Second Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

II Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM

2013)

https://sites.google.com/site/brasnam2013/

July 24 and 25, 2013.

Maceió, AL, Brazil

This year, the II Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and
Mining (BraSNAM 2013) will be held in conjunction with CSBC, providing a
valuable opportunity for multidisciplinary groups to meet and engage in rich
discussions about topics related to social network analysis. CSBC is the
official event of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) and in its 33th
edition, the conference will be held in the city of Maceió, in the state of
Alagoas (in northeast Brazil), on July 24-25, 2013.

The study of social networks originated in social, educational and
business communities, starting to have a theoretical support in 40's.
Currently, the increasing of the use of Web and social medium fosters
interaction among people, data dissemination and information sharing. With
this growing of available data – provided by people and their interaction,
as also provided by logs and web servers - we have the opportunity of
evaluate and develop techniques for social network analysis, identification
and mining of social networks. This has led to a rising prominence of social
network analyses in academia, politics, security, business, marketing,
science and other fields.

The BraSNAM 2013 will provide an interdisciplinary venue that will
bring together practitioners and researchers from social network analysis
and its related fields to promote collaborations and exchange of ideas and
practices.

More specialized topics within BraSNAM include, but are not limited
to:
* Social networks visualization
* Flow and diffusion of information
* Community evolution
* Extraction and treatment of social data
* Mining techniques
* Influence detection
* Trust and expertise identification
* Linking prediction and simulation
* Social information applied to recommender systems
* Social information and retrieval systems
* Contextualized analysis of social and information networks
* Modeling of user behavior
* Mobile and smart multimedia sensors
* Monitoring social networks
* Privacy in social networks
* Detection of spam, misinformation and malicious activities
* Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding
* Cases and application to real life situations: Medicine, Science,
Education, Marketing, Team Formation, Decision Making, Management and
others.

**** Selected papers will be published in special issues of a journal
(to be announced soon) ***


Important Dates:
* Full and Short Paper Submission: March, 22
* Notification:  May, 29
* Final Version: June, 17

Submissions instructions:
The workshop will accept submissions of technical papers (full papers)
and extended abstracts (position papers) written in Portuguese or English,
not exceeding 12 and 6 pages, respectively. Submissions should follow the
template of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC). The templates for
submission are available in
http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=195&task=view.d
ownload&catid=32&cid=38

All the (full and position) papers will be judged according to
following criteria: adequacy to workshop scope, relevance, technical
quality, clarity, originality and evaluation of results. The evaluation of
results is desired, but is not a precondition for submission. All technical
articles will be presented orally.

Full papers will be presented in the oral sessions of BraSNAM 2013.
The accepted abstracts will also be published in workshop's proceedings and
will be presented as posters.

All papers will go through a double blind review process, with at
least three reviewers. ****Therefore, author names and contact information
must be omitted from all submissions****. Authors must identify the topic(s)
being addressed in the paper to assist the program committee in the review
process. Selected papers will be published in special issues of a journal.

Each manuscript must be submitted electronically, as a PDF file, via
the JEMS submission site: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=1805

Steering Committee:

Daniel Figueiredo (UFRJ)
Jano Moreira de Souza (UFRJ)
Jonice Oliveira (UFRJ)
Juliana Valério (UFRJ)
Mirella Moro (UFMG)
Mitre Dourado (UFRJ)
Renata Galante (UFRGS)
Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira (IMPA)

Program Committee (to be confirmed):

Chairs:

Fabrício Benevenuto (UFMG) – fabricio@dcc.ufmg.br Jonice Oliveira (UFRJ) –
jonice@dcc.ufrj.br

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IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)

Call for Papers

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing will publish peer-reviewed articles
that provide innovative research ideas and applications results in all areas
relating to cloud computing. Topics relating to novel theory, algorithms,
performance analyses and applications of techniques relating to all areas of
cloud computing will be considered for the transactions. The transactions
will consider submissions specifically in the areas of cloud security,
tradeoffs between privacy and utility of cloud, cloud standards, the
architecture of cloud computing, cloud development tools, cloud software,
cloud backup and recovery, cloud interoperability, cloud applications
management, cloud data analytics, cloud communications protocols, mobile
cloud, liability issues for data loss on clouds, data integration on clouds,
big data on clouds, cloud education, cloud skill sets, cloud energy
consumption, cloud applications in commerce, education and industry. This
title will also consider submissions on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS),
Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Business
Process as a Service (BPaaS).

For details of the submission process, please consult the relevant Web pages
at
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tcc

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Editorial Board:
================

Editor-in-Chief (EiC):
----------------------

Rajkumar Buyya
Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab The
University of Melbourne, Australia CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne,
Australia
Web: http://www.cloudbus.org/~raj


Associate Editors:
------------------

Adam Wierman, CalTech (California Institute of Technology), USA Albert
Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Andrew Martin, Oxford University, UK
Beng Chin OOI, National University of Singapore, Singapore Beniamino Di
Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Bharadwaj Veeravalli, National
University of Singapore, Singapore Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, USA Cesar A. De Rose, PUCRS, Brazil Chandra Krintz, University of
California, Santa Barbara, USA
Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA
Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China Chunming Rong, University of
Stavanger, Norway David Bernstein, Cloud Strategy Partners LLC, USA David De
Roure, Oxford University, UK David Lie, University of Toronto, Canada Dejan
Milojicic, HP Labs, USA Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana
University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Hui Lei, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Ignacio Martín, Llorente
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of
Technology, Chicago, USA Irena Bojanova, University of Maryland, USA Ivan
Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Ivona Brandic, Vienna University
of Technology, Austria D. Janakiram, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Madras, India Jose Fortes, University of Florida, USA Junwei Cao, Tsinghua
University, China Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, USA Laurent
Lefèvre, INRIA, France Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Masum Z.
Hasan, CISCO, USA Murat Demirbas, SUNY Buffalo, USA Omer Rana, Cardiff
University, UK Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Phillip B.
Gibbons, Intel Labs Pittsburgh, USA Pierangela Samarati, Università degli
Studi di Milano, Italy Qianhui Althea, HP Labs, Singapore Ramesh Sitaraman,
University of Massachusetts, USA Rao Kotagiri, University of Melborune,
Australia Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University, USA Roy Campbell,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Ruby B. Lee, Princeton
University, USA Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Sanjeev
Aggarwal, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India Shivnath Babu,
Duke University, USA Shubhashis Sengupta, Accenture, India Siani Pearson, HP
Labs, UK Sorav Bansal, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India
Thamarai Selvi, Anna University, India
Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck , Austria Umesh Bellur, Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai, India Vijaya Varadharajan, Macquarie
University, Australia Vojislav Misic, Ryerson University, Canada Xiaofang
Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia Yong Cui, Tsinghua University,
China

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Deadline extension - PACIS 2013 IS Education and Learning Track

PACIS 2013 Track 17. IS Education and Learning

Deadline Extended to 16th Feb of PACIS

The Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2013, Jeju Island, Korea, June 18-22 2013, www.pacis2013.org

Track Co-Chairs: Honglei Li, University of Northumbria, honglei.li@northumbria.ac.uk

Don Sheridan, University of Auckland Business School – d.sheridan@auckland.ac.nz

Description 

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." -John Dewey
IS education and learning are of central importance to the overall development of IS as a field.  As a young field, IS education and learning method has been growing with technologies. Various education and learning methods have been evolved since as early as 1970's. Recently, the rapid evolution of information technologies including social networking, cloud computing, outsourcing, crowd sourcing and others, innovative teaching and learning strategies are being designed and implemented by universities in Asia and Asia pacific region.  These new technologies will bring new teaching methods to IS field and provide new learning experience for IS students.

The track in IS education and learning will discuss and explore various IS education and learning methods to enhance students' learning experience. The focus of this track is on new and innovative approaches to curriculum, course design, pedagogy, practice, and student learning experiences.

We welcome high quality papers on the topics of, but not limited to, the following areas:

·         Curriculum innovations, design and model curricula

o   Active learning classrooms

o   Curriculum models and industry requirements

·         Enhancing students' learning experiences through new technologies

o   Experience-oriented teaching

o   Technology enhanced learning experience

·         Pedagogical approaches and evaluation

o   flipped classrooms

o   rubric marking

o   team based learning

o   team assessment methodologies

o   student-peer reviews

o   learning analytics

o   formative assessment & feedback

o   recommender systems

o   tablet technologies for teaching and learning

·         Program assessment and accreditation issues

o   Evaluations of commercial and institutional applications

o   Assurance of learning

·         Work integrated learning

o   Cooperative work terms

·         Educational technologies and Web 2.0 in IS education

o   Social networking

o   virtual communities

o   Performance change due to new teaching technologies

·         Online game / simulation-based learning (G/SL)

o   Assessment & evaluation of G/SL

·         Mobile apps-based learning

o   Learning objects

o   Interactive pod/web casts

o   Smart phones as classroom response systems

·         Ethical and social issues

o   Privacy, security and accountability

o   Plagiarism

·         Distance education

o   Models for life-long learning

·         E-Learning and asynchronous media

o   Taxonomies of discourse and assessment

·         Blended-learning and case-based teaching

·         Return on Investment (ROI) for innovations in Teaching & Learning

We have received many requests to extend the submission deadline for papers for PACIS 2013. We therefore decide to extend the deadline to submit papers by two weeks. We look forward to receive your paper by no later than February 16, 2013. Please make sure that you submit your paper(s) by this new deadline

The PACIS 2013 Organizing Committee cordially invites paper submission. The PACIS 2013 will be held on 18-22 June 2013 in Jeju Island, Korea (www.pacis2013.org). The conference location, Jeju Island, known as the "Island of the Gods," is selected as one of "New 7 Wonders of Nature (http://www.new7wonders.com/)." PACIS 2013 participants will have the opportunity not only to build and maintain connections with IS scholars in Asian region, but also to experience the excellent natural beauty of Jeju Island.

All submissions will be in English and will be double blind reviewed. The conference accepts completed research papers or research-in-progress papers. All submissions should be submitted through EasyChair system (www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pacis2013)

High quality and relevant papers from PACIS 2013 will be fast-tracked to the Special Issue of several journals, including Information and Management, Journal of Global Information Management, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Information Systems Frontiers, and Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2013; February 16, 2013

DC Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2013;

Paper Decision: April 1, 2013;

DC Decision: April 15, 2013;

Submission Deadline of Accepted Papers: May 1, 2013

The conference is supported by the Association for Information Systems and hosted by the Korea Society of Management Information Systems (KMIS), which is the largest IS professional institute in Korea.

For more information, please visit the conference website (www.pacis2013.org) or contact program chairs:

Prof. Jae-Nam Lee, Korea University Business School, isjnlee@korea.ac.kr

Prof. Ji-Ye Mao, Renmin University of China, jiyemao@yahoo.com

Prof. James Thong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, jthong@ust.hk

We look forward to seeing you in Jeju Island in Korea in June 2013!

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Third International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK13) - Poster, Informal Demonstration, Doctoral Consortium, and Workshop Participation

Call for Secondary Submissions and Participation:

LAK13: Third International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge

8-12 April, Leuven, Belgium

http://lakconference.org 

Poster, Informal Demonstration, Doctoral Consortium, and Workshop Participation  

Submissions due *** January 31, 2013 *** 

The International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference, now in its third year, is a venue for reporting research at the nexus of two emerging societal phenomena. First we are witnessing the rapid expansion of the use of technologies to support learning, not only in established institutional contexts and platforms, but also in the emerging landscape of free, open, social learning online. Second, the unprecedented availability of data that learners generate in the process of accessing learning materials, interacting with educators and peers, and creating new content in these technological settings, coupled with advances in analytics and data mining, knowledge modeling and representation and open data offer great potential for research into how learning takes place in socio-technical settings and the development of new forms of analytics that can inform learners and educators. Learning Analytics research brings these technical, pedagogical, and social domains into dialogue with each other to ensure that interventions and organizational systems serve the needs of all stakeholders. 

Papers have already been submitted and reviewed: the accepted list is at 

http://lakconference2013.wordpress.com/accepted-papers/

Submissions for Poster, Doctoral Consortium, and Workshop Participation are due January 31, 2013. Please see below for submission details and further information on the conference theme and topics. 

Registration is now open: 

http://lakconference2013.wordpress.com/registration/

OPEN SUBMISSION FORMATS

-- Posters

Posters are suitable for describing late-breaking results or for engaging conference participants in discussion of preliminary ideas or findings. Submit a 1-line title, the name(s) of the presenter(s), and an abstract limited to 100 words suitable for printing in the conference guide. This should be followed with up to two pages (for our review, not to be published) describing the concept or results to be presented, the expected interactions with conference participants, and the poster format that will support these interactions. (If available, a high-resolution image of the poster provided as the second page can fulfill this requirement, and is preferred. Easily visible graphics and large brief texts are encouraged rather than small text.) Submit to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lak2013

-- Informal Demonstrations

A space (table top surface) and designated times for informal demonstrations of relevant software will be provided at the conference. Submit one page that includes a 1-line title, name of presenter, and an abstract limited to 100 words suitable for printing in the conference guide. This should be followed with up to two pages (for our review, not to be published) describing the software to be demonstrated, and the expected interactions with conference participants. Demonstrators should be prepared to interact with several conference participants at a time in an interactive and not excessively scripted manner. Submit to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lak2013

-- Doctoral Consortium

A one-day consortium is being organized for doctoral students who are about to defend or have recently defended their proposals. Participating students will have the opportunity to present their proposed research to reputable faculty in learning analytics and obtain valuable advice. Other professional development and social networking activities will be included. Please see http://lakconference2013.wordpress.com/dc/ for submission information. 

-- Workshop Participation

LAK workshops will provide conference participants with opportunities to interact intensively on a topic of shared interest. Workshop calls for participation are being distributed by workshop organizers. January 31st is the uniform date for priority submissions for participation in workshops, although workshops may accept later submissions on a space-available basis. Workshop organizers will specify submission requirements. Please see http://lakconference2013.wordpress.com/workshops/ for descriptions of workshops and submission requirements. 

-- Tutorial Participation 

LAK will also offer tutorials on selected topics, described at http://lakconference2013.wordpress.com/workshops/. No submission is required, other than registration at http://lakconference2013.wordpress.com/registration/. 

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GENERAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION

THEME: Dialectics in Learning Analytics 

The first two conferences have established the range of issues and approaches of concern in leveraging the availability of data about learning with powerful computational, representational and visualization techniques. This third conference is designed to consolidate the field by bringing these many voices into dialogue in a "middle space" under the overarching theme of "Dialectics in Learning Analytics", which has these facets: 

The Middle Space: The conference will explore the middle space within which Learning and Analytics intersect, and seeks proposals for papers and events that explicitly connect analytic tools to theoretical and practical aspects of understanding and managing learning. 

Productive Multivocality: Learning analytics is multidisciplinary, drawing on theories and methods from diverse research traditions. Our community includes educators, learning scientists, computer scientists, administrators, and policy makers, among others. The middle space serves as a topical "boundary object", enabling productive discourse between these many voices. 

The Old and the New: We are facing a centuries old problem: to improve learning, but we are trying to solve it using a new set of tools, not available before. We address these problems in the city of Leuven: centuries old, lively new.

TOPICS 

The following keywords will be used to classify submissions, and convey the breadth of topics covered. Authors are strongly encouraged to read the advice at http://lakconference2013.wordpress.com/for-authors/ concerning how papers should focus on some aspect of the intersection of learning and analytics. 

* Analytic Approaches, Methods, and Tools for sensemaking in learning

  analytics, including: algorithms, architectures, behavior modeling,

  case studies, clustering, computational linguistics, concept

  mapping, crowdsourcing, data integration, data mining, data sharing,

  design-based research, research about design, discourse analysis,

  educational research methods, ethnography, ethnomethodology,

  evaluation methods, frameworks, grounded theory, information

  visualization, interfaces for learning analytics, knowledge

  representation, machine learning, natural language processing,

  predictive analytics, recommendation engines, semantic web,

  sequential analysis, social network analysis, social network

  visualisation, statistical analysis, surveys, text mining, visual

  learning analytics

* Theories and Theoretical Concepts for understanding learning,

  including: activity theory, actor-network theory, affordances,

  communities of practice, conceptual models of learning enabled by

  analytics, connectivism, constructivism, distributed cognition,

  networked individualism, reflective learning, situated learning,

  social capital, social learning, sociocultural theory, structuration

  theory, symbolic interactionism

* Measures of Learning, Change and Success, including: accreditation,

  affect, emotions, and flow, analytic patterns, attendance and

  retention (as predictors of learning), attention, attitudes,

  collaboration and cooperation, community structure,

  comprehension/understanding, conceptual change, degree of

  competence, educational performance, expectations, learner behavior

  modeling, learning dispositions, metacognition, misconceptions,

  motivation, off-task behavior, organizational dynamics,

  participation, satisfaction, social dynamics

* Learning Activities, Applications, and Interventions: adaptation,

  analytic tools for learners, argumentation, assessment, awareness,

  big data applications and opportunities, classroom orchestration,

  collaborative learning, course management systems, decision-support

  systems for learning, informing policy, instructor support,

  intelligent tutoring systems, interventions based on analytics,

  knowledge work, language learning, learning communities, learning

  environments enhanced with analytics, learning how to learn,

  lifelong learning, management of learning interventions or settings,

  mentoring, open data and data access for learners, pedagogical

  adjustment/intervention, personalization, predicting failure,

  professional development, quantified self, reflection, scaffolding

  and scripting, self-management of learning, student monitoring,

  teacher analytics, teaching learning analytics

* Issues addressed may include: adoption strategies and barriers,

  cultural issues, ethical considerations (e.g., privacy and

  ownership), human factors, identity, legal aspects, privacy, social

  change

* Media studied may include: blogging, chats, haptic media & tangible

  computing, microblogging (twitter), mobile platforms, online

  discussion forums, shared workspaces, social networking media,

  video, whiteboards, wikis, and face-to-face interaction supported by

  technology

* Settings of Learning include: blended online/face-to-face, distance

  education, distributed work, face-to-face settings,

  corporate/workplace, government, graduate education, harmonizing

  individual and organizational learning, higher education, informal

  learning, military, mobile and ubiquitous, online communities, open

  university, primary school, secondary school, socio-technical

  networks, university/postsecondary, virtual organizations

RELEVANT DATES

January 31: Workshop Participation, Poster, and Informal Demonstration Submissions Due

February 15: Workshop, Poster, and Demonstration Notification 

February 15: Final Papers Due 

March 1: Early Registration Deadline 

April 8-12: Conference

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KULeuven) - http://www.kuleuven.be

Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) - http://www.solaresearch.org

General Chairs

-- Erik Duval, University of Leuven, Belgium

-- Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador

Program Chairs

-- Dan Suthers, University of Hawai'i, USA

-- Katrien Verbert, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs

-- Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

-- Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know, Greece

-- Alyssa Wise, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

-- Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

-- Katherine Maillet, Institut National des Telecommunications, France

-- Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Awareness, Interaction and Memory Chairs

-- Tony Hirst, Institut National des Télécommunications, France

-- Doug Clow, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Local Chair

-- Joris Klerkx, University of Leuven, Belgium

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Workshop on Dynamic Networks Management and Mining (DyNetMM 2013)

SIGMOD/PODS Workshop on Dynamic Networks Management and Mining

In conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2013 

(New York, June 23, 2013)

Submission deadline: 22 FEBRUARY 2013

https://sites.google.com/site/dynetmm13/

===CFP===

The First ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Dynamic Networks Management and Mining
(DyNetMM 2013), to be held in New York, USA in conjunction with
SIGMOD/PODS 2013, is a venue for novel research on management and mining
in networks that change over time. The aim of DyNetMM is to disseminate
results founded on database indexing, access methods and mining that
advance the state-of-the-art in analysis, query processing, prediction and
mining in time-evolving networks arising in social-computational systems,
biology, transportation and others.

Both theoretical and systems/application papers are welcome to DyNetMM.
The workshop's focus is on methods that draw from techniques in databases,
indexing and data mining to enable scalable analysis, query support and
mining for patterns in dynamic relational data. The validation and novelty
of the submissions should match the high standards established in the
database community.

===Topics===

Submissions on the following general topics are welcome:
- Query languages and query support for dynamic networks
* Dynamic reachability queries
* Dynamic subgraph queries
* Predictive queries
- Indexing dynamic networks
* Neighborhood indexing
* Reachability and proximity indexing
- Tracking and prediction
* Road networks
* Geo-social graphs
- Mining in dynamic networks
* Frequent patterns
* Conserved and evolving patterns
* Anomaly and novelty detection
* Evolutionary clustering
- Network streams management
- Summarization and compression of dynamic networks
- Generative and predictive models of dynamic network evolution
- Distributed computation on dynamic graphs

===Organization===

Workshop co-chairs:
Petko Bogdanov, University of California Santa Barbara
Leman Akoglu , Stony Brook University
Ambuj K. Singh, University of California Santa Barbara
Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University

===Program Committee===

Amol Deshpande (U Maryland)
Ananthram Swami (Army Research Lab)
Arun Maiya (IDA)
Boleslaw K. Szymanski (RPI)
Hanghang Tong (IBM)
Kathy Macropol ( Arcadia U)
Lance Kaplan (Army Research Lab)
Mayank Lahiri (Google)
Misael Mogiovi (UCSB)
Mohammed Zaki (RPI)
Prithwish Basu (BBN)
Rajmonda Caceres (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Ram Ramanathan (BBN)
Tina Eliassi-Rad (Rutgers)
U Kang (CMU)
Vagelis Papalexakis (CMU)
Veljko Pejovic (U Birmingham, UK)
Xifeng Yan (UCSB)

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Joint Call For Papers - Conferences / Journal Special Issues in Cloud Computing, January 2013

Conference Call For Papers, Workshop Proposals, Demo and Participation

1. IEEE ISPA 2013 (July 16-18, 2013, Melbourne, Australia)
The 11th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications
http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/ispa2012/pdf/ISPA_2013.pdf
*Submission deadline: Feb. 1, 2013

2. VTDC 2013 (June 17-18, New York, USA)
The 7th International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing
http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/VTDC13
*Submission deadline: Feb. 11, 2013

3. IEEE CloudCom 2013 (December 2-5, 2013, Bristol, UK)
5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
http://2013.cloudcom.org
*Workshop Proposal Submission deadline: Feb. 13, 2013

4. ICCSA 2013 (June 24-27, 2013, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
International Conferences on Computational Science and its Applications
http://www.iccsa.org/
*Submission deadline: Feb. 15, 2013

5. FiSTA 2013 (June 24-27, 2013, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
The 4th International Workshop on Future Computing System Technologies, Innovations and Applications
http://www.is.kyusan-u.ac.jp/hpcc/fista2013
*Submission deadline: Feb. 15, 2013

6. INTERNET 2013 (July 21-26, 2013 - Nice, France)
The Fifth International Conference on Evolving Internet
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/INTERNET13.html
*Submission deadline: Feb. 27, 2013

7. FutureTech 2013 (September 4-6, 2013, Gwangju, Korea)
The 8th FTRA International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2013)
http://www.ftrai.org/futuretech2013
*Submission deadline: March 1, 2013

8. IEEE SCC 2013 (June 27-July 2, CA, USA)
The 10th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2013/
*Submission deadline: March 8, 2013

9. ICPP-IWATCC 2013 (October 4, 2013, Lyon, France)
The 2013 International Workshop on Advanced Technologies of Cloud Computing
https://sites.google.com/site/watcc2013/home
*Submission deadline: March 8, 2013

10. NoF 2013 (October 21-24, 2013, Pohang, Korea)
The 4th International Conference on the Network of the Future
http://nof2013.postech.ac.kr/
*Submission deadline: April 10, 2013

11. NPC 2013 (September 19-21, 2013, Guiyang, China)
The 10th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing
http://grid.hust.edu.cn/npc2013/
*Submission deadline: April 15, 2013

12. CUTE 2013 (December 18-20, 2013, Danang, Vietnam)
8th Intenational Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications
http://www.cute2013.org/
*Submission deadline: June 1, 2013

13. IEEE CloudCom 2013 (December 2-5, 2013, Bristol, UK)
5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
http://2013.cloudcom.org
*Submission deadline: July 5, 2013

Journal Special Issues CFP

1. International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.406)
Special Issue on"Dynamic Intelligence Towards Smart and Green World"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/IJCS/
*Manuscript Due: Feb. 10, 2013

2. International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IGI Global) (EI, SCOPUS)
Special Issue on"Energy Efficient Technologies for Green Cloud"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/IJGHPC/sub
*Manuscript Due: Feb. 10, 2013

3. Information Sciences (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 2.833)
Special Issue on"Cloud-assisted Wireless Body Area Networks"
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/call-for-papers/
*Manuscript Due: July 1, 2013

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Thematic issue on Playful Interactions and Serious Games - JAISE

Call for papers

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments:

Thematic Issue on Playful Interactions and Serious Games 

http://jaise-journal.org/

1. Background
It is with great pleasure that we announce the Thematic Issue on "Playful Interactions and Serious Games" of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE).

Intelligent environments and smart applications require creating engaging interactions with their users, which on one side requires sensing and understanding human behavior, and on the other side carefully engineered application interfaces to keep these interactions sustained and useful over longer periods. Playful interactions and serious games incorporate elements of play for this purpose. As a fundamental human activity, play engages people at every age.

This call is intended to solicit contributions from an international audience on recent developments and experiments that:
• Present innovative and state-of-the-art applications that use playful concepts in ambient intelligence settings,
• Describe game-based solutions to behavior change and pervasive healthcare problems,
• Share experiences, insights, best-practices and lessons-learned,
• Report the results of technical and social evaluations with regards to playful interaction and serious game design,
• Report results of longitudinal studies,
• Discuss and highlight the key challenges and future developments within the domain.

We are keen to encourage the submission of papers from a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives that relate to design and deployment of playful solutions in both research and industry. Topics sought include, but are not limited to:
-Playful ambient intelligence applications for kids -Serious games in healthcare and ambient assisted living -Urban games and playful interaction with masses -Games for inducing behavior change -Psychological and sociological aspects of ambient games -Gamification -Hardware and Software for serious games -Sensors and novel interfaces used in playful interactions.


2. Submission and Proceedings
Papers should be of 12 pages or longer and adhere to the guidelines given on the Web page:
http://www.mstracker.com/submit1.php?jc=jaise
When submitting, authors should highlight that the submission is for this particular thematic issue.


3. Important Dates
Submission deadline: April 15th, 2013
First round of reviews: July 15th, 2013
Notification to authors: November 15th, 2013
Camera Ready deadline: January 15th, 2014


4. Editors
Albert Ali Salah (Guest Editor)
Boğaziçi University, Turkey
salah@boun.edu.tr

Ben Schouten (Guest Editor)
Eindhoven University of Technology,
The Netherlands
bschouten@tue.nl

Stefan Göbel (Guest Editor)
University of Darmstadt, Germany
stefan.goebel@kom.tu-darmstadt.de

Bert Arnrich (Guest Editor)
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
barnrich@ife.ee.ethz.ch

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Smart City Learning: visions, practical implementations and impact of glocalities" (SCiLearn 2013) @ IEEE ICALT 2013

"Smart City Learning: visions, practical implementations and impact of glocalities" (SCiLearn 2013)

Beijng (China), July 15-18, 2013

co-located at

ICALT 2013

http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2013/

promoted by
• Carlo Giovannella - Dept. of Educational Science & Technologies and Iad School, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy • Sabine Graf - School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, Canada • Alke Martens - PH Schwäbisch Gmünd, University of Education, Institute of Computer Science, Germany • Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, Computers and Information Technology Department, Romania • Imran Zualkernan - American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Workshop website:
http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/scl_icalt2013/index.php


INTRODUCTION
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In a not far future 70% of the world's population will live in densly populated urban centers bringing back us to the XVI-XVII century; although nowadays the dimensions are scaled up and cities are huge aggregates with huge problems.
From the Far East, to the Americas and to Europe, cities, villages and their surroundings are trying to solve urban problems by evolving towards a new dimension in which the information infrastructure becomes an indispensable asset of our life, contributes to the development of info-ecosystems embracing 'smart mobility and last-mile logistics', 'smart health', 'smart government', 'smart culture and tourism', the sustainability of the natural resources and the green economy. Such integrated effort of info-urbanism represents a practical realization of the infrastructural background needed to reify the UL part of the DULP framework (D -> Design Inspired Learning; U -> Ubiquitous Learning; L -> Liquid Learning Places; P -> Person in Place Centred Design; see previous workshops DULP@ICALT2010, DULP@ICALT2011, DULPSPeL@ICALT2012) and, inevitably, leads one to wonder about what the forms of future smart education will be.

The problems hidden behind the smart city framework, however, are quite
relevant:
a) Very often in today's models of Smart Cities, ICT (Information and Communication Technology) infrastructures are mainly considered as indispensable assets to optimize the consumption of resources and to streamline movement across the city: goods, people and data. In other terms ICT is seen as enzyme and catalyst able to optimize city's processes both in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.
The field of education is no exception: in all smart city benchmarking and ranking, in fact, education is considered to be an enabling factor that impacts the quality of life only in terms of infrastructure and services (density of schools, provision of content and services through large band width, ability to produce competencies necessary for the functioning of the system, etc.) Such models tend to underestimate the relevance of the letters D and P of the DULP framework. Individuals who live in the city can not be considered just numbers; they are people who in their actions are driven by motivations and expectations, individual desires and needs, who have their own styles. Individuals that with the increasing complexity of the society also need to learn how to define and redefine on the fly their evolutionary path to realize their expectations.
b) To avoid possible new 'divides' and become, thus, 'smart citizens', individuals need to acquire new skills. At present it is not completely clear what such skills would be and how their acquisition may be facilitated by the technological context, and through it assessed. In other words, what are the dimensions of "digital ethniticity" when is comes to ICT and learning in smart cities? It seems that technical skills will be no longer sufficient and that the individuals need to acquire more and more the so called 'people skills', whose acquisition is much more complex to monitor.
c) No smart city model can be considered universal because local cultures and constraints have a key role in determining the route toward the development of a smart city and, therefore, future educational paths and processes; it implies that the approach toward the smartness of the education must therefore be a 'glocal ' one, in which technologies are expected to respect the characteristics of the context (cultural sustainable development)

OPEN QUESTIONS
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In the scenario depicted in the introduction many questions arise and wait for answers and solutions, among them:
• How the way of learning has changed, is changing and will change because of the smart city, and in particular what are the literacy and competences people need to learn in order to live in a smart city environment ?
• Through which educational technology supported path will everyone, and especially youths, become "participatorly" aware learners and citizens of the future smart cities ?
• How will we learn from the open books that are represented by cities of art, parks, agro-tech and industrial/productive districts ?
• How will data flowing from sensorised areas and personal devices will be elaborated to support awareness and continuous learning?
• How will our behaviour be influenced by knowledge of co-evolution mechanisms and limits of the ecosystems?
• Would 'smart cities learning' help to reinforce social inclusion and a common sense of belonging ?
• and last but not least, how all this may depend on the characteristics of the environment and how much room there will be for personalization and contextualization ? Will the educational infrastructure be smart enough to readjust, even "autopoietically", to satisfy the needs and support the expectations that everyone could develop life long, in different contexts?


IMPORTANT DATES
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• February 22 - Deadline for paper submission (no extension is expected) • March 8 - Notification of acceptance • March 15 - ICALT 2013 authors' registration deadline • April 15 - camera-ready paper due

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Smart City Learning @ ICALT2013 is looking for contributions that describe, explain or envision:

• Technological Ecosystems supporting learning within and from the 'smart cities' (toward 'web-mobile-internet of thing' integrated
environments)
• Educational Ecosystems: from ''intelligence' to life-long autopoietic education (re-skill & edupoiesis) • Ubiquitous serious games for Smart City Learning • Future 'smart cities' learning scenarios (contexts and methods for the citizens of the future) • Ecological monitoring and visualization of flows, behaviors, experience's styles and 'smart cities' learning (analytics and
visualization)
Privacy and security for learning in ubiquitous environment (safe environments and fluxes) Unique models for 'smart cities' and learning suited to developing countries • Ubiquitous personalization and contextualization, glocalities, identities (cultural effect and inclusion) Any other topic meaningful to Smart City Learning

PAPER FORMAT and PUBLICATION
----------------------------

Accepted workshop contributions will be published in the ICALT 2013 proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Publications.
Authors are thus required to submit their manuscript according to the IEEE Conference Publishing Services Formatting Guidelines, see ICALT
website:
http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2013/

Papers should be no exceed 2 pages, including authors' information, abstract (no more than 200 words), all tables, figures, references, etc.

Authors' information should be included ONLY in the camera-ready version of the manuscript and NOT in the initial version. However, during the preparation of the initial manuscript, authors' should leave a number of empty lines at the beginning of the manuscript, so as to include authors' information during the camera-ready manuscript submission

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word or RTF file formats. In case, authors are using Latex, PDF files are acceptable if they are formatted based on IEEE Conference Publishing Services Formatting Guidelines.

In addition to the ICALT 2013 proceedings an extended version of selected workshop papers will be published in a special issue of the IxD&A Journal (ISSN 1826-9745)

SUBMISSION
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Please submit your manuscript using the Easychair system at:
www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sclicalt2013

CONTACTS:
---------
For general information: Carlo Giovannella - giovannella@scuolaiad.it For any problem with submission: Alke Martens - alke.martens@googlemail.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (preliminary)
-----------------
• Ignacio Aedo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) • Emmanuel Blanchard (Aalborg Universitet, Denmark) • Joseph Blat (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain) • Augusto Celentano (University of Venice, Italy) • Adrian Cheok (Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore - Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, Japan) • Walter Colitti (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) • Paloma Diaz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) • Gabriella Dodero (University of Bozen, Italy) • Franca Garzotto (Dip. Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy) • Mohamed Jemni (University of Tunis, Tunisia) • Andreas Lingnau (University of Strathclyde, UK) • Zhen Liu (Center of Information & Networks, Beijing Normal University,
China)
• Janet Read (University of Central Lancashire, UK) • Chiara Rossitto (School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH,
Sweden)
• Stefania Serafin (Aalborg Universitet, Denmark) • Luca Simeone (Vianet, Italy) • Marcus Specht (OU, Netherland) • Vincent Tam (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong) • Shengquan Yu (School of Educational Technology, Beijing Normal University, China) • Di Wu (National Key Engineering Center of E-learning, Central China Normal University, China) • Massimo Zancanaro (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

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Deadline Extension - The 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2013)

The 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 

(ICALT2013)

Theme: "Reshaping learning: transforming education through the fusion of learning and technology"

Beijing, China

July 15-18, 2013

http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2013/

Conference Proceedings to be published by:
IEEE Computer Society

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submitting full papers, short papers and posters has been extended

*** NEW DEADLINE ***
January 27, 2013


Extended versions of selected Papers will be considered for publication to:
* Educational Technology and Society Journal [included in SSCI, Impact Factor: 1.011 as per Thomson Scientific 2011 Journal Citations Report]
* IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies [included in SSCI, Impact Factor: 0.823 as per Thomson Scientific 2011 Journal Citations Report]

SUBMISSIONS

We invite submission of papers reporting original academic or industrial research in the area of Advanced Learning Technologies (see conference website for topics of interest). All papers will be peer-reviewed. Complete papers are required for review. The expected types of submissions include:
* Full paper: 5 pages
* Short paper: 3 pages
* Posters: 2 pages
* Doctoral consortium paper: 2 pages (first author must be a PhD student)
* Tutorial proposals: 2 pages (The tutorial proposal should clearly outline the novelty of the content, the expected audience, objectives, and outcomes. Each tutorial will be 3 hours.)
* Panel proposals: 2 pages (The panel proposal should clearly outline the theme, its significance, the expected audience, and have list of 5 or more panelistspanellists who have agreed to participate. Each panel will be one and a half hour. Panel leadersists will have the possibility of submitting two-page papers for review and inclusion in the proceedings.)
* Workshop proposals: 2 pages (The workshop proposal should clearly define workshop objectives,  the expected audience,  anticipated outcomes, and the names and short CVs of workshop proposers. Workshop leaders will have the possibility of submitting two-page papers for review and inclusion in the proceedings).
Please submit your manuscripts at: http://www.ask4research.info/conference/upload.php.

FURTHER DETAILS:
http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2013/

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WWW 2013 Workshop - Mining Social network Dynamics (MSND 2013)

The 2nd International Workshop on 

Mining Social Network Dynamics (MSND 2013) 

To be held in conjunction with 

The 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

May 13 - 17, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

In the real-time Web, the latest evolution of the Web, information is
generated very quickly, consumed by millions of users, and updated rapidly
by others through commenting, replying, transferring, etc. This is practiced
by people who differ in culture, knowledge, background, ideology. Moreover,
information generally comes from several channels and is sent out to
different ones. This is amplified by the social networking phenomenon, the
social Web, which is nowadays a well established set of technologies, based
on which users and service providers can exchange messages through an
interaction network, share information and collaborate, advertise a product,
create communities and influence them, etc. Besides, there is an abundant
literature regarding the different aspects of social networks be it their
construction or the detection of nodes playing specific roles.

However, it is well established that there is currently unclear
understanding of the laws governing these social networks, in particular in
the way they evolve over time. Thus, it is difficult to draw a clear image
linking the existing models of social networks and the real underlying
social mechanisms. As a result, there is a big gap in the evaluation and the
concretization of most of the research efforts in this area. Furthermore,
due to the growing complexity of digital social networks and the huge
quantity of new data available everyday, it becomes crucial for the
researchers to provide a clear understanding of the dynamics of these
networks. It also becomes important for the community to not only understand
what is happening currently in the network but also to predict the next
evolution and monitor the trends in the network. To efficiently analyze
these networks, it is important to be able to predict the dynamics in its
different forms: the content evolution (i.e., hot!
topics evolution), network structure (e.g., creation of new relations),
and information diffusion, influence evolution, etc.

Following the success of the last year's version of this workshop
(http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/msnd/2012/), we are re-conducting it this year to
attract more researchers and make the event a central location where
researchers working on the issues of mining social network dynamics can meet
again to exchange ideas on open problems. We have also extended the topics
of interest for this workshop, with a particular interest towards dynamics.
And we aims at gathering researchers from the fields of social computing,
machine learning, and data mining to think about the obstacles that hurdle
the leveraging of understanding and capturing of social network dynamics. We
target researchers from both commercial and academic labs to join forces in
this exciting area. We intend to discuss the recent and significant
developments in the general area of mining social network dynamics and to
promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, we aim at
identifying techniques from the data !
mining and machine learning fields that will enable researchers to
understand the dynamic phenomena in social networks and social media, as
well as specify important directions for the research communities.
Understanding, capturing, mining and being able to predict dynamic behaviors
is interesting for several areas such as marketing, security, and Web
search. To address the above mentioned aspects, we solicit the following
topics (but not limited to):

o Information diffusion in social networks;
o Community extraction, analysis, and evolution;
o Detection of (possibly evolving) roles;
o Content evolution and tracking in social networks;
o Social Journalism and news dynamics;
o Social networks affective and sentiment analysis;
o Social media recommendations;
o Information quality and evolution in social content;
o Security and privacy in rapidly evolving social networks;
o Evaluation techniques and benchmarks;
o New challenges in mining social networks;
o Example studies and use cases of dynamics of social
networks.

Paper submission
Submissions need to be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings
Template. Two types of submissions are welcome: long papers with a limit of
8 pages or short ones with 4 pages length limit. We use the EasyChair system
for managing submissions, and the link to submit your paper is here:
http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/msnd/. Further information will be communicated
soon regarding this special issue.

Key dates:

o Submission deadline: February 12, 2013
o Acceptance notification March 15, 2013
o Camera-Ready submission March 25, 2013
o Workshop date: May 13, 2013

Workshop Co-Chairs:
o Hakim Hacid, Bell Labs, France.
o Shengbo Guo, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
o Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Program committee (under construction)
o Julien Bourdaillet, Xerox, USA
o Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH - ITI, Greece
o Amin Mantrach, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain,
o Yosi Mass, IBM Research, Israel,
o Alessandra Sala, Bell Labs, Ireland
o Anna Stavrianou, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
o Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia
o Wei Peng, Xerox Research Centre Webster, USA
o Tetsuya Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Japan

Contact: msnd@eric.univ-lyon2.fr

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2nd International Workshop on Teaching Analytics (IWTA 2013) at ACM LAK 2013

Call for Papers

2nd International Workshop on Teaching Analytics (IWTA-2013)

at LAK2013 – Third Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge 

9 April 2013, Leuven, Belgium

Description

The core problem that this workshop series on “Teaching Analytics” addresses is that in comparison with most other professionals from whom clients expect rapid decisions in a dynamically changing environment, presently teachers often do not get the information they need for decision making in a timely fashion and in a meaningful and actionable format. Teaching Analytics is conceived as a subfield of learning analytics that focuses on the design, development, evaluation, and education of visual analytics methods and tools for teachers in primary, secondary, and tertiary educational settings. Teachers’ professional practices with visual analytics methods and tools are a central concern of teaching analytics. Teaching analytics methods and tools aim to develop innovative solutions to assist and augment teachers’ dynamic diagnostic decision-making in the classrooms of the 21st century. An example usage scenario (but not limited to) is the use of teaching analytics methods and tools in high-performance classrooms that are characterized by 1:1 computing, high cognitive density, and big data.

Building on the NEXT-TELL project and the first international workshop on teaching analytics (TAPTA-2012) held at EC-TEL 2012 (http://www.next-tell.eu/tapta/), the current workshop (IWTA-2013) explores methods and tools to support teachers’ professional vision in classrooms. This workshop’s ambitious objective is to jumpstart a new learning analytics research stream on teaching analytics by bringing together learning scientists in different sub-fields such as CSCL, ITS, EDM, researchers in Visual Analytics, and data scientists working with “Big Data” in public institutions and private enterprises. In addition to researchers, we are also targeting teachers at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of education to be involved as co-designers and discussants.

As mentioned earlier, the first workshop on teaching analytics (TAPTA-2012, http://www.next-tell.eu/tapta/), was held at EC-TEL 2012. The workshop participants included researchers as well as teachers. Topics presented and discussed at the first workshop included semiology for teaching analytics, multi-domain perspective on data collection and analysis, ontological engineering and scripting applications, open learner models, browser-based learning management system extensions, and investigation tools for teacher training. Teachers from the Strömstad Gymnasium, Sweden were invited to present their observations and reflections on the pedagogical practices in their 1:1 laptop school. Workshop proceedings are available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-894/.

The key lessons learnt from the first workshop were the need to further focus the workshop on teachers’ current pedagogical and analytical practices, expand the scope to include real-time teaching scenarios in the actual classroom, and explicitly emphasize the use of visual analytics for technology enhanced formative assessment. Based on the above, we invite researchers and teachers to participate in the IWTA-2013. Workshop submissions can be in the form of position papers, tool demonstrations, conceptual sketches, and/or thought experiments.

Please note workshop submissions should be concerned with teachers’ use of visual analytics methods and tools in some shape or form. No requirements are placed on contexts such as high-performance classrooms or big data volumes or real-time decision-making.
Topics

IWTA-2013 workshop topics include but are not limited to the following:
Historical and contemporary practices in notations, representations, and visualizations of classroom activities and student learning
Theories and methods for designing and evaluating new notations, representations, and visualizations for teaching analytics
Cognitive dimensions of notations for learning and teaching purposes
Visual analytics for activity tracking
Visual analytics for knowledge tracking
Visual analytics for formative vs. summative evaluations
Visual analytics for technology enhanced formative assessment
Engendering teachers’ professional vision in high-performance classrooms
Synthesis of visual analytics oriented theory and practice in the Learning Sciences, e-Learning, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Educational Data Mining, and Learning Analytics.
Technical architectures and technological infrastructure for teaching analytics
Linked Data for teaching analytics
Instrumentation of classrooms and ecosystems for learning and teaching
Critical perspectives on teaching analytics
Selection Process

4-6 page position papers/1-2 page tool demonstration/1-page conceptual sketches/1-paragraph thought experiments will be sought through a Call for Papers distributed widely. We will constitute a Program Committee and assign two reviewers to each submission (at least one PC members and one other submitting author).
Submission deadline: 22 February 2013
Notification of acceptance: 08 March 2013
Camera-ready version of accepted papers: 22 March 2013
Workshop date: Tuesday, 09 April 2013

Submissions should be made by e-mail to iwta@next-tell.eu
Dissemination

The proceedings will be published online in the CEUR series of workshop proceedings. If there is enough interest, we will pursue a journal special issue or an edited book.

Organisers
Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Peter Reimann, University of Sydney, Australia
Wolfgang Halb, Joanneum Research, Austria
Susan Bull, University of Birmingham, UK

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