CIKM'13 Workshop - Sixth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR'13)

Call for Papers

Sixth Workshop on

Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR'13)

CIKM 2013, October 28, San Francisco

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair13/

Submissions due: June 21

There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of modern
Web languages, micro-formats and linked data, user tagging and annotation,
and emerging robust NLP tools. These meaningful, semantic, annotations hold
the promise to significantly enhance information access, by increasing the
depth of analysis of today's systems. Currently, we have only started
exploring the possibilities and only begin to understand how these valuable
semantic cues can be put to fruitful use. To complicate matters, standard
text search excels at shallow information needs expressed by short keyword
queries, and here semantic annotation contributes very little, if anything.

The main questions for the workshop are: How to make use of the currently
emerging knowledge resources (such as DBpedia, Freebase) as underlying
semantic model giving access to an unprecedented scope and detail of factual
information? How to include annotations beyond the topical dimension (think
of reading level, prerequisite level, content credibility, transaction
trustworthiness, freshness, genre, sentiment, etc) that contain vital cues
for matching the specific needs and profile of the searcher at hand?

* Many Open Questions

The Workshop will bring together researchers working with semantic
annotations, its use cases, its sources (authoring to NLP tools), its users,
and its use in DB, IR, KM, or Web research, and work together on a range of
open questions:

Application/Use Case: What are use cases that make obvious the need for
semantic annotation of information? What tasks cannot be solved by document
retrieval using the traditional bag-of-words? What is keeping searchers from
exploring these powerful search request? What impact has the web of data
with more and more information in preprocessed form?

- Annotations: What types of annotation are available? Are there crucial
differences between author-, software-, user-, and machine-generated
annotations? Do we annotate types/classes/categories ("person") or instances
("Albert Einstein")? How similar or different are linked data and annotated
text? What are the limitations of the current annotations schemes, and how
to overcome them?

- Rich Context: Do we annotate text? Or also search requests and
interactions, and their broader context? Besides personalization and
geo-positional information, mobiles have a wide and growing range of
locational, mechanical and even biometrical sensor data available to them.
Can kick-start the query by inferring task and situational context in the
mobile use case?

- (Un)certainty: How should we interpret the annotations? Can we reliably
link textual annotations to known entity catalogs? Can expect a messy world
to be captured in a clean set of meaningful categories? Or is all
information fundamentally uncertain and only partly known? How can we
fruitfully combine information retrieval and semantic web approaches?

These and other related questions will be discussed at this open format
workshop -- the aim is to provide paths for further research to change the
way we understand information access today!

* We Need Your Help!

Help us shape the future of information access by increasing the depth of
analysis of today's systems:

- Submit a short 2+1-page research or position paper explaining your key
wishes or key points,

- and take actively part in the discussion at the Workshop.

What's a 2+1 page paper? We like short and focused contributions
highlighting your main point, claim, observation, finding, experiment,
project, etc, (roughly 2 pages of mainly text) but we also like clear
tables, graphs, and full citations (that's the "+1" page). So your
submission can up three pages, as long as max. 2 of them are narrative text.

The deadline is Friday June 21, 2013, further submission details are on
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/esair13/

We are looking forward to a productive, stimulating and fruitful workshop
day in the tradition of previous ESAIR workshops -- come join the
discussion!

Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Google
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam
Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai Stockholm

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ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN'13)

Call for Papers

ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN'13)

October 7-8, 2013

Boston, USA

http://cosn.acm.org

Topics of interest include:

Novel social applications and systems
Systems and algorithms for social search
Infrastructure support for social networks and systems
Social properties in systems design
Clean-slate designs for social systems
Measurement and analysis of social and crowdsourcing systems
Graph analysis and visualization
Processing and query optimization for large graphs
Management of social network data
Modeling Social Networks and behavior
Streaming algorithms for social data
Benchmarking, modeling, performance and workload characterization
Information extraction and diffusion
Data mining and machine learning in social networks
Privacy in data collection and management
Privacy and Security in social systems
Privacy-preserving mechanisms for social and mobile data analysis
Information disclosure and its impact on social networks
Tracking social footprint / identities across social networks
Trust systems and trustworthiness of social content/media
Trust and reputations in social systems
Detection, analysis, prevention of spam, phishing, and misbehavior in
social systems
Social and psychological understanding of these topics

Program Committee

Rakesh Agrawal, Microsoft Research, USA
Jussara Almeida, Federal University of Minais-Gerais, Brazil
Lerone Banks, Federal Trade Commission, USA
Steven Bellovin, Columbia University/FTC, USA
Smriti Bhagat, Technicolor Palo Alto, USA
Augustin Chaintreau, Columbia University, USA
Meeyoung Cha, KAIST, Korea
Graham Cormode, University of Warwick, UK
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Nilesh Dalvi, Facebook, USA
Amr El Abbadi, University of California Santa Barbara, USA (PC co-chair)
Peter Gloor, MIT, USA
Matthias Grossglauser, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Krishna Gummadi, Max-Planck Institute, Saarbrucken, Germany
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, France
Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs--Research, USA (PC co-chair)
Silvio Lattanzi, Google New York, USA
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK
Muthu Muthukrishnan, Microsoft & Rutgers University, USA
Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
Ben Zhao, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

Important dates:

Abstract submission due: Friday June 21 23:59 GMT
Paper submission due: Friday June 28 23:59 GMT
Acceptance notification: July 31
Camera-ready copy due: Mon September 2
Conference: Mon-Tue October 7-8, Boston

COSN 2013 allows two forms of submissions (PDF only):

Full papers (up to 12 pages including references) describing original
research in detail
Short papers (up to 6 pages including references) conveying promising
work/high-level vision

All submissions must satisfy the following requirements:

10-point font, two-column format, letter page size (11 x 8.5 inches)
Names / affiliations of all authors on title page
Submission site: http://cosn13.cs.ucsb.edu/
Use style file at http://cosn13.cs.ucsb.edu/sig-alternate-10pt.cls

Non-compliant submissions will be rejected without review.

ORGANIZATION:

General Chair: Muthu Muthukrishnan, Microsoft & Rutgers University
Publicity chair: Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, IIIT Delhi
Student travel grant chair: Ben Zhao, UC Santa Barbara
Local Arrangements Chair: Alan Mislove, Northeastern University
Registration chair: Christo Wilson, Northeastern University

COSN Steering Committee

Virgilio Almeida, Federal Univ of Minais Gerais, Brazil
Xiaoming Fu, Univ of Goettingen, Germany
Jon Crowcroft, Univ of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs-Research, USA (Chair)
Ben Zhao, Univ of California Santa Barbara, USA

COSN Technical Advisory Committee

Sihem Amer-Yahia, CNRS, France
Krishna Gummadi, MPI, Germany
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, France
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, USA
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, IIIT Delhi, India

COSN is the result of merger of 6 workshops held over the last few years
in various venues:

WOSN (SIGCOMM/Usenix)
SNS (Eurosys)
DBSocial (SIGMOD)
HotSocial (KDD)
PSOSM (WWW)
WOSS (VLDB)

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ASONAM Workshop - 4th International Workshop on Business Applications of Social Network Analysis (BASNA 2013)

4th International Workshop on Business Applications of Social Network Analysis - BASNA 2013

Co-located with ASONAM 2013

25 August 2013, Niagara Falls, Canada

http://www.basna.in   

basna.workshop@gmail.com  

The aim of this workshop is to encourage multidisciplinary discussions related to novel ideas and application geared towards analyzing social network data. By bringing together researchers in the fields of Social Network Analysis (SNA), data mining, and management studies, the workshop will focus on identifying the “grey” areas of collaboration among their respective disciplines:

- The role of data mining techniques in identifying scalable methods for the extraction and organization of social relations for management research and business practice

- The role of management research in guiding data mining efforts and SNA metrics development towards theoretically-grounded discoveries about social network emergence.

- The role of Social Network Analysis in developing and applying metrics and tools for the mapping, evaluation, visualization, and design of social relations in organizations.

Keynote Address:

Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes, Director of Research, Yahoo!

Topics:

The workshop's topics of interest include (but are not limited to the following):

Algorithms for data mining social networks, graphs, links

Applications of social network data mining to address a real world business scenario

Anomaly detection in network based applications like intrusion detection in telecommunication

Fraud detection in telecommunication network

Community discovery in social networks

Contextual applications for social networks

Data mining applications for micro-blogging (real time mining)

Data mining on large graphs

Mining Wikipedia like graph/network structure

Data mining applications for viral marketing

Behavioral analysis in social networks

Social semantic web

Privacy issues in social networks

Recommendations in social networks

Social Network Analysis (SNA) -based:

Knowledge Management (identifying experts, fostering knowledge exchange and integration, creating and developing communities of practice)

Marketing (identifying new customers, customer relationship management)

Innovation Support (enhancing innovation capacity, supporting new product development teams)

Change Management (managing change, post-merger integration, identifying key enablers)

Talent Management (hiring and career development)

Leadership Development (decision-making, identifying leaders)

Intra-Organizational Coordination (supporting coordination and information flows among organizational members and units)

Inter-Organizational Coordination (supporting collaboration in consortia, industrial districts, inter-organizational alliances)

Selected authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper, with a fast reviewing process, to the following Journals:

- Journal of Information Science and Technology

- International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations

- International Journal of Social Network Mining

IMPORTANT DATES:

               Paper submission: 15 May 2013 (EST, USA)

               Paper review notification: 3 Jun 2012 (EST, USA)

               Paper camera ready: 10 June 2012 (EST, USA)

Organizing Committee:

               * Mohan Saravanan, Ericsson R&D, India

               * Roberto Dandi, Luiss Business School, Italy

               * Avik Sarkar, IBM India

               * Irene Ntoutsi, LMU, Munich, Germany

Technical Program Committee:

               * Irene Ntoutsi, LMU, Munich, Germany

               * Fan Wang, Microsoft, USA

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Deadline Extension - 12th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2013)

Call for Papers

12th International Conference 

on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2013)

Kenting, Taiwan

Oct 6 ~ 9, 2013

ICWL is an annual international conference on web-based learning. The first ICWL was held in Hong Kong in 2002. Since then, it has been held in Australia (2003), China (2004), Hong Kong (2005), Malaysia (2006), United Kingdom (2007), China (2008), Germany (2009), China (2010), Hong Kong (2011) and Romania (2012). ICWL 2013 will be the 12th ICWL conference and will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The technical program will feature keynote addresses and workshops in addition to technical presentations of refereed papers.


CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference program consists of high quality technical papers that are reviewed and selected by an international program committee. Papers are solicited on all technical aspects of web-based learning and related technologies, including but not limited to the following topics:
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* Personalized and Adaptive Learning
* Computer Support for Intelligent Tutoring
* Intelligent Tools for Visual Learning
* Web-based Learning for Oriental Languages Learning
* Game-based Learning
* Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
* Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
* Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments
* HTML5 Web-based Learning
* Intelligent Learner and Group Modeling
* Learning Analytics
* Human Factors and Affective Computing for Learning
* E-Learning Platforms and Tools
* Design, Model and Framework of e-Learning Systems
* Deployment, Organization and Management of Learning Objects
* E-Learning Metadata and Standards
* Semantic Web and Ontologies for E-learning
* Mobile, Situated and Blended Learning
* Cloud-based Learning
* Pedagogical Issues
* Practice and Experience Sharing


PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION

Authors are invited to submit original papers reporting on research results or novel applications in technology-enhanced learning. All accepted papers presented at the conference will be published as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Papers for submission should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guidelinesand have maximum 10 pages. Since the review process will be double-blind, the submitted manuscript should not contain the authors' names, affiliations, or any information that may disclose the authors' identity. All papers should be submitted in PDF format. The submission web page is: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwl2013.

According to last years' tradition, a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award will be granted. Furthermore, authors of the best papers presented in the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible publication in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline: May 10, 2013 (extended)

Paper submission deadline: May 17, 2013 (extended, sorry for the error!)

Notification of paper acceptance: June 3, 2013

Camera-ready paper due: June 24, 2013

Conference dates: October 6-9, 2013

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Co-Chairs
* Jhing-Fa Wang, Tajen University, Taiwan
* Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong

Program Committee Co-Chairs
* Frederick Li, University of Durham, United Kingdom
* Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
* Yueh-Min Huang, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Taiwan

Workshop Co-Chairs
* Dickson Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
* Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece
* Timothy Shih, National Central University, Taiwan
* Chu-Sing Yang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan

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

Local Organization Committee Co-Chairs
* Jaw-Shyang Wu, Tajen University, Taiwan
* Chai-Kuen Chuang, Tajen University, Taiwan

Publicity Co-Chairs
* Frederick Li, University of Durham, United Kingdom
* Sabine Graf, Athabasca University, Canada

Steering Committee Representatives
* Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Treasurers
* Howard Leung, City University of Hong Kong


Please refer to the conference website (http://icwl2013.tajen.edu.tw/) for more information and contact us at icwl2013@mail.tajen.edu.tw for any inquiry.

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Open postdoc position on Artificial Intelligence in Education, London, UK

The London Knowledge Lab is looking for an outstanding researcher with
research interests in the areas of Artificial Intelligence in Education /
Intellligent Tutoring Systems / Educational Machine Learning / Learning
Analytics. The position will be for 2 years (that could be extended) and
start from June 2013 or soon thereafter. This is part of the EU FP7 project
iTalk2Learn (www.italk2learn.eu) that is developing an environment where
structured and exploratory activities for learning mathematics complement
each other while students are encouraged to interact via speech.

Deadline for applications: April 30th

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with PhD in Computer
Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field, research proficiency
proved by a strong research track record, and excellent programming skills.

The London Knowledge Lab is a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research
lab with a friendly atmosphere and a strong work ethic. With several
European and British projects going on, along with research seminars and
networking events, this is one of the best places to launch a research
career in line with our motto: "Exploring the future of learning with
digital technologies". On top of that, Greater London hosts half a dozen of
the best universities in Europe and some of the top IT companies are based
here.

More information, including how to apply online, at
http://tinyurl.com/crler3f.

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8th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2013)

SMAP 2013

8th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization

December 12-13, 2013

Bayonne, France

www.smap2013.org

technically co-sponsored by 

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)

and

IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS)

The Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP) workshop
is the evolution of the Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization
initiative, which was founded during the summer of 2006 in an effort to
discuss the state of the art, recent advances and future perspectives for
semantic media adaptation and personalization. As the social web is a new
trend becoming more and more important, the scope of the workshop is now
extended to social aspects, seeking to bring together researchers from the
social web and from the semantic web communities, under the umbrella of the
media adaptation and personalization domain.

After seven successful workshops (in Athens, London, Prague, San Sebastian,
Limassol, Vigo and Luxembourg), the SMAP conference series has consolidated
as a reference event in order to discuss about the newest advances in the
field. The 8th SMAP workshop will be held in Bayonne, France. The workshop
is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
(CIS) and the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS). The
proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference
Publishing Services (CPS).

This year's keynote speakers will be Fabien Gandon (Senior Research
Scientist and Leader of the Wimmics team at the INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
Research Center) and Sergio Ilarri (Associate Professor at the University of
Zaragoza).


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Aim and topics
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SMAP covers different issues of semantic technologies and social semantic
technologies in their use for content creation, media adaptation and
filtering, and user profiling.

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

The 1-track, 2-day conference aims to provide a platform for exchanging
fresh ideas and expertise, and for obtaining feedback on ongoing research.
An Award will be given to the best paper presented at the workshop. The
winners of the Award will be announced at the closing session of the
workshop.


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Papers submission
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The paper submission deadline is *30/06/2013*. Details about the SMAP 2013
submission guidelines are available on the SMAP'13 website.

Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference
Publishing Services (CPS).

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20th Anniversary International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2014)

*MMM 2014* - 1st Call for Papers

20th Anniversary International Conference on
MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2014)
Jan 8-10, 2014, Dublin, Ireland

preceded by the 2014 Video Browser Showdown, Jan 7, at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, Ireland.
*IMPORTANT DATES*

Jun 03, 2013: Deadline for special session proposals
Jun 10, 2013: Acceptance notification special sessions

Aug 01, 2013: Deadline for papers (full, short, sp. sessions) & demos
Sep 18, 2013: Acceptance notification for all paper types and demos
Oct 16, 2013: Camera-ready versions due

Jan 8-10, 2014: MMM 2014 Conference
at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, Ireland

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http://mmm2014.org
https://twitter.com/MMM2014Dublin
http://www.facebook.com/MMM2014Dublin
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Now in its 20th year, MMM is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners for sharing new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and demonstrations in all areas related to multimedia modeling technologies and applications. It also calls for special session proposals focusing on specific new challenges in the multimedia area. *TOPICS OF INTEREST* The topics of interest for MMM 2014 include, but are not limited to: *Multimedia Content Analysis* including - Multimedia Indexing - Multimedia Mining - Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization - Multimedia Annotation, Tagging and Recommendation - Multimodal Analysis for Retrieval Applications - Semantic Analysis of Multimedia and Contextual Data - Multimedia Fusion Methods - Media Content Browsing and Retrieval Tools *Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications* including - Media Representation and Algorithms - Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression - Multimedia Security and Content Protection - Multimedia Standards and Related Issues - Advances in Multimedia Networking and Streaming - Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport - Wireless and Mobile Multimedia Networking *Multimedia Applications and Services* including - Multi-Camera and Multi-View Systems - Virtual Reality and Virtual Environment - Real-Time and Interactive Multimedia Applications - Mobile Multimedia Applications - Multimedia Web Applications - Interactive Multimedia Authoring Personalization - Sensor Networks (Video Surveillance, Distributed Systems) - Emerging Trends (e-learning, e-Health, Social Media, Multimedia Collaboration, etc.) *SUBMISSIONS* Conference proceedings will be published as series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. Authors of selected papers of MMM 2014 will be invited to publish extended versions in a special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications journal (MTAP, Springer). Submissions should conform to the formatting instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series http://www.springer.com/LNCS/. Page limits are 12 pages for full papers, 8 pages for short papers, and 4 pages for demos. All submissions will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind review process to ensure maximum quality. For further information, please refer to the website: http://mmm2014.org

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The 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013)

WISE13 Call for Papers

The 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013)

 October 13-15, 2013, Nanjing, China. 

http://www.wise2013.org

The aim of this fourteenth edition of the conference series on Web
Information Systems Engineering is to provide an international forum for
researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their
knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies and
applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China
(2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane,
Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan, China (2006), Nancy, France
(2007), Auckland, New Zealand (2008), Poznan, Poland (2009), Hong Kong,
China (2010), and Sydney, Australia (2011), and Paphos, Cyprus (2012).

The proceedings of WISE'13 will be published in 2 separate volumes by
Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and the best papers
will be recommended for publication in special issues of World Wide Web.


Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

* Big Data;
* Cloud Computing;
* Discovering Social Web structures and models;
* Deep/Hidden Web;
* Event Processing and Event-driven Systems;
* Evolution and temporal analysis of the Social Web;
* Integration of the Web and Internet-connected Objects / IoT;
* Linked Open Data;
* Peer-Computing;
* Rich Web UI;
* Search, Text and media extraction, clustering and classification of the
Social Web;
* Semantic Web;
* Social Networking;
* Web Agents and Web Intelligence;
* Web-based Applications (e.g., Auction and Negotiation, e-Commerce,
e-Government, e-Learning, etc.);
* Web-based Business Processes and Web Services;
* Web-based Enterprise Systems and Transactions;
* Web Data Integration;
* Web Data Mashup;
* Web Data Models;
* Web Information Retrieval;
* Web Metrics and Performance;
* Web Mining and Web Warehousing;
* Web Monitoring and Management;
* Web Security and Trust Management;
* Web Tools and Languages;
* Web Visualisation; and
* XML and Semi-structured Data.

Publication
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All papers
will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee. All
submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines
provided by Springer LNCS format and MUST NOT exceed 14 pages. A special
issue of WWW Journal is scheduled for extended versions of some selected
papers from the WISE2013 conference.


WISE2013 Keynote Speakers:
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Prof. Wen Gao, Peking University, China; IEEE Fellow; Academician, Chinese
Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Divyakant Agrawal, The University of California at Santa Barbara; ACM
Fellow, IEEE Fellow.



Organizing Committee

Honorary General Chair:
Jian Lv, Nanjing University, China

General Co-Chairs:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo!Research Lab, Spain Yanchun Zhang, Victoria
University, Australia Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics,
China

PC Co-Chairs:
Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia Yannis Manolopoulos,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs,
USA

Industry Program:

Min Wang, Google Research, USA
Lei Chei, ÊHKUST, Hong Kong, China

Demo Co-Chairs:
Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan Rui Zhang, University of
Melbourne, Australia Hong Gao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

WISE Challenge Program Chairs:
Weining Qian, East China Normal University, China Yabo Xu, Sun Yat-sen
University, China

Panel Co-Chairs:
Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China Junzhou Luo, Southeastern
University, China

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Wojciech Cellary,
Poznan University of Economics, Poland

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Publication Chair:
Guangyan Huang, Victoria University, Australia

Local Arrangement Chair:
Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China

Financial Chair:
Jing He, Victoria University, Australia

Publicity Co-Chairs
Haolan Zhang, NIT, Zhejiang University, China Athena Vakali, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece Wenjie Zhang, University of New South
Wales, Australia

WISE Society Representative:
Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia

Webmasters:
Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China


Important Dates

Research Paper Abstract Submission: 8th May 2013 ÊResearch Paper
Submission: 15th May 2013 ÊDemonstration Paper Submission: 15th June 2013
Paper Notification of Acceptance: 3rd July 2013 ÊAccepted Paper
Camera-ready: 24th July 2013 ÊWorkshop Proposal Submission: 4th April 2013
Workshop Proposal Notification: 25th April 2013

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13th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2013)

ICWE 2013

13th International Conference on Web Engineering

July 8-12, 2013

Aalborg, Denmark

http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/

Early Registration Deadline: 30. April 2013

Register at: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/registration

It is still possible to submit papers to individual workshops and the PhD Symposium

The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) aims to promote

scientific and practical excellence in Web Engineering and to bring

together researchers and practitioners working on all aspects regarding

the engineering of Web-based software systems. The conference aims to

advance the state-of-the-art of technologies, methodologies,

programming languages, algorithms, models, protocols, tools, and

metrics and specifically looks for excellent research contributions,

cutting-edge engineering practices, and empirical insights.

ICWE 2013 will be held on July 8-12, 2013, in Aalborg, Denmark. It's

going to be the 13th edition of the conference, after 12 successful

editions in a row.

Proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS and workshop papers will

appear in post-proceedings published by Springer LNCS as well.

Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended

version of their contribution to a special issue of the international

Journal of Web Engineering, Rinton Press.

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PhD Symposium: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/phd-proposals

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Workshops: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/workshops

The 4th International Workshop on Quality in Web Engineering (QWE 2013)

organized by Cinzia Cappiello, Adrian Fernandez, and Luis Olsina

The 5th International Workshop on Lightweight Composition on the Web (ComposableWeb 2013)

organized by Sven Casteleyn, Cesare Pautasso, and Geert-Jan Houben

The 9th Model-Driven and Agile Engineering for the Web Workshop (MDWE 2013)

organized by Santiago Melia and Manuel Wimmer

The 2nd Workshop on Data Management in the Social Semantic Web (DMSSW 2013)

organized by Roberto De Virgilio, Andrea Pugliese, and Devis Bianchini

The International Workshop on Cloud and Service Engineering (CSE 2013)

organized by Talal Noor, Lina Yao, and Xiaoqiang Qiao

The International Workshop on Engineering Mobile Web Applications (EMotions)

organized by Marco Winckler and Sven Casteleyn

The International Workshop on Semantic Social Networks (SSN 2013)

organized by Lylia Abrouk and David Gross-Amblard

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Social Program: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/events

Welcome Reception at the Museum of Modern Art

Robber's Banquet in Forest of Rold

Dramatized City Walks

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Keynotes: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/keynotes

Wil van der Aalst: Service Mining: Using Process Mining to Discover,

Check, and Improve Service Behavior

Sean Wang: TBA

Jan Borchers: An Internet of Custom-Made Things: From 3D Printing and

Personal Fabrication to Personal Design of Interactive Devices

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Open Space Session:

Open Space  - Gives ICWE 2013 an opportunity to address complex problems

and/or ideas in a set-up that ensures optimal communication, collaboration,

innovation, and solutions to challenges. It is an interactive process -

participants bring their own relevant subjects to the "agenda" and then

meet in concurrent and overlapping mini-discussions around a theme or an issue.

The cross-pollination of moving from group to group and topic to topic in a

non-linear way allows participants to jump quickly from familiar ways of

thinking into innovation and action.

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Accepted Full Papers: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/accepted-full-papers

Accepted Industry Papers: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/accepted-industry-track-papers

Accepted Short Papers: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/accepted-short-papers

Accepted Demos and Posters: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/accepted-demos-and-posters

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Tutorials: http://icwe2013.webengineering.org/acceptedtutorials

Current Challenges in Web Crawling

Denis Shestakov

Enterprise Application Integration - the Cloud Perspective

Joerg Laessig

Human Computation and Games With A Purpose

Alessandro Bozzon, Luca Galli

Responsive Design and Development: Methods, Technologies and Current Issues

Michael Nebeling, Moira C. Norrie

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The Second IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Multimedia (ICSC-SMM'13)

The Second IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Multimedia (ICSC-SMM'13)

in conjunction with THE SEVENTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMANTIC

COMPUTING

(http://www.ieee-icsc.org/ICSC2013/)

Hyatt Regency Irvine

Irvine, California, USA

September 16-18, 2013

Semantic multimedia-related research gains increasing attention nowadays to satisfy the needs of understanding and managing the semantics within the multimedia data, efficient and effective retrieval of semantic information, fast and secured delivery and sharing of semantic multimedia, and etc. As a
workshop focusing on the state-of-the-art research regarding semantic multimedia, the ICSC-SMM'13 provides a forum for researchers to present their latest research progress, exchange brilliant ideas and thoughts, and explore new research directions. We continue seeking high quality research contributions and encouraging significant work that addresses the major challenges in the semantic multimedia domain. Topics of interest include but are not limited to practical areas that span a variety of aspects of semantic multimedia including

• Semantic multimedia metadata ontology and management
• Multimedia content analysis and processing
• Social media computing
• Large-scale multimedia data mining and retrieval
• Multimedia security, content protection and forensics
• Multi-modal integration, human-machine interaction and applications
• Semantic-based QoS control and scheduling
• Semantic-based Internet data streaming and delivery
• Multimedia-enriched semantic web
• Semantics-enabled networking and middleware for multimedia applications
• Multimedia event detection and understanding
• Semantic multimedia demonstrations and applications


SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit a paper up to 6 pages (in English) in
double-column IEEE format following the submission guidelines available at
the ICSC-2013 web page. Papers must be original and not submitted to or
accepted by any other conference or journal. An electronic version (PDF
format) of the full paper should be submitted by the paper submission
deadline to EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=icsc2013). All
submissions will be acknowledged. More information is available on the ICSC
2013 web page.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts in the topical
area. Papers accepted by the workshops will be published in the conference
proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Outstanding papers
will be selected for extension and publication in the International Journal
of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM).


IMPORTANT DATES
Regular paper submission: May 31, 2013
Notification of acceptance: June 28, 2013 Camera-ready & author
registration: July 10, 2013

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
(Any general questions regarding the workshop should be directed to workshop
co-chairs.)

Workshop Co-Chairs
Chao Chen, Capital One Bank, USA (c.chen15@umiami.edu) Dianting Liu,
University of Miami, USA (d.liu4@umiami.edu) Lin Lin, American National
Standards Institute, USA (l.lin2@umiami.edu) Mei-Ling Shyu, University of
Miami, USA (shyu@miami.edu)

Program Committee
TBD

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Assistant Professor for Mobile Media (Software Engineering for Mobile Media), Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany

The Faculty of Media at Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar, Germany, is inviting applicants for the position of an

Assistant Professor for Mobile Media
(Software Engineering for Mobile Media)

in German:
http://www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/aktuell/stellenausschreibungen/mjp0
213/

in English:
http://www.uni-weimar.de/en/university/news/job-openings/mjp0213e/


Teaching and research of the professorship should focus on scientific and
technical challenges of software and hardware for digital mobile devices.
Core topics are

- software engineering for heterogeneous and distributed mobile systems
- development and implementation of new applications and software
infrastructures for mobile devices

Further topics are the preparation, transmission, and presentation of
various media types.


The candidate must hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a closely related
field, have experience in one or more of the areas mentioned above, show an
outstanding research potential and, ideally, should have experience in the
acquisition and management of externally funded projects.

The professorship is expected to teach some of the introductory courses of
the Computer Science and Media study course (in particular software
engineering). Also expected is a commitment for cooperations with faculty
members from the Faculty for Media and the University as a whole.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national
origin, gender, age, or disability.

Interested and qualified candidates are asked to submit the application
documents (application letter, CV, references, list of publications) as a
single PDF file by email to dekanat[at]medien.uni-weimar.de

The deadline for applications is May 13, 2013

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Joint Call For Papers - Conferences / Journal Special Issues Cloud Computing (April 2013)

 Conference Call For Papers, Workshop Proposals, Demo and Participation
(orderd by submission deadline)

1. 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 20, 2013

2. PhoneCom 2013 (August 20-23, 2013, Beijing, China)
The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Sensing, Networking, and Computing with Smartphones
http://phonecom.org
*Submission deadline: April 20, 2013

3. EMC 2013 (August 23-25, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan)
The 8th International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing
http://emc2013.niu.edu.tw
*Submission deadline: April 23, 2013

4. 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: April 25, 2013

5. INTECH 2013 (August 29-31, 2013, London, UK)
3trd International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology
http://www.dirf.org/intech/default.asp
*Submission deadline: May 20, 2013

6. 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

7. EMCA 2013 (November 13-15, 2013, Zhangjiajie, China)
The 3nd International Workshop on Embedded Multi-Core computing and Applications
http://emca2013.cs.pu.edu.tw/
*Submission deadline: June 15, 2013

8. 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
(orderd by submission deadline)

1. Journal of Applied Mathematics (Hindawi)
Special Issue on Mathematical and Numerical Modeling of Information Dissemination in Mobile Networks
http://www.hindawi.com/
*Manuscript Due: April 19, 2013

2. Journal of Communications
Special Issue on Smart Grid Communications
http://www.dnagroup.org/PDF/SpeicalIssue_SmartGridCommunications_CallForPapers.pdf
*Manuscript Due: May 15, 2013

3. Journal of Internet Technology (ISI Impact Factor = 0.501)
Special Issue on "Cloud Computing and Big Data"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/JIT-CCBD
*Manuscript Due: May 30, 2013

4. IEEE Trans. on Learning Technologies
Special Issue on Social Computing and Social Knowledge for e-Learning
http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tltsi_scskel.pdf
*Manuscript Due: June 1, 2013

5. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Special Issue on¡§Cloud Computing for Mobile Environments¡¨
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/CCPE
*Manuscript Due: June 15, 2013

6. Information Sciences (Elsevier)
Special Issue on Cloud-assisted Wireless Body Area Networks
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/call-for-papers/special-issue-of-information-sciences-on-cloud-assisted/
*Manuscript Due: July 1, 2013

7. IEEE Trans. on Cloud Computing
Special Issue on Utility and Cloud Computing Science and Technology
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/TCC
*Manuscript Due: September 1, 2013

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Special Issue on "Propagation Phenomenon in Complex Networks: Theory and Practice" - New Generation Computing

Special Issue CALL FOR PAPERS on New Generation Computing
Deadline for submissions: 30 Sep 2013

*Title: “Propagation Phenomenon in Complex Networks: Theory and Practice”

(http://www.ii.pwr.wroc.pl/~krol/eng_EPP.htm)

New Generation Computing appears in the ISI Journal Citation Reports with Impact Factor of 0.941.

*Guest editor: Dariusz Krol, Bournemouth University (United Kingdom)

*Scope and aim of the Special Issue

Propagation and particularly error propagation are important features of every complex network. Studying 

this phenomenon enables us to better understand the spread of information in a network which in turn may 

lead to the improvement of its performance and robustness. The propagation characteristic depends heavily 

on the network topology and a clear so-called “butterfly effect” relationship. In response to many types 

of disturbances, propagation techniques play an important role in maintaining existing networks, e.g. 

electric power grids synchronisation, prediction of complex system behaviour, resource discovery and 

monitoring, biological invasions finding and damages determining, virus propagation control and 

restraining, social and large scale infrastructure networks decomposition and immunizing. Recently, 

enormous interest has been devoted to modelling cascading failures on the networks in quest of designing 

'better' networks, not only robust to the random loss of nodes ('errors') like scale-free networks, but 

also less vulnerable to its fragility to the selective loss of the most connected ones ('attacks'). Many 

real-world networks have scale-free property and therefore there is a need to develop methods that would 

enable to protect them from both random errors and deliberate attacks.

The issue is intended to support the development of propagation paradigms stemming from the cross-

fertilization of various research fields. Our aim is to highlight an ongoing research on different 

methodological and technological approaches regarding propagation phenomenon together with their 

applications on various domains.

We seek submissions of varied propagation strategies in the following (but not limited to): 

•cascading failure and the damage assessment

•cellular and organic grids, agent colonies 

•collective behaviour of social colonies

•complex network reliability estimation and improvement

•epidemic spreading and immune system proliferation

•knowledge propagation, coordination and integration

•nature-inspired approaches to propagation phenomenon

•robustness, vulnerability and immunizing

•self-adaptation and evolution

•self-organization and self-healing systems

*Instructions to authors

Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to the guest editor. The proposals should not have been 

published or be currently submitted for publication elsewhere. All submitted manuscripts will be peer 

reviewed, and will be evaluated on the basis of originality, quality and relevance to this Special Issue 

and the NGC, and on the basis of clarity and correct use of English. Submissions should follow the NGC 

guidelines. For more detailed information concerning the requirements for the journal style, please refer 

to the webpage at: http://www.ohmsha.co.jp/ngc/

*Important Dates

Abstract submission: 31 Aug 2013

Submission of full papers:30 Sep 2013

First decision notification:30 Nov 2013

Submission revised papers: 31 Dec 2013

Final decision notification:15 Feb 2014

Submission camera-ready papers: 31 March 2014

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Assistant Professor Interaction Technology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Assistant Professor Interaction Technology

Job description
The cluster Interaction Technology of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences is recruiting an  Assistant Professor. As prospective candidate you have expertise and experience in scientific research and education in relevant areas of computer science and information science. The research lies in the area of technologies for interaction between different media, virtual worlds, users, and their environment. The teaching tasks lie primarily in the bachelor studies Computer Science, and Information Science, and the master program Game & Media Technology. It is expected that the Assistant Professor will develop an independent line of research within the field of interaction technology in cooperation with the other members of the cluster Interaction Technology.

This cluster researches new techniques for engaging interaction between users and various forms of media, such as images, movies, sounds, music, virtual characters, as well as augmented and completely virtual worlds. For this, various modalities, such as movement, touch, sound, brain signals, and other forms of bio-signals are investigated. We focus on the design, development, analysis and evaluation of new concepts, models and algorithms for innovative interaction. We take human aspects such as validation, efficiency, efficacy, communication, perception, cognition and emotion into account.

The work tasks for this position include:
- Performing scientific research in the field of interaction technology.
- Acquiring research funding and supervising PhD students.
- Developing and teaching courses, especially in Computer Science, Information Science, and Game & Media Technology.
- Supervising student projects, internships, and Master theses.
- Taking care of dessimination and valorization in the domain of serious gaming.
- Performing organizational activities within the cluster, department or faculty.

Qualifications
We are looking for candidates with a PhD in a relevant area. Experience in academic education within a university setting is desired. The candidate shall have published on relevant areas in international conferences and journals. Well-developed teaching skills and command of English in speaking and writing are a requirement. Candidates who prefer part-time employment are also invited to apply.

Offer
We offer an attractive position in a dynamic environment. The appointment is for three to five years. The position is full-time, but part-time employment is possible. The salary is between € 2890 scale 10) and € 5,020 (scale 12) gross per month for a full-time appointment depending on education and experience. Additionally, excellent secondary benefits are provided, such as 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end of year bonus. We offer a pension scheme, partially paid parental leave and flexible working conditions. For more information see the terms of employment: http://goo.gl/nMy83.

About the organization
The Department of Computer Science (see http://www.cs.uu.nl) is nationally and internationally renowned for its  research in computer science and information science. The research of the department is grouped into four clusters: Software Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Worlds, and Interaction Technology. Its research focus is on Game Technology, one of the four research focus areas of the Faculty of Science. Both the Department and the Faculty strive to strengthen the fundamental research in computer science and information science with applications in gaming technology and expand in the domain of interaction technology.
The Department offers bachelor programs in computer science and information science, and four English-language research master-programs including Game & Media Technology. High enrollment figures and good student ratings indicate the success of our educational programs.

Additional information
For more information please contact Prof. dr Remco Veltkamp at tel. +31.30.253.4091, or email R.C.Veltkamp@uu.nl.

Apply
Your application must contain a motivation letter, your CV with publication list, teaching and research statement, and contact details of at least two references. You can respond via the link: http://goo.gl/4pG1I.

The deadline for applications is 1 May 2013.

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EC-TEL 2013 - Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions

Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions

EC-TEL 2013: Eighth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning

"Scaling Up Learning for Sustained Impact"

17-21 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus

http://ec-tel.eu/

The EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium brings together Ph.D. students working on topics
related to Technology Enhanced Learning. The doctoral consortium will offer
Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on
their research in an interdisciplinary and international atmosphere. Prominent
professors and researchers in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning will
provide feedback to the selected papers and participate actively and contribute
to the discussions. The Doctoral Consortium will take place immediately before
the EC-TEL 2013 conference.

The intention of this doctoral consortium is to support and inspire Ph.D.
students during their ongoing research efforts. Therefore, it is necessary that
authors will have neither achieved their Ph.D. degree nor officially submitted
their thesis before the doctoral consortium (September 2013). To enforce this
rule we require authors to disclose their expected graduation date and their
advisor's name when submitting.


DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATION PROCESS

In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions should address
specifically doctoral work. Therefore, the following elements have to be
addressed in the papers:

* A clear formulation of the research question.
* An identification of the significant problems in the field of research.
* An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as
the state of existing solutions.
* A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the
results achieved so far.
* A sketch of the applied research methodology.
* A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem solution.
* A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better
as compared to existing approaches to the problem.

Accepted students should prepare:

1. An introduction of themselves and their Ph.D. project for the introductory
session. Duration: 60 sec max.
2. A 15-20 minute presentation of their Ph.D. project to be used for introducing
discussion about their project and its main issues during the small group sessions.
3. Students are also invited to prepare a poster about their Ph.D. for the EC-TEL 2013
poster session.

Submissions should be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcectel13

The maximum length of DC submissions should not exceed 6 pages.

All submissions will be reviewed after acceptance by at least two senior researchers
and one of the accepted doctoral candidates. Additionally, two discussants, members
of the doctoral consortium committee, will be appointed to each paper. Discussant
comments will be followed by a plenary discussion of the paper. At the end of the
consortium there will be a general discussion, including a brainstorming session
about current and future research topics in the area.


IMPORTANT DATES

Doctoral Consortium application submission: May 31, 2013
Doctoral Consortium application notification: June 27, 2013
Doctoral Consortium reviews: July 31, 2013
Doctoral Consortium camera-ready versions: September 4, 2013
Doctoral Consortium: September 17, 2013


CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

General Chair:
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Program Chairs:
Davinia Hernández-Leo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Tobias Ley, Tallinn University, Estonia

Industry Chair:
Lucia Pannese, Imaginary, Italy

Workshop Chair:
Anoush Margaryan, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

Poster and Demonstration Chair:
Andreas Harrer, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germay

Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Katherine Maillet, Télécom SudParis, France
Tomaz Klobucar, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Dissemination Chair:
Michael Derntl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Local Organization Chair:
George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus



Find all details at http://ec-tel.eu/

Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/ectel2013

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ACIS presentation - From Micro to Macro - Analyzing Activity in the ROLE Sandbox

My colleague Dominik Renzel from the  ACIS group at RWTH Aachen University presented our paper "From Micro to Macro - Analyzing Activity in the ROLE Sandbox" at the ACM LAK 2013 conference in Leuven, Belgium.

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ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOP PROPOSALS, TUTORIAL PROPOSALS and DEMOS

ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) 2013

Oct 12-16, 2013, Hong Kong, China

http://recsys.acm.org/recsys13/

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the premier annual event on research and applications of recommendation technologies, the Seventh ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2013). The conference will be held on October 12-16, 2013, Hong Kong, China. Previous conferences have been distinguished by a strong level of interaction between researchers and practitioners in the sharing of ideas, problems and solutions, and the 2013 conference will continue in this tradition. The fully-refereed proceedings will be published by the ACM and, like past RecSys proceedings, are expected to be widely read and cited.

All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically in PDF format. RecSys 2013 submissions should be prepared according to the standard ACM SIG proceedings format. For your convenience, we provide paper templates in Microsoft Word and LaTeX on the conference website.

There are two paper submission categories:

Long paper submissions should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. The maximum length is 8 pages in the standard ACM SIG proceedings format. Each accepted long paper will be presented in a plenary session as part of the main conference program. We expect the review process to be highly selective: in 2012, the acceptance rate for full papers was 20%.

Short paper submissions typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. The maximum length is 4 pages in the standard ACM SIG proceedings format. Each accepted short paper will be presented in a poster session. The presentation may include a system demonstration.

Note: Please note that rejected long paper submissions will not be automatically considered as short papers.

We construe recommender systems broadly, including applications ranging from e-commerce to social networking, platforms from web to mobile and beyond, and a wide variety of technologies ranging from collaborative filtering to case-based reasoning. Topics of interest for RecSys 2013 include (but are not limited to):

- Algorithm scalability

- Case studies of real-world implementations

- Computational advertising

- Conversational recommender systems

- Context-aware and multidimensional models

- Evaluation metrics and studies

- Explanations and evidence

- Group recommenders

- Impact studies

- Innovative/New applications

- Machine learning for recommendation

- Novel paradigms

- Personalization

- Preference elicitation

- Recommendation algorithms

- Social recommenders

- User interfaces

- Security, privacy, trust, and reputation

- Semantic web technologies for recommendation

- Theoretical foundations

- User modelling

- User studies

RecSys 2013 is pleased to invite demos, proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference.

The RecSys demo session provides an exciting way for researchers and developers to present new recommender ideas, show off their work, and get valuable feedback from the recommender systems community.

The goal of the workshops is to provide additional venues for presenting research on topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges.

The goal of the tutorials is to provide the larger conference community an opportunity to learn about recommender system concepts and techniques and serve as a venue to share presenters’ expertise with the global community of recommender system researchers and practitioners.

We actively encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit demos and proposals. We actively encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit demos and proposals. The details for demos, workshops and tutorials are available at http://recsys.acm.org/recsys13/recsys-2013-call-for-contributions/.

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Important Dates

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Long/Short Papers:

- Paper Abstract Submission: May 6, 2013

- Paper Submission: May 13, 2013

- Paper Acceptance Notification: July 8, 2013

- Camera-Ready papers due: July 22, 2013

Workshop Proposals:

- Workshop proposals due: April 15, 2013

- Workshop Decisions announced: May 6, 2013

Tutorial Proposals:

- Tutorial proposals due: May 20, 2013

- Tutorial Acceptance Notification: June 24, 2013

- Camera-ready tutorial papers due: July 29, 2013

Demos:

- Demo Submission: May 27th, 2013

- Demo Acceptance Notifications: June 24th, 2013

- Camera-ready demos due: July 29, 2013

- Conference Dates: Oct 12-16, 2013

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Questions?

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More information at: http://recsys.acm.org/2013

LinkedIn group: Recsys 2013

Twitter: @ACMRecSys

Program Co-chairs (program2013@recsys.acm.org):

Pearl Pu, EPFL Lausanne

George Karypis, University of Minnesota

General Co-chairs (recsys2013@acm.org):

Qyang Yang, Huawei Noah Ark Research Lab & Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong

Local Chairs (lichen@comp.hkbu.edu.hk):

Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Ted Chi Yin Chow, City University of Hong Kong, China

Publicity Chairs (mi_zhang@fudan.edu.cn):

Mi Zhang, Fudan University, China

Simon Dooms, Ghent University, Belgium

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