The ROLE Requirements Bazaar reached Beta-Status!

Screenshot of the ROLE Requirements Bazaar

Please take a look around, test its functions and help us improve by reporting issues and/or ideas for improvement. You can do so best by clicking on the "Improve" flag in the top left corner. Thanks!

The general idea of the ROLE Requirements Bazaar is described in our EC-TEL paper and presentation about "The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure". There is another publication "Der Bazaar der Anforderungen - Open Innovation in emergent Communities" (in German) describing the Bazaar from an Open Innovation perspective.

The ideas for the Requirements Bazaar have been developed in the RWTH Achen University ACIS group by Dominik Renzel, Anna Hannemann and me in the CONTICI and the ROLE project. A first prototype was realized by Effie Lai-Chong Law and Arunangsu Chatterjee  from the University of Leicester. The current prototype was realized by our master student Malte Behrendt.

The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure from Ralf Klamma

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New Springer Book (in German) - Kreatives Prozessdesign by Thomas Hermann

This is the new Springer book "Kreatives Prozessdesign" by my colleague Thomas Hermann from the Ruhr-Universtität Bochum in Germany.

Like most other human activities process design gets better if some creativity is involved. As the Germans are undoubted the master of process engineering sometimes a little bit of creativity can add to the innovative power of processes. This book is giving a lot of examples and principle ideas how to connect process modeling and creativity techniques.

 

Kreatives Prozessdesign 

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Special Issue on: "Information Assurance and System Security in Cloud Computing" - IJCC

Special Issue on: "Information Assurance and System Security in Cloud Computing 

  Int. J. of Cloud Computing

Guest Editors:
Dr. Yu Chen and Dr. Douglas Summerville, Binghamton University, USA
Dr. Wei-Shinn Ku, Auburn University, USA

Cloud computing has been attracting interest from both industry and academia since 2007, and has been recognised as the new paradigm of the IT industry. Cloud computing provides users with flexible services in a transparent manner. Services are allocated in a “cloud”, which is a collection of devices and resources connected through the Internet. Before this paradigm can be widely accepted, the security, privacy and reliability provided by the services in the cloud must be well established.

This special issue seeks original unpublished papers focusing on various aspects of security issues in cloud computing environments. Aiming at presenting and discussing latest developments, this special issue welcomes papers addressing theoretical analysis, emerging applications, novel system architecture construction and design, experimental studies and social impacts of cloud computing. Both review/survey papers and technical papers are encouraged.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Emerging threats to cloud-based services
• Security models for new services
• Security in cloud-aware web services
• Information hiding/encryption in cloud computing
• Copyright protection in the cloud
• Securing distributed data storage in the cloud
• Privacy and security in cloud computing
• Forensics in cloud environments
• Robust network architecture
• Cloud infrastructure security
• Intrusion detection/prevention
• Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks and defences
• Robust job scheduling
• Secure resource allocation and indexing
• Secure payment for cloud-aware services
• User authentication in cloud-aware services
• Non-repudiation solutions in the cloud
• Security for emerging cloud programming models
• Performance evaluation for security solutions
• Testbed/simulators for cloud security research
• Security hardware, i.e. hardware for encryption, etc.
• Detection and prevention of hardware trojans

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page.

Important Dates

First submission: 30 January, 2013

Review feedback: 30 March, 2013

Revised version submission: 30 May, 2013

Acceptance notification: 30 June, 2013

Final paper submission: 30 July, 2013

Editors and Notes

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to Online Submissions of Papers. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contactsubmissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the names of the Guest Editors

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MADALGO PhD student and Post Doc Positions, Aarhus University, Denmark

Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO), is a basic research center
funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. The center is located in
the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark, but also
includes researchers at CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the
Max Planck Institute for Informatics and at Frankfurt University. The center
covers all areas of the design, analysis and implementation of algorithms
and data structures for processing massive data (interpreted broadly to
cover computations where data is large compared to the computational
resources), with focus on I/O-efficient, cache-oblivious and streaming
algorithms. The center also emphasizes work on the boundary between the
algorithms and database areas, in particular work in relation to efficient
indexing and query and update processing. See www.madalgo.au.dk for more
information.

Starting February 1 or later, several positions are available at MADALGO
under the supervision of Professor Lars Arge (www.madalgo.au.dk/~large),
Professor Christian S. Jensen (www.cs.au.dk/~csj) and Associate Professor
Gerth S. Brodal (www.madalgo.au.dk/~gerth):

Several PhD student positions are available. The positions are administered
through the Aarhus Graduate School of Science and Technology
(http://phd.au.dk/graduate-schools/scienceandtechnology/) and include full
tuition waiver and a very competitive scholarship. Applications are welcomed
from students with at least three years of full-time study by February 2013.
Students with a strong background in the design and analysis of algorithms
will be preferred. Students with background in databases and Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) are also very welcome to apply.

One or more MADALGO postdoc positions at the level of Research Assistant
Professor of Computer Science may be available. Postdoc positions are
initially for one year, but can be extended with an additional year by
mutual consent. MADALGO welcomes postdoctoral researchers with clearly
demonstrated experience and skills in the design and analysis of algorithms
and data structures. Researchers with experience with I/O-efficient,
cache-oblivious or streaming algorithms, as well as with implementation of
such algorithms (algorithm engineering experience), or with experience in
design and implementation of database indexing structures, are preferred.
The responsibilities of MADALGO postdocs include work on algorithms for
massive dataset problems in collaboration with center researchers, along
with modest teaching responsibilities.

The application deadline for both PhD student and postdoc positions is
November 1, 2012.
Applicants for PhD student positions should apply using the Aarhus Graduate
School of Science and Technology application system also accessible from
www.madalgo.au.dk.
Applicants for postdoc positions should apply by uploading a letter of
interest and a CV, as well as indicate at least two names of references for
recommendations, using the application form available at www.madalgo.au.dk.

For further information, contact Center Director, Professor Lars Arge at
large@madalgo.au.dk.

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Open PostDoc and PhD Position on Web Data Integration at the University of Mannheim, Germany

The Focus Area Web-based Systems (Prof. Christian Bizer) within the Research
Group Data and Web Science at the University of Mannheim is seeking to fill
two full-time positions:
1. PostDoc Researcher – EU Project LOD2
2.Graduate Research Associate / PhD Student – EU Project LOD2


PostDoc Researcher – EU Project LOD2

The researcher is expected to carry out research on Web Data Integration
(Schema Matching, Identity Resolution, Data Quality Assessment and Fusion)
as well as Large-Scale Data Extraction in the context of the EU research
project LOD2. The results of the research work should contribute to the
further development of the LDIF – Linked Data Integration Framework,
WebDataCommons and DBpedia and be integrated into the LOD2 Technology Stack.
The future holder of this position should have a proven academic record in
one or several of the following areas:
• Data Integration
• Data Mining
• Linked Data and Semantic Web Technologies We expect candidates to have a
PhD degree in computer science or a related discipline, have good
programming skills (Java or Scala) and be fluent in English. Experience with
large-scale data processing techniques such as Hadoop is a plus. The
position should ideally be filled in November 2012 and is available until
the end of the LOD2 project in August 2014.


Graduate Research Associate / PhD Student – EU Project LOD2

The graduate research associate is expected to carry out research on Web
Data Integration (Schema Matching, Identity Resolution, Data Quality
Assessment and Fusion) as well as Large-Scale Data Extraction in the context
of the EU research project LOD2. The results of the research work should
contribute to the further development of the LDIF – Linked Data Integration
Framework, WebDataCommons and DBpedia and be integrated into the LOD2
Technology Stack. The graduate research associate is expected to work
towards a PhD degree on a topic connected with the project.
Experience in scientific work as well as knowledge in one or several of the
following areas are of advantage:

• Data Integration
• Data Mining
• Linked Data and Semantic Web Technologies
• Large-scale Data Processing Techniques such as Hadoop
We expect candidates to have a university degree in computer science or a
related discipline, have good programming skills (Java or Scala) and be
fluent in English. The position should ideally be filled in November 2012
and is available until the end of the LOD2 project in August 2014.


How to apply?

The University of Mannheim is an equal-opportunities employer. Preference
will be given to applicants with disabilities provided they have the same
qualifications. The University of Mannheim strives to increase the
proportion of women in research and teaching and we therefore encourage
qualified women to apply.
Please send your application together with the usual documents (curriculum
vitae, information about research and software development experience, list
of publications, copies of certificates) no later than 15th October 2012 as
PDF by email using a subject line starting with [LOD2 Application] to

Prof. Dr. Christian Bizer
Research Group Data and Web Science
Universität Mannheim
chris@informatik.uni-mannheim.de

Further information about the Research Group Data and Web Science is found
at
http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/

Further information about the LOD2 Project is found at
http://lod2.eu/

This job posting is also found at
http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/detail/news/2012/09/26/open-po
stdoc-and-phd-position-on-web-data-integration-in-the-eu-project-lod2/

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Special Issue on "Information Management in Mobile Applications" - Pervasive and Mobile Computing

CALL FOR PAPERS

Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal

Special Issue on Information Management in Mobile Applications

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/call-for-papers/information-management-in-mobile-applications/

Scope

Mobile devices pose tremendous challenges to the design and implementation of
information systems suited for mobile environments. While users expect similar
functionality on their smartphone as provided on their laptop or desktop
computer, the hardware and communication platforms are still limited.
Especially, data-intensive mobile applications require new ways of data
management, processing, and analysis. Crucial issues include energy-efficiency,
limited CPU power and storage, real-time processing, small displays, and
communication costs.

The rapid development in mobile hardware and software has enabled new
applications which pose new challenges for mobile data management. Improvements
in the area of mobile communication and increased bandwidth provide new
possibilities for exchanging and sharing data. Mobile data can have various
forms, such as sensor data, user profiles & user context, spatial data, and
multimedia data. Smartphones, mobile and wearable sensors, and other portable
systems are used in various applications to collect, process, and exchange an
increasing amount of data. Applications can run on several devices (mobile, PCs,
multimedia), but the exchange, the integration, and the querying of data between
these devices remains a challenging problem.

The special issue aims at publishing recent, outstanding research results about
technologies and mechanisms, which support the management of mobile, complex,
integrated, distributed, and heterogeneous data-focused applications. We invite
research papers as well as papers which address challenges in developing
industrial-strength mobile applications.

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

  - Data management and integration in mobile peer-to-peer networks
  - Data stream management in mobile applications/environments
  - Data stream mining for mobile applications
  - Mobile Cloud Computing
  - Data integration in mobile settings
  - Context-aware mobile computing
  - Applications using mobile data management techniques
  - Query processing and optimization for mobile systems
  - Real-time data processing in mobile applications
  - Security and privacy for mobile data management
  - Pervasive data management
  - Transaction processing in mobile applications
  - Expert systems for mobile information systems
  - Sensing and acquisition of data in mobile environments
  - Data sharing and interoperability in mobile applications
  - Managing data intensive mobile applications
  - Management and processing of geospatial data
  - Mobile health data management and analysis
  - Pervasive health systems and services
  - Location-based services
  - Mobile data management systems and middleware
  - Knowledge representation and reasoning in mobile applications


Important Dates

Submission deadline: November 30th, 2012
Expected Publication of Special Issue: 2013


Submission Guidelines

All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as
published in the Journal website at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/pmc/. Authors
should select "SI: Info Mgmt", from the "Choose Article Type" pull-down menu
during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously
published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission
based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major
value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 33% new
material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their
relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the
enhancements made in the journal version.


Guest Editors of the Special Issue:

  - Thierry Delot, University of Valenciennes & Inria Lille, France - Thierry.Delot@univ-valenciennes.fr

  - Sandra Geisler, Information Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - geisler@dbis.rwth-aachen.de

  - Daniela Nicklas, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany - dnicklas@acm.org

  - Christoph Quix, Information Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - quix@dbis.rwth-aachen.de

  - Bo Xu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - boxu@cs.uic.edu

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4th Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet 2013)

4th Workshop on Complex Networks

Berlin, Germany

March 13-15, 2013

http://www.complenet.org

Important Dates
Abstract/Paper Submission

November 1, 2012
Author Notification
December 20, 2012
Submission of Camera-Ready
January 8, 2013
Early Registration Date
January 8, 2013

Keynote and Invited Speakers
-----------------------
We are in the process of inviting the speakers. Please check the
website of previous editions to see the speakers we had in previous
editions of the workshop: Names include among others Laszlo Barabasi,
Sinan Aral, Jose Mendes, Cesar Hidalgo, Madan Babu, Jure Leskovec, and
Gene Stanley. We expect to have 2 keynote speakers and 6 invited
speakers this year.

Description The 4th international workshop on complex networks
(CompleNet 2013) aims at bringing together researchers and
practitioners working on areas related to complex networks. In the
past two decades we have been witnessing an exponential increase on
the number of publications in this field. From biological systems to
computer science, from economic to social systems, complex networks
are becoming pervasive in many fields of science. It is this
interdisciplinary nature of complex networks that this workshop aims
at addressing.

Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished
papers/abstracts on their research in complex networks. Both
theoretical and applied papers are of interest. Specific topics of
interest are (but not limited to):

Applications of Network Science
Behavioral & Social Influence
Community Structure in Networks
Complex Networks in Technology
Complex Networks and Epidemics
Complex Networks and Mobility
Complex Networks in Biological Systems
Emergence in Complex Networks
Geometry in Complex Networks
Information Spreading in Social Media,
Link Analysis and Ranking
Modeling Human Behavior in Complex Networks
Models of Complex Networks
Network Evolution
Networks as Frameworks
Rumor Spreading
Search in Complex Networks
Shocks and Bursts
Social Networks
Structural Network Properties and Analysis
Synchronization in Networks

Publication Original papers/abstracts in the above-mentioned and other
related areas will be considered. Each submitted paper/abstract will
be fully refereed and undergo a double-blind review process by at
least two referees. Accepted papers (not abstracts) of registered
authors will be published in the workshop proceedings to be published
by Springer-Verlag on the Studies in Computational Intelligence
Series.

Accepted abstracts of registered authors will be presented at the
conference but their abstract itself will not be included in the
Springer-Verlag book.

Instructions for Submissions
-----------------------
Submit your paper/abstract electronically
in PDF format. Neither hardcopy nor fax submissions will be
accepted. Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on
common paper formats such as A4 or letter.

Submitted papers/abstracts should follow the Springer format (please
visit website for more details).

Abstracts length should not exceed 2 pages. Papers should not exceed
12 pages in this format. Some works may be accepted as short papers
and shall be limited to 8 pages maximum.

All papers should be submitted electronically through the conference
web site
http://www.complenet.org. The website includes detailed
information about the submission process.

General Chair
Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany

Program Chairs
Gourab Ghoshal, Harvard University, USA
Julia Poncela-Casasnovas, Northwestern University, USA

Program Committee under Formation
See http://www.complenet.org

Steering Committee
Luciano da F. Costa, Brazil
Giuseppe Mangioni, Italy
Ronaldo Menezes, USA

Main Contact for CompleNet
info@complenet.org

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Special Issue on Automated Techniques for Migration to the Cloud - Automated Software Engineering

Automated Software Engineering (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10515)

Special Issue on Automated Techniques for Migration to the Cloud
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/ASE/


Theme and Scope

The ever-growing cloud computing platforms provide hybrid architectures and dynamic intelligence for tomorrow. That is, the hybrid cloud has emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm that includes private cloud, public cloud and community cloud to provide IT services anytime and anywhere. It has recently also raised relevant interest in both the academic and the industrial research communities as one of the most promising application fields for intelligent cloud computing and services. The interest in hybrid cloud environments are also shown by the relevant industrial and standardization efforts accomplished in the last years in this wide area. Both the academy and the industry widely recognize the crucial role of software automation to facilitate the development of efficient and intelligent cloud services, by reducing implementation/deployment costs and time to market.
This special issue aims to foster the dissemination of high quality research in methods, theories, techniques and tools relating automation in moving legacy applications to the clouds. In particular, this special issue will showcase the most recent research in the automated engineering of cloud software. Original research articles are solicited in all aspects of automated software engineering for the cloud including theoretical studies, practical applications, cloud programming languages and experimental prototypes. The papers will be peer reviewed and selected on the basis of both their quality and their relevance to the theme of this special issue.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Automated support for hybrid cloud modeling
- Translating legacy applications to the clouds
- Automated testing of cloud computing software
- Generating cloud computing software
- Automated reasoning about cloud composition
- Program synthesis for cloud
- Translation of relational database to non-relational cloud-base (HBase)
- Virtual machine image transformation in hybrid clouds
- Runtime support for hybrid clouds
- Techniques for migrating applications from private cloud to public cloud, or vice-versa


Instructions for Manuscripts

This special issue aims to foster state-of-the-art research in the area of software automation in deploying and developing hybrid clouds. Manuscripts should be written in English and strictly follow the guideline of the International Journal of Automated Software Engineering. Prospective authors should submit full manuscripts through the Online Manuscript Submission System at http://www.editorialmanager.com/ause/.

Important Dates

Manuscript Due: Oct. 31, 2012
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection/Revision: Dec. 31, 2012
Revised manuscript due: Feb. 28, 2013
Final Manuscript Due: April 30, 2013

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Special Issue on Cloud Intelligence - Information Systems

CALL FOR PAPERS: Information Systems Special Issue on Cloud Intelligence

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/

http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/cloud-i/?page_id=243

With the increasing success of cloud computing, cloud business intelligence
"as a service" offerings have arisen, both from cloud start-ups and major BI
industry vendors. Beyond porting BI features into the cloud, which already
implies numerous issues (e.g., BigData/NoSQL database modeling and storage,
data localization, data marketplaces, security and privacy, performance,
cost and usage models...), this trend also poses new, broader challenges for
making data analytics available to small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs),
non-governmental organizations, web communities (e.g., supported by social
networks), and even the average citizen. This vision requires new
integration and deployment models. For example, some deployments would
benefit from an integrated database of private and open data.

Following the Cloud-I workshop at VLDB 2012
(http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/cloud-i/), the aim of this special issue of
Information Systems is to attract the best papers related to the emerging
field of Cloud Intelligence, with respect to the non-exhaustive list of
topics below.

* Topics of interest

- Accessibility of Cloud Intelligence
- Analytics for complex data
- Analytics for social networks
- Analytics for temporal, spatial, spatio-temporal and mobile data
- Benchmarking Cloud Intelligence applications
- Cloud data warehouse design and architectures
- Cloud infrastructure for analytics applications
- Cloud Intelligence on linked data
- Collaborative Cloud Intelligence
- Cooperative Cloud Intelligence
- Crowd intelligence
- Data analytics as a service
- Data mining over the cloud
- Economic/payment models for cloud intelligence
- Extracting, Transforming and Loading data over the cloud
- Human-Computer interaction for Cloud Intelligence
- Massive data analytics: algorithms, techniques and systems
- OLAP over the cloud
- Open and private data cross-integration
- Personal intelligence
- Privacy and security in Cloud Intelligence
- Real-time/right-time and event-based analytics, performance issues
- Reliability and fault tolerance in Cloud Intelligence
- Scalability and parallelization for Cloud Intelligence: MapReduce and
beyond
- Semantic Web intelligence
- Sharing and reusing Cloud Intelligence results
- Situational BI

* Submission guidelines

Submission deadline is December 15, 2012. Submission guidelines and
procedure is available on the Information Systems website at
http://ees.elsevier.com/is/. Extended versions of previous conference papers
are welcome if they meet Information Systems' standard requirements on the
amount of new material (30% new material).

* Guest Editors

- Jérôme Darmont, Université de Lyon, France
- Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark

Email: cloud-i@eric.univ-lyon2.fr

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Springer LNCS Proceedings of 7th European Conference of Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2012) online

21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills - 7th European Conference of Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2012, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 18-21, 2012. Proceedings LNCS Volume 7563, 2012, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33263-0
Editors: Andrew Ravenscroft, Stefanie Lindstaedt, Carlos Delgado Kloos, Davinia Hernández-Leo


Table of Contents

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Assistant Professor on Recommender Systems at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Assistant Professor Position on Recommender Systems

The Database and Information Systems group of the Faculty of Computer
Science at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) is looking for an
outstanding researcher to fill a position of Assistant Professor with
research interests in the area of Recommender Systems. The position is
starting from March 2013.

The faculty is active in a number of research projects in recommendation and
personalization technologies and in particular on: context-aware recommender
systems, group recommender systems, cross-domain recommendations, combining
implicit and explicit feedback, sequential decision making for recommender
systems, and applications in tourism, music, and eHealth.

We are looking for exceptional candidates with the following
characteristics:

- PhD in computer science or a related technical field;
- Teaching experience;
- Established track record of creating and publishing results of high
research quality;
- Strong technical skills and experience of programming;
- Substantial mathematical background;
- Experience of working on international projects;
- Excellent presentation skills.

The start date for this position will be March 2013, or as soon as possible
after that. The position is for 3 years renewable for 2 additional years.
The appointee is expected to conduct independent research in one of above
mentioned research projects, submit grant proposals, supervising
undergraduate and graduate students, and engage in some teaching duties (at
least 60 hours of frontal lectures per year). Some knowledge of Italian or
German languages is desirable but not necessary at the beginning.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience, starting
from a minimum of 42.000 Euro per year. Interested candidates please send
informal inquiries, your CV (including publication list), and a sample of
three representative publications to: Francesco Ricci (fricci@unibz.it).

For more information,
Faculty of Computer Science at FUB: http://www.inf.unibz.it/ Recommender
Systems: http://www.inf.unibz.it/~ricci/

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Assistant Professor position in Web Science at VU University Amsterdam

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (UD) position in WEB SCIENCE

(Tenure Track) f/m
For 1.0 fte

Vacancy number: 1.2012.00219

The Faculty of Sciences performs  research in the  areas  Life & Health,
Networked World, Fundamentals of Science, and Energy & Sustainability.
More than 1700 students participates in mono- and interdisciplinary
bachelor and master courses. The staff is hosted in the departments of
Physics, Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mathematics, and Computer
Sciences.

The Computer Science Department of the VU University Amsterdam is
inviting applications for a tenure track position in Web Science.

Web Science is a rapidly emerging new scientific discipline that takes
the Web as its object of study.  The VUA's Computer Science Department
hosts some of the pioneering research teams in this exciting new field.
As a member of the VUA's Network Institute, the Computer Science
Department is actively involved in Web Science research in collaboration
with scholars from social science, law, economics and humanities.


TASKS

The candidate will be expected to:
* undertake research in line with the Departmental research strategy, to
teach at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and to participate in
Departmental administration;
* develop the research activities of the Department by sustaining a
personal research plan;
* attract, manage and sustain a small research group of PhD students and
Research Assistants;
* establish an international reputation for research through the regular
dissemination of findings through leading peer-reviewed publications,
presenting results at conferences, or exhibiting work at other
appropriate events;
* contribute and develop innovative research proposals, projects and
funding bids as self contained items or as part of a broader programme;
* carry out management and administrative tasks associated with research
activities, including risk assessment of project activities,
organization of project meetings and documentation and preparation of
annual reports. Execute procedures required to ensure accurate and
timely formal reporting and financial control;
* support the teaching objectives of the Department by a range of
contributions to its teaching activities. Deliver teaching of the
highest quality across a range of modules and to all levels, through
lectures, tutorials, practicals and seminars. Monitor, evaluate and
revise course design to ensure excellence and coherence;
* contribute to the efficient management and administration of the
Department by performing personal administrative duties as allocated by
the Head and by taking on appropriate coordinating roles.


REQUIREMENTS

We expect the candidate to work with researchers from other disciplines
across the University and from around the world. Successful candidates
will have a background in Computer Science, will have a track record in
a core Web Science research area, are able to demonstrate the ability to
undertake interdisciplinary research and to contribute to the
development of the new Web Science education programmes at both Bachelor
and Master level that we will be launching over the coming years.

The candidate should have a significant track record in a relevant field
of Computer Science. You will demonstrate a substantial external
reputation in your field, evidence of independent research and evidence
of academic potential through quality research publications.

The candidate must have good ability to write and read English and must
be prepared to take courses for qualification as university teacher.


FURTHER PARTICULARS

The initial appointment will be for a period of 1 year. The assistant
professor position is a tenure track position. Based on performance
indicators agreed at the start of the appointment, a tenure track
position will lead to tenured position in a period of maximally 5 years.
The VU University Amsterdam aims to be an equal opportunities employer.

You can find information about our excellent fringe benefits of
employment at www.workingatvu.nl like:
* remuneration of  8,3% end-of-year bonus and  8% holiday allowance;
* generous contribution (70%) commuting allowance based on public transport;
* discounts on collective insurances (healthcare- and car insurance);
* participation in Individual Choices model.


SALARY

The salary will be in accordance with university regulations for
academic personnel, and depending on experience, range from a minimum of
Euro 3,195 gross per month up to a maximum of Euro 4,374 gross per month
(salary scale 11) or from a minimum of Euro 3,872 gross per month up to
a maximum of Euro 4,970 gross per month (salary scale 12) based on a
full-time employment.


INFORMATION

For additional information please contact: Prof. dr. A.Th. Schreiber;
phone: +31 (0)20 59 87718; e-mail: guus.schreiber@vu.nl


APPLICATION

Applicants are requested to write a letter in which they describe their
abilities and motivation, accompanied by a curriculum vitae and one or
two references. Written applications should be sent before 22 October
2012 to:

   VU University Amsterdam
   Faculty of Sciences
   Attn.: Mrs. Elly Lammers
   De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

It is also possible to apply by e-mail to:  Vacature.few@vu.nl

Please mention the vacancy number in the e-mail header or at the top of
your letter and on the envelope.

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Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology

Assistant Professor Information Systems

The Databases and Hypermedia group of the TU/e has a vacancy for an Assistant Professor in Information Systems, with a strong research background and interest in some of the following topics: Web Science, Human-Technology Interaction, Databases, Hypermedia, Web Data Management, Web Technology, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems, Web Analytics, Web Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Adaptive Systems (listed in no particular order).

The group "Databases and Hypermedia" (DH) is world-leading in the area of adaptive information systems and services and currently performs leading research on supporting technologies such as web data management, semantic web, data mining, recommender systems, information discovery and web analytics. The group has produced the most referenced reference models for adaptive hypermedia and developed the most popular general- purpose adaptive systems. The group works in application fields for adaptive technology, including e-learning, e-culture, e-entertainment and e-business. There is close collaboration with the non-profit and for-profit industry, locally, nationally and in European collaborative projects.

In 2011 the TU/e started a new bachelor program in Web Science in which the DH group plays a leading role, currently teaching courses in Human-Technology Interaction, Databases, Hypermedia, Web Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Web Analytics. The group also contributes to different master programs with topics like Advanced Databases, Web Information Systems, Information Retrieval and Adaptive Systems.
The TU/e is member of the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C), giving its staff the opportunity to influence the future of Web technology and Web standards.

Tasks
As assistant professor in Information Systems, and Databases and Hypermedia in particular, you will fulfil the following activities:

Teaching (50%) of courses in the Information Systems and Web Science area (see topics mentioned above) and developing new courses in this area.
The teaching duties also include the supervision of internships and master projects in the entire field of information systems, either internal to the university or executed at companies and institutes outside the TU/e.

Perform research (50%) in some of the topics listed above (in the first paragraph), thereby broadening and/or deepening the scope of research topics studied in the DH group. The research duties also include the supervision of PhD students and writing and submitting research proposals.

(Limited) administrative tasks in the Computer Science Department.

Note that in order to professionalize the teaching skills of its staff the TU/e requires all lecturers to take a teaching-training program (leading up to the BKO, a basic certificate in teaching). This training is offered by the TU/e and the hours are subtracted from the initial teaching load.

Requirements

We are looking for a candidate who meets the following requirements:

* A PhD degree in computer science, information systems, web science
or a closely related field.
* A good publication track record in fields related to the (above mentioned)
interest areas of the DH research group.
* Interest in the research, development and application of web-based technology
for (social) communication, information services, information discovery
and related topics.
* Teaching experience (e.g. lectures, practical exercises, supervision of
trainees and graduates);
* Good communication and didactial skills.
* Ability to function in Dutch and English. Teaching at the TU/e is done in English,
but candidates are expected to know or be willing to learn Dutch in order to
function in the social and administrative processes which use the Dutch language,
and in order to function in and become part of the society in the Netherlands.

You are expected to have or obtain the 'Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs' (University Teaching Qualification) within three years from the appointment date.

Appointment and Salary

We offer:
* A challenging job in a dynamic and ambitious university and a stimulating
research environment;
* A position as assistant professor (universitair docent) in the Database and
Hypermedia Group of the Computer Science Subdepartment;
* A full-time tenure track appointment for 4 years in accordance with the
Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities, with an evaluation after 3 years.
In this period the candidate has the opportunity to show the potential to
(later) function at the associate professor level; positive evaluation then
leads to a permanent position;
* Support with your professional and personal development;
* A gross salary between € 3.195 and € 4.374 per month depending on experience and knowledge;
* An extensive package of fringe benefits (e.g. excellent technical infrastructure,
the possibility of child care and excellent sports facilities).

Information

More information can be obtained from:
* about the position: prof. dr. Paul M.E. De Bra,
phone: +31(0)40 247 2602, e-mail: debra@win.tue.nl
* about the employment conditions: mrs. Nel Evers BSc, HR advisor,
phone +31(0)40 247 2321, e-mail: pzwin@tue.nl

Application

The application should consist of the following parts:
* a cover letter explaining your motivation and qualifications for the position;
* a detailed Curriculum Vitae (including a list of publications);
* contact information of two references.

Application is done through the Web at the following URL:
http://jobs.tue.nl/en/job/assistant-professor-information-systems-156802.html

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Special Issue on Service and Cloud Based Data Integration - JGC

Special Issue on Service and Cloud Based Data Integration at Springer Journal of Grid Computing

   Website: http://users.sdsc.edu/~jianwu/JGC-SCDI-2013/

Introduction

Integration and synthesis of heterogeneous, autonomous and distributed data sources have been an essential and hard issue in enterprise computing, scientific computing and social computing. It is not always feasible to achieve effective data integration around definite schemas when there are mismatches in cross-domain integration and when such issues as compatibility, scalability, timeliness, and user manipulation are concerned. Many traditional data integration approaches/frameworks begin to show their limitations, especially when dealing with situations like data deluge and data source evolution. Service Oriented Architecture, Cloud computing and Web 2.0 techniques have brought light to dealing with these hard issues. Recent years have seen some important progresses and potentials. Some "Data as a Service" applications target fast, on-demand data integration and latest data provisioning. Meanwhile, SOA is being employed by many large projects to deal with data collection, integration and discovery challenges across data repositories.


The Special Issue on Service and Cloud Based Data Integration will provide the scientific and industrial community a dedicated forum, within the prestigious Springer Journal of Grid Computing, for presenting novel models, methodologies, and solution patterns that address the data integration issue and fit in the service and cloud based settings. This special issue will focus on the use of service and/or cloud based technologies to meet the new data integration challenges that are not well served by the current approaches. We believe this venue will be an excellent place to help researchers, practitioners and vendors in this community show latest progresses, determine future goals, and present techniques for future development of data integration.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
   Service Abstraction and Virtualization for Distributed Data Integration
   Modeling and Composition of Data Services
   Scalability, Reliability and other Quality Assurance of Data Integration
   Correctness Verification and Freshness of Distributed Data Integration Results
   Performance Analysis and Optimization of Distributed Data Integration Process
   Agile and Ad-hoc Integration of Heterogeneous Data Sources
   Automatic Tracing and Response of Changes and Updates
   Real-time Integration and Processing of Large-scale Sensor Data
   Enterprise Mashup
   User-friendly Mashup of Distributed Data Sources
   Data Flow Modeling and Management in Cloud
   Cloud-based Architectures for Distributed Data Integration
   Applications of SOA and Cloud Infrastructure in Data Integration

Important Dates
   Papers Due: October 15, 2012
   First Round Decisions: January 15, 2013
   Major Revisions if needed: March 1, 2013
   Second Round Decisions: April 15, 2013
   Minor Revisions if needed: June 1, 2013
   Final Decision: July 1, 2013
   Publication Date: September 2013

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished technical papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the special issue topics of interest. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the review process. Submitted papers may not exceed 20 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (1" margins), including figures, tables, and references. Note that accepted papers will likely be between 15 to 20 pages, depending on a variety of factors. For more information for preparing the submitted papers, please see http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10723, under "Instructions for Authors". The papers (PDF format) must be submitted online at http://grid.edmgr.com/ before the deadline. Please specify the article type to be "special issue: data integration" when submitting the paper on the website. For any questions on the submission process, please email the guest editors at jgc.scdi.2013@gmail.com.

Special Issue Guest Editors
   Yanbo Han (hanyanbo@ncut.edu.cn), Research Center for Cloud Computing, North China University of Technology, China
   Jianwu Wang (jianwu@sdsc.edu), San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.

Editors-in-Chief
   Peter Kacsuk, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
   Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory

More Information
   The Call For Paper (CFP) information can also be found from the Springer Journal of Grid Computing web site at its left side. It's under
'Author Academy: Training for Authors' item, so you may need click the downward arrow first. The direct link for the CFP at Springer Website
is http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP-%20Special+Issue+of+Journal+of+Grid+Computing.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1335517-%20p35498653.
   The CFP page at the web site of Research Center for Cloud Computing, North China University of Technology: The CFP page at Research Center
for Cloud Computing (http://decloud.ncut.edu.cn/news/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-service-and-cloud-based-data-integration-springer-journal-of-grid-computing).

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International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2013)

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CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS

ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data

New York City, New York, USA

June 23-28, 2013

http://www.sigmod.org/2013/

Submission deadline: November 13, 2012

The annual ACM SIGMOD conference is a leading international forum for
database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore
cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and
experiences. We invite the submission of original research contributions
relating to all aspects of data management defined broadly, and particularly
encourage submissions on topics of emerging interest in the research and
development communities.

===Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

+ Storage, Indexing and Physical Database Design
+ Query Processing and Optimization
+ Text Databases, XML, Keyword Search
+ Cloud Computing, Map Reduce, Parallel, Distributed, P2P Systems
+ Security, Privacy, Authenticated Query Processing Aggregation, Data
+ Warehouses, OLAP, Analytics Streams, Sensor Networks, Complex Event
+ Processing Knowledge Discovery, Clustering, Data Mining
+ Spatial, Temporal, Multimedia and Scientific Databases
+ Graph Management, Social Networks
+ Systems, Performance, Transaction Processing
+ Database Models, Uncertainty, Schema Matching, Data Integration

===Submission Guidelines

All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled
electronically. Submissions must adhere to the paper formatting
instructions. Research papers will be judged for quality and relevance
through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are
withheld from the reviewers. Thus, author names and affiliations must not
appear in the papers, and bibliographic references must be adjusted to
preserve author anonymity. Submissions should be uploaded at
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SIGMOD2013/.

For SIGMOD 2013, there will be a revise and re-submit option to replace the
feedback and shepherding mechanisms of previous conferences. The submissions
to be revised will be accompanied with concrete suggestions for
improvement, and will go through a second round of reviews.

===Important Dates

November 13, 2012, 5 p.m. PDT: Research papers due February 5, 2013:
Notification of acceptance, rejection, revision March 5, 2013: Revised
papers due April 9, 2013: Notification of acceptance, rejection for revised
papers April 16, 2013: Camera-ready deadline

===SIGMOD 2013 Conference Organization

General Chairs
Kenneth Ross (Columbia University)
Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Research)

Program Chair:
Dimitris Papadias (HKUST)

Program Committee Group Leaders:
Walid Aref (Purdue)
Amr El Abbadi (UCSB)
Christos Faloutsos (CMU)
Phillip B. Gibbons (Intel Research)
Jayant Haritsa (Indian Institute of Science) Ihab Ilyas (Qatar Computing
Research Institute) Sam Madden (MIT) Tamer Oszu (University of Waterloo)
Thomas Seidl (Aachen University) Vasilis Vassalos (AUEB) K.Y Whang (KAIST)
Marianne Winslett (UIUC and ADSC) Jun Yang (Duke)

Program Committee Members:
See http://www.sigmod.org/2013/org_sigmod_pc.shtml.

Proceedings Chair:
Stavros Papadopoulos (HKUST)

Tutorial Chair:
Y. Tao (CUHK Hong Kong)

Keynote and Panel Chair:
Mike Stonebraker (MIT)

Industrial Program Chair:
Nick Koudas (University of Toronto)

Demonstration Chair:
Cyrus Shahabi (USC)

Workshop Chair
Christian S. Jensen (Aarhus University)

Undergraduate Research Program Chairs:
Xiaokui Xiao (NTU Singapore)
Alexandra Meliou (UMASS Amherst)

Finance Chair:
Graham Cormode (AT&T Research)

Finance Vice Chair:
Flip Korn (AT&T Research)

Publicity/Social Media Chair:
Amelie Marian (Rutgers University)

Sponsorship Chairs:
Divyakant Agrawal (University of California at Santa Barbara) Dennis Shasha
(New York University)

Exhibit Chair:
Mustafa Canim (IBM)

Local Arrangements Chair:
Cong Yu (Google)
Wendy Hui Wang (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Registration Chair:
Jerome Simeon (IBM)

Demonstration and Workshop Local Arrangements Chairs:
Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee (IBM)
Tasos Kementsietsidis (IBM)

Web/Information Chair:
Hila Becker (Google)

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The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure - ROLE Presentation at EC-TEL 2012

In the frame of the ROLE project I gave this presentation on "The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure" at the EC-TEL 2012 in Saarbrücken Germany, on September 21, 2012.


  Abstract. In this paper, we first reflect on the limitations of applying traditional requirements engineering (RE) approaches to the development of a large-scale PLE infrastructure, which is precisely the aim of a technology-enhanced learn-ing project called ROLE. The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) ap-proach has been proposed as an appropriate alternative. Early SRE prototypes based on an agent- and goal-oriented conceptual model conceived across a five-staged requirement lifecycle (elicitation, negotiation, selection, development and feedback) were implemented. We report results of preliminary evaluation and lessons learnt. Several relevant issues have been identified, including the lack of a consensual understanding of key concepts, lurking within Community of Practices (CoP), and cultural differences. Possible solutions are proposed to address the issues such as templates, mandatory voting, and prioritization model

The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure from Ralf Klamma

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The European TEL Projects Community from a Social Network Analysis Perspective - Presentation at EC-TEL 2012

This is our first presentation for the the EC-TEL 2012 in Saarbrücken, Germany. Michael Derntl gave the presentation on Thursday, September 20 in the organizational learning session.

 

The European TEL Projects Community from a Social Network Analysis Perspective from Michael Derntl

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Edited Volume on Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (Springer)

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning: Research Trends & Applications
an Edited Volume to be published by Springer in 2013
http://adenu.ia.uned.es/publications/recsystel/springer/


Important Dates:
--------------------
Manuscript submission: 1 November 2012
Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2012
Final manuscript due: 20 December 2012
Tentative publication date: ~Spring 2013


Introduction
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Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) aims to design, develop and test
socio-technical innovations that will support and enhance
learning practices of both individuals and organisations.
It is an application domain that generally addresses all types of
technology research & development aiming to support of teaching and
learning activities, and considers meta-cognitive and reflective skills
such as self-management, self-motivation, and effective informal and
self-regulated learning. Information retrieval is a pivotal activity
in TEL, and the deployment of recommender systems has attracted
increased interest during the past years as it addresses the
information overload problem in TEL scenarios with a low cost approach.

Recommendation methods, techniques and systems open an interesting
new approach to facilitate and support learning and teaching.
There are plenty of resources available on the Web, both in terms of
digital learning content and people resources (e.g. other learners,
experts, tutors) that can be used to facilitate teaching and
learning tasks. The challenge is to develop, deploy and evaluate
systems that provide learners and teachers with meaningful guidance
in order to help identify suitable learning resources from a
potentially overwhelming variety of choices.


Aim & Scope
-------------
Recommender Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning: Research Trends & Applications
aims to collect contributions that will range from research papers
to system presentations and that will address the following topics on the application
of recommender systems in the domain of education:

i) user needs, tasks and activities to be supported
ii) requirements for the design and deployment of recommender systems
iii) novel recommendation algorithms and systems
iv) evaluation criteria, methods and studies


Topics of Interest
----------------------
(list indicative and not exclusive)
* User tasks to be supported by recommender systems in TEL
* Explanation and visualizations of recommendations
* Open user models for TEL recommender systems
* Recommendation approaches based on social  (meta) data
* Requirements for the deployment of TEL recommender systems
* Data sets for TEL recommender systems
* Recommendation algorithms and systems for TEL
* Transfer of successful algorithms and systems from other application areas
* Evaluation criteria and methods for TEL recommender systems
* Experiences from actual implementation in teaching, learning and/or community building


Submission Procedure
----------------------------

All submitted manuscripts will be peer reviewed. Contributions should be original
and not simultaneously submitted to other venues. Manuscripts that have been included
in previous workshop/conference proceedings should include at least 30% of new material
in order to be considered for publication.

Detailed manuscript instructions are available from Springer Book Author Guidelines:
http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors/helpdesk?SGWID=0-1723113-12-971304-0

Submissions will be handled through EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsystelspringer2013

The volume is scheduled to be published during 2013 by Springer.


Editors:
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Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know Technologies & ARIADNE Foundation (Greece)
Katrien Verbert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Hendrik Drachsler, Open Universiteit Nederlands (The Netherlands)
Olga C. Santos, aDeNu - Spanish National University for Distance Education (Spain)


Enquiries
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For any questions, please contact the editors at recsystelspringer2013@easychair.org

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IEEE CollaborateCom 2012 - Full Program available

This is the program of the CollaborateCom 2012 Conference in Pittsburgh, USA. We will present two papers on the conference.

Monday, October 15, 2012
8:00 AM Onwards	Registration
8:30 AM – 8:45 AM	Opening Remarks
8:45 AM – 10:00 AM	Keynote 1
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM	Coffee Break
10:20 AM – 12:20 PM	Session 1: Access Control for Collaborative Applications A Formal Proximity Model for RBAC Systems Aditi Gupta, Michael Kirkpatrick and Elisa Bertino (Full Research Paper) Access Rule Consistency in Cooperative Data Access Environment Meixing Le, Krishna Kant and Sushil Jajodia (Full Research Paper) WiseShare: A Collaborative Environment for Knowledge Sharing Governed by ABAC Policies Hakima Ould-Slimane, Moustapha Bande and Hanifa Boucheneb (Full Application Paper) Peer-Aware Collaborative Access Control in Social Networks Qian Xian, Kian-Lee Tan (Invited)
10:20 AM – 12:20 PM	Session 2: Collaborative Web Applications Evolutionary Study of Web Spam: Webb Spam Corpus 2011 versus Webb Spam Corpus De Wang, Danesh Irani and Calton Pu (Full Research Paper) Towards Hierarchical Email Recipient Prediction Jacob Bartel and Prasun Dewan (Full Research Paper) Chatty Things - Making the Internet of Things Readily Usable for the Masses with XMPP Ronny Klauck and Michael Kirsche (Full Research Paper) A Fast and Transparent Communication Protocol for Co-Resident Virtual Machines Yi Ren, Ling Liu, Xiaojian Liu, Jinzhu Kong,HuadongDai, Qingbo Wu and Yuan Li (Invited Paper)
12:20 PM – 1:20 PM	Lunch
1:20 PM – 3:20 PM	Session 3: Collaboration in Social Networks Towards Secure Cooperation in Online Social Networks Youna Jung, Minsoo Kim and James Joshi (Full Research Paper) Automatic Social Group Organization and Privacy Management Anna Squicciarini, Sushama Karumanchi, Dan Lin and Nicole Desisto (Full Research Paper) Privacy-Preserving Assessment of Social Network Data Trustworthiness  Chenyun Dai, Fang-Yu Rao, Traian Truta and Elisa Bertino (Full Research Paper) Confidentiality-Preserving and Fault-Tolerant In-Network Aggregation for Collaborative WSNs  Marian Iskander, Adam Lee and Daniel Mosse (Full Application Paper)
1:20 PM – 3:20 PM	Session 4: Collaborative Cloud Services Towards Timed Requirement Verification for Service Choreographies Nawal Guermouche and Silvano Dal Zilio (Full Application Paper) Incentive Mechanisms for Opportunistic Cloud Computing Services Eric Kuada and Henning Olesen (Full Application Paper) Secure Composition of Cascaded Web Services Basit Shafiq, Soon Ae Chun, Jaideep Vaidya, Nazia Badar and Nabil Adam (Full Application Paper) Portable Key Management Service for Cloud Storage Julian Jang and Surya Nepal (Full Application Paper)
3:20 PM – 3:45 PM	Coffee Break
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM	Panel 1
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM	Posters and Light Reception Adapting Association Rule Mining to Discover Patterns of Collaboration in Process Logs Stefan Schönig, Michael Zeising and Stefan Jablonski Engagement Analysis through Computer Vision Zachary Machardy, Kenneth Syharath and Prasun Dewan Contextaware Search in Digital Repositories Asad Khattak Real-time Collaborative Resolving of Merge Conflicts Antti Nieminen Detecting Social Signals of Flu Symptoms Bumsuk Lee, Jinyoung Yoon, Seokjung Kim and Byung-Yeon Hwang Modeling Collaborative Information Seeking Process: A Preliminary Study of Team Search Tactics Zhen Yue and Daqing He DThreads: A Java Package for Social Distributed Computing Qusay Mahmoud Recommendation of Points of Interest from User Generated Data Collection Karol Waga, Andrei Tabarcea and Pasi Fränti A Collaborative approach to scaffold programing efficacy using Spoken tutorials Kiran Kumar Eranki
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
8:00 AM Onwards	Registration
8:30 AM – 9:40 AM	Keynote 2
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM	Session 5: Collaborative Social Applications Exploring Social Approach to Recommend Talks at Research Conferences Danielle Lee and Peter Brusilovsky (Full Research Paper) An Entity-Based Platform for the Integration of Social and Scientific Services Ronald Chenu-Abente, María Menéndez, Antonella De Angeli and Fausto Giunchiglia (Full Research Paper) ComeAlong: Empowering experience sharing through social networks Fabio Casati, marco Baez (Invited) Social Media Alert and Response to Threats to Citizens (SMART-C) Nabil Adam, Jayan Eledath, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian (Invited)
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM	Session 6: Security in Collaborative Environments A Simple Collaborative Method in Web Proxy Access Control for Supporting Complex Authentication Mechanisms Shingo Takada, Akira Sato, Yasushi Shinjo, Hisashi Nakai, Koichi Sakurai and Kozo Itano (Full Research Paper) A Lattice Interpretation of Group-Centric Collaboration with Expedient Insiders Khalid Bijon, Tahmina Ahmed, Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan (Full Research Paper) Modelling Bayesian attacker detection game in wireless networks with epistemic logic Oldooz Dianat and Mehmet Orgun (Full Application Paper) A Collaborative Approach to Situational Awareness for CyberSecurity Anupam Joshi et al. (Invited Paper)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM	Keynote 3
2:20 PM – 3:20 PM	Session 7: Collaborative Workflows Data-Aware Interaction in Distributed and Collaborative Workflows: Modeling, Semantics, Correctness David Knuplesch, Rüdiger Pryss and Manfred Reichert  (Full Research Paper) Enhancing sustainable building design via a collaborative constraint-based system Hsin-Yu Ha, Shu-Ching Chen, Yimin Zhu (Invited Paper)
2:20 PM – 3:20 PM	Session 8: Collaborative Learning Incentivizing Collaborative Learning through Visual Feedback about Conflict in Wiki Kewen Wu, Julita Vassileva and Qinghua Zhu (Full Research Paper) Collaborative E-Learning through Open Social Student Modeling and Progressive Zoom Navigation Miner Liang, Julio Guerra, G. Elisabeta Marai and Peter Brusilovsky (Full Application Paper)
3:20 PM – 4:20 PM	Coffee Break
3:40 PM – 5:40 PM	Session 9: Collaborative Education and Organizations Automatic Academic Advisor Kamal Taha (Full Research Paper) Case-Study: How to Increase the Value of Computer Science Projects in Higher Education Daniel Kadenbach and Carsten Kleiner (Full Application Paper) Who is Who: On Visualizing Organizational Models in Collaborative Systems Simone Kriglstein, Juergen Mangler and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma (Full Application Paper) Idea Relationship Analysis in Open Innovation Crowdsourcing Systems Adam Westerski, Carlos A. Iglesias and Javier Espinosa Garcia (Full Application Paper)
3:40 PM – 5:40 PM	Session 10: Organizations and Industry Session SpreadComp platform: a new paradigm for distributed spreadsheet collaboration and composition Simone Mangiante and Leonardo Roncarolo Industry Track: Towards Streamed Services for Co located Collaborative Groups Benjamin Falchuk, Tomasz Zernicki and Michal Koziuk A Context-Aware Framework for Patient Navigation and Engagement (CANE) Wen Yao, Akhil Kumar, Jerome Rolia, Sujoy Basu and Sharad Singhal A preemptive connection pool manager for web-based application collaboration Zhen Zhao
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
8:00 AM Onwards	Registration
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM	Session 11: Collaboration in Mobile Environments Adaptation of Single-user Multi-touch Components to Support Synchronous Mobile Collaboration Mauro Pichiliani and Celso Hirata (Full Research Paper) A Real-time Collaboration-enabled Mobile Augmented Reality System with Semantic Multimedia Dejan Kovachev, Goekhan Aksakalli and Ralf Klamma (Full Research Paper) An Asynchronous Based Approach for Improving Concurrency Control in Mobile Web Servers Sudipan Mishra, Siddharth Sarasvati, Shashank Srivastava and Xumin Liu (Full Research Paper) A Collaborative Bluetooth-Based Approach to Localization of Mobile Devices Nicholas Mair and Qusay Mahmoud (Full Application Paper)
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM	Session 12: Collaborative Teams Collaborative Media Choice Processes in Virtual Teams Katrin Bergener and Sara Hofmann (Full Research Paper) The Role of Leadership and its Effect On the Temporal Patterns of Global Software Development Teams Ian Brooks and Kathleen Swigger (Full Research Paper) Auto-Erecting Virtual Office Walls Ben Van Gameren, Kevin Dullemond and Rini Van Solingen (Full Application Paper) Collaboration should become a first-class citizen in support environments for software engineers Kevin Dullemond, Ben Van Gameren and Rini Van Solingen (Full Application Paper)
10:30 AM – 10:50 AM	Coffee Break
10:50 AM – 12:20 PM	Panel 2
12:20 PM – 1:20 PM	Lunch
1:20 PM – 2:50 PM	Session 13: Trustworthy Collaborative Systems Predictability Trust for Wireless Sensor Networks to provide a defense against On/off attack Younghun Chae, Lisa Cingiser Dipippo and Yan Lindsay Sun (Full Research Paper) EigenTrust++: Attack Resilient Trust Management Xinxin Fan, Ling Liu , Mingchu Li and Zhiyuan Su (Invited) Robust Expert Ranking in Online Communities - Fighting Sybil Attacks Khaled Rashed, Cristina Balasoiu and Ralf Klamma (Full Application Paper)
1:20 PM – 2:50 PM	Session 14: Collaborative Business Processes Improving Collaborative Business Process Execution by Traceability and Expressiveness Michael Zeising, Stefan Schönig and Stefan Jablonski (Full Research Paper) Optimized Execution of Business Processes on Crowdsourcing Platforms Roman Khazankin, Benjamin Satzger and Schahram Dustdar (Full Research Paper) Change Propagation in Collaborative Processes Scenarios Walid Fdhila, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma and Manfred Reichert (Full Research Paper)
2:50 PM – 3:10 PM	Coffee Break
3:10 PM – 5:10 PM	Session 15: Middleware Support for Efficient Collaboration Understanding Lookup Performance Deficiencies in the KAD Network Yunzhao Li, Don Gruenbacher and Caterina Scoglio (Full Research Paper) Controlled conflict resolution for replicated document Stéphane Martin, Mehdi Ahmed-Nacer and Pascal Urso (Full Research Paper) CUERA: Performance evaluation of a generic data- and undo/redo-consistency framework Daniel Stolzenberg and Erika Müller (Full Application Paper)  Semantic Structure in a Federated Collaboration Environment John Buford and Venkatesh Krishnaswamy (Full Application Paper)
3:10 PM – 5:10 PM	Session 16: Location and Geographical Information Services Evaluating Collaborative Mapping Systems for Physical Disability Communities Jessica Benner and Hassan Karimi (Full Research Paper) Sensor Source Location Privacy based on Random Perturbations Uthaiwan Srimongkolpitak and Yi Yang (Full Application Paper) Detecting Movement Type by Route Segmentation and Classification Karol Waga, Andrei Tabarcea, Minjie Chen and Pasi Franti (Full Application Paper) Tweecalization: Efficient and Intelligent Location Mining in Twitter Using Semi-Supervised Learning Satyen Abrol, Latifur Khan and Bhavani Thuraisingham (Invited paper)

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