able to help with reservations, transportation, tours, etc. Contact for any question or requests.

This workshop is a sequel of several previous international events organized by Galileo University in Guatemala related to Technology Enhanced Learning, the most recent experience was the ICBL held in November 2011 in Guatemala, with over 200 hundred participants, many of them from Europe and the U.S..

Contact

Contact at: w.cloud.education.environments@galileo.edu

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ROLE Widget Store Screencast

The ROLE Widget Store is the central repository for self-regulated learning widget developed by the ROLE project. For the creation and deployment of personal learning environments widget and widget bundles can be directly embedded in many widget container technologies based on OpenSocial.

 

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2nd International Workshop on evidenced-based Technology Enhanced Learning (ebTEL 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS 

2nd International Workshop on evidenced-based Technology Enhanced Learning (ebTEL 2013) 

In conjunction with the PAAMS 2013 Conference 

University of Salamanca (Spain) 

Salamanca, Spain, 22-24 May, 2013 

http://ebtel.usal.es

SCOPE

Research on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) investigates how information and communication technologies can be designed in order to support pedagogical activities. The Evidence based Design (EBD) of a system bases its decisions on empirical evidence and effectiveness. The evidence-based TEL workshop (ebTEL) brings together TEL and EBD. The workshop aims at collecting contributions concerning evidence based TEL systems, like their design following EBD principles as well as success stories or best practices that educators, education stakeholders or educational psychologists used to improve their students' learning experience, in particular for students with specific difficulties (e.g. poor/slow readers, students living in impoverished communities or families).

The previous edition of ebTEL collected TEL contributions from computer science, artificial intelligence, evidence-based medicine, educational psychology and pedagogy. Like the previous edition, the international ebTEL´13 edition wants to be a forum in which TEL researchers and practitioners alike can discuss innovative evidence-based ideas, projects, and lessons related to TEL. The meeting will be held in Salamanca on May 22nd-24th 2013, in parallel with the PAAMS'13 International Conference.

KEYWORDS

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

- Evidence-based personalisation, user modelling and adaptation in TEL
- Evidence-based games and game learning for TEL
- Knowledge representation and reasoning for evidence based TEL
- Knowledge management and evidence based TEL
- Natural language processing and evidence based TEL
- Semantic web and evidence based TEL
- Web 2.0 and Social Learning environments for evidence based TEL
- Sharing and interoperability between evidence-based TEL systems
- Effective teaching techniques and strategies for learning
- Evidence based design case studies
- Evaluation guidelines, methodologies and methods for evidence based TEL
- Evidence based TEL for users with special needs

EXPECTED PARTICIPANTS

The ebTEL workshop invites contributions in the area of TEL, both from computer science as well as evidence based medicine, educational psychology and pedagogy. Researchers from these areas and education stakeholders are all expected contributors or participants. The organising committee will particularly encourage the participation of stakeholders and researchers in the educational or TEL field so as to foster the sharing of best practices in the field, and disseminate the research progress in the educational context.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

We invite the submission of papers (max. 8 pages in Springer format) reporting original research, not previously published, relevant to the workshop's themes.

All submissions will be carefully reviewed by an international program committee. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least two experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.

he proceedings of the previous edition of ebTEL are available via Springer at http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/book/978-3-642-28800-5.

PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION

ebTEL will be a full-day workshop. It also foresees keynote presentations by experts in the TEL area.

All the accepted papers will be presented during the workshop and published by Springer in the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing series. At least one of the authors will be required to register for the workshop in order to present the paper and have it included in the proceedings.

STEERING COMMITTEE

Juan M. Corchado - University of Salamanca (Spain)
Fernando De la Prieta - University of Salamanca (Spain)
Rosella Gennari - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
Ivana Marenzi - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
Pierpaolo Vittorini - University of l'Aquila (Italy)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (preliminary)

Fabian Abel - Delft University of Technology (Nederland)
Anthony Baldry - University of Messina (Italy)
Juan M. Corchado - University of Salamanca (Spain)
Fernando De la Prieta - University of Salamanca (Spain)
Juan F. De Paz Santana - University of Salamanca (Spain)
Dina Di Giacomo - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
Tania Di Mascio - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
Rosella Gennari - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
Ana Belén Gil - University of Salamanca
Óscar Gil - University of Salamanca
Nicola Henze - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
Eelco Herder - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
Ralf Kerstel - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
Ralf Klamma - RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
Rita Kupetz - Leibniz University Hanover (Germany)
Ivana Marenzi - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
Maria Moreno Jaén - University of Granada (Spain)
Stefano Necozione - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
Emanuele Pianta - FBK-irst (Italy)
Sara Rodríguez - Univeristy of Salamanca
Maria Grazia Sindoni - University of Messina (Italy)
Marcus Specht - Open University of the Netherlands
Sara Tonelli - FBK-irst (Italy)
Pierpaolo Vittorini - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
Carolina Zato - University of Salamanca

DATES

Submission deadline: November, 26th, 2012.
Notification of acceptance: January, 28th, 2013.
Final version submission: February, 25th, 2013.
Conference: 22nd - 24th May, 2013.

CONTACTS

URL: http://ebtel.usal.es
Mail: ebtel@usal.es

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Deadline Extension: 18th CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology Doctoral Consortium

18th CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology

Doctoral Consortium

September 16th, 2012

Duisburg, Germany

Extended submission deadline: August 13th, 2012

http://criwg2012.collide.info/index.php?id=doctoral-consortium

The CRIWG Doctoral Consortium aims at bringing together PhD students working on groupware and give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium event are:
- To provide fruitful feedback and advice to the selected Ph.D. students on their research thesis.
- To interact with other PhD students and stimulate an exchange of ideas and suggestions among participants.

To help achieving this goal the doctoral consortium will be moderated by experienced researchers from the field. For the CRIWG 2012 Doctoral Consortium these are:
- Daniel Suthers, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA
- Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
- José A. Pino, Universidad de Chile, Chile

In the morning, the consortium PhD researchers will present and discuss their dissertation research progress. After lunch, consortium participants will receive feedback and suggestions regarding their research in face-to-face meetings with selected faculty members. Participating faculty will engage in discussions on academic research in GDN and the academic community in general.

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Topics
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- Web-based cooperative applications/environments
- Collaborative workspaces
- Collaboration through social media
- Administration and communication support for distributed communities
- Monitoring and analysis of group interactions
- Social media analytics
- Workflow modeling/Workflow management and coordination
- Groupware development frameworks and toolkits
- Languages and tools supporting collaboration
- Organizational computing
- Multi-user interfaces and group awareness mechanisms
- Social aspects of group work
- Nomadic and/or mobile collaborative work
- Virtual groups and virtual worlds
- Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL)
- Group decision and negotiation support (GDSS)
- Meeting support for mixed and face-to-face settings
- Adaptive collaborative environments
- Collaborative applications and case studies
- Group-oriented knowledge management technologies
- Multi-agent systems and architectures to support collaborative work

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Submission Process
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We encourage all PhD students that have a clear picture of their research plan, but not have yet finished their research, to participate. To apply for participation at the doctoral consortium, please send a short paper or research proposal describing your doctoral work to Stephan Lukosch (s.g.lukosch@tudelft.nl) and Marc Jansen (Marc.Jansen@hs-ruhrwest.de). The submission deadline is: August 13th, 2012

The paper/research proposal must:
- briefly describe your motivation to participate at the Doctoral Consortium - what you would like to take home from the consortium,
- clearly describe the motivation for the research,
- clearly formulate the research question & objective,
- describe the proposed approach & research methodology,
- describe the results achieved so far,
- point out the intended contribution to science,
- point out the intended contribution to practice.

We encourage you to use not more than 3000 words.

You will be notified about acceptance on August 24, 2012.

For the consortium you will be asked to prepare a short presentation of your work. Details about this will be communicated by the doctoral consortium moderators to all accepted participants upon acceptance.

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Important Notice
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Participation in the Doctoral Colloquium has no additional fee and is open to every registered CRIWG 2012 participant.

Based on applications, a limited number of free participations covering the conference registration fee can be granted to graduate students. Applications need to be sent to the CRIWG 2012 organization chair Marc Jansen (E-mail: Marc.Jansen@hs-ruhrwest.de) from whom also further information on the application procedure can be obtained.

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Deadline Extension: 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom 2012)

4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science 

(IEEE CloudCom 2012)

The Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan, December 03-06, 2012

http://2012.cloudcom.org

Abstract Submission: July 13, 2012 --> July 20, 2012

Full Submission: July 27, 2012 --> July 31, 2012

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1. Sponsors:
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Organized by
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Chung Hua University, Taiwan
National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
Tunghai University, Taiwan

Sponsored by:
IEEE
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Technical Commitee on Scalable Computing
IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative
Taiwan Association of Cloud Computing
National Science Council (Taiwan)
Taipei City Government
OpenGrid Forum
Academia Sinica
Institute for Information Industry
Ministry of Economic Affairs, R.O.C.
Quanta Computer
iS-Land Technology

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2. Important Dates:
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Abstract Submission (obligatory): July 13, 2012 --> July 20, 2012
Full Submission: July 27, 2012 --> July 31, 2012
Notification: Sep. 7, 2012
Camera-ready & Author registration: Sep. 28, 2012
Poster and Demo: Sep. 10, 2012
Poster and Demo Notification: Sep. 20, 2012

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3. Topics:
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1. Architecture
*Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
*Cloud Platform as a Service
*Cloud federation and hybrid cloud infrastructure
*Programming models and systems/tools
*Green data center
*Networking technologies for data center
*Cloud system design with FPGA, GPU, APU
*Monitoring, management and maintenance
*Economic and business models
*Dynamic resource provisioning

2. MapReduce
*Performance characterization and optimization
*MapReduce on multi-core, GPU
*MapReduce on hybrid distributed environments
*MapReduce on opportunistic / heterogeneous computing systems
*Extension of the MapReduce programming model
*Debugging and simulation of MapReduce systems
*Data-intensive applications using MapReduce
*Optimized storage for MapReduce applications
*Fault-tolerance & Self-* capabilities

3. Security and Privacy
*Accountability
*Audit in clouds
*Authentication and authorization
*Cryptographic primitives
*Reliability and availability
*Trust and credential management
*Usability and security
*Security and privacy in clouds
*Legacy systems migration
*Cloud Integrity and Binding Issues


4. Services and Applications
*Cloud Service Composition
*Query and discovery models for cloud services
*Trust and Security in cloud services
*Change management in cloud services
*Organization models of cloud services
*Innovative cloud applications and experiences
*Business process and workflow management
*Service-Oriented Architecture in clouds

5. Virtualization
*Server, storage, network virtualization
*Resource monitoring
*Virtual desktop
*Resilience, fault tolerance
*Modeling and performance evaluation
*Security aspects
*Enabling disaster recovery, job migration
*Energy efficient issues

6. HPC on Cloud
*Load balancing for HPC clouds
*Middleware framework for HPC clouds
*Scalable scheduling for HPC clouds
*HPC as a Service
*Performance Modeling and Management
*Programming models for HPC clouds
*HPC cloud applications
*Optimal cloud deployment for HPC

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4. Keynote Speakers
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Academia/Government:
Dr. San-Cheng Chang, Executive Yuan, Republic of China (Taiwan)
Prof. Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA
Prof. Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Amr El-Abbadi, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

Industrial:
Dr. Siani Pearson (HP Cloud & Security Research Lab, UK)
Dr. Mazin Yousif (Shell, USA)
Dr. Joe Baguley (VMware, UK) (Pending)

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5. Special Issues
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Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers.

Selected papers, after further extensions and revisions, will be published in special issues of the following prestigious journals

Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 2.365)
International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.229)
Journal of Systems Architecture (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.768)
Automated Software Engineering (Springer) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.806)
Journal of Internet Technology (ISI Impact Factor = 0.448)
Information System Frontier (Springer) (ISI Impact Factor = 1.596)
Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (Hindawi) (ISI Impact Factor = 2.436)
International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing (Scopus, EI)

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6. Workshops
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The following workshops will be organized in conjunction with the IEEE CloudCom-2012.
Proceedings of CloudCom 2012 Workshops will be also published by IEEE CS Press (IEEE-DL & EI indexed)

- The 2012 International Workshop on Cloud Computing for Simulations
- The 2012 International Workshop on Cloud Computing for Research Collaborations
- The 1st International Workshop on Cloud Computing for Internet of Things
- The 2nd International Workshop on Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing
- The 2012 International Workshop on GPU Computing in Clouds
- The 2012 International Workshop on Cloud Computing for Bioinformatics and Its Applications
- The 2012 International Workshop on Data Analytics and Mining in the Cloud
- The 2012 Internatinal Workshop on IT Service Management in Distributed Computing
- The 2012 International Workshop on SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) Architecture and Engineering

For details of workshops, please visit http://grid.chu.edu.tw/cloudcom2012/workshops.html

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7. Panels and Tutorials
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The following panels/tutorials will be organized in conjunction with the IEEE CloudCom-2012.

- Standards and Interoperability (S. L. Diamond, Chair of the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative)
- MapReduce/Hadoop Tutorial (Viraj Bhat, Principal Technical, Yahoo! Inc., USA)
- Tutorial on Hadoop (Yahoo!)

For details in organizing a Panel / Tutorial with CloudCom, please contact
Panels and Tutorials Chair, Prof. Sartaj Sahni (sahni@cise.ufl.edu)

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8. Submission & Publication
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For main conference, the page limit will be 8 pages.
For workshops, the page limit will be 6 pages.
For Ph.D. consortium and Industrial applications, the page limit will be 6 pages.
For short papers, poster and demo, the page limit will be 4 pages.

All accepted papers will be published by IEEE CS Press (IEEE Xplore) and Indexed by EI.

The IEEE CloudCom 2012 submission site:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ieeecloudcom2012

Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE CS format, and submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system

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9. Best Paper Awards
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Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers, after further extensions and revisions, will be published in special issues of prestigious journals associated with this conference

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Interplay between User Experience Evaluation and System Development (I-UxSED 2012)

Interplay between User Experience Evaluation and System Development (I-UxSED 2012)

IC0904 TwinTide 2nd Open Workshop

Date: 14th October 2012 (Sunday)
Venue:  IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (in conjunction with NordiCHI 2012)
Deadline for submission: 17th August 2012
Website: users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/i-uxsed2012/

GOAL
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While the gap between HCI and Software Engineering (SE) with regard to usability has somewhat been narrowed, it may be widened again due to the new emphasis on user experience (UX).  The main goal of I-UxSED 2012 is to bring together people from HCI and SE to identify challenges and plausible resolutions to optimize the impact of UX evaluation feedback on software development.

RAIONALES & CHALLENGES
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Usability evaluation methods (UEMs) and metrics are relatively more mature. In contrast, UX evaluation methods (UXEMs) which draw largely on UEMs are still taking shape. It is conceivable that feeding outcomes of UX evaluation back to the software development cycle to instigate the required changes can even be more challenging than doing so for usability evaluation (UE). It leads to several key issues:

* UX attributes are (much) more fuzzy and malleable, what kinds of diagnostic information and improvement suggestion can be drawn from evaluation data. How does the evaluation feedback enable designers/developers to fix this experiential problem (cf. usability problem) and how can they know that their fix works (i.e. downstream utility)?
* Emphasis is put on conducting UE in the early phases of a development lifecycle with the use of low fidelity prototypes. However, is this principle applicable to UX evaluation? Is it feasible to capture authentic experiential responses with a low-fidelity prototype?  If yes, how can we draw insights from these responses?
* The persuasiveness of empirical feedback determines its worth. Is UX evaluation feedback less persuasive than usability feedback? If yes, will the impact of UX evaluation be weaker than UE?
* The Software Engineering (SE) community has recognized the importance of usability. Can such recognition and implications be taken for granted for UX, as UX evaluation methodologies and measures could be very different?
* Analysis approaches developed by researchers are applied to a limited extent by practitioners.  Such divorce between research and practice could be bitterer in UX analysis approaches, which are essentially lacking.

I-UxSED 2012 aims to address the above as well as other related ones.

WORKSHOP TOPICS
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Contributions, preferably with empirical studies, on the following topics (but are not limited to) are invited:

* Which artefacts of software development are useful as the basis for UX evaluation and how do such artefacts influence the selection of UX evaluation methods?
* What are the forms and characteristics of UX evaluation feedback that are considered or proved useful and necessary for software development (including the UI design)?
* How can UX evaluation methods be integrated in emerging techniques and approaches for software development (including the UI design)?
* How do software designers’/developers’ perceptions of UX evaluation feedback relate to their redesign strategies and approaches (e.g. prioritisation)?
* How can the effectiveness of UX evaluation feedback in improving software quality be evaluated (i.e., the issue of downstream utility)?
* How can analysis in UX practical evaluation be supported with techniques and tools applicable to actual industrial practices?

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
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Submissions of 2 to 6 pages (SIGCHI format) describing a specific position or an empirical study are invited. Design, development and evaluation cases as well as theoretical frameworks relevant to the workshop topics are welcome. Each submission will be peer reviewed by the program committee members (see the list on the website). All submissions should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iuxsed2012 

EXPECTED OUTCOMES
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Accepted papers will be compiled as workshop proceedings downloadable from the TwinTide website (http://www.twintide.org/).  A special issue on the topic “Interplay between UX Evaluation and Software Development” in a prestigious HCI journal will be applied. If successful, extended versions of selected papers from the workshop will be included in it.

IMPORTANT DATES
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* Deadline for submission:     17th August 2012
* Author notification:         3rd September 2012
* Early registration deadline:     16th September 2012
* Full-day workshop:         14th October 2012

ORGANISERS
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* Effie Lai-Chong Law, University of Leicester, UK/ ETH Zurich, Switzerland
* Silvia Abrahão, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
* Arnold P.O.S. Vermeeren, TU Delft, the Netherlands
* Ebba Thora Hvannberg, University of Iceland

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The 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2013)

Call for Papers

The 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW

2013)

21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus.

Submission deadline for full papers and notes: 4 February, 2013.

General Chair: George Angelos Papadopoulos.
Program Chairs: Olav W. Bertelsen and Antonietta Grasso.


ECSCW 2013 calls for submissions reporting on investigations into
cooperation in real world settings and designs of innovative technologies to
support collaboration.

ECSCW is interested in cooperative settings in the workplace, in everyday
life, and the civic society, and across boundaries between these spheres of
life.


The conference is soliciting high quality contributions that advance the
state of the art in CSCW:
- empirical studies of work that contribute to the design space,
- novel techniques and technologies,
- enhancement of the conceptual foundations.


In particular, the conference welcomes contributions that focus on:
- Empirical studies of collaboration in settings ranging from work to
civic engagement and everyday life.
- Comparative analyses of empirical studies that contribute to a deeper
understanding of domain specific or more general CSCW principles.
- Empirical studies on the appropriation of innovative technologies.
- Studies on collaborative work in emergent and developing economies.
- Investigations into the usage and design of coordination artefacts as
well as webs of technology (infrastructures).
- New technology-enabled forms of organization and virtual organizing.
- Innovative technologies, applications, or functionality in support of
collaborative work.
- Conception, construction and use of CSCW technologies in complex and
demanding settings, like manufacturing, software engineering,
healthcare, care giving, security, and control systems.
- Architectures supporting CSCW technologies with quality requirements,
such as flexibility, tailorability, and adaptability.
- Ubiquitous and mobile computing in collaborative settings: empirical
research of use, studies of integration with other CSCW technologies
and applications.
- Innovative use of social media to support collective action.


All contributions will be rigorously evaluated in terms of their
novelty, significance, quality, and contribution to the discipline.
Accepted research papers and notes will be included in the conference
proceedings published by Springer and freely available at the ECSCW
website at: www.ecscw.org. They will also be indexed in and available
through the ACM digital library.

ECSCW 2013 requires that submissions have not been published previously
and that papers submitted are not under simultaneous review for any
other publication.

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Communities & Technologies 2013 (C&T 2013)

Call for Papers

6th Intl. Conf. on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2013)

Munich, Germany, June 29 - July 2, 2013

http://www.ct2013.cnss.de/

We cordially invite submissions to the Sixth International Conference on
Communities and Technologies (C&T 2013), hosted from 29th June – 2nd July
2013 in Munich. This biennial meeting serves as a forum for stimulating and
disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both
physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies.

C&T 2013 welcomes participation of researchers, designers, educators, and
students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the
interaction between community and technology.

The conference program includes competitively selected, peer-reviewed
papers, as well as workshops, panels, posters, a doctoral consortium, and
invited speakers.

People
• Conference Co-Chairs: Michael Koch & Johann Schlichter
• Paper Chairs: Wolfgang Prinz & Christine Satchell
• Workshop Chairs: Alessandra Agostini & Tom Gross
• Doctoral Consortium Chair: Geraldine Fitzpatrick
• Student Volunteer Chairs: Alexander Richter & Wolfgang Woerndl

Conference Themes

C&T focuses on the notion of communities as social entities comprised of
people who share something in common; this common element may be geography,
needs, interests, practices, organizations, or other bases for social
connection. Communities are considered to be a basic unit of social
experience. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can interact
with communities in many complex ways, For example, ICTs can support
community formation and development by facilitating communication and
coordination among members. Conversely, the lack of attention to the
surrounding community context may inhibit the design and effective use of
ICT innovations thus eroding the potential for new technologies to enhance
everyday life.

Topics appropriate for submission to this conference are manifold. Examples
of some of the vibrant areas of communities and technology research include,
but are not limited to:
• (Virtual) community formation and development
• Technical support for communities
• Communities and innovation
• Urban informatics
• Social capital, communities, and technology
• Interactions between online and offline communities
• Augmenting interactions between physically co-located groups
• Communities and e-government
• Ethnographic and case studies of virtual communities
• Trust, privacy and security issues in virtual communities
• Challenges of coordinating communities during natural disasters
• Economics of technology-facilitated communities
• Inter-organizational communities and technology
• Communities, technology, and learning/education
• Communities, technology, and health
• Enterprise 2.0

Submission categories, Format

We are calling for submission of full (research) papers, posters, workshop
proposals and applications to the doctoral consortium. Please submit all
papers and abstracts in ACM SIGCHI two column layout (see
http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform).

Full Papers

Full papers must be no longer than ten pages, including all additional
material such as references, appendices, and figures. The papers must
include a title, sufficient space for the author name(s) to appear on the
paper, abstract, keywords, body, and references.

Posters

Posters graphically illustrate original systems, experiences, or
applications, and will be shown for the duration of the main conference.
Poster submissions should include an extended abstract of no longer than two
pages. The extended abstract should state the contribution and originality
of the work clearly and explicitly, including just enough background to make
clear how the work differs from significant prior research.

Workshops

Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss and explore emerging areas of
Communities & Technologies research with a group of like-minded researchers
and practitioners. They run for a half or one full day and will take place
on 29. Jun 2013 or 30. Jun 2013.

Proposals of workshop organisers should be no longer than four pages and
should include: the title of the workshop, the list of organisers and their
backgrounds, and an abstract of no more than 150 words; as well as the
workshop's theme, goals and activities; maximum number of participants,
means of soliciting participation, and means of selecting participants.

Please email your proposal as PDF attachment to: ct2013w@gmail.com

Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled prior to the main conference program on
30. June 2013. The Doctoral Consortium (DC) offers research students a
special forum where they can present, discuss and progress their research
plans with peers and established senior researchers.

Research students wishing to attend the consortium should submit up to four
pages, addressing the following: Introduction setting up your research area
and specific research question(s)/goals(s) (including key related work);
Overall research approach, methodology, and expected contributions; Work in
progress (including findings to date and next steps); Questions and issues
for discussion, and what you hope to gain from attending the DC; short bio.

Please send applications by 1. May 2013 to Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Doctoral
Consortium Chair: geraldine.fitzpatrick AT tuwien.ac.at.

Student Volunteers

C&T actively encourages students to volunteer at the conference. Being a
student volunteer is a great way to support the research community, meet
other students in the field, and attend an international ACM conference. You
will help the conference organisers with the running of the conference and
support the setting-up of presentations and workshops. You will see the
latest in C&T research and development, and have fun while learning about
running the conference. In return, you will get free registration. To apply,
email us your contact details (email, phone, university), a CV and the
reasons why you would like to be a student volunteer.

Please send applications by email to the Student Volunteer Co-Chairs until
1. May 2013: Alexander Richter (alexander.richter AT unibw.de) and Wolfgang
Woerndl (woerndl AT in.tum.de).


Deadlines
• 1. Feb 2013 Full papers and workshop proposals due
• 1. Mar 2013 Notification of acceptance (for workshop proposals)
• 1. Apr 2013 Notification of acceptance (for full papers)
• 1. May 2013 Camera ready papers
• 1. May 2013 Workshop papers, posters and doctoral consortium and
student volunteer applications due
• 29. Jun – 2. Jul 2013 Workshops and conference in Munich

For more Information see the conference website at
http://www.ct2013.cnss.de/

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Workshop on Information and Decisions in Social Networks @ MIT

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Workshop on Information and Decisions in Social Networks

November 8-9, 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

http://wids.lids.mit.edu/

Interdisciplinary workshop for researchers working on information and decisions in social networks.

During the last decade, it has become clear that network interactions have a much larger role in our lives than had previously been appreciated: social networks have a defining impact on not only consumer choice but are also central in social and political decisions ranging from the political discourse in the blogosphere to the organization and coordination of protests in the Arab spring.  Similarly financial networks seem at the heart of the 2008 crash. Network effects are now seen as major elements in other domains with human decisions including healthcare, public health, smart power grids, urban transportation, and more. As a consequence, both businesses and government are increasingly looking to build new types of networks to improve management abilities.

This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from different communities working on information propagation and decision making in social networks to investigate both rigorous models that highlight capabilities and limitations of such networks as well as empirical and simulations studies of how people exchange information, influence each other, make decisions and develop social interactions.

The workshop is organized by the virtual center Connection Science and Engineering, a multidisciplinary and interdepartmental MIT center that focuses on developing an integrated framework for the study of the connected world we live in. The center is hosted jointly by Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Media Lab, and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Registration is now open. Please visit the workshop website http://wids.lids.mit.edu/  to complete your registration. We have limited seating available and registration will be processed on a first-come first-serve basis.

Submission Instructions:

All contributions, theoretical, empirical, and experimental, on social networks are welcome. There will be no published proceeding. The material submitted to the workshop may also be submitted elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit an abstract of one to three pages by the deadline of September 15, 2012. Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es) on the first page. Pages of the abstract should not be numbered. Electronic submission of manuscripts in PDF format is required.

Please send your manuscript directly to widssubmission@gmail.com by September 15, 2012.

Important Dates

June 2012: Registration begins

September 15, 2012: Submission deadline

October 10, 2012: Program available

November 8-9, 2012: Workshop

Organizers

    Frank Alexander, LANL

    Vincent Blondel, UCLouvain (Belgium) and LIDS, MIT

    Costis Daskalakis, CSAIL, MIT

    David Gamarnik, Sloan School, MIT

    Asu Ozdaglar, LIDS, MIT

    Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Media Lab, MIT

    Devavrat Shah, LIDS, MIT

   John Tsitsiklis, LIDS, MIT

Scientific committee

Daron Acemoglu

Itai Ashlagi

Laszlo Barabasi

Kostas Bimpikis  

Larry Blume  

Damon Centola  

Munther Dahleh 

Costis Daskalakis   

Ben Golub 

Marta Gonzalez 

Sanjeev Goyal  

Julien Hendrickx 

Cesar Hidalgo

Ali Jadbabaie

Patrick Jaillet

Sep Kamvar

Gary King

David Lazer 

Jure Leskovec

Andrew W. Lo

Mihai Manea

Andrew McAfee

Christos Papadimitriou 

Pablo Parrilo

R. Ravi

Whitman Richards

Alessandro Vespignani  

John Williams

If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to
mas-ms-owner@media.mit.edu  Thanks!

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Preliminary Program for IEEE/ACM ASONAM 2012

Preliminary Program for IEEE/ACM ASONAM 2012 - FOSINT-SI 2012 – HI-BI-BI 2012 and collocated workshops

This year the ACIS group at RWTH Aachen University has a paper at ASONAM 2012. 

Enhancing Academic Event Participation with Context-aware and Social RecommendationsManh Cuong Pham, RWTH Aachen; Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen; Dejan Kovachev, RWTH Aachen; Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen

Abstract—The plethora of talks and presentations taking place at academic conferences makes it difficult, especially for young researchers to attend the right talks or discuss with participants and potential collaborators with similar interests. Participants may not have a priori knowledge that allows them to select the right talks or informal interactions with other participants. In this paper we present the context-aware mobile recommendation services (CAMRS) based on the current context (whereabouts at the venue, popularity and activities of talks and presentations) sensed at the conference venue. Additionally, we augment the current context with the academic community context of conference participants which is inferred by using social network analysis and link prediction on large-scale co-authorship and citation networks of participants. By combining the dynamic and social context of participants, we are able to recommend talks and people that may be interesting to a particular participant. We evaluated CAMRS using data from two large digital libraries - the DBLP and CiteSeerX, and participants from two conferences - ICWL 2010 and EC-TEL 2011. The result shows that the new approach can recommend novel talks and helps participants in establishing new connections at conference venue. 

I was also tutorial co-chair. Together with my dear colleagues Huan Liu and Jie Tang we selected  5 great tutorials covering advanced aspects of social network analysis and web mining.

ASONAM 2012 Tutorials
=====================
Tutorial I :
Title: Entity Resolution for Social Network Analysis and Mining
Speakers
Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, College Park.
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Yahoo! Research.

Tutorial II :
Title: Metaheuristic Algorithms for Networks Modelling and Optimization
Speakers
Dr Xin-She Yang, National Physical Laboratory.


Tutorial III :
Title : Models and Algorithms for Social Influence Analysis
Speakers
Dr. Jimeng Sun, IBM T. J. Watson lab.
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University.

Tutorial IV :
Title : Advanced graph mining & community evaluation metrics for
social networks and the Web
Speaker
Michalis Vazirgiannis, Informatics Laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique.

Tutorial V
Title : On the Power of Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks
Speakers
Yizhou Sun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Xifeng Yan, University of California at Santa Barbara.
Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago.
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ASONAM 2012 Panel
=================
Title: Current and future research trends in social network analysis and mining
Moderator: Erol Arkun, Bilkent University
Panelists:
Ulrik Brandes, University of Konstanz
Naim Kapucu, University of Central Florida
Arno H.P Reuser, Open Source Intelligence
Jon Rokne, University of Calgary
Frans N. Stokman, University of Groningen
VS Subrahmanian University of  Maryland
Barry Wellman, University of Toronto
Katharina Zweig  University of Heidelberg



ASONAM 2012 Keynote Talks
==========================

ASONAM Keynote Speaker I
Arno H.P Reuser, Open Source Intelligence ?
Title : TBA

ASONAM Keynote Speaker II
Frans N. Stokman, University of Groningen
Title : Social Network Effects Of The Transition Towards Sustainable
Energy Production. A Proposal for a Data Mining Research Agenda

ASONAM Keynote Speaker III
Ulrik Brandes, University of Konstanz
Title : A network science manifesto

ASONAM Keynote Speaker IV
Barry Wellman, University of Toronto
Title : The New Social Operating System

ASONAM Invited Speaker V
Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano (USI)
Title : The Challenges of Opinion Retrieval

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ASONAM 2012 Technical Research Sessions
=======================================

ASONAM-S1 Contextual social network analysis and mining
10 :30-12 :30 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 27

** Large Social Networks can be Targeted for Viral Marketing with
Small Seed Sets Paulo Shakarian*, D/EECS; Damon Paulo, D/EECS
** The trilemma of network analysis Katharina Zweig*, TU
Kaiserslautern; Isadora Dorn, Heidelberg University; Andreas
Lindenblatt, Heidelberg University
** Link and Node Analysis of Gender Based Collaborations in Turkish
Social Sciences Bulent Ozel*, Istanbul Bilgi University
** Semantic Expansion of Tweet Contents for Enhanced Event Detection
in Twitter Ozer Ozdikis*, Middle East Tech. University; Pinar Senkul,
Middle East Tech. University; Halit Oguztuzun, Middle East Tech.
University
** Social-Based Conceptual Links: Conceptual Analysis Applied to
Social Networks Erick Stattner*, LAMIA Laboratory; Martine Collard,
LAMIA Laboratory


ASONAM –S2 Application of social network analysis and mining 1
10:30-12:30 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 27

** Evolutionary Community Detection for Observing Covert Political
Elite Cliques Jyi-Shane Liu*, National Chengchi University; Ke-Chih
Ning, National Chengchi University; Wan-Chun Chuang, National Chengchi
University
** Measuring topological robustness of networks under sustained
targeted attacks Kon Shing Kenneth Chung*, The University of Sydney;
Shahadat Uddin, The University of Sydney; Mahendrarajah Piraveenan,
The University of Sydney
** Analyzing User Retweet Behavior on Twitter Zhiheng Xu*, Institute
of automation; Qing Yang, institute of automation, chinese academy of
sciences
** Applying SNA for the characterization of the spatial organization
of XiaoLin Village Yun-Shang Chiou*, NTUST
** Finding a Maximum Clique using Ant Colony Optimization and Particle
Swarm Optimization in Social Networks Mohammad Soleimani-Pouri ,
Islamic Azad University, Qazvin branch, Qazvin, Iran; Alirezah
Rezvanian*, Amirkabir Univ. Technology; Mohammad Reza Meybodi,
Amirkabir University of Technology


ASONAM –S3 Data models for social networks and social media
10:30-12:30 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 27

** A Bayesian Hierarchical Approach for Exploratory Analysis of
Communities and Roles in Social Networks Gianni Costa*, ICAR-CNR;
Riccardo Ortale, ICAR-CNR
** User Features and Social Networks for Topic Modeling in Online
Social Media Bo Hu*, ; Zhao  Song, Simon Fraser University; Martin
Ester, Simon Fraser University
** Collective Churn Prediction in Social Network Richard Oentaryo*,
Singapore Management University; Ee-Peng Lim, ; David Lo, Singapore
Management University; Feida Zhu, Singapore Management University;
Philips Prasetyo, Singapore Management University
** Knowing A Good Show When You See One James Lanagan*, Technicolor R&I
** Entrepreneurs' networks: Size, diversity and composition shaped by
cultures of rationality and trust Thomas Sch?tt*, ; Maryam Cheraghi,
University of Tarbiat Modares


ASONAM -S4 Communities discovery and analysis in large scale social networks 1
2:30-4:30 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 27

** A Game Theoretic Framework for Community Detection Kishan
Mehrotra*, Syracuse University; Jae Oh, Syracuse University; Patrick
McSweeney, Syracsue University
** Communities and Balance in Signed Networks: A Spectral Approach
Pranay Anchuri*, RPI; Malik Magdon Ismail, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
** A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm based on HSA and CLS for
Multi-objective Community Detection in Complex Networks Babak Amiri*,
The University of Sydney; Liaquat  Hossain, ; John Crawford,
** Optimal Spatial Resolution for the Analysis of Human Mobility
Salvatore Rinzivillo*, KDDLab - ISTI - CNR; Michele Coscia, ; Dino
Pedreschi, ; Fosca Giannotti,
** A New Algorithm for Positive Influence Dominating Set in Social
Networks Hassan Raei, Nasser Yazdani, Masoud Asadpour, University of
Tehran


ASONAM –S5 Online Social Networks 1
2:30-4:30 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 27

** A tunable graph model for incorporating geographic  spread in
social graph models Rajesh Sharma*, Nanyang Technological University;
Anwitaman Datta, Nanyang Technological University
** Predicting Personality with Social Behavior Sibel Adali, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute ; Jennifer Golbeck*, University of Maryland
** Are all Social Networks Structurally Similar? Aneeq Hashmi, Faraz
Zaidi, Arnaud Sallaberry, Tariq Mehmood, KIET
** AuthorRank+FOAF: Ranking for Co-Authorship Networks on the Web Lule
Ahmedi*, University of Prishtina
** Extracting Celebrities from Online Discussions Mathilde Forestier*,
University of Lyon; Julien Velcin, ; Anna Stavrianou, Xerox Research
Centre Europe; Djamel Zighed, University of Lyon


ASONAM –S6 Application of social network analysis and mining 2
2:30-4:30 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 27

** Microblogging in the Enterprise: A few comments are in order
Charalampos Chelmis*, University of Southern California; Viktor
Prasanna, University of Southern California
** Stock Market Investment Advice:  A Social Network Approach Negar
Koockakzadeh, Keivan Kianmehr, Atieh Sarraf, Reda Alhajj
** Global Similarity in Social Networks with Typed Edges David
Skillicorn*,  Quan Zheng, Queen's University
** Measuring the Importance of Actors in a Social Network Based on
Email Communication Patterns Mikolaj Morzy*, ; Pawel Lubarski, Poznan
University of Technology
** Network of Practices: A case study of knowledge competitions of
school technology coordinators Fang-Ling Lin*, Lunghwa University of
Science ; Guey-Fa  Chiou, Graduate Institute of Information and
Computer Education



ASONAM-S7 Privacy, security and civil liberty issues
10:00-12:00 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 28

** On Learning Cluster Coefficient of Private Networks Yue Wang, UNC
Charlotte; Xintao Wu*, ; Jun Zhu, UNC Charlotte
** A Guide to Differential Privacy Theory in Social Network Analysis
Christine Task*, Purdue University; Chris Clifton, Purdue University
** Anonymizing Subsets of Social Networks with Degree Constrained
Subgraphs Sean Chester, Jared Gaertner, University of Victoria; Ulrike
Stege, Srinivasan Venkatesh
** Privacy Preservation by k-Anonymization of Weighted Social Networks
Maria Skarkala*, University of the Aegean; Hannu Toivonen, ; pirjo
Moen, ; Manolis  Maragoudakis, ; Stefanos Gritzalis, ; Lilian Mitrou,
** PROTOSS: A run time tool for detecting PRivacy viOlaT ions in
Online S ocial networkS Ozgur Kafali, Bogazici University; Akin
Gunay*, Bogazici University; Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University


ASONAM-S8 Mathematical and Statistical Network Models
10:00-12:00 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 28

** Exploiting and Evaluating MapReduce for  Large-Scale Graph Mining
Hung-Che Lai, NTU CSIE; Cheng-Te Li, NTU CSIE; Yi-Chen Lo, NTU CSIE;
Shou-De Lin*,
** Link Prediction in a Modified Heterogeneous Bibliographic Network
John Boaz Lee*, University of the Philippines; Henry Adorna,
University of the Philippines
** Network of Practices: A case study of knowledge competitions of
school technology coordinators Fang-Ling Lin*, Lunghwa University of
Science ; Guey-Fa  Chiou, Graduate Institute of Information and
Computer Education
** Fast exact computation of betweenness centrality in social networks
Miriam Baglioni, Filippo Geraci,  Marco Pellegrini ,CNR; Ernesto
Lastres, Sistemi Territoriali Srl
** Using Pregel-like Large Scale Graph Processing Frameworks for
Social Network Analysis Louise Quick, Government Communications
Headquarters; Paul Wilkinson, Government Communications Headquarters;
David Hardcastle*, Government Communications HQ


ASONAM-S9 Application of social network analysis and mining 3
10:00-12:00 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 28

** A Multi-Classifier System for Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Luana Batista*, Ecole de Technologie Superieur; Sylvie Ratte, Ecole de
Technologie Superieure
** On Measurement of Influence in Social Networks Behnam Hajian*,
Carleton University; Tony White, Carleton University
** Ranking news articles based on popularity prediction Alexandru
Tatar, UPMC Sorbonne Universtités; Panayotis Antoniadis, UPMC Sorbonne
Universités; Marcelo Dias de Amorim, UPMC Sorbonne Universités ; Serge
Fdida, UPMC Sorbonne Universités
**  @Phillies Tweeting from Philly? Predicting Twitter User Locations
with Spatial Word Usage Hau-Wen Chang*, The Pennsylvania State
Univers; Dongwon Lee, The Pennsylvania State University; Mohammed
Eltaher, University of Bridgeport; Jeongkyu Lee, University of
Bridgeport
** Analyzing Stock Market Movements Using Twitter Sentiment Analysis
Tushar Rao, NSIT Delhi;  Saket  Srivastava, IIIT Delhi


ASONAM-S10 Recommendations vs social networks
1:00-3:00 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 28

** Enhancing Academic Event Participation with Context-aware and
Social Recommendations Manh Cuong Pham*, RWTH Aachen; Yiwei Cao, RWTH
Aachen; Dejan Kovachev, RWTH Aachen; Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen
** Learning Rating Patterns for Top-N Recommendations Yongli Ren*,
Deakin University; Gang Li, ; Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University
** Fast Recommendation on Bibliographic Networks Onur Kucuktunc*, The
Ohio State University; Kamer Kaya, The Ohio State University; Erik
Saule, The Ohio State University; Umit Catalyurek, The Ohio State
University
** Personalization with Dynamic Group Profile Kamal Taha*, Khalifa
University; Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington
** Privacy Preservation by k-Anonymization of Weighted Social Networks
Maria Skarkala*, University of the Aegean; Hannu Toivonen, ; pirjo
Moen, ; Manolis  Maragoudakis, ; Stefanos Gritzalis, ; Lilian Mitrou,


ASONAM-S11 Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
1:00-3:00 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 28

** Dealing with  Disappearance of an Actor Set  in Social Networks
Idrissa Sarr*, Université Cheikh Anta Diop; Rokia Missaoui, Université
du Québec en Outaouais, Canada; Romain Lalande,
** OCTracker: A Density-Based Framework for Tracking the Evolution of
Overlapping Communities in OSNs Sajid Bhat, Jamia Millia Islamia;
Muhammad Abulaish*, King Saud University
** Crawling Social Internetworking Systems Francesco Buccafurri,
Gianluca Lax, Antonino Nocera, Domenico Ursino
** Dissemination Patterns and  Associated Network Effects of
Sentiments in Social Networks Robert Hillmann*, Berlin Institute of
Technology; Matthias Trier, Copenhagen Business School
** Prediction of Arrival of Nodes In A Scale Free Network Vijay
Mahantesh SM, Sudarshan Iyengar, Vijesh M, Shruthi Nayak, NIkitha
Shenoy
**  Static and Dynamic Aspects of Scientific Collaboration Networks
Christian Staudt*, KIT; Andrea Schumm, KIT; Henning Meyerhenke, KIT;
Robert G?rke, ; Dorothea Wagner


ASONAM-S12 Crime and Social Networks
1:00-3:00 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 28

** Outskewer: Using Skewness to Spot Outliers in Samples and Time
Series Sébastien Heymann*, LIP6 – CNRS – Université Pierre et Marie
Curie; Matthieu Latapy, LIP6 - CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie
Curie; Clémence Magnien, LIP6 - CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie
Curie
** An Analysis of Query Forwarding Strategies for Secure and
Privacy-Preserving Social Networks Michael Dürr*, LMU Munich; Marco
Maier, LMU Munich; Kevin Wiesner, LMU Munich
** STUN: Spatio-Temporal Uncertain (Social) Networks Chanhyun Kang,
University of Maryland; Andrea Pugliese*, University of Calabria; John
Grant, Towson University; V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland
** Recurrent structural motifs reflect characteristics of distinct
networks Chen-Hsiang Yeang*, Academia Sinica; Liang-Cheng Huang,
Academia Sinica; Wei-Chung Liu, Academia Sinica
** Diffusion Centrality in Social Networks Chanhyun Kang, University
of Maryland; Cristian Molinaro*, Università della Calabria; Sarit
Kraus, Bar-Ilan University; Yuval Shavitt, Tel Aviv University; V.S.
Subrahmanian, University of Maryland


ASONAM-S13 Online Social Networks 2
3:30-5:30 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 28

**  Relevance of SIR model for real-world spreading phenomena:
experiments on a large-scale P2P system Daniel Bernardes*, LIP6 --
UPMC/CNRS; Matthieu Latapy, LIP6 - CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie
Curie; Fabien Tarissan, LIP6 -- UPMC/CNRS
** YOU SCRATCH MY BACK, WE'LL  SCRATCH YOURS: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF
ENTREPRENEURS  IN A PRIVATE-COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY Robin Teigland*, SSE;
Paul Di Gangi, Loyola University Maryland; Zeynep Yetis, SSE;
Christina Huitfeldt, SSE
** How do Facebookers use Friendlists Yousra Javed*, UNCC; Mohamed
Shehab, UNC Charlotte
** Mining User's Real Social Circle in Microblog Hailong Qin*, Harbin
Institute of Technology; Ting Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology;
Yanjun Ma, Baidu
** On a Triadic Approach to Connect Microstructural Properties to
Social Macrostructural Patterns Yuxi Hu*, University of
California,Davis; Mina Doroud, ; S.Felix Wu, University of
California,Davis


ASONAM-S14 Application of social network analysis and mining 4
3:30-5:30 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 28

** Predicting user-to-content links in Flickr Groups Sumit Negi*, IBM
Research; Santanu Chaudhury, IIT Delhi
** What's in Twitter: I Know What Parties are Popular and Who You are
Supporting Now!,  Antoine Boutet*, INRIA Rennes; Hyoung Kim,
University of British Columbia; Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge
** Analyzing Voting Behavior in Italian Parliament:Group Cohesion and
Evolution Alessia Amelio, Clara Pizzuti*, ICAR-CNR
** Co-authorship network comparison across research fields using
motifs  Sarvenaz Choobdar*, University of Porto; Pedro Ribeiro,
University of Porto; Sylwia Bulga, University of Porto; Fernando
Silva, University of Porto
** Link Prediction for Bipartite Social Networks: The Role of
Structural Holes Shuang Xia, BingTian Dai, Ee-Peng Lim, Yong Zhang,
Chunxiao Xing
** Where's the Money? The Social Behavior of Investors in Facebook's
Small World Eugene Liang Yuxian*, National Cheng Chi University;
Soe-Tsyr Daphne Yuan, National Cheng Chi University


ASONAM-S15 Detection and Evolution of Communities
3:30-5:30 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 28

** Detecting Probabilistic Community with Topic Modeling on Sampling
SubGraphs Zengfeng Zeng*, BUPT; Bin Wu
** On Finding Fine-Granularity User  Communities by Profile
Decomposition  Seulki Lee, ; Minsam Ko, ; Keejun Han, ; Jae-Gil Lee*,
KAIST
** Understanding Group Dynamics in Health Forums Steven Crain*,
Georgia Institute of Tech; Shuang-Hong Yang, Georgia Institute of
Technology; Hongyuan Zha
** Identifying long lived social communities using structural
properties James Thompson*, RPI; Malik Magdon Ismail, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute; Mark Goldberg,
** Six Degrees of Separation among US Researchers Hakan Kardes*,
University of Nevada Reno; Abdullah Sevincer, University of Nevada,
Reno; Mehmet Gunes, Computer Science Department of University of
Nevada-Reno; Murat Yuksel, University of Nevada, Reno


ASONAM-S16 Trust and Criminal Networks
10:30-12:30 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 29

** Investigating Organized Crime Groups: A Social Network Analysis
Perspective Mohammad Tayebi*, SFU; Uwe Glasser,
** A Semantic Triplet Based Story Classifier Betul Ceran*, Arizona
State University; Ravi Karad, Arizona State University; Ajay
Mandvekar, Arizona State University; Steven Corman, Arizona State
University; Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University
** Mining Divergent Opinion Trust Networks through Latent Dirichlet
Allocation Nima Dokoohaki*, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Sweden; Mihhail  Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
** Detecting Criminal Networks Using Social Similarity Fatih OZGUL*,
Turkish National Police; Zeki ERDEM, TUBITAK
**  The activation of core social networks in the wake of the 22 July
Oslo bombing P?l Sunds?y *, Telenor Group; Rich  Ling, IT University,
Copenhagen; Johannes Bjelland, Telenor ASA; Geoffrey  Canright,
Telenor ASA; Kenth Monsen, Telenor ASA


ASONAM-S17 Communities discovery and analysis in large scale social networks 2
10:30-12:30 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 29

** Relative Validity Criteria for Community Mining Algorithms Reihaneh
Rabbany*, University of Alberta; Mansoureh Takaffoli, ; Justin Fagnan,
; Osmar zaiane, ; Ricardo Campello
** A community based algorithm for deriving users' profiles from
egocentrics networks
Dieudonné Tchuente*, IRIT; Marie-Francoise Canut, IRIT; Nadine
Baptiste-Jessel, IRIT; André Peninou, IRIT; Florence Sèdes, IRIT
** Percolation Computation in Complex Networks Fergal Reid, Aaron
McDaid, Neil Hurley, UCD
** Churn prediction in a real online social network using local
community analysis Blaise Ngonmang, L2TI - Université Paris Nord;
Emmanuel VIENNET*, L2TI - Université Paris Nord; Maurice Tchuente, UMI
209 UMMISCO, Université de Yaoundé
** Using field of research codes to discover research groups from
co-authorship networks Qinxue Meng*, Paul J. Kennedy, UTS


ASONAM-S18 Agent-Based Modeling and Multi-Actor Models
10:30-12:30 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 29

** An Approach for the Blockmodeling in Multi-Relational Networks
Andreas Harrer*, Catholic University Eichst?tt; Alona Schmidt,
Catholic University Eichst?tt
** One-mode projections of multiplex bipartite graphs Agnes Horvat*,
IWR, University of Heidelberg; Katharina Zweig, TU Kaiserslautern
** A Domain Specific Language Approach for Agent-Based Social Network
Modeling Enrico Franchi*, Università di Parma
** Capability-Weighted Group Utility Maximizer for Network Coalitional
Games under Uncertainty  Usha Sridhar*, Ecometrix Research; Sridhar
Mandyam, Ecometrix Research
** Sociability VS Network Dynamics: Impact of two Aspects of Human
Behavior on Diffusion Phenomena Erick Stattner*, LAMIA Laboratory;
Martine Collard, LAMIA Laboratory; Nicolas Vidot, LAMIA Laboratory


ASONAM –S19 Mathematical and Statistical Network Models
1:30-3:30 Chair:  Room 1 Aug 29

** Modeling Social Network Interaction Graphs Michael Dürr*, LMU
Munich; Valentin Protschky, LMU Munich; Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, LMU
Munich
** Finding the Mule in the Network John Pfaltz*, Univ. of Virginia
** How Well-Connected Individuals Help Spread Influences -- Analyses
Based on Preferential Voter Model Zhuo Qi Lee*, NTU; Wen-Jing Hsu,
NTU; Miao Lin, NTU
** Influence of the Dynamic Social Network Timeframe Type and Size on
the Group Evolution Discovery. Stanislaw Saganowski*, Wroclaw
University of Technolo; Piotr Brodka,  Institute of Informatics,
Wroc?aw University of Technology; Przemyslaw Kazienko,
** The Geographic Flow of Music Conrad Lee*, University College
Dublin; P?draig Cunningham, University College Dublin
** Structural and Message based Private Friend Recommendation,
Bharath Samanthula*, Missouri S & T; Wei Jiang, Missouri S & T


ASONAM –S20 Online Social Networks 3
1:30-3:30 Chair:  Room 2 Aug 29

** Semi-Supervised Policy Recommendation for Online Social Networks
Mohamed Shehab*, UNC Charlotte; Hakim Touati, UNCC
** Learning the Strength of the Factors Influencing User Behavior in
Online Social Networks Bo Hu*, ; Mohsen Jamali, Simon Fraser
University; Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University
** Link prediction: fair and effective evaluation Ryan Lichtenwalter,
; Nitesh V. Chawla*,
** Predicting Friends and Foes in Signed Networks using Inductive
Inference and Social Balance Theory Arti Patidar*, JNU, New Delhi;
Vinti Agarwal, JNU; K.K. Bharadwaj, JNU
** The Impact of Measurement Time on Subgroup Detection in Online
Communities Sam Zeini*, University Duisburg-Essen; Tilman G?hnert,
University Duisburg-Essen; Lothar Krempel, Max-Planck-Institute for
the Study of Societies  Cologne; H. Ulrich Hoppe, University
Duisburg-Essen


ASONAM –S21 Application of social network analysis and mining 5
1:30-3:30 Chair:  Room 3 Aug 29

** Subgraph Extraction for Trust Inference in Social Networks Yuan
Yao*, Nanjing University; HangHang Tong,  IBM T.J. Watson Research;
Feng Xu, ; Jian Lu,
** Towards Maximising Cross-Community Information Diffusion Vaclav
Belak*, DERI, NUI Galway; Samantha Lam, DERI; Conor Hayes,
** Visual Analysis of Dynamic Networks using Change Centrality Paolo
Federico, Jürgen Pfeffer, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Lukas Zenk,
Vienna University of Technology
** Tag Ranking by Linear Relational Neighbourhood Propagation Boris
Chidlovskii*, XRCE
** Examining Multi-factor Interactions in Microblogging Based on
Log-linear Modeling Zhilin Luo, Northwestern Polytechnic University;
Xintao Wu*, ; Wandong Cai, Northwestern Polytechnic University; Dong
Peng, Northwestern Polytechnic University
===============================


Poster Session
===============
Poster  Session  Venue:--   Aug 27-28

** A Complex Network Analysis of the  United States Air Transportation
Dorothy Cheung, University of Nevada, Reno; Mehmet Gunes*, Computer
Science Department of University of Nevada-Reno
** ANALYSIS OF UNETHICAL BEHAVIOUR IN THE NEXUS OF SOCIAL
RELATIONSHIPS: AN APPLICATION IN THE MEDICAL SECTOR Duygu Türker *,
Ya?ar University; Ceren Altunta?, Ya?ar University
** Study of Influential Trends, Communities, and Websites on the
Post-Election Events of Iranian Presidential Election in Twitter
Masoud Asadpour*, University Of Tehran
** Video Game Industry as a Complex Network Tony Morelli, University
of Nevada, Reno; Mehmet Gunes*, Computer Science Department of
University of Nevada-Reno
** Building a Data Warehouse for Twitter Stream Exploration Svetlana
Mansmann, University of Konstanz, Germany; Andreas Weiler, University
of Konstanz, Germany; Marc Scholl, University of Konstanz, Germany;
Nafees Ur  Rahman*, University of Konstanz, Germany
** Knowledge Based Link Prediction  Across Multiple Social Networks
SANTHI THILAGAM*, NITK SURATHKAL; Shubhangi PARDESHI,
** Community Detection in Social Networks Using Information Diffusion
Alireza Hajibagheri*, Shiraz University; Hamidreza Alvari, Shiraz
University; Ali Hamzeh, Shiraz University; Sattar Hashemi, Shiraz
University
** Layout algorithm for clustered graphs to analyze community
interactions in social networks Juan David Cruz*, Telecom-Bretagne;
Cecile Bothorel, Telecom-Bretagne; François Poulet, University of
Rennes I - IRISA
** A Novel Framework For Spammer Detection In Social Bookmarking
Systems Soghra Mehdinejad Gargari*, Istabul Technical University; Sule
Gunduz Oguducu, Istanbul Technical University
** Personal User or Organizational User? Behavior on Microblog can
Tell Yuchu Zuo*, Sun Yat-Sen University; Jianmin Wang, Sun Yat-sen
University
** User interests modeling in online forums Na Ni*, Institute of
Automation, CAS; Yaodong Li, Institute of Automation, CAS
** Getting clusters from structure data and attribute data David
Combe*, Université de St-Etienne; Christine Largeron, ; El?d
Egyed-Zsigmond, INSA Lyon; Mathias Géry, Université de Saint-Etienne
** Social Network Analysis in Organization Development Studies G?zde
Cüce*, Ministry of Science, Industry
** VANET Topology Based Routing Protocols & Performance of AODV, DSR
Routing Protocols in Random Waypoint Scenarios Bijan Paul*, Shahjalal
University; Md.  Abu Naser Bikas, Shahjalal University; Md.  Ibrahim,
Shahjalal University
** An Agglomerative Method to Construct Discrepant Cohesive Subgroups
Tobias Hecking, University Duisburg-Essen; Tilman G?hnert*, University
Duisburg-Essen; H. Ulrich Hoppe, University Duisburg-Essen
** Naturality of Network Creation Games, Measurement and Analysis
MohammadAmin Fazli*, Sharif University of Technolog; Jafar Habibi,
Sharif University of Technology; Hedyeh Beyhaghi, Sharif Univ. of
Technology; Zahra Fahmi, Sharif University of Technology; MohammadAli
Safari, Sharif University of Technology
** Cyclic Entropy of Complex Networks Ibrahim Sorkhoh, Kuwait
University; Khaled Mahdi, Kuwait University; Maytham Safar*, Kuwait
University
** Do-it-yourself justice. Ethics considerations of social media use
in a crisis situation: the case of the 2011 Vancouver riots Caroline
Rizza*, JRC, European Commission ; Angela Guimar?es Pereira, JRC,
European Commission; Michel Chiaramello, JRC, European Commission;
Paula Curvelo, JRC, European Commission
** Towards Social Version Control Ali Koc*, City University of New
York; Abdullah Tansel, Baruch College and Graduate Center; Mehmet
Bicer, Graduate Center - City University of New York
** Understanding Community Evolution and Engagement through
Assortativity in Networks Kon Shing Kenneth Chung*, The University of
Sydney; Mahendrarajah Piraveenan, The University of Sydney; Shahadat
Uddin, The University of Sydney
** A Navigation Algorithm Inspired by Human Navigation Vijesh M*, PES
Institute of Technology; Vijay  Mahantesh, PESIT ; Amitash Ramesh,
Dayananda Sagar Institute of Technology
** Web Page Prediction by Clustering and Integrated Distance Measure
Poornalatha G*, NITK, surathkal; Prakash Raghavendra, NAtional
Institute of Technology Karnataka
** A Probabilistic Inference Attack on Suppressed Social Networks
Bar?? Altop*, Sabanc? University; Mehmet Ercan Nergiz, Zirve
Universitesi; Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey
** Analyzing Spammers of Social Networks using Honeypot- A Case Study
of Microblogging of China Yi Zhou, ; Kai Chen*, Shanghai Jiaotong
University; Li Song, ; Xiaokang Yang,
** An Inspection Game to Provide Incentive for Cooperation with
Corrupted Inspectors Yalda Kolahdooz*, Sharif University of Technolog;
Mohammad Ali Safari, Sharif University of Technology
** Graph Searching Algorithms For Semantic-Social Recommendation Dalia
Sulieman*, CergyPontoise University/EISTI; Maria Malek, Ecole
internationale des sciences du traitement de l'information; Hubert
Kadima, Ecole internationale des sciences du traitement de
l'information; Dominique Laurent, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
** Mining Divergent Trust Networks through Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Nima Dokoohaki*, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Sweden; Mihhail
Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
** An Improved Method of Automatic Keyword Extraction Based on
Enriched Concept Graph Zoleikha Jahanbakhsh*, Islamic Azad University,
nagad


===============================================================


HI-BI-BI 2012 Technical Research Sessions
============================================

HI-BI-BI –S1  10:30-12:30    Chair:  Room 4 Aug 27

** A Web-based Medical Emergency Guiding (30)  Jui-Hung Kao, Fei-Pei
Lai, Wei-Zen Sun, Chia-Ping Shen, Huei-Ming Ma, Jin-Ming Wu,Meng-Yu
Chiu, Horng-Twu Liaw,Kai-Chieh Hsu, Yan-Yu, Lam,Shih-Ching Cheng
** Temporal Community Structure Patterns in Diabetes Social Network
(30) Taridzo Chomutare, Eirik Årsand, Gunnar Hartvigsen
** Understanding Group Dynamics in Health Forums (30)  Steven P.
Crain, Shuang-Hong Yang, Hongyuan Zha
** Developing an Efficient Health Clinical Application:IIOP
Distributed Objects Framework (20)  Ayman N. Murshed,  Wadhah
Almansoori,  Konstantinos F. Xylogiannopoulos,   Mohamad Elzohbi,
Reda Alhajj,  Jon Rokne


HI-BI-BI –S2 2:30-4:30 Chair:  Room 4 Aug 27

** A Multiclass Classification Tool Using Cloud Computing
Architecture(30) Chia-Ping Shen, Chia-Hung Liu, Feng-Sheng Lin, Han
Lin, Chi-Ying F. Huang, Cheng-Yan Kao, Feipei Lai, Jeng-Wei Lin
** Accurate prediction of response to Interferon-based therapy in
Egyptian patients with Chronic Hepatitis C using machine-learning
approaches(30) Mahmoud Elhefnawi
** Improving Tumor Identification by Using Tumor Markers
Classification Strategy (20) Florije Ismaili, Luzana Bekiri
** A Classifier to Detect Tumor Disease in MRI Brain Images(20)  Amer
Al-Badarneh, Hassan Najadat, Ali M. Alraziqi
** Comparing clustering techniques for real microarray data(20) Vilda
Purutçuo?lu Gazi, Elif Kay??


HI-BI-BI –S3 10:00-12:00 Chair:  Room 4 Aug 28

** Automatic drug adverse reaction discovery from parenting websites
using disproportionality methods (30) Jelena Hadzi-Puric, Jeca Grmusa
** Newborn Screening for Phenylketonuria: Machine Learning vs
Clinicians(30) Wei-Hsin Chen, Han-Ping Chen, Yi-Ju Tseng, Kai-Ping
Hsu, Sheau-Ling Hsieh, Yin-Hsiu Chien, Wuh-Liang Hwu, Feipei Lai
** Wavelet-based Multiscale Filtering of Genomic Data (30) Mohamed
Nounou, Hazem Nounou, Nader Meskin, Aniruddha Datta


HI-BI-BI –S4  1:00 - 3:00 Chair:  Room 4 Aug 28

** Robot-Assisted Medical Visualization with Floating Images (30)
Sandor Markon, Satoshi Maekawa, Ahmet Onat
** Security Standards For Electronic Health Records (20)  Oznur Esra
Par, Ergin Soysal
** Response Surface Modeling and optimization to elucidate the
differential effects of demographic characteristics on HIV prevalence
in South Africa. (30) Wilbert Sibanda, Philip Pretorius, Anne Grobler
============================================================



FOSINT-SI 2012 Program
=====================================
FOSINT-SI 2012 Keynote Speakers

FOSINT-SI 2012 Keynote Speaker I
Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
Title : Cloud-Centric Assured Information Sharing

FOSINT-SI 2012 Keynote Speaker II
Phil Williams, , University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Title : TBA

FOSINT-SI 2012 Keynote Speaker III
Naim Kapucu, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Title : Network Governance in Response to Acts of Terrorism

FOSINT-SI 2012 Keynote Speaker IV
Malgorzata Stecko, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union
Brussels, Belgium
Title : News Content in Situation Monitoring



FOSINT-SI 2012 Technical Research Sessions
================================
FOSINT-SI S1  10:30-12:30 Chair:  Room 5 Aug 27

** A Novel Framework For Spammer Detection In Social Bookmarking
Systems Soghra M.Gargari Istanbul Technical University, Sule Guduz
Oguducu Istanbul Technical University  (30)
** Content Mining Of Microblogs ?zgür Cingiz; Banu Diri,
Y?ld?zTechnical University (20)
** An Application Based on Steganography Hamide Karaman, Gazi
University; Seref Sagiroglu, Gazi University, Turkey
** A Usable Model for Dynamic Integration of Data Sources Murat OBALI,
Tübitak; Bunyamin DURSUN, Tübitak  (20)


FOSINT-SI S2 2:30-4:30 Chair:  Room 5 Aug 27

** Combining Entity Matching Techniques for Detecting Extremist
Behavior on Discussion Boards  Lisa Kaati, Swedish Defence Research
Agency ; Fredrik Johansson, FOI; Pontus Svenson, Swedish Defence
Research Agency ;  Christian M?rtenson, FOI; Johan Dahlin, Link?pings
university (30)
**  Critical Infrastructure Anda Internal Control Podbregar Iztok,
University of Maribor  (30)
**  Covertness Centrality in Networks Michael Ovelgonne; Chanhyun
Kang; Anshul Sawant; VS Subrahmanian (30)
** Combining Spatial Proximity and Temporal Continuity for Learning
Invariant Representations Olcay Kursun, Istanbul University, Turkey;
Tevfik Aytekin, Bahcesehir University  (20)


FOSINT-SI S3  10:00 -12:00 Chair:  Room 5 Aug 28

** Lessons from a Jihadi Corpus David Skillicorn, Queen's University  (20)
**  Mining Divergent Opinion Trust Networks through Latent Dirichlet
Allocation,   Nima Dokoohaki; Mihhail Matskin (30)
** Mining Hate Crimes to Figure out Reasons Behind (Bugün upload
edildi)  Fatih Ozgul, Turkish National Police; Murat GOK, Turkish
National Police;  Ahmet CELIK, Turkish National Police; Yakup OZAL,
Turkish National Police  (20)
**  The Mental State of Influencers David Skillicorn, Queen's
University; Christian Lauprecht, Queen's University  (30)


FOSINT-SI S4 2:00-3:10 PM Chair:  Room 5 Aug 28

**  Perspective Analysis for Online Debates Sukru Tikves, Sedat
Gokalp, Mhamed Temkit, Sujogya Banerjee, Jieping Ye, Hasan Davulcu
(30)
** Processes View Modeling of Identity-related Privacy Business
Interoperability Considering User-Supremacy Federated Identity
Technical Model and Identity Contract Negotiation  Ghazi Ben Ayed,
University of Lausanne
**  Secret Sharing Scheme: Vector Space Secret Sharing and ? Function
Mustafa Atici, Western Kentucky University  (30)


FOSINT-SI S5 3:30-5:30 PM Chair:  Room 5 Aug 28

**  Sentiment Analysis on Social Media Federico Neri; Carlo Aliprandi;
Federico Capeci; Montserrat Cuadros; Tomas By  (30)
** Uncovering Mobile Phone Users' Malicious Activities using Open
Source Tools Yannis Stamatiou, University of Patras, Greece;
Panagiotis Kotsopoulos, University of Strathclyde  (30)
** VANET Topology Based Routing Protocols & Performance of AODV, DSR
Routing Protocols in Random Waypoint Scenarios Bijan Paul, Md. Abu
Naser Bikas, Md.Ibrahim  (20)
**  Tag Based Recommender System for Social Bookmarking Sites Fatemeh
Ghiyafeh Davoodi, University of Tehran; Omid Fatemi, (30)


Poster  Session   Venue:-  Aug 27-28

** A Hybrid approach for biometric template security Kareem  A.Ghany,
Cairo University; Hesham Hefny, Cairo University; Aboul Ella
Hassanien?, Cairo University; Neveen Ghali, Cairo University
** Data Mining Applications in Clinical Practice Guidelines Abhijeet
Nashte, MAE,Pune,India; Mayura Kinikar


====================== Workshops  ======================

Workshop Title: Business Applications of Social Network Analysis (BASNA 2012)
Workshop Chairs:
• Mohan Saravanan, Ericsson R&D Chennai, India
• Roberto Dandi, Luiss Business School, Italy
• Avik Sarkar, IBM, India
• Irene Ntoutsi, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany

BASNA 2012 -- Keynote speaker:  1 :30 -2 :10          Room 1      26 Aug 2012
Maksim Tsvetovat is the Chief Technology Officer of DeepMile Networks,
and  member of the faculty at George Mason University's Center for
Social Complexity.

BASNA2012 S1    Applications for Organizational Network Analysis
2:10-3:30       Chair:  Room 1  Aug 26

** G?zde Cüce. Social Network Analysis in Organization Development Studies
** Lamia Ben Hiba and Mohammed Abdou Janati Idrissi. An SNA-based
evaluation framework for virtual teams
** James Danowski. Analyzing An Organization with a Semantic Network
Include List
** Renuka Hodigere and Diana Bilimoria. Women on public-company
boards: factors that affect their odds of board membership relative to
those of men


BASNA2012 S2    Applications for Community Network Analysis
4:00-6:00       Chair:  Room 1  Aug 26

** Devipsita Bhattacharya and Sudha Ram. Sharing News Articles Using
140 Characters: A Diffusion Analysis on Twitter
** Claudia Lauschke. Monitoring User Evolution in Twitter
** Tushar Sharma and Tushar Sharma. Finding Communities in Weighted
Signed Social Networks
** Johannes Bjelland, Geoffrey Canright, Kenth Eng?-Monsen, P?l
Sunds?y and Rich Ling. A Social Network Study of the Apple vs. Android
Smartphone Battle
** Shun Hattori. Spatio-Temporal Web Sensor by Social Network Analysis

=====================================

Workshop Title: Complex Social Network Analysis
Workshop Chairs: P. Kazienko, M. Magnani, L. Rossi


CSNA2012 S1     Dynamic social networks and applications
1:30-3:30       Chair:  Room 2  Aug 26

** Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Adam Gonczarek, Jakub Tomczak, Katarzyna
Musia? and Marcin Budka. A Probabilistic Approach to Structural Change
Prediction in Evolving Social Networks
**  Alexander Semenov and Jari Veijalainen. Storage of multirelational
dynamic networks
** Shahadat Uddin, Mahendrarajah Piraveenan, and Kon Shing Kenneth
Chung. Capturing Actor-level Dynamics of Longitudinal Networks
** Han-Chih Liu and Jenq-Haur Wang. Social Influence Estimation for
Short Texts in Plurk
** Sana Elouaer-Mrizak. A social network analysis of interlocking
directorates in French firms
** Ahmed Abdeen Hamed, Rebecca Roose, Alan Rubin and Marlon Branicki.
T-Recs: Time-aware Twitter-based Drug Recommender System


CSNA2012 S2     Data Mining and Complex Social Network Analysis
4:00-6:00       Chair:  Room 2  Aug 26

** Marek Opuszko and Johannes Ruhland. Classification Analysis in
Complex Online Social Networks Using Semantic Web Technologies
** Giulio Rossetti, Luca Pappalardo and Dino Pedreschi. "How well do
we know each other?": detecting ties strength in multidimensional
social networks
** Klaus Wehmuth and Artur Ziviani. Distributed Assessment of Network
Centralities in Complex Social Networks
** Ibrahim Sorkhoh, Khaled Mahdi and Maytham Safar. Cyclic Entropy of
Complex Networks
** Rados?aw Michalski, Przemyslaw Kazienko and Dawid Kr?l. Predicting
Social Network Measures using Machine Learning Approach

==================================

Workshop Title: Cyber Security of Online Social Network
Workshop Chairs: Luiz F. Capretz, Charles X. Ling, Keivan Kianmehr

CSOSN2012 S1
10:30-12:30     Chair:  Room 1  Aug 26

** Anna Leontjeva, Konstantin Tretjakov, Taavi Tamkivi and Jaak Vilo.
"Analysis of Hypergraph Data with Application to Fraud Detection"
** Anshu Malhotra, Luam Totti, Wagner Meira Jr., Ponnurangam
Kumaraguru and Virglio Almeida. "Studying User Footprints in Different
Online Social Networks"
** Mauro Conti, Radha Poovendran and Marco Secchiero. "FakeBook:
Detecting Fake Profiles in On Line Social Networks"
** Ali Nazemian, Hoda Gholami and Fattaneh Taghiyareh. An Improved
Model of Trust-aware Recommender Systems using distrust metric

=====================================

Workshop Title: International Workshop on Mining Social Networks for
Decision Support (MSNDS 2012)
Workshop Chairs: Yuan-Chu Hwang, I-Hsien Ting, Chen-Shu Wang

MSNDS2012 S1
10:30-12:30     Chair:  Room 4  Aug 26

** Edgar Fuller, Wenliang Tang, Yezhou Wu and Cun-Quan Zhang. Optimal
Clustering Selection on Hierarchical System Network
** Po-Yuan Chen and I-Ming Jiang. Financial Alliance Strategy under
Uncertainty:A Model of Decision Support for Supply Chain Integration
** Lamiaa Mostafa. BidTerm Suggestion for Advertising webpages
** Zeinab Saeidi Masine, Bahman Damirchilo and Vahid Shayestehnia. A
new model for probabilistic polling on social network
** Ekrem Serin and Selim Balcisoy. Entropy Based Sensitivity Analysis
and Visualization of Social Networks
** Alton Y.K. Chua and Radhika Shenoy Balkunje. Interlocking
directorates and profitability: a social network analysis of Fortune
500 companies

MSNDS2012 S2
1:30-2:10       Chair:  Room 4  Aug 26

** Hsiao-Hsuan Lu, I-Hsien Ting and Shyue-Liang Wang. A Novel Search
Engine Based on Social Relationships in Online Social Networking
Website
** Yuan-Chu Hwang and Wei-Cheng Shiau. Exploring Imagery-driven
Service Framework on Social Network Service

=====================

Workshop Title: Data Management in the Social Semantic Web  (Room 3)
Workshop Chairs: Roberto De Virgilio, Andrea Pugliese

Invited talk (10:30-11:30):
V. S. Subrahmanian. Title TBD.

Session 1 (11:30-12:30): Data Management for Social Networks
**  Marco Brambilla, Alessandro Bozzon. Web Data Management through
Crowdsourcing upon Social Networks.
**  Jens Grabarske, Dominic Heutelbeck. An upper ontology for the social web

Invited talk (13:30-14:30):
Andrea Cal?. An Architecture for the Semantic Social Web.

Session 2 (14:30-15:30): Engineering Social Networks
**  Mostafa Dehghani, Masoud Asadpour, Azadeh Shakery. An
Evolutionary-Based Method for Reconstructing Conversation Threads in
Email Corpora
**  Cristian Vasquez. Blackboard Data Spaces for the Elicitation of
Community-based Lightweight ontologies

Session 3 (16:00-17:00): Graph-shaped modeling of Social Networks
** Sushant Khopkar, Rakesh Nagi, Alexander Nikolaev. An Efficient
Map-Reduce Algorithm for the Incremental Computation of All-Pairs
Shortest Paths in Social Networks
** Michal Kozielski, Wojciech Filipowski, Dominik Popowicz, ?ukasz
Warcha?. Density-based community identification and visualisation

Concluding Remarks (17:00-17:30)

===============================

Workshop Title: The 1st Int'l Workshop on Social Knowledge Discovery
and Utilization (SKDU 2012)
Workshop Chairs:
Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia
Tieyun Qian, Wuhuan University, China
Zeki Bozkus, Kadir Has University, Turkey

SKDU2012 S1     Recommendation and Social Bookmarks
2:10-3:30       Chair:  Room 4  Aug 26

** Ranganathan Latha and R. Nadarajan, User Relevance for Item-based
Collaborative Filtering
** Yuta Sakakura, Toshiyuki Amagasa and Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Detecting
Social Bookmark Spams using Multiple User Accounts
** Alberto Lumbreras and Ricard Gavalda, Applying Trust Metrics based
on User Interactions to Recommendation in Social Networks


SKDU2012 S2     Microblog and Community
4:00-6:00       Chair:  Room 4  Aug 26

** Yasuhiro Yamada, Akira Hattori and Haruo Hayami, Method of
Visualizing Relations between Tweets to Facilitate Discussions via
Twitter
** Tian Zhang and Bin Wu, A Method for Local Community Detection by
Finding Core Node
** Fan Yang, Xiaohui Yu, Yang Liu and Min Yang, Automatic Detection of
Rumor on Sina Weibo
** Mengjiao Wang, Donn Morrison and Conor Hayes, Early and Late Fusion
Methods for the Automatic Creation of Twitter Lists

======================================
Workshop Title: Second Workshop on Social Network Analysis in
Applications (SNAA 2012)
Workshop Chairs:
• Przemyslaw Kazienko (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
• Katarzyna Musial (King's College London, UK)
• Jason J. Jung (Yeungnam University, Korea)


SNAA2012 S1
1:30-3:30       Chair:  Room 5  Aug 26

** Mehmet Hadi Gunes and Tony Morelli, Video Game Industry as a Complex Network
** Vanessa Rocio Bracamonte Lesma and Hitoshi Okada, Influence of
Feedback from SNS Members on Consumer Behavior in Electronic Commerce
** Juan M. Soler, Fernando Cuartero and Manuel Roblizo, Twitter as a
Tool for Predicting Elections Results
** Bogdan Gliwa, Stanis?aw Saganowski, Anna Zygmunt, Piotr Br?dka,
Przemyslaw Kazienko and Jaros?aw Ko?lak, Identification of Group
Changes in Blogosphere

** Sarka Zehnalova, Zdenek Horak, Milos Kudelka and Vaclav Snasel,
Evolution of Author's Topic in Authorship Network (Short Paper)
** Jose Luis Lopez-Cuadrado, Israel Gonzalez-Carrasco, Ricardo
Colomo-Palacios, Rodrigo G?mez-Rodr?guez and Angel Garc?a-Crespo,
CoKIM Collaborative and Social Knowledge-Based Incident Manager (Short
Paper)


SNAA2012 S2
4:00-6:00       Chair:  Room 5  Aug 26

** Tommy Nguyen and Boleslaw Szymanski, Using Location-Based Social
Networks to Validate Human Mobility and Relationships Models
** Paolo Boldi and Sebastiano Vigna, Four Degrees of Separation, Really

** Noora Alballoshi and Nikolaos Mavridis, A Survey on Social networks
& Organization Development
** Charalampos Chelmis, Vikram Sorathia and Viktor Prasanna,
Enterprise Wisdom Captured Socially
** Valerie Galluzzi, Real Time Distributed Community Structure
Detection in Dynamic Networks

==========================

Workshop Title: SSNAD (The First International Workshop on Semantic
Social Network Analyis and Design)
Workshop Chairs: Johann Stan, I-Hsien Ting

SSNAD2012 S1    Social Network Analysis using Text Mining and Statistical Methods
1:30-3:30       Chair:  Room 6  Aug 26

** Renuka Hodigere, Diana Bilimoria: Constructing Professional
Resource Networks From Career Biographical Database
** David Combe, Christine Largeron, El?d Egyed-Zsigmond, Mathias Géry:
Combining relations and text in scientific network clustering
** Hannaneh Mohammadi Kangarani, Sima Rafsanjani Nezhad, Sara
Rafsanjani Nezhad, Javad  Bakhshi: Investigation of policy structure
in legal authorities of institutions related to water policy making
and management in Iran through network analysis of institutional
relations
** Anita Zbieg, Blazej Zak, Jaroslaw Jankowski,Radoslaw Michalski,
Sylwia Ciuberek: Studying Diffusion of Viral Content at Dyadic Level


SSNAD2012 S2    Social Network Analysis and Recommendation
4:00-6:00       Chair:  Room 6  Aug 26

** Keynote Speech : Larry Kerschberg (Social Network Analyis and
Recommender Systems : Mutual Benefits)
** M Saravanan,, Gaigipati Prasad, M Jagadeesan, R Revathy, S Rekha:
Group Recommender Model for Boosting and Optimizing Customer Purchases
** Akram Alkouz, Johannes  Brijnesh: An Interests Discovery Approach in Social
** Networks Based on Semantically Enriched Graphs
** John McDowall, Larry Kerschberg: Leveraging Social Networks to
Improve Service Selection in Workflow Composition
** Sanjog Ray: Identifying Influential Taggers in Trust-Aware
Recommender Systems


============================

Workshop Title: The 1st International Workshop on Multi-agent Systems
and Social Networks (WMSSN 2012)
Workshop Chairs: Brahim Chaib-draa, Mehmet Kaya and Mohsen Afsharchi

WMSSN2012 S1    Agent Based Modeling and Analysis
1:30-3:30       Chair:  Room 7  Aug 26

** Seyyed Amin Tabatabei and Masoud Asadpour (University of Tehran),
Study of Influential Trends, Communities, and Websites on the
Post-Election Events of Iranian Presidential Election in Twitter
** Fatemeh Hendijani Fard and Behrouz H. Far (University of Calgary),
Clustering Social Networks to Remove Neutral Nodes
** Amitash Ramesh, Soumya Ramesh, Sudarshan Iyengar, Vinod Sekhar and
C. Pandu Rangan (Indian Statistical Institute), Obstacles Incentivize
Human Learning: A Network Theoretic Study
** Usha Sridhar and Sridhar Mandyam (Ecometrix Research), Pareto
Optimal Allocation in Multi-agent Coalitional Games with Exponential
Payoffs
** Vijesh M, Sudarshan Iyengar, Vijay Mahantesh SM, Amitash Ramesh, C
Pandurangan and Veni Madhavan (Indian Statistical Institute), A
Navigation Algorithm Inspired by Human Navigation
** Fan Yang, Xiaohui Yu, Yang Liu and Min Yang (Shandong University),
Automatic Detection of Rumor on Sina Weibo


WMSSN2012 S2    Community Discovery and Evolution in Social Networks
4:00-6:00       Chair:  Room 7  Aug 26

** Andreas Kalaitzakis, Harris Papadakis and Paraskevi Fragopoulou
(Technological Educational Institute of Crete), Evolution of User
Activity and Community Formation in an Online Social Network
** Daniel Goldsmith and Michael Siegel (MIT Sloan School of
Management), Cyber Politics: Understanding the use of Social Media for
Dissident Movements in an Integrated State Stability Framework
** Sridhar Mandyam and Usha Sridhar (Ecometrix Research),Community
Learning from External Information Sources
** Suhas Venkatesh, Amitash Ramesh, Sudarshan Iyengar and Udaya Shyama
(BNM Institute of Technology), Landmark Identification in Complex
Networks
** Nafees Ur Rehman, Svetlana Mansmann, Andreas Weiler and Marc H.
Scholl(University of Konstanz), Building a Data Warehouse for Twitter
Stream Exploration
** Poornalatha G and Prakash S Raghavendra (National Institute of
Technology Karnataka), Web Page Prediction by Clustering and
Integrated Distance Measure

Workshop  title:   Searching with the Pro's
Organizer : Arno Reuser


Program Overview:
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Preliminary Program Overview for
IEEE/ACM ASONAM 2012  --  FOSINT-SI 2012 – HI-BI-BI 2012 and
collocated workshops
Sunday 26 August 2012
8:30    Opening ceremony for workshops
9:00-10:00 AM   ASONAM - Keynote Speaker I
10:00-10:30 AM  Break
10:30-12:30 AM  CSOSN2012 S1            DMSSW 2012      MSNDS 2012      ARNO Reuser Workshop
12:30-1:30 PM   Lunch Break
1:30-2:10 PM    BASNA2012  Keynot -- CSNA 2012 S1 -- DMSSW 2012-- MSNDS
2012 -- SNAA 2012-- SSNAD 2012 -- WMSSN 2012
2:10-3:30 PM    BASNA2012  S1 -- SKDU 2012 S1
3:30-4:00 PM    Break
4:00-6:00 PM    BASNA2012  S2 -- CSNA 2012 S2 -- DMSSW 2012 -- SKDU 2012
S2 -- SNAA 2012 -- SSNAD 2012 -- WMSSN 2012

Sunday 26 August 2012
10:30-12:30     Tutorial 1
       Lunch Break
1:30-3:30       Tutorial 2      Tutorial 3
       Break
4:00-6:00       Tutorial 4      Tutorial 5

7:00-9:00 PM    Reception


Monday 27 August 2012
8:30 Opening ceremony for ASONAM+FOSINT+HIBIHI
9:00-10:00 AM ASONAM - Keynote Speaker II FOSINT-SI Keynote Speaker  I
10:00-10:30 AM Break
10:30-12:30 AM ASONAM-S1 ASONAM–S2 ASONAM –S3 FOSINT-SI-S1 HIBIHI-S1
12:30-1:30 PM Lunch Break
ASONAM -- Demo Session  --  ASONAM  Poster Session  --  FOSINT-SI Poster Session
1:30pm-2:30pm ASONAM - Keynote Speaker III FOSINT-SI Keynote Speaker  II
2:30-4:30 PM ASONAM-S4 ASONAM-S5 ASONAM -S6 FOSINT-SI-S2 HIBIBI-S2
4:30-5:00 PM Break
5:00-7:00 PM Panel


Tuesday 28 August 2012
8:30-9:30 AM ASONAM - Keynote Speaker IV FOSINT-SI Keynote Speaker  III
9:30-10:00 AM Break
10:00-12:00 ASONAM-S7 ASONAM –S8 ASONAM –S9 FOSINT-SI-S3 HIBIHI-S3
12:00-1:00 PM Lunch Break
               ASONAM -- Demo Session   --  ASONAM  Poster Session
--  FOSINT-SI Poster Session
1:00-3:00 PM ASONAM-S10 ASONAM –S11 ASONAM –S12 HIBIHI-S4
1:00-2:00 PM FOSINT-SI Keynote Speaker  IV
2:00-3:10 PM FOSINT-SI-S4
3:00-3:30 PM Break
3:30-5:30 PM ASONAM-S13 ASONAM –S14 ASONAM –S15 FOSINT-SI-S5

Wednesday 29 August 2012
9:00-10:00 AM ASONAM - Keynote Speaker V
10:00-10:30AM Break
10:30-12:30 AM ASONAM-S16 ASONAM –S17 ASONAM –S18
12:30-1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30-3:30 PM ASONAM –S19 ASONAM –S20 ASONAM –S21
3:30-4:00 PM Break
4:00 PM closing

Thursday 30 August 2012
All day Tour for interested participants
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