Springer proceedings online - CRIWG 2012

Collaboration and Technology

18th International Conference, CRIWG 2012 

Raesfeld, Germany, September 16-19, 2012 

Proceedings

Valeria Herskovic , H. Ulrich Hoppe , Marc Jansen und Jürgen Ziegler

The proceedings of CRIWG 2012 are online.  I am co-chairing the doctoral consortium together with my colleagues Stephan Lukosch and Dan Suthers on Sunday and will give a keynote on Monday.

Abstract of my keynote "Community Analytics – an Information Systems Perspective"

Information Systems serve the needs of organizations. With the widespread availability of free Web-based tools and social networking sites also communities with no institutional backing intensify the use of the Web. In this presentation, I motivate by examples that professional communities need community support beyond the commodity level. Community analytics in such settings need a deep understanding of interactions between community members and systems, members and resources as well as members among each others.Such a perspective is delivered by community information systems serving the needs of professional communities. The meaningful combination of quantitative and qualitative analytics strategies supports the understanding of community goals, community processes and community reflection. Case studies from ongoing EU research projects will support the argumentation.

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Special Issue on Mining Social Networks for Recommender Systems - IJSNM

Call for papers

International Journal of Social Network Mining

Special Issue on: "Mining Social Networks for Recommender Systems"

http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=1940

Guest Editors:
Dr. Panagiotis Symeonidis, Aristotle University, Greece symeon@csd.auth.gr
Prof. Dr. Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
email:manolopo@csd.auth.gr


Social networks such as Facebook, Linkedin, etc. contain gigabytes of data that can be mined to make recommendations for products, events or even friendships. The premise of these recommendations is that individuals might only be a few steps from a desirable social friend, event or product, but not realise it. In such systems, people often belong to multiple explicit or implicit social networks because of different interpersonal interactions. That is, besides the explicit friendship relations between the users, there are also other implicit relations. For example, users can co-comment on products and they can co-rate products or co-tag a photo. The aim of this special issue is to study how mining of social networks can leverage the quality of recommendations. The analysis of social influence and the inference of social rating networks and social media can help in providing more accurate and effective product, friend, activity and event recommendations.


Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

•Link prediction in social networks
•Rating prediction in social rating networks
•Recommendation in social rating networks
•Cross-domain recommendation in social rating networks
•Group recommendation in social networks
•Top-N friend recommendation in social networks
•Top-N item recommendation in social networks
•Recommendation in social networks with distrust
•Recommendation in time-evolving social networks
•Social network analysis for recommendation
•Memory-based methods for recommendation in social networks
•Model-based methods for recommendation in social networks
•Recommendation by combining multiple social networks
•Privacy of recommendation in social networks
•Event and activity recommendation in mobile social networks
•Recommendation in location-based social networks
•Collaborative filtering in social networks
•Context-aware recommendation in social networks
•Explaining recommendation in social networks
•Recommendation in social media
•Multi-criteria recommendation in social networks


Important Dates

Paper submission due: 1 February, 2013
First round notification: 1 May, 2013
Revised version due: 1 August, 2013

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The 13th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2012) - Call for Workshop Papers

The 13th International Conference on 

Web Information System Engineering

(WISE 2012) 

November 28th-30th, 2012 Paphos, Cyprus.

Call for Workshop Papers

Deadline 17th September 2012

http://www.wise2012.cs.ucy.ac.cy/workshops.html

WISE is one of the premier conferences in the area of Web Technologies,
Internet Technologies and Software Engineering. This year WISE organizes six
very interesting and focused workshops. Papers accepted in any one of these
workshops will be published by Springer in the LNCS series.

The WISE 2012 Workshops will take place on November 28th

1st International Workshop on Capability based Engineering (of Service and
Process aware Systems) (Full day)
(Chairs: Sami Bhiri, DERI Galway, Ireland (main contact); Carlos Pedrinaci,
Open University, UK; Samir Tata, Telecom Sud Paris, France)


Advanced Reasoning Technology for e-Science (ART) (Full day)
(Chairs: Alexey Cheptsov, Universität Stuttgart, Germany (main contact);
Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK; Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University
Amsterdam, the Netherlands)


CeBPM: Workshop on Cloud-enabled Business Process Management (Full day)
(Chairs: Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania (main contact);
Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)


Engineering the Semantic Enterprise (Full day)
(Chairs: Maciej Dabrowski, DERI Galway, Ireland (main contact); John
Breslin, DERI Galway, Ireland; Alexandre Passant, Seevl.net; Eric Gordon
Prud'hommeaux, W3C/MIT)


Social Web Analytics for Trend Detection (Full day)
(Chairs: Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (main
contact); Hakim Hacid, Bell Labs, France)


International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud (BDC 2012) (Full day)
(Chairs: Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia; Surya Nepal, CSIRO,
Australia)

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Enhancing Academic Event Participation with Context-aware and Social Recommendations

Pham and Dejan gave a presentation about our paper "Enhancing Academic Event Participation with Context-aware and Social Recommendations" at the ASONAM 2012 conference in Istanbul, Turkey this week.

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.

Enhancing Academic Event Participation with Context-aware and Social Recommendations from Dejan Kovachev

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The following article is from the  http://www.ieeetclt.org/issues/july2012/IEEE-LT-July2012.htm  of the Technical Committee on Learning Technology (TCLT) and gives a short description of our contributions to the TELMAP project.

A Mediabase for Technology Enhanced Learning in Europe

Abstract

There is growing interest in analytic techniques and tools for supporting scientific communities, e.g. through visual analytics tools. In the domain of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), one of the first endeavors in this regard started in 2006, when the PROLEARN project [1], a European TEL network of excellence, deployed a “Mediabase” for TEL in Europe. The objective was to overcome fragmentation and propel excellence in the field by providing stakeholder groups like scientists and policy makers with digital information obtained from TEL social media sources (e.g. mailing lists, blogs, RSS/Atom feeds) [3]. From the end-user perspective a key task was the development and provision of easy-to-use tools for extracting and presenting relevant information contained in the Mediabase, e.g. for cross-media social network analysis and self-observation [4]. In the scope of the currently running TEL-Map project [2], a support action funded by the European Commission, the Mediabase idea was adopted to empower TEL stakeholders in Europe and beyond to find relevant information and to obtain a rich overview of different types of actors and artifacts involved in the TEL domain. The main objective is to provide support forroadmapping activities in TEL, which required extending the available data sources and analytics tools.

Data Sources

The TEL Mediabase includes information from three main data sources:

• Blogosphere: TEL related blogs, including the blog entries, comments and analytical information like length, hyperlinks, words occurrences, and word bursts for entries.
• Projects: TEL projects funded by the European Commission, including metadata and information like description, start/end dates, cost, funding, and consortium members.
• Papers: Bibliographic information on TEL related conferences, journals, workshops, authors, and papers.

Figure 1 shows the component layers of the Mediabase. The web data sources are crawled periodically, and the data is processed and fed into a set of relational databases. The projects database is fed from publicly available information pages on the European Community’s websites (e.g. CORDIS [3]); the papers database is fed by the DBLP [4] data set enriched with abstracts and keywords crawled from the publisher pages (currently we support IEEE, ACM and Springer). The blogs database is fed by a blog crawler and a feed importer. The blogs to be included are specified by community members using web-based tools like the Feed Aggregator on the Learning Frontiers portal (http://learningfrontiers.eu) or the Mediabase Commander available at the PROLEARN Academy homepage (http://prolearn-academy.org).

Figure 1 - TEL Mediabase component layers

Currently the Mediabase indexes almost one thousand TEL related blogs with close to 400,000 blog entries and more than one million distinct hyperlinks. It includes the complete DBLP data set, as of March 2011 consisting of more than 800,000 authors, about 1.5 million papers, and more than 3,700 conferences, journals and workshops. The project data set includes 116 collaborative projects funded by the European Commission during TEL focused calls in FP6, FP7, eContentplus, and eTEN, involving more than 800 different organizations.

End-User Applications

To enable TEL stakeholders to access the data for analytic and roadmapping tasks, we deployed several web-based tools as shown in the bottom layer in Figure 1. In the Learning Frontiers portal, a TEL roadmapping portal hosted by the TEL-Map project, we offer the following tools:

• Projects Space: This portal section (see Figure 2) allows users to browse the project data set. It also presents a map overlay that shows the geographical distribution of project partners and an automatically generated list of predecessor and successor projects. These pieces of information are hyperlinked to provide a seamless browsing experience. A study investigating collaboration networks and project impact based on these features is presented in [2].
• Mediabase Dashboard [1]: A portal section similar to the iGoogle homepage. Users can embed widgets in their personalized dashboard. These special widgets provide real time visualizations of the data in the three databases. Users may also create custom visualizations by using the provided widget creator application.
• Feed Aggregator: Allows users to specify feeds and blogs to index for crawling.

Figure 2: Projects space on the Learning Frontiers portal

In addition we have developed and deployed web tools outside of the Learning Frontiers portal:

• Query Interface: provides the possibility to query the three databases using SQL in a web-based interface. The query results are visualized using different chart types like pie chart, line chart, timeline, table, graph, etc.
• AERCS [5]: enables users to access analytic, visual and comparative functions on the papers database. For instance it allows comparing the co-authorship and citation networks of different conferences, visualize author networks, identify key authors, and similar functions. A study analyzing the development patterns of TEL conferences using these features is presented in [5].
• Mediabase Commander: a Firefox plugin that allows users to browse the TEL blogs database and to add new blogs.

Conclusion

In this article we have presented a Mediabase for TEL, which was built and deployed to facilitate mapping and roadmapping activities in the TEL scientific community. This includes observing key indicators in relevant data sources as well as to contribute to and browse data sources from web-based applications within and beyond their community web portals.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the European Commission through the TEL-Map support action (FP7-257822).

References

[1]               Derntl, M., Erdtmann, S., Klamma, R.: A Widget-Based Dashboard for Visual Analytics on Scientific Communities. Proceedings of I-KNOW 2012. ACM (in press)

[2]               Derntl, M., Klamma, R.: The European TEL Projects Community from a Social Network Perspective. Proceedings of EC-TEL 2012. Springer Verlag (in press)

[3]               Klamma, R., Spaniol, M., Cao, Y., Jarke, M.: Pattern-Based Cross Media Social Network Analysis for Technology Enhanced Learning in Europe. Proceedings of EC-TEL 2006, pp. 242-256. Springer (2006)

[4]               Petrushyna, Z., Klamma, R.: No Guru, No Method, No Teacher: Self-classification and Self-modelling of E-Learning Communities. Proceedings of EC-TEL 2008, pp. 354-365. Springer (2008)

[5]               Pham, M.C., Derntl, M., Klamma, R.: Development Patterns of Scientific Communities in Technology Enhanced Learning. Educational Technology & Society (in press).

Michael Derntl

RWTH Aachen University

Germany

derntl@dbis.rwth-aachen.de

Ralf Klamma

RWTH Aachen University

Germany

klamma@dbis.rwth-aachen.de

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Springer Proceedings online - Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2012

Image courtesy by my wife Michaela

The proceedings of ICWL 2012 are available online by Springer. Will see all the people in Sinaia next week.

Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2012 

11th International Conference, Sinaia, Romania, September 2-4, 2012. Proceedings 

Ed.: Elvira Popescu, Qing Li, Ralf Klamma, Howard Leung and Marcus Specht

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CRIWG 2012 Conference Program

This is the program of the 2012 edition of the 18th CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology in Duisburg, Germany. I am co-chairing the doctoral consortium together with my colleagues Stephan Lukosch and Dan Suthers on Sunday and will give a keynote on Monday.

Abstract of my keynote "Community Analytics – an Information Systems Perspective"

Information Systems serve the needs of organizations. With the widespread availability of free Web-based tools and social networking sites also communities with no institutional backing intensify the use of the Web. In this presentation, I motivate by examples that professional communities need community support beyond the commodity level. Community analytics in such settings need a deep understanding of interactions between community members and systems, members and resources as well as members among each others.Such a perspective is delivered by community information systems serving the needs of professional communities. The meaningful combination of quantitative and qualitative analytics strategies supports the understanding of community goals, community processes and community reflection. Case studies from ongoing EU research projects will support the argumentation.

Sunday 16/09 - Doctoral Consortium

Welcome and Openning (13:00 - 13:15)

Session DC 1 (13:15 - 14:45)

Linking learning design and monitoring support in CSCL scenarios
          Maria Jesus Rodriguez-Triana, GSIC-EMIC, University of Valladolid, Spain

Process Engine as Remote Control in an Interactive Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environment
          Kerstin Pfahler, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany

Coffe break (14:45 - 15:15)

Session DC 2 (13:15 - 14:45)

Visualization of knowledge trails in dynamic research networks
          Alfredo Ramos, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Design of an Analyst’s Workbench
          Tilman Göhnert, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Break (16:45 - 17:00)

Session DC 3 (17:00 - 17:45)

Formal analysis of human-machine dialog in safety-critical adaptive cooperative systems
          Nikolaj Borisov, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Closing (17:45 - 18:00)

Monday 17/09

Session P1 (9:00 – 10:30)

Welcome

Keynote 1 Community Analytics – an Information Systems Perspective
          Ralf Klamma

Session S1 (11:00 – 12:45) – Design Aspects in CSCL

Computer-Supported Collaborative Drawing in Primary School Education – Technical Realization and Empirical Findings
          Lars Bollen, Hannie Gijlers and Wouter van Joolingen

Training Conflict Management in a Collaborative Virtual Environment
          Katharina Emmerich, Katja Neuwald, Julia Othlinghaus, Sabrina Ziebarth, and H. Ulrich Hoppe

Reusability of data flow designs in complex CSCL scripts: Evaluation results from a case study
          Osmel Bordiés, Eloy Villasclaras, Yannis Dimitriadis, and Adolfo Ruiz-Calleja

Session S2 (14:00 – 15:30) – Conceptual and Design Models for CSCW (I)

Designing the Software Support for Partially Virtual Communities
          Francisco Gutierrez, Nelson Baloian, Sergio F. Ochoa, and Gustavo Zurita

Supporting Social Tasks of Individuals: A matter of Access to Cooperation Systems
          Michael Prilla

Formal Modeling of Multi-User Interfaces in Cooperative Work
          Benjamin Weyers, Wolfram Luther, Nelson Baloian, and Jose A. Pino

Session S3 (16:00 – 17:20) – Conceptual and Design Models for CSCW (II)

Normal users cooperating on process models: Is it possible at all?
          Alexander Nolte and Michael Prilla

Towards an overarching classification model of CSCW and groupware: a socio-technical perspective
          Armando Cruz, António Correia, Hugo Paredes, Benjamim Fonseca, Leonel Morgado, and Paulo Martins

Tuesday 18/09

Session S4 (9:00 – 10:30) – Social Networks and Community Analytics

Characterizing Key Developers: A Case Study with Apache Ant
          Gustavo A. Oliva, Francisco W. Santana, Kleverton C. M. de Oliveira, Cleidson R. B. de Souza, and Marco A. Gerosa

An Exploratory Study on Collaboration Understanding in Software Development Social Networks
          Andréa M. Magdaleno, Renata M. Araujo, and Cláudia M. L. Werner

Keeping Up with Friends’ Updates on Facebook
          Shi Shi, Thomas Largillier, and Julita Vassileva

Session S5 (11:00 – 12:15) – Formal Models and Technical Approaches

Using Collective Trust for Group Formation
          Thomas Largillier and Julita Vassileva

Time series analysis of collaborative activities
          Irene-Angelica Chounta and Nikolaos Avouris

SoCCR – optimistic concurrency control for the web-based collaborative framework Metafora
          Andreas Harrer, Thomas Irgang, Norbert Sattes, and Kerstin Pfahler

Social Event / Excursion (afternoon)

Wednesday 19/09

Session S6  (9:00 – 10:30)
Keynote 2 Interaction, Mediation and Ties: Conceptualizing, Representing and Analyzing Distributed learning
          Dan Suthers

Session S7 (11:00 – 12:30) – Mobile CSCL Scenarios

Enabling and Evaluating Mobile Learning Scenarios with Multiple Input Channels
          Lars Bollen, Sabrina C. Eimler, Marc Jansen, and Jan Engler

Software Requirements to support QoS in Collaborative M-Learning Activities
          Didac Gil de La Iglesia, Marcelo Milrad, and Jesper Andersson

Systems Integration Challenges for Supporting cross Context Collaborative Pedagogical Scenarios
          Dan Kohen-Vacs, Arianit Kurti, Marcelo Milrad, and Miky Ronen

Session S8 (14:00 – 14:50) – Emergency Scenarios

Tangible and Wearable User Interfaces for Supporting Collaboration among Emergency Workers
          Daniel Cernea, Simone Mora, Alfredo Perez, Achim Ebert, Andreas Kerren, Monica Divitini, Didac Gil de La Iglesia, and Nuno Otero

Contextual Analysis of the Victims’ Social Network for People Recommendation on the Emergency Scenario
          Sírius Thadeu Ferreira da Silva, Jonice Oliveira, and Marcos R. S. Borges

Session S9 (15:20 – 17:00) - CSCL Scripts and Games

Matchballs - a Multi-Agent-System for Ontology-based Collaborative Learning Games
          Sabrina Ziebarth, Nils Malzahn, and H. Ulrich Hoppe

Towards a Monitoring-Aware Design Process for CSCL Scripts
          María Jesús Rodríguez-Triana, Alejandra Martínez-Monés, Juan Ignacio Asensio- Pérez, and Yannis Dimitriadis

Closing

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Adaptive Computation Offloading from Mobile Devices into the Cloud

This presentation about our paper "Adaptive Computation Offloading from Mobile Devices into the Cloud" was given by Dejan at the MUE 2012 conference in Leganes, Spain.

 The inherently limited processing power and battery lifetime of mobile phones hinder the possible execution of computationally intensive applications like content-based video analysis or 3D modeling. Offloading of computationally intensive application parts from the mobile platform into a remote cloud infrastructure or nearby idle computers addresses this problem. This paper presents our Mobile Augmentation Cloud Services (MACS) middleware which enables adaptive extension of Android application execution from a mobile client into the cloud. Applications are developed by using the standard Android development pattern. The middleware does the heavy lifting of adaptive application partitioning, resource monitoring and computation offloading. These elastic mobile applications can run as usual mobile application, but they can also reach transparently remote computing resources. Two prototype applications using the MACS middleware demonstrate the benefits of the approach. The evaluation shows that applications, which involve complicated algorithms and large computations, can benefit from offloading with around 95\% energy savings and significant performance gains compared to local execution only.

Adaptive Computation Offloading from Mobile Devices into the Cloud from Dejan Kovachev

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Beyond the Client-Server Architectures: A Survey of Mobile Cloud Techniques

Dejan gave a presentation about our paper "Beyond the Client-Server Architectures: A Survey of Mobile Cloud Techniques" at the MobiCC Workshop @  IEEE International Conference on Communications in China 2012 (ICCC 12)  in Beijing, China last week.

Mobile applications nowadays are developed either for a local (native) or for a client-server execution. However, applications in the future will be developed with cloud in mind, i.e. act as native applications, but do the heavy processing and storage in the cloud, deliver only needed parts and data at runtime and able to run offline. In order to better understand how to facilitate the building of mobile cloud-based applications, we have surveyed existing work in mobile computing through the prism of cloud computing principles. We provide an overview of the results from this survey, in particular, models of mobile cloud applications. We also highlight research challenges in the area of mobile cloud computing.

Beyond the Client-Server Architectures: A Survey of Mobile Cloud Techniques from Dejan Kovachev

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The 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD2013) - Call for Workshop Proposals

Call for Workshop Proposals

PAKDD2013: The 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Gold Coast, Australia

The 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2013) is a leading international conference in the areas of data mining and knowledge discovery. It provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all KDD related areas, including data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, databases, statistics, knowledge acquisition and automatic scientific discovery, data visualization, causal induction and knowledge-based systems.

PAKDD 2013 seeks proposals for workshops on foundational and emerging topics in areas relevant to data mining. The PAKDD workshops provide an informal and vibrant opportunity for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research positions, original research results and practical development experiences on specific challenges and emerging issues. The workshop topics should be focused and cohesive so that the participants can benefit from interaction with each other.

A possible (non-exhaustive) list of topics include:

·         Foundational topics in data mining

·         Data mining and biology

·         Data mining and climate change

·         Data mining and finance

·         Data mining in social networks

·         Data mining and chemistry

·         Data mining for healthcare

·         Data mining for environmental sciences

·         Data mining on cloud computing

·         Data mining on specialized data types: structured, unstructured, semi-structured, streaming, spatio-temporal, text and noisy text, multimedia, etc.

·         Real life applications and success stories

The organizers and chairs of the workshop shall have full control on the call for papers, forming of program committees, review and selection of papers as well as planning the workshop program. HOWEVER, the program committee chairs are not allowed to submit papers to the workshops to ensure a fair review process. IN ADDITION, the chairs must state in the workshop CFP the following: "Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper." The registration fees for workshops will be determined by the conference (not the workshop itself). The fees will be paid to the conference, and the conference will provide workshop facilities including working notes printing, meeting room, coffee break, lunch, proceedings, etc.

Each workshop will have a right to include its outstanding papers in a LNCS/LNAI post Proceedings of PAKDD Workshops published by Springer. Under the program, the workshop chair must organize a review committee to select the outstanding papers from the papers presented in the workshop. Based on the reviews, each selected paper should be further improved for the camera ready version. The average acceptance rate of this selection process should be no higher than 50%. A detailed schedule of due dates for the paper selection and the collection of the camera ready versions will be announced immediately after the workshop.

Prospective workshop organizers should send a proposal (maximum three pages) with the following sections to the PAKDD 2013 Workshop Co-Chairs.

·         Title of the workshop

·         Objectives, scope, and contribution to the main conference

·         Names and contacts of key organizers and a tentative list of members of the program committee, along with links to their webpages.

·         Expected number of papers, attendees, and preliminary workshop format

Workshops will be either have a full day or a half day format. Prior discussions of candidate workshop organizers with the workshop chairs are strongly encouraged.



Important Dates

Proposal Due: 26 August, 2012 (Sunday)
Notification: 11 November, 2012 (Sunday)



We look forward to your proposals and contributions to PAKDD 2013 Workshops.

Please submit your proposal to all workshop chairs by emails.


Professor Jiuyong Li

School of Computer and Information Science
University of South Australia, AustraliaJiuyong.Li@unisa.edu.au

Associate Professor Kay Chen Tan

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore, Singaporeeletankc@nus.edu.sg

Professor Bo Liu

Guangdong University of Technology, Chinacsbliu@gmail.co

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22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013) - Preliminary Call for Papers

Preliminary Call for Papers

22nd International World Wide Web Conference

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

http://www2013.org/

For more than two decades, the International World-Wide Web Conference has been the premier venue for researchers, academics, businesses, and standard bodies to come together and discuss latest updates on the state and evolutionary path of the Web. The main conference program of WWW
2013 will have 12 tracks (or themes) for refereed paper presentations and we invite you to submit your cutting-edge, exciting new breakthrough work. In addition to the main conference, WWW 2013 will have a series of co-located workshops, keynote speakers, tutorials, panels, a developers’ track, and a poster and demo session.

The CfP will be updated with more detailed info about individual tracks, their topics and program committee members. The conference web site will be updated regularly and monthly newsletters will keep you current with the latest information.

Important Dates

Main conference paper abstract registration:
Monday, November 19th, 2012 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Main conference full paper submission:
Monday, November 26th, 2012 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Paper notifications: Friday, February 8th, 2013

Organization

General chairs: Virgilio Almeida (UFMG), Hartmut Glaser (NIC.br), Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio)

Program chairs: Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Labs), Sue Moon (KAIST)

Tracks and Chairs

Behavioral analysis and personalization
Eugene Agichtein (Emory U), Yoelle Mareek (Yahoo! Labs)

Bridging structured and unstructured data Kevin Chang (UIUC), Peter Mika (Yahoo! Labs)

Content analysis
Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), (TBA)

Internet monetization and incentives
Vanja Josifovski (Google), David Pennock (MSR NYC)

Search systems and applications
Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Mumbai), Wei-Ying Ma (MSR Asia)

Security, privacy, trust, and abuse
Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS), (TBA)

Semantic web
Steffen Staab (U of Koblenz), (TBA)

Social networks and graph analysis
Sharad Goel (MSR NYC), Wolfgang Nejdl (U of Hannover), Ben Zhao (UCSB)

Software infrastructure and their performance, scalability, and availability Torsten Suel (PI), (TBA)

User interfaces, human factors, and smart devices James Landay (UW), Nuria Oliver (Telefonica R&D)

Web engineering
Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien), Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft),

Web mining
Tanya Berger-Wolf (UIC), Bing Liu (UIC), Kyuseok Shim (SNU)

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The 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2012) - Final Program

ICWL 2012

The 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning

2-4 September 2012, Sinaia, Romania
http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2012/

Final Program 

Keynote speech 1 – Sunday, September 2, 10.15 – 11.15 

Title: From Transfer of Learning to Transfer Learning 

Speaker: Qiang Yang 

Abstract. In today's networked world, it is possible to create an atmosphere of community effort and sharing, which will significantly benefit collaborative topic study. Usually, people finish their own works on their personal computing devices and discuss together. When discussing, frequent exchange of ideas and documents occurs, and problems of inefficient device switching come out consequently. Even more, comparison among parts of work from different group members is lack of supporting technology. This talk will present UI (User Interface) Sharing technologies, which could help creating a truly collaborative environment. In such scenario, a large display serves as a natural substrate for people to get together and perform their tasks simultaneously, which greatly promotes work efficiency in comparison with the single presenter style. Peripheral computing devices, such as laptops, mobile phones and tablet PCs, communicate with large displays (wall or tabletop) via wireless network. To deal with the differences in file types and platforms, only designated visual representation of the opened documents and software will be transferred to the large display. Participants can interact with the distributively archived digital content via shared UI on large displays. Related technologies will be discussed in this talk.

Short bio. Yuanchun Shi is a professor of the Department of Computer Science, the director of Institute of Human Computer Interaction & Media Integration of Tsinghua University, and the director of Pervasive Computing Division of Tsinghua National Lab of Information Science and Technology, China. Her research interests include human computer interaction, pervasive computing, multimedia communication and eLearning Technology. Prof. Shi has publications in IEEE Pervasive Computing, TPDS, TKDE, ACM CHI, MM, UIST, etc. She received her PhD, MS and BS in Computer Science from Tsinghua University. She became a faculty member in Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University in 1993. She was a senior visiting scholar at MIT AI lab during Aug 2001-Feb 2002. She had chaired several conferences like the ACM Ubicomp2011 and chaired the Technology Committee on Pervasive Computing of CCF (China Computer Federation) from Jun 2005-Jan 2012. Now she serves as the Area Editor of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC, Elsevier), Editor of Interacting with Computer (IwC, Elsevier) and Vice Editor-in-Chief of Communications of CCF (CCCF).

Keynote speech 2 – Monday, September 3, 09.00 – 10.00 

Title: Informal Personalized eLearning across Open Content and Social Media Networks 

Speaker: Vincent Wade 

Short bio. Vincent Wade (BSc (hons), MSc, MA., PhD, FTCD) is Professor and Head of Intelligent Systems in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) University. He is Deputy Director of CNGL, a world leading multi-institutional research centre focusing on multilingual, multi modal globalisation of digital content. In 2012 he founded the Centre for Learning Innovation which is an applied research centre focus on Informal Learning technologies. In 2002 Vincent was awarded Fellowship of Trinity College (FTCD) for his contribution to research in the areas of knowledge management, web based personalisation and adaptive learning technologies. Vincent was a visiting scientist at IBM (2006-9) and holds multiple patents in the area of personalisation and adaptive digital content. He has authored over two hundred and fifty scientific papers in peer reviewed research journals and international conferences and he has received seven 'best paper' awards for in IEEE, ACM, and IFIP conferences. In 2010 he received the European Language Label Award for his work on dynamic personalisation of Serious Games for enhanced learning.

Sunday – September 2, 2012 

09.00 – 09.30
Registration
09.30 – 10.15
Opening ceremony
10.15 – 11.15
Keynote 1
11.15 – 11.45
Coffee break
11.45 – 13.00
Session 1a, Session 1b
13.00 – 14.30
Lunch
14.30 – 16.15
Session 2a, Workshop SCiLearn
16.15 – 16.45
Coffee break
16.45 – 18.00
Session 3a, Session 3b
19.00 – 22.00
Reception dinner

Monday – September 3, 2012 

09.00 – 10.00
Keynote 2
10.00 – 11.15
Session 4a, Session 4b
11.15 – 11.35
Coffee break
11.35 – 13.10
Session 5a, Workshop KMEL 1
13.10 – 14.30
Lunch
14.30 – 16.10
Session 6a, Workshop KMEL 2
16.10 – 16.30
Coffee break
16.30 –
Departure for Bran Castle (optional tour 1),
followed by conference banquet

Tuesday – September 4, 2012 

09.00 – 10.45
Session 7a, Workshop CCSTED 1
10.45 – 11.05
Coffee break
11.05 – 12.50
Session 8a, Workshop CCSTED 2 & Panel
12.50 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 14.30
Closing ceremony
14.30 –
Departure for Peles Castle (optional tour 2)

Session 1a - Sunday, September 2, 11.45 – 13.00 

Chair: Élise Lavoué
Title: Semantic Web and Ontologies for E-learning
. Discovering Hierarchical Relationships in Educational Content
Marián Šimko, Maria Bielikova
. An Evaluation Methodology for C-FOAM Applied to Web-based Learning
Ioana Ciuciu, Yan Tang Demey
. Modelling the Knowledge Domain of the Java Programming Language as an Ontology (Short Paper)
Aggeliki Kouneli, Georgia Solomou, Christos Pierrakeas, Achilles Kameas

Session 1b - Sunday, September 2, 11.45 – 13.00 

Chair: Yiwei Cao
Title: Learning Analytics
. Learning Analytics for Learning Blogospheres
Manh Cuong Pham, Michael Derntl, Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma
. Towards an Integrated Approach for Evaluating Textual Complexity for Learning Purposes
Mihai Dascalu, Stefan Trausan-Matu, Philippe Dessus
. How about Using the PCA to Analyze Changes in Learning Styles? (Short Paper)
Federico Scaccia, Carlo Giovannella

Session 2a - Sunday, September 2, 14.30 – 16.15 

Chair: Sabine Graf
Title: Personalized and Adaptive Learning
. AMASE: A Framework for Composing Adaptive and Personalized Learning Activities on the Web
Athanasios Staikopoulos, Ian O'Keeffe, Rachael Rafter, Eddie Walsh, Bilal
Yousef, Owen Conlan, Vincent Wade
. Learning Activity Sharing and Individualized Recommendation Based on Dynamical Correlation Discovery (Short Paper)
Xiaokang Zhou, Jian Chen, Qun Jin, Timothy K. Shih
. Designer - Supporting Teachers Experience in Learning Management
Systems (Short Paper)
Silvia Baldiris, Sabine Graf, Jorge Hernandez, Ramon Fabregat, Nestor Duque
. RECALL – Location Based Services for Excluded Communities (Short Paper)
Camelia Popescu, David Brown, Nick Shopland
. Broadening the Use of E-learning Standards for Adaptive Learning (Short Paper)
Anna Mavroudi, Thanasis Hadzilacos

Session 3a - Sunday, September 2, 16.45 – 18.00 

Chair: Zuzana Kubincova
Title: CSCL, Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments 1
. An Approach to Exploit Social Bookmarking to Improve Formal Language Learning
Giuliana Dettori, Simone Torsani
. How to Get Around with Wikis in Teaching
Zuzana Kubincová, Martin Homola
. Wiki - A Useful Tool to Fight Classroom Cheating?
Zoran Putnik, Mirjana Ivanovic, Zoran Budimac, Ladislav Samuelis

Session 3b - Sunday, September 2, 16.45 – 18.00 

Chair: Stefan Trausan-Matu
Title: Deployment, Organization and Management of Learning Objects
. Slicepedia: Towards Long Tail Resource Production through Open Corpus Reuse
Killian Levacher, Seamus Lawless, Vincent Wade
. Learning Path Construction based on Association Link Network
Fan Yang, Frederick Li, Rynson Lau
. An Automated Analysis and Indexing Framework for Lecture Video Portal
Haojin Yang, Christoph Oehlke, Christoph Meinel

Session 4a - Monday, September 3, 10.00 – 11.15 

Chair: Ralf Klamma
Title: Game-Based Learning
. Towards Universal Game Development in Education: Automatic and Semiautomatic Methodologies
Javier Torrente, Ángel Del Blanco, Ángel Serrano-Laguna, Jose Angel Vallejo-Pinto, Pablo Moreno-Ger, Baltasar Fernandez-Manjon
. Towards Social Learning Games
Elise Lavoué
. Computer Games and English Language Learning
Sabina-Nadina Cehan, Dana-Anca Cehan

Session 4b - Monday, September 3, 10.00 – 11.15 

Chair: Marco Temperini
Title: Feedback and Assessment
. BlueFix: Using Crowd-Sourced Feedback to Support Programming Students in Error Diagnosis and Repair
Christopher Watson, Frederick W.B. Li, Jamie L. Godwin
. Dealing with Open-Answer Questions in a Peer-Assessment Environment
Andrea Sterbini, Marco Temperini
. Slide Test Maker: An Educational Software Tool for Test Composition
Salvatore Cuomo, Vittorio Fuccella, Aniello Murano

Session 5a - Monday, September 3, 11.35 – 13.10 

Chair: Giuliana Dettori
Title: CSCL, Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments 2
. Annotation Tool for Enhancing E-Learning Courses
Bernardo Pereira Nunes, Ricardo Kawase, Stefan Dietze, Gilda Helena Bernardino De Campos, Wolfgang Nejdl
. Project-Based Learning with eMUSE - An Experience Report
Elvira Popescu
. Perceived Support in E-Collaborative Learning - An Exploratory Study Which Makes Use of Synchronous and Asynchronous Online-Teaching
Approaches
Stefanie A. Hillen, Tero Päivärinta
. Teaching Culture as Social Constructivism (Short paper)
Cat Kutay, Deirdre Howard-Wagner, Lynette Riley, Janet Mooney

Session 6a - Monday, September 3, 14.30 – 16.10 

Chair: Marcus Specht
Title: Personal Learning Environments
. From LMS to PLE: a Step Forward through OpenSocial Apps in Moodle
Evgeny Bogdanov, Carsten Ullrich, Erik Isaksson, Matthias Palmer, Denis Gillet
. A Mashup Recommender for Creating Personal Learning Environments
Alexander Nussbaumer, Marcel Berthold, Daniel Dahrendorf, Hans-Christian Schmitz, Milos Kravcik, Dietrich Albert
. A Federated Recommender System for Online Learning Environments
Lei Zhou, Sandy El Helou, Laurent Moccozet, Laurent Opprecht, Omar
Benkacem, Christophe Salzmann, Denis Gillet
. Trust and Security Issues in Cloud-Based Learning and Management
Birgy Lorenz, Kätlin Kalde, Kaido Kikkas

Session 7a - Tuesday, September 4, 09.00 – 10.45 

Chair: Mart Laanpere
Title: Design, Model and Implementation of e-Learning Platforms and Tools
. Towards a Design Theory for Educational Online Information Security Laboratories
Sarfraz Iqbal, Tero Päivärinta
. Pedagogy-driven Design of Digital Learning Ecosystems: the Case Study of Dippler
Mart Laanpere, Kai Pata, Peeter Normak, Hans Põldoja
. The Use of Expert Systems in Building the Quality Model of a Web-based Learning Platform
Traian-Lucian Militaru, George Suciu, Gyorgy Todoran
. A Prototypical Implementation of the Intelligent Integrated Computer-Assisted Language Learning (iiCALL) Environment (Short Paper)
Harald Wahl, Werner Winiwarter

Session 8a - Tuesday, September 4, 11.05 – 12.50 

Chair: Philippos Pouyioutas
Title: Pedagogical Issues, Practice and Experience Sharing
. E-learning - The Bologna Process, the European Credit Transfer System
(ECTS), Learning Outcomes and ReProTool
Philippos Pouyioutas, Harald Gjermundrod, Ioanna Dionysiou
. The Implementation of the E-Learning Systems in Higher Education. Sharing the Work Experience from Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti
(Short Paper)
Gabriela Moise, Mihaela Suditu, Loredana Netedu
. Enhancing Online Class Student Engagement through Discussion - A Case Study on Modern Educational Technology (Short Paper)
Fengfang Shu, Chengling Zhao, Liyong Wan

SCiLearn 2012
International Workshop on Learning within and from Smart Cities 

Sunday, September 2, 14.30-16.15

. Scenarios for Active Learning in Smart Territories
Carlo Giovannella, Andrea Iosue, Antonello Tancredi, Fabrizio Cicola,
Andrea Camusi, Fabrizia Moggio, Vincenzo Baraniello, Simone Carcone,
Silvio Coco
. Understanding Trajectories of Experience in Situated Learning Field Trips
Ilaria Canova Calori, Chiara Rossitto, Monica Divitini
. Learning in the Smart City: a Virtual and Augmented Museum Devoted to Chaos Theory
Francesca Bertacchini, Eleonora Bilotta, Manuela Carini, Lorella
Gabriele, Giuseppe Laria, Pietro Pantano, Assunta Tavernise, Stefano Vena
. Contextual Mobile Learning for Professionals Working in the “Smart City”
Bingxue Zhang, Bertrand David, Chuantao Yin, René Chalon, Yun Zhou

KMEL 2012
2nd International Symposium on Knowledge Management  and E-Learning 

Monday, September 3

Session 1: 11.35 – 13.10

. A Web Content Accessibility Evaluation Process for Learning Objects in the Context of a Virtual Learning Environment
Cecilia Avila Garzon, Silvia Margarita Baldiris Navarro, Ramon Fabregat, Juan Carlos Guevara
. Virtual Laboratory for the Study of Kinematics in Engineering Faculties
Andrei Craifaleanu, Cristian Dragomirescu, Iolanda-Gabriela Craifaleanu
. Effect of Multiplayer Interactive Violent Video Games on Players’ Explicit and Implicit Aggression: A Social Interaction Perspective
Chang Liu, Xuemin Zhang, Fawei Sun, Lang Lang Wang, Xinyuan Fu
. Quality Criteria for Open Courseware and Open Educational Resources
Monica Vladoiu


Session 2: 14.30 – 16.10

. Developing Online Collaborative Games for e-Learning Environments
Traian Anghel, Adrian Florea, Arpad Gellert, Delilah Florea
. Supporting Knowledge Transfer and Mentoring in Companies by E-
Learning and Cloud Computing
Ileana Hamburg, Marius Marian
. Wiki Tools in Teaching English for Specific (Academic) Purposes - Improving Students’ Participation
Cristina Felea, Liana Stanca
. Ad-Hoc Business Process Management in ECM Systems
Julia Stavenko, Alexander Gromov

CCSTED 2012
1st International Workshop on Creative Collaboration through Supportive Technologies in Education 

Tuesday, September 4

Session 1: 09.00 – 10.45
Chairs: David Lamas - Tallinn University, Estonia
 Margarida Romero - Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

Welcome message: Gabriel Gorghiu - Valahia University Targoviste, Romania, Tommi Inkilä - University of Oulu, Finland

. Collaborative Processes in Virtual Learning Spaces - Does Structuring Make a Difference?
Essi Vuopala, Sarah Eagle, Pirkko Hyvönen
. Supporting Collaborative Creativity with Educational Visualizations in 3D Virtual Worlds
Mikhail Fominykh, Monica Divitini, Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland
. Towards Increasing Learners’ Creativity Based on a Fuzzy Collaborative Learning Model
Gabriela Moise
. Creative Re-instrumentation of Collective Learning Activity Terje Väljataga, Sebastian Fiedler
. Towards Assessing Quality of Open Courseware
Monica Vladoiu
. The Development of a Scale to Assess Creative Collaboration via Online Tools
Jocelyn Wishart, Sarah Eagle

Session 2: 11.05 – 12.05
Chairs: Gabriel Gorghiu - Valahia University Targoviste, Romania  Tommi Inkilä - University of Oulu, Finland

. Computer-Based Creative Collaboration in Online Learning
Margarida Romero, Elena Barberà
. Trust as Leverage for Supporting Learning Creativity in On-line Learning Communities
Sonia Sousa, David Lamas, Kersti Toming
. Exploring Creativity with E-learning 2.0: a Personal Account
Kersti Toming, David Lamas
. A Student Perception Related to the Implementation of Virtual Courses
Andrei Chilian, Roxana Bancuta, Cristina Bancuta

Panel: 12.05 – 12.50
Technology in Support of Collaborative Learning - Challenges and
Perspectives

The Workshop is organized with the support of European Commission, Education and
Training, under LLP Transversal Programme KA3-ICT, through Project 511733-LLP-1-2010-1-FI-
KA3-KA3MP: "CoCreat - Enabling Creative Collaboration through Supportive Technologies"

Conference Organization

Conference Co-Chairs
* Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
* Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong

Program Committee Co-Chairs
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
* Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, the Netherlands
* Howard Leung, City University of Hong Kong

Workshop Co-Chairs
* Dickson Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
* Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece
* Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania

Panel Co-Chairs
* Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Publicity Co-Chairs
* Frederick Li, University of Durham, UK

Steering Committee Representatives
* Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong
* Timothy Shih, National Central University, Taiwan

Local Organization Committee Co-Chairs
* Eugen Bobasu, University of Craiova, Romania
* Marius Brezovan, University of Craiova, Romania

Please refer to the conference website
(http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2012) for more information and contact us at icwl2012@software.ucv.ro for any inquiry.

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Joint Call For Papers - Conferences / Journal Special Issues Cloud Computing (August 2012 update)

 Conferences

1. IEEE (GHTCE 2012 (November 18-20, 2012, Shenzhen, China)
2012 IEEE Global High Tech Congress on Electronics
http://www.ghtcongress.org
*Submission deadline: Aug 24, 2012

2. ACM/IEEE ICCVE 2012 (December 12-16, 2012, Beijing, China)
The First ACM/IEEE/IFAC/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expoc
http://www.iccve.org
*Submission deadline: Aug 31, 2012

3. IEEE SOCA 2013 (December 17-19, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan)
IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications
http://conferences.computer.org/soca/
*Submission deadline: August 31, 2012

4. ISPAN 2012 (December 13-15, 2012, San Marcos, Texas, USA)
International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks
http://www.cose.txstate.edu/ISPAN
*Submission deadline: September 1, 2012

5. IEEE CloudCom 2012 (December 3-6, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan)
The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology Sience
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/cloudcom2012/
*Poster, Demo and PhD Consortium submission deadline: Sep 10, 2012

6. IEEE MobileCloud 2013 (March 25-28, 2013, San Francisco Bay, USA)
The IEEE International Symposium on Mobile Cloud, Computing, and Service Engineering
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/gaojerry/IEEEMobileCloud2013/index.htm
*Submission deadline: October 1, 2012

7. IEEE SOSE 2013 (March 25-28, 2013, San Francisco Bay, USA)
The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering
http://sei.pku.edu.cn/conference/sose2013/
*Submission deadline: October 15, 2012

Journal Special Issues

1. Journal of Internet Technology (ISI Impact Factor = 0.448)
Special Issue on "Sustainable Computing"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/JIT/
*Manuscript Due: September 30, 2012

2. Automated Software Engineering (Springer) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.806)
Special Issue on"Automated Techniques for Migration to the Cloud"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/ASE/
*Manuscript Due: October 31, 2012

3. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (Hindawi) (ISI Impact Factor = 2.436)
Special Issue on"Bio-Cloud: Cloud Computing for Biological, Genomics and Drug Design"
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jbb/si/382034/cfp/
*Manuscript Due: December 7, 2012

4. Future Generation Computer Systsems (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 2.365)
Special Issue on"Intelligent Big Data Processing"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/FGCS/
*Manuscript Due: December 20, 2012

5. International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.229)
Special Issue on"Dynamic Intelligence Towards Smart and Green World"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/IJCS/
*Manuscript Due: December 31, 2012

6. Information System Frontier (Springer) (ISI Impact Factor = 1.596)
Special Issue on "Merging Cloud and Communication Services"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/ISF/
*Manuscript Due: December 31, 2012

7. Journal of Systems Architecture (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.768)
Special Issue on"Real-Time Embedded Software for Multi-core Platforms"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/JSA/
*Manuscript Due: December 31, 2012

8. Future Generation Computer Systsems (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 2.365)
Special Issue on"Hybrid Intelligence for Growing Internet and its Applications"
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/calls-for-papers/hybrid-intelligence/
*Manuscript Due: January 1, 2013

9.International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing (Scopus, EI)
Call for special issue proposals
http://www.igi-global.com/journal/ijghpc
Prospective guest editors should send a proposal and/or draft CFP containing the following information
to the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Ching-Hsien Hsu at chh@chu.edu.tw
- Theme of the special issue
- Scope
- Biography of guest editor(s)
- Important dates

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Special Issue on Dynamic Collective Work - IEEE Internet Computing

IEEE Internet Computing 

Special Issue - Call for Papers

Dynamic Collective Work (September/October 2013)

Final submissions due: 4 Jan. 2013
Publication date: Sept./Oct. 2013

Please email the guest editors a brief description of the article you plan
to submit by 15 Dec. 2012.

The Internet has changed the way in which data is circulated and has shifted us from a world of paper documents to a world of online documents, databases, and provenance systems. This has also increased the size and complexity of systems that support today's globally distributed, rapidly changing, and agile collaborative enterprises. Such systems are becoming increasingly federated and are generating a huge number of events at different granularity levels. Tweets, blog posts, instant messages, Facebook updates, and other social media data now comprise a portion of this data. Industries such as healthcare, insurance, and banking have witnessed an explosion in the growth of dynamic collective work that has been fuelled by
such systems and data.

Dynamic and collective activities are characterized by their flexibility and people-driven nature. Automobile insurance claims handling, order processing of prescription drugs, patient case management in a hospital, and recovery and response assistance during natural disasters are just a few examples. Various factors determine the set of actions that must be performed and the order in which they're executed, including human judgment and document contents. This special issue of IC seeks original articles describing research efforts and experiences concerning Internet-supported dynamic collective work. Appropriate topics include

mining and analysis of data and activities involved in dynamic collective work, including event correlation, process discovery, adaptive learning, and change detection;
social network discovery and the collaboration dynamics of people involved in dynamic collective work;
support for dynamic collective work, including recommendations, predictive analytics, simulation, and visualization;
data management and system integration issues;
and emerging applications, including real-world deployments of Internet-supported dynamic collective work platforms in business, science, collaboration, finance, insurance, healthcare, and other areas.

Questions?

Contact Guest Editors: Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Rania Khalaf, and Schahram
Dustdar (ic5-2013@computer.org)

All submissions must be original manuscripts of fewer than 5,000 words, with each figure counting as 250 words, focused on Internet technologies and implementations. All manuscripts are subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to IC's international readership—primarily system and software design engineers. We do not accept white papers, and we discourage strictly theoretical or mathematical papers. To submit a manuscript, please log on to ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:443/ic-cs) to create or access an account, which you can use to log on to IC's Author Center and upload your submission.

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Deadline Extension: Special Issue on Cross-Community Mining - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC)

Special Issue of ACM/Springer Journal of "Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC)"

on Cross-Community Mining

Introduction

People now live in heterogeneous social communities within cyber-physical spaces - both online communities and social networks where digital content is exchanged, and ad hoc physical communities that exploit opportunistic relationships between pairs of networked devices to exchange content.  These communities have distinct technical features which lead to distinct kinds of interaction - such as patterns of comments and likes in online communities and co-location in ad hoc communities, or issues of friendship, trust and influence in online communities and social popularity and movement patterns in ad hoc communities. Rather than viewing online communities and ad hoc communities as competing, we see them as complementary and suggest that cross-community mining (CCM) can connect these two communities by revealing hidden knowledge about the interplay between different communities and patterns of social interaction within and between them. This theme issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing provides the opportunity for researchers and product developers to review and discuss the state-of-the-art and trends of CCM techniques and applications. Papers on theoretical, practical, methodological issues in Cross-Community Mining are welcome.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):
-Inclusive Design Issues related to CCM
-Forming Online Communities with Knowledge from Ad hoc Community
-Enhancing Communications in Ad hoc Community with Online Community Knowledge
-Knowledge Integration/Transfer among Communities
-Infrastructure Support for CCM (managing heterogeneous/multi-dimensional data, seamlessly switch among distinct communities, etc.)
-Evaluation Metrics for CCM

Submissions

Manuscripts should be prepared and submitted by email to the Corresponding
Guest Editor ¨C Dr. Bin Guo. Please note in your cover letter the theme
issue for which your submission is intended.
Note: Manuscripts must not have been previously published or be submitted
for publication elsewhere. Each submitted manuscript must include title,
names, authors¡¯ affiliations, postal and email addresses, an extended
paper, and a list of keywords. For detailed format information, please refer
to the author introduction at the PUC journal website:
http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779

Guest Editors

Bin Guo (Corresponding Guest Editor)
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
guobin.keio@gmail.com

Daqing Zhang
Institut TELECOM SudParis, France
Daqing.zhang@it-sudparis.eu

Zhiwen Yu
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China zhiwenyu@nwpu.edu.cn

Francisco Camara Pereira
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, SMART/MIT
camara@smart.mit.edu

Important Dates

Deadline for manuscript submission: 30 Sep., 2012 (Extended).
Notification of acceptance: 30 Nov., 2012 Camera-ready final paper due: 30
Dec., 2012 Publication date: 2nd Quarter, 2013(Tentative)

Contact Information

Corresponding Guest Editor, Dr. Guo (guobin.keio@gmail.com)

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Algorithmic and Statistical Approaches for Large Social Networks

Image courtesy by my wife Michaela

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Algorithmic and Statistical Approaches for Large Social Networks

NIPS 2012 Workshop

December 7, 2012 at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, US

http://www.datalab.uci.edu/nips-workshop-2012

About the workshop

Statistical models for social networks struggle with the tension between scalability - the ability to effectively and efficiently model networks with large numbers of nodes - and fidelity to social processes. Recent developments within the field have sought to address these issues in various ways, including algorithmic innovations, use of scalable latent variable models, and clever use of covariate information.

The workshop will consist of a combination of invited speakers and contributed talks and posters, with ample time allowed for open discussion.  

We invite contributions to 

* the development of new statistical and machine learning theories and algorithms for large social networks

* computational aspects of exploratory data analysis and statistical modeling of such data

* specific case studies and applications involving large social network data sets, in particular if they provide insight on computational and statistical issues

Submission instructions are available at

    http://www.datalab.uci.edu/nips-workshop-2012/call.html

Confirmed speakers:

Mark Handcock, Department of Statistics, UCLA

Carter Butts, Department of Sociology, UC Irvine

Ulrik Brandes, Department of Computer Science, Karlsruhe

David Hunter, Department of Statistics, Penn State University

David Eppstein, Department of Computer Science, UC Irvine

Organizers:

Michael Goodrich, University of California, Irvine

Pavel Krivitsky, Pennsylvania State University

David Mount, University of Maryland

Padhraic Smyth, University of California, Irvine

Christopher DuBois, University of California, Irvine

Important Dates:

Contributed papers are due: September 14, 2012

Acceptance decisions: October 5th, 2012

Workshop program announced: October 14, 2012

Final versions due: November 18, 2012

Date of workshop: December 7, 2012

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