Petru, Milos, Michael and me gave a workshop on a semantic video annotation approach for informal learning. We are working on this in the Learning Layers project. In this workshop we explored the different interfaces we have designed and implemented for the use case of semantic video annotation. We have Web-based, widget-Based, distributed and mobile interfaces. After some tasks with the interfaces we explored further together with the workshop participants how semantic video annotation can unlock peer production and support scaffolding in informal learning based on real user stories collected in the construction industry within the Layers project. The slides are available from slideshare and Petru prepared a web page, where you can find access to all the prototypes and the workshop materials. We will continue the quest for semantic video annotation using our Requirements Bazaar, a system for social requirements engineering, which has been recently accepted as a demo for the IEEE Requirements Engineering 2013 conference.
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Friday, 24 May 2013
Call for Papers
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Multiple Sensorial (MulSeMedia) Multi-modal Media: Advances and Applications
Multimedia applications have primarily engaged two of the human senses â€" sight and hearing. With recent advances in computational technology, however it is possible to develop applications that also consider, integrate and synchronize inputs across all senses, including tactile, olfaction, and gustatory. This integration of multiple senses leads to a paradigm shift towards a new mulsemedia (multiple sensorial media) experience, aligning rich data from multiple human senses. Mulsemedia brings with itself new and exciting challenges and opportunities in research, industry, commerce, and academia. This special issue solicits contributions dealing with mulsemedia in all of these areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Context-aware Mulsemedia
- Metrics for Mulsemedia
- Capture and synchronization of Mulsemedia
- Mulsemedia devices
- Mulsemedia in distributed environments
- Mulsemedia integration
- Mulsemedia user studies
- Multi-modal mulsemedia interaction
- Mulsemedia and virtual reality
- Quality of service and Mulsemedia
- Quality of experience and Mulsemedia
- Tactile/haptic interaction
- User modelling and Mulsemedia
- Mulsemedia and e-learning
- Mulsemedia and e-commerce
- Mulsemedia Standards
- Mulsemedia applications (e.g. e-commerce, e- learning, e-health, etc)
- Emotional response (e.g. EEG) of Mulsemedia
- Mulsemedia sensor research
- Mulsemedia databases
Important Dates
- Paper Submission: 14/10/2013
- First Decision: 13/01/2014
- Paper Revision Submission: 03/03/2014
- Second Decision: 28/04/2014
- Accepted Papers Due: 12/05/2014
Guest Editors
- George Ghinea (Brunel University, UK)
- Stephen Gulliver (University of Reading, UK)
- Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria)
- Weisi Lin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Prospective contributors are welcome to contact the guest editors at guesteditors2014@kom.tu-darmstadt.de
Submission Procedure
All submission guidelines of TOMCCAP, such as formatting, page limits and extensions of previously-submitted conference papers, must be adhered to. Please see the Authors Guide section of the TOMCCAP website for more details (http://tomccap.acm.org). To submit please follow these instructions:
Submit your paper through TOMCCAP’s online system http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tomccap. When submitting please use the Manuscript Type ‘Special Issue: MulSeMedia’ in the ManuscriptCentral system.
In your cover letter, include the information “Special Issue on Mulsemedia†and, if submitting an extended version of a conference paper, explain how the new submission is different and extends previously published work.
After you submit your paper, the system will assign a manuscript number to it. Please email this number to guesteditors2014@kom.tu-darmstadt.de together with the title of your paper.
IEEE CloudCom 2013 (5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, Technology and Science)
2-5 December 2013, Bristol, UK
Please consider submitting a paper for IEEE CloudCom 2013.
General Information
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The “Cloud” is a natural evolution of distributed computing and of the widespread adaption of virtualization and SOA. In Cloud Computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. The IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, steered by the Cloud Computing Association, aim to bring together researchers who work on cloud computing and related technologies.
Important Dates
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Paper submission - July 5, 2013
Workshop, poster and demo papers – August 5, 2013
Notification – September 2, 2013
Camera-ready – September 16, 2013
Paper Submission
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Manuscripts need to be prepared according to the IEEE CS format: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting
For regular papers, the page limit will be 8 pages. For workshops and Ph.D. consortium, the page limit will be 6 pages. For poster and demo, the page limit will be 4 pages.
All accepted papers will be published by IEEE CS Press (IEEE Xplore) and Indexed by EI and ISSN. Accepted papers will be asked to present in a plenary session. Distinguished papers will be invited to be extended for submission in the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, or to a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
The IEEE CloudCom 2013 submission site is: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloudcom2013
Topics of Interest
------------------
These include:
• Cloud architecture
• Big Data
• Security and Privacy in the Cloud
• Cloud services and Applications
• Virtualization
• HPC on Cloud
• IoT and Mobile on Cloud
For further details and workshop information see 2013.cloudcom.org
AAAI Fall Symposium Series 2013:
The Symposium on Social Networks and Social Contagion
November 15-17, 2013,
Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, Virginia
Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: June 7th, 2013 (Extended)
Notification of acceptance: June 21, 2013
SNSC Symposium: November 15-17, 2013
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Symposium Theme
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With the emergence of Computational Social Science as a field of collaboration between
computer scientists and social scientists, the study of social networks and processes
on these networks (social contagion) has been gaining interest. Many topics of traditional
sociological interest (such as the diffusion of innovations, emergence of norms,
identification of influencer) can now be studied using detailed computational models and
extensive simulation. The advent and popularity of online social media also allows the
creation of massive data sets which can inform models and underlying sociological theory.
The ubiquity of "smart devices" (such as smart phones) also provides opportunities to
gather extensive data on the behaviors and interactions of humans in "real space".
The goal of this symposium is to bring together a community of researchers interested
in addressing these issues and to encourage interdisciplinary approaches to these problems.
We specifically encourage participation and contributions from many communities, including
computer science, statistics, mathematics, the social, behavioral and economic sciences,
and the medical and health sciences.
Point of contact for further questions:
Samarth Swarup <swarup@vbi.vt.edu>
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Topics
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Papers are invited on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
Social Contagion
--the spread of ideas or beliefs
--emotion contagion
--diffusion of information
--the spread of changes in language
--diffusion of innovations
--emergence of norms
--interventions to prevent contagion
--influence maximization
--complex contagion
--virtual agents, agent-human contagion
--disease diffusion models
--diffusion of risk behaviors in networks
--diffusion of health behaviors in networks
Game Theory in Social Networks and Social Contagion
--influence maximization
--influence blocking maximization game
--other game-theoretic approaches
Network Modeling
--exponential random graph models
--stochastic actor models
--network evolution models, etc.
Network-based Inference
--label inference
--network structure inference
--contagion model inference
Human Data Elicitation
--expression of attitudes/personality from online sources (such as Twitter and Facebook)
--using social media for tracking social contagion, developing social networks, etc.
--crowdsourcing as a means to learn about humans
--Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) as "virtual laboratories" to study social contagion
--reality mining for social networks
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Submissions
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Submissions are solicited as papers of no more than 8 pages in length, in AAAI format.
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Organizing Committee
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* Samarth Swarup, Virginia Tech
* Madhav Marathe, Virginia Tech
* Kiran Lakkaraju, Sandia National Laboratory
* Milind Tambe, University of Southern California
* Cynthia Lakon, University of California, Irvine
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Program Committee
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* Winter Mason, Stevens University of Technology
* Cheng Wang, University of California, Irvine
* Kayo Fujimoto, University of Texas - Health Science Center at Houston
* Lorien Jasny, University of California, Davis
* Mina Youssef, Virginia Tech
* Kristian Lum, Virginia Tech
* Travis Bauer, Sandia National Laboratory
* Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
* Stephen Verzi, Sandia National Laboratory
* Jonathan Whetzel, Sandia National Laboratory
Thursday, 23 May 2013
International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval
Special Issue on Cross-Media Analysis
http://www.fortune.binghamton.edu/CFP_CMA_IJMIR2013.html
Cross-media analysis is a new, emerging, and important research area in current multimedia research. Cross-media analysis exploits the data available on diverse sources of rich multimedia content simultaneously and synergistically. It is beneficial for many applications in data mining, causal inference, machine learning, multimedia, and public security.
For more details, please see the special issue webpage above or contact one of the guest editors.
Duedate for submissions: July 15th, 2013
Submissions Webpage: http://www.editorialmanager.com/mmir/default.asp
Guest Editors:
Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang
SUNY Binghamton, USA
zhongfei@cs.binghamton.edu
Yueting Zhuang
Zhejiang University, China
yzhuang@cs.zju.edu.cn
Ramesh Jain
University of California, Irvine, USA
jain@ics.uci.edu
Jia-Yu (Tim) Pan
Google, USA
jypan@google.com
Special Issue on Cross-Media Analysis
http://www.fortune.binghamton.edu/CFP_CMA_IJMIR2013.html
Cross-media analysis is a new, emerging, and important research area in current multimedia research. Cross-media analysis exploits the data available on diverse sources of rich multimedia content simultaneously and synergistically. It is beneficial for many applications in data mining, causal inference, machine learning, multimedia, and public security.
For more details, please see the special issue webpage above or contact one of the guest editors.
Duedate for submissions: July 15th, 2013
Submissions Webpage: http://www.editorialmanager.com/mmir/default.asp
Guest Editors:
Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang
SUNY Binghamton, USA
zhongfei@cs.binghamton.edu
Yueting Zhuang
Zhejiang University, China
yzhuang@cs.zju.edu.cn
Ramesh Jain
University of California, Irvine, USA
jain@ics.uci.edu
Jia-Yu (Tim) Pan
Google, USA
jypan@google.com
CALL FOR PAPERS:
"International workshop on Culturally-aware Technology Enhanced Learning" CulTEL 2013
at ECTEL 2013, 17-21 September, Paphos, Cyprus.
For details, see: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/CulTEL/.
The workshop aims to provide a forum that explores culturally inclusive and boundary breaking TEL models, and their implications on traditional infrastructures (i.e. the underpinning technical and pedagogical frameworks). The workshop will enable this emerging research community to:
- share techniques and experiences;
- identify potential domains and application areas;
- design and reflect on evaluation studies; and
- identify future research directions.
By bringing together academics, educational practitioners and TEL industries, the workshop will address several challenges along three main themes:
1. Technological underpinning:
Which components in a TEL environment need to be modifiable for cultural factors and how? What are the innovative technology enablers for adding culture in TEL settings (e.g. semantic models, data mining, intelligent exploration, and virtual agents and interaction with them)? What are the affordances and limitations of these technologies? How can TEL adapt to the cultural experiences and diversity of the learners?
2. Adding value to learning:
What is the added value of including cultural aspects in TEL for learners and tutors? How to develop awareness in cultural diversity at different stages of a learner’s progression? How to measure pedagogical effectiveness and skills valorisation? How to make the experience in a virtual learning environment relate to real-life experiences?
3. Domains and applications:
What are the learning settings (e.g. formal, non-formal and informal) and learning approaches (self-regulated, experiential learning) which require more culturally-aware TEL? What potential domains require the development of cross-cultural competencies (e.g. business communications, mentoring, advising, professional consultation, and collaboration)? What user-generated content can be exploited to capture cultural diversity (e.g. stories, blogs, comments, micro posts, and videos)? What are the lessons learnt from experimental studies?
Submissions
The workshop welcomes demonstrations (2-4 pages), position papers (4-6 pages) and research papers (8-10 pages). All submissions will be peer-reviewed. All papers should be submitted via EasyChair in PDF format at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cultel2013. Submissions should use the Springer LNCS template (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Important dates
- Submissions due: 15 July 2013
- Notification of Acceptance: 14 August 2013
- Camera-ready version of accepted papers: 28 August 2013
- Workshop date: 17 September, 2013
Workshop chairs
- Emmanuel G. Blanchard, Aalborg University at Copenhagen, Denmark
- Nick Degens, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
- Sonia Hetzner, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Lydia Lau, University of Leeds, UK
- Sandy Louchart, Heriot-Watt University, UK
- Samuel Mascarenhas, INESC-ID, Portugal
- Asad Nazir, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Dissemination
The proceedings of the workshop will be available as open access via CEUR. Depending on the quality of the contributions, a special issue in a relevant journal will be explored (e.g. IJAIED or IEEE TLT).
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Call for papers and demos
3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL13)
to be held in conjunction with EC-TEL 2013, Paphos (Cyprus). September 17, 2013.
Submission deadline: 30.06.2013
Workshop webpage: http://teleurope.eu/artel13
Twitter hashtag: #artel13
----- Introduction -----
Awareness and Reflection are important aspects of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) and have to be adequately supported to enable learners to tap the potential of learning tools. The concepts awareness and reflection are viewed differently across the disciplines informing TEL (CSCW, CSCL, psychology, educational sciences, computer science, ...). ARTEL13 aims to push forward the discussion and research on these concepts in TEL. This year's theme for ARTEL 2013 is:
"How can awareness and reflection support learning in different settings (work, education, continuing professional development, lifelong learning, etc.). What are the roles that technology can play to support awareness and reflection in these contexts?"
This workshop is a direct follow-up of last year's EC-TEL workshop ARTEL12, and the previous workshops ARNETS11 (Awareness and Reflection in Learning Networks) and ALECR11 (Augmenting the Learning Experience with Collaborative Reflection).
----- Objectives -----
The objectives of this workshop are
1. to provide a forum for presenting and discussing research on awareness and reflection in TEL
2. to create an interactive experience that connects participants' research, current tools or latest prototypes and models with real end users' learning experiences and requirements regarding reflection technology
3. to create an agenda for future ARTEL research and development.
----- Topics of interest -----
We invite contributions that address the following aspects:
- Theoretical discussion of awareness and reflection in TEL and related concepts (e.g. collaborative learning, creativity techniques, experiential learning)
- Methodologies to identify, study and analyse awareness and reflection in the context of (technology-enhanced) learning
- Empirical studies about technology support for awareness and reflection
- Technology (design, application, evaluation) supporting awareness and reflection
- Designing awareness and reflection in TEL applications and processes
- Using awareness and reflection support to enhance the learning experience
- Awareness of social context, knowledge, artefacts and processes
- Awareness and reflection in specific contexts, such as higher education, work-integrated learning, learning networks, etc.
----- Submission -----
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work. The organisers particularly encourage the submission of work-in-progress, cutting-edge prototypes. The following types of contributions are welcome:
- Full papers (max. 15 pages) that describe problems, needs, novel approaches and frameworks within the scope of the workshop. Empirical evaluation papers and industrial experience reports are welcome for submission.
- Short papers (max. 7 pages) that state the position of the authors within the scope of the workshop and describe solution concepts and work in progress.
- Demo papers (max. 2 pages) describing the motivation of the concept, the system and technology, and scenarios of application. During the workshop will be a dedicated slot were you can present and discuss your system. Additionally, you can submit a video of your system. Videos will be featured on TELeurope.eu.
Please submit your proposal via the ginkgo event management system at http://ginkgo.cs.upb.de/events/artel13. All submitted contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the program committee for originality, significance and quality.
The papers will be published in the CEUR-WS.org (http://ceur-ws.org) workshops proceedings. Submissions should use the Springer LNCS template (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
----- Important dates -----
30.06.2013 Submission Deadline
10.08.2013 Notification of Acceptance
30.08.2013 Camera-Ready Papers due
17.09.2013 Workshop
----- Organizers -----
Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Birgit Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Adam Moore, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Viktoria Pammer, Knowledge Technologies Institute, TU Graz, Austria
Lucia Pannese, imaginary, Italy
Michael Prilla, University of Bochum, Germany
Wolfgang Reinhardt, WALLMEDIEN AG / European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning, Germany
Thomas Ullmann, The Open University, United Kingdom
----- Format of the workshop -----
The workshop will have a mixture of paper presentations, a demo session and interactive group work. We aim to link theory and existing prototypes (both from the involved projects and from the presented papers and demos) to practical needs in educational and professional settings. This link will be of value to both practitioners (in that research insights become more tangible) and researchers (in that insights and research prototypes become grounded in practice).
We will use various media to encourage comments, questions and identification of hot topics during the workshop. Highlights from the presented papers and tools will be brought together in light of the workshop agenda in a final summary session, and the result will be presented during ECTEL 2013 both in the workshop summary and in the prototype sessions.
The tentative programme is as follows:
- Morning session 1: Paper presentations
- Morning session 2: Interactive demo session
- Afternoon session 1: Paper presentations
- Afternoon session 2: Interactive, small group work and plenum
----- Supporting projects -----
ARTEL13 pulls together research on awareness and reflection in technology-enhanced learning across disciplines (psychology, educational science, computer science) and across European TEL projects:
- MIRROR (Reflective Learning at Work): http://www.mirror-project.eu/
- ImREAL (Immersive Reflective Experience-based Adaptive Learning): http://www.imreal-project.eu/
- Learning Layers (Scaling up Technologies for Informal Learning in SME Cluster): http://learning-layers.eu/
----- Networking and updates -----
To stay updated about the event and with the activity of the goup, consider to join the Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning group (http://teleurope.eu/artel).
----- Background of the workshop -----
The 3rd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL13) is the third workshop in a successful series of EC-TEL workshops.
- 2nd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ARTEL12). Workshop homepage: http://www.teleurope.eu/artel12 Proceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-931/
- 1st European Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Learning Networks (ARNets11). Workshop homepage: http://teleurope.eu/arnets11ÊProceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-790/
- Augmenting the Learning Experience with Collaboratice Reflection (ALECR11). Workshop homepage: http://www.i-maginary.it/ectel2011/index.html
- 1st Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Personal Learning Environemnts (ARPLE11). Workshop homepage: http://teleurope.eu/arple11ÊProceedings: http://journal.webscience.org/view/events/
----- Background of the EC-TEL conference -----
The EC-TEL 2013: Eight European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, will take place in Paphos, Cyprus, 17-21 September 2013. The motto for this year is "Scaling up learning for sustained impact". The European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) is a unique opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to address current challenges and advances in the field. Through EC-TEL, established and emerging researchers as well as practitioners, entrepreneurs, and technology developers explore new collaborations, strengthen networks, and compliment their core experience. For more information visit http://www.ec-tel.eu/
SPeL 2013
6th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for
Web-Supported Learning Communities
http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2013
In conjunction with ICSTCC 2013
17th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing
http://ace.ucv.ro/icstcc2013
Sinaia, Romania
11-13 October 2013
MOTIVATION
The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008, SPeL 2009, SPeL 2010, SPeL
2011 and DULP&SPeL 2012 editions
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2013/previous.php). The general
topic of the workshop is the social and personal computing for
web-supported learning communities, focusing on emergent technologies for
applied computing in education.
Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems
to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social
software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking systems, media sharing
services) is increasingly being used for e-learning purposes, helping to
create novel learning experiences and knowledge. In the world of pervasive
Internet, learners are also evolving: the so-called "digital natives" want
to be in constant communication with their peers, they expect an
individualized instruction and a personalized learning environment, which
automatically adapt to their individual needs.
This workshop deals with current research on collaboration and
personalization issues in Web-supported learning communities. Its aim is
to provide a forum for discussing new trends and initiatives in this area,
including research about the planning, development, application, and
evaluation of intelligent e-learning systems, where people can learn
together in a personalized way through social interaction with other
learners.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop welcomes submissions covering aspects of collaboration,
social interactions, adaptivity and personalization in technology enhanced
learning, particularly related to issues about:
* Social learning environments
* Theory and modeling of social computing in education
* Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning
* Personal learning environments
* Lifelong learning networks
* Virtual spaces for learning communities
* Social networks analysis and mining
* Computer-supported collaborative learning
* Personalized and adaptive learning
* Adaptation methods and techniques for groups of learners
* Intelligent learner and group modeling
* Learning analytics
* Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners
* Game-based social learning
* Metadata, folksonomies and tagging
* Mobile e-learning applications
* Cloud-based learning
* Intelligent agent technology in web-based education
* Semantic web and ontologies for e-learning
* E-learning platforms and tools
* Cognitive, motivational and affective aspects
* Practice and experience sharing
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
The workshop papers should be formatted according to the IEEE Conference
Submission Standards
(http://css.paperplaza.net/conferences/support/support.php). They should
not exceed 6 pages in length (up to 2 more pages are acceptable, but they
will incur a charge of 50 EUR/page).
All papers should be submitted in PDF format, through the Easychair
system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spel2013.
All accepted workshop papers will be published in the main conference
proceedings, which will be indexed in IEEE Xplore and INSPEC. Authors of
accepted workshop papers will be required to register to the main
conference and present their paper.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: June 7, 2013 (extended deadline!!)
Full paper submission: June 14, 2013 (extended deadline!!)
Acceptance notification: July 15, 2013
Registration and camera-ready papers: July 31, 2013
ICSTCC 2013 conference: October 11-13, 2013
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, Romania
Sabine Graf - Athabasca University, Canada
Please refer to the workshop website
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2013) for more information and send
us email at spel2013@easychair.org for any inquiry.
6th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for
Web-Supported Learning Communities
http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2013
In conjunction with ICSTCC 2013
17th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing
http://ace.ucv.ro/icstcc2013
Sinaia, Romania
11-13 October 2013
MOTIVATION
The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008, SPeL 2009, SPeL 2010, SPeL
2011 and DULP&SPeL 2012 editions
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2013/previous.php). The general
topic of the workshop is the social and personal computing for
web-supported learning communities, focusing on emergent technologies for
applied computing in education.
Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems
to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social
software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking systems, media sharing
services) is increasingly being used for e-learning purposes, helping to
create novel learning experiences and knowledge. In the world of pervasive
Internet, learners are also evolving: the so-called "digital natives" want
to be in constant communication with their peers, they expect an
individualized instruction and a personalized learning environment, which
automatically adapt to their individual needs.
This workshop deals with current research on collaboration and
personalization issues in Web-supported learning communities. Its aim is
to provide a forum for discussing new trends and initiatives in this area,
including research about the planning, development, application, and
evaluation of intelligent e-learning systems, where people can learn
together in a personalized way through social interaction with other
learners.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop welcomes submissions covering aspects of collaboration,
social interactions, adaptivity and personalization in technology enhanced
learning, particularly related to issues about:
* Social learning environments
* Theory and modeling of social computing in education
* Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning
* Personal learning environments
* Lifelong learning networks
* Virtual spaces for learning communities
* Social networks analysis and mining
* Computer-supported collaborative learning
* Personalized and adaptive learning
* Adaptation methods and techniques for groups of learners
* Intelligent learner and group modeling
* Learning analytics
* Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners
* Game-based social learning
* Metadata, folksonomies and tagging
* Mobile e-learning applications
* Cloud-based learning
* Intelligent agent technology in web-based education
* Semantic web and ontologies for e-learning
* E-learning platforms and tools
* Cognitive, motivational and affective aspects
* Practice and experience sharing
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
The workshop papers should be formatted according to the IEEE Conference
Submission Standards
(http://css.paperplaza.net/conferences/support/support.php). They should
not exceed 6 pages in length (up to 2 more pages are acceptable, but they
will incur a charge of 50 EUR/page).
All papers should be submitted in PDF format, through the Easychair
system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spel2013.
All accepted workshop papers will be published in the main conference
proceedings, which will be indexed in IEEE Xplore and INSPEC. Authors of
accepted workshop papers will be required to register to the main
conference and present their paper.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: June 7, 2013 (extended deadline!!)
Full paper submission: June 14, 2013 (extended deadline!!)
Acceptance notification: July 15, 2013
Registration and camera-ready papers: July 31, 2013
ICSTCC 2013 conference: October 11-13, 2013
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, Romania
Sabine Graf - Athabasca University, Canada
Please refer to the workshop website
(http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2013) for more information and send
us email at spel2013@easychair.org for any inquiry.
Open PhD Position at the Institute for Knowledge Technologies at the Technical University of Graz 40 hours/week
Tasks:
The Institute of Knowledge Technologies seeks a motivated doctoral student for an interdisciplinary EU-funded research project "Learning Layers." Within the framework of the project, new recommender concepts (e.g., supporting users in their learning environment) based on Social Semantic Web technologies will be developed together with the project partners and a center of excellence Know-Center GmbH.
Qualifications:
Founded in 2006, the Institute for Knowledge Technologies is the youngest Institute at the School of Computer Science. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers with backgrounds in computer science, psychology and business administration. The IKT works closely with Know-Center, an Austrian
excellence center for knowledge-based systems and applications (www.know-center.at). At our location in
Graz, more than 50 highly-qualified employees and staff work in research and development under the
motto "From Data to Intelligence." As a part of the network of over 100 research facilities around the world,
we have numerous publications in the leading professional media every year.
Within its initiative to increase in the proportion of women, TUG specifically urges qualified women to apply. Among individuals with the same qualifications, women will be given a priority.
We offer:
Contact:
We look forward to hearing from you. Please email us your application and the relevant attachments at
jobs_iwm@tugraz.at senden
Tasks:
The Institute of Knowledge Technologies seeks a motivated doctoral student for an interdisciplinary EU-funded research project "Learning Layers." Within the framework of the project, new recommender concepts (e.g., supporting users in their learning environment) based on Social Semantic Web technologies will be developed together with the project partners and a center of excellence Know-Center GmbH.
Qualifications:
- completed university diploma / master's degree in computer science, software development and business management, telematics or technical mathematics (mandatory)
- prior knowledge of Social Semantic Web, recommender systems, machine learning, information retrieval (preferred)
- programming experience with XHTML, mySQL, JavaScript, CSS, Java (mandatory)
- experience with HTML5, MATLAB, Python, R, PHP (preferred)
- teamwork and self-reliance (mandatory)
- fluent English (mandatory)
- Social Semantic Systems, Data Mining, User Profiling, Adaptation, Personalization, Recommender Systems, Machine Learning and HCI
Founded in 2006, the Institute for Knowledge Technologies is the youngest Institute at the School of Computer Science. We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers with backgrounds in computer science, psychology and business administration. The IKT works closely with Know-Center, an Austrian
excellence center for knowledge-based systems and applications (www.know-center.at). At our location in
Graz, more than 50 highly-qualified employees and staff work in research and development under the
motto "From Data to Intelligence." As a part of the network of over 100 research facilities around the world,
we have numerous publications in the leading professional media every year.
Within its initiative to increase in the proportion of women, TUG specifically urges qualified women to apply. Among individuals with the same qualifications, women will be given a priority.
We offer:
- Employment level: 40 hours per week, for 36 months, starting immediately.
- Classification: B 1 under the collective agreement for university employees; the monthly minimum wage for this position is currently € 2.532,--gross (14 times a year at 40 h / w), eventually subject to increase on the basis of the rules specified in the collective agreement due to activity-specific prior experience and remuneration components specifically related to the type of work.
- Young, creative, dynamic team
- Innovative tasks
- Pleasant working atmosphere
- Opportunities for professional and personal development
Contact:
We look forward to hearing from you. Please email us your application and the relevant attachments at
jobs_iwm@tugraz.at senden
see also: http://kti.tugraz.at/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/IWM2013003_Dissertationsstelle-eng.pdf
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
We invite applications for three post-doctoral researcher positions in social data management on project IMPACT (http://impact.cs.unibo.it), funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research. The positions are at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy (http://www.informatica.unibo.it).
All three positions are for 12+12 months (the contract can be renewed after the first year by mutual agreement). Annual gross salary will be around 23.000 Euro (please, notice that the amount is tax free (IRPEF exempt) and includes social security). Expected starting date: September 2013 (flexible). The main goal of the IMPACT research program is to develop methodologies and algorithms to store and efficiently retrieve information from Social Network Sites and to identify relevant structural and communication patterns. The project is hosted by the University of Bologna (http://www.eng.unibo.it), one of the oldest universities in the World in a beautiful "young" city offering lots of cultural initiatives (http://www.bolognawelcome.com/en/). The research positions are linked to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (http://www.cse.unibo.it/en).
Requirements:
- PhD in Computer Science or related fields (Physics, Mathematics, Statistics).
- Experience in database systems and/or information retrieval and/or data mining.
- A good command of oral and written English (knowledge of Italian is not required).
Plus:
- Knowledge of complex/social networks.
- Experience in interdisciplinary research.
If interested and for any inquiries please contact Dr. Matteo Magnani (matteo.magnani@isti.cnr.it) asap.
All three positions are for 12+12 months (the contract can be renewed after the first year by mutual agreement). Annual gross salary will be around 23.000 Euro (please, notice that the amount is tax free (IRPEF exempt) and includes social security). Expected starting date: September 2013 (flexible). The main goal of the IMPACT research program is to develop methodologies and algorithms to store and efficiently retrieve information from Social Network Sites and to identify relevant structural and communication patterns. The project is hosted by the University of Bologna (http://www.eng.unibo.it), one of the oldest universities in the World in a beautiful "young" city offering lots of cultural initiatives (http://www.bolognawelcome.com/en/). The research positions are linked to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (http://www.cse.unibo.it/en).
Requirements:
- PhD in Computer Science or related fields (Physics, Mathematics, Statistics).
- Experience in database systems and/or information retrieval and/or data mining.
- A good command of oral and written English (knowledge of Italian is not required).
Plus:
- Knowledge of complex/social networks.
- Experience in interdisciplinary research.
If interested and for any inquiries please contact Dr. Matteo Magnani (matteo.magnani@isti.cnr.it) asap.
Sunday, 12 May 2013
Call for Papers
Analyzing and Improving Collaborative eScience with Social Networks (eSoN 13)
October 22, Beijing, China (http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/eson2013/)
Co-Located with eScience 2013, October 22-25, Beijing, China
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submissions Due: July 5, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: July 26, 2013
Camera Ready Versions Due: August 5, 2013
Workshop: October 22, 2013
OVERVIEW
Social networking is profoundly changing the way that people communicate
and interact on a daily basis. As eScience is inherently collaborative,
social networks can serve as a vital means for supporting information and
resource sharing, aiding discovery of connected researchers, improving
communication between globally dispersed individuals, and even measuring
scientific impact. Consequently, eScience systems are increasingly
integrating social networking concepts to improve collaboration. For
example, researcher profiles and groups exist in publication networks,
such as VIVO, Google Scholar and Mendeley, and eScience infrastructures,
such as MyExperiment, NanoHUB and GlobusOnline all utilize social
networking principles to enhance scientific collaboration. In addition to
incorporating explicit social networks, eScience infrastructures can also
leverage implicit social networks extracted from relationships expressed
in collaborative activities (e.g. publication authorship or!
citation networks).
This workshop aims to bring together researchers from a diverse range of
areas to establish a new community focused on the application of social
networking to analyze and improve scientific collaboration. There are two
complementary areas of focus for this workshop 1) how to efficiently share
information, infrastructure and software resources, such as data and tools
through social networks, and 2) how to analyze and enhance scientific
collaboration through implicit and explicit social networks, for example
analyzing scientific impact through citation networks or improving
collaboration by associating data and tools with networks of publications
and researchers.
WORKSHOP SCOPE
The topics of interest are, but not limited to, the use of social networks
to analyze and improve collaborative eScience:
· The use of social networks and social networking concepts in eScience
· Social network applications used for eScience
· Social network based resource sharing and collaboration architectures
· New forms of collaborative computing and resource sharing
· Crowdsourcing of scientific applications using social media
· Social Cloud computing
· Novel applications of digital relationships and trust
· Definition of novel principals, models and methodologies for harnessing
digital relationships
· Extraction of implicit social networks from scientific activities (e.g.
publication, citation and grants)
· Analysis of collaborative scientific activity through social networks
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are invited to submit papers containing unpublished, original work
(not under review elsewhere) of up to 8 pages of double column text using
single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11
manuscript guidelines.
Templates are available from:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm
l.
Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer.
Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the
workshop's paper submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eson2013
At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop
and all workshop participants must pay the eScience 2012 registration fee.
It is expected that all accepted papers will be published by the IEEE in
the same volume as the main conference. All papers will be reviewed by an
International Programme Committee (with a minimum of 3 reviews per paper).
Papers submissions should be performed using the easychair system, by the
date mentioned above.
ORGANIZERS
· Kyle Chard, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
· Tanu Malik, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
· Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
· Wei Tan, IBM T.J. Watson Lab, USA
STEERING COMMITTEE
· Christine Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
· Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
· Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University, USA
· Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
· Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
· Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, China
· Justin Cappos, Polytechnic Institute of New York, USA
· Zhen Chen, Tsinghua University, China
· Nicolas Kourtellis, University of South Florida, USA
· Xitong Li, MIT, USA
· Xuanzhe Liu, Peking University
· Nicholas Loulloudes, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
· Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK
· Iman Saleh Moustafa, University of Miami, USA
· Victoria Stodden, Columbia University, USA
· Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
· Michela Taufer, University of Deleware, USA
· Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
· Wenjun Wu, Beihang University, China
· Hui Zhang, Bejing University, China
Friday, 10 May 2013
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM at EC-TEL 2013 (European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning 2013)
September 17, 2013
Paphos, Cyprus
OBJECTIVES:
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. The Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors and researchers in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning. Accompanying professors will provide feedback to the papers that are selected for the doctoral consortium and participate actively and contribute to the discussions. The Doctoral Consortium is co-located with and will take place immediately before the EC-TEL 2013 conference.
The working language of the Doctoral Consortium is English.
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.
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.
Papers will be reviewed by at least two senior researchers and one of the accepted doctoral candidates. Accepted students will be asked to peer-review two accepted papers prior to the Doctoral Consortium. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings at http://CEUR-WS.org.
Only electronic submissions are accepted. Please use
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcectel13 for uploading.
Papers describing doctoral work should be submitted in PDF format before May 31, 2013. Authors should use the Springer LNCS format. For camera-ready format instructions, please see For Authors instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The paper length should not exceed 6 pages. A supporting letter by the supervisor of the Ph.D.
works should be also uploaded.
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.
A discussant, a member of the doctoral consortium committee, will be appointed to each accepted 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.
CALENDAR:
May 31, 2013: Deadline for submitting applications to the EC-TEL
Doctoral Consortium
June 27, 2013: Notification of acceptance, assignment of Peer Reviews
July 31, 2013: Peer reviews and discussant reviews sent to students
September 4, 2013: Final version of Doctoral Consortium Submission sent
for publishing
September 17, 2013: Doctoral Consortium at EC-TEL
RESEARCH TOPICS FOR THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM AT EC-TEL 2013:
Technological underpinning
Large-scale sharing and interoperability
Personalization, user modelling and adaptation
Context-aware systems
Social computing
Social media
Semantic Web
Mobile technologies (Tablets & smartphones)
Serious games and 3D virtual worlds
Network infrastructures and architectures for TEL
Sensors and sensor networks
Augmented reality
Roomware, ambient displays and wearable devices
Data mining and information retrieval
Recommender systems for TEL
Natural language processing and latent semantic analysis
eLearning specifications and standards
Learning analytics
Pedagogical underpinning
Problem- and project-based learning / Inquiry based learning
Computer-supported collaborative learning
Collaborative knowledge building
Game-based and simulation-based learning
Story-telling and reflection-based learning
Learning design and design approaches
Communities of learners and communities of practice
Teaching techniques and strategies for online learning
Learner motivation and engagement
Evaluation methods for TEL
Individual, social & organizational learning processes
Cognitive mechanisms in knowledge acquisition and construction
Self-regulated and self-directed learning
Reflective learning
Social processes in teams and communities
Social awareness
Trust and reputation in TEL
Knowledge management and organizational learning
Sustainability and scaling of TEL solutions
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
Open educational resources (OER)
Learning Networks
Teacher Networks
Cloud Computing in TEL
Bring your own Device (BYOD)
Orchestration of learning activities
Learning ecologies, learning ecosystems, fitness and evolvability of learning environments
Business models for TEL
Learning contexts and domains
Schools of the future
Promoting learning and employability within disadvantaged groups and communities
Applications of TEL in various domains
Formal education: initial (K-12, higher education), post-initial (continuing education)
Workplace learning in small, medium and large companies, networked enterprise settings as well as public and third sector organisations
Distance and online learning
Lifelong learning
Vocational training
Informal learning
Non-formal learning
Ubiquitous learning
TEL in developing countries
ICT Inclusion for learning
Digital divide and learning
Generation divide and learning
Education policies
Rural learning
TEL, functional diversity and users with special needs
Accessible learning for all
Visual, hearing and physical impairments
Psycho-pedagogic support for users
Educational guidance for tutors
Adapted learning flow, content and monitoring process
Standards about accessibility and learning
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS:
Katherine Maillet, Télécom SudParis, France Tomaž Klobučar, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be announced)
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Call for participation:
Symposium on Multiple Network Modeling, Analysis and Mining
DTU - Technical University of Denmark
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
Multiple networks have been studied in several disciplines including
computer science, physics, social network analysis, statistics and
sociology, under various names like multilayer, multiplex,
multidimensional, multimodal networks and labeled graphs.
The Symposium on Multiple Network Modeling, Analysis and Mining, that will
be held as a satellite event of the NetSci conference (the primary
conference on Network Science), will provide a detailed view over some
recent results and open problems in this field, presented by leading
experts, and will consitute a starting point for the emergence of an
interdisciplinary community focused on the study of multiple networks.
Participation is free, including lunch and coffee-breaks (limited places
available: please register ASAP).
All the details including the preliminary program are available at:
http://multiplenetworks.netsci2013.net
Symposium on Multiple Network Modeling, Analysis and Mining
DTU - Technical University of Denmark
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
Multiple networks have been studied in several disciplines including
computer science, physics, social network analysis, statistics and
sociology, under various names like multilayer, multiplex,
multidimensional, multimodal networks and labeled graphs.
The Symposium on Multiple Network Modeling, Analysis and Mining, that will
be held as a satellite event of the NetSci conference (the primary
conference on Network Science), will provide a detailed view over some
recent results and open problems in this field, presented by leading
experts, and will consitute a starting point for the emergence of an
interdisciplinary community focused on the study of multiple networks.
Participation is free, including lunch and coffee-breaks (limited places
available: please register ASAP).
All the details including the preliminary program are available at:
http://multiplenetworks.netsci2013.net
Sunday, 5 May 2013
2nd International Workshop
on Cloud Intelligence (Cloud-I 2013)
In conjunction with VLDB 2013, Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy
August 26, 2013
Contact email: cloud-i@eric.univ-lyon2.fr
CALL FOR PAPERS
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With the increasing success of cloud computing, cloud business
intelligence "as a service" offerings have sparkled widely, both from
cloud start-ups and major BI industry vendors. Beyond porting BI features
into the cloud, which already implies numerous issues (e.g., BigData/NoSQL
database modeling and storage, data localization, security and privacy,
performance, cost and usage models...), this trend also poses new, broader
challenges for making data analytics available to small and medium-size
enterprises (SMEs), non-governmental organizations, web communities (e.g.,
supported by social networks), and even the average citizen; this vision
presumably requiring a mixture of both private and open data.
The aim of the Cloud-I workshop is to become an interdisciplinary, regular
exchange forum for researchers, industry and practitioners, as well as all
potential users of Cloud Intelligence. The submission of research,
industrial, position, visionary, survey and student papers are encouraged
to fuel up the discussion.
The 2nd International Workshop on Cloud Intelligence (Cloud-I 2013) will
be collocated with the 39th International Conference on Very Large
Databases (VLDB 2013). Proceedings will be published in ACM ICPS. The best
accepted papers will also be invited to submit extended versions to a
special issue of Information Systems.
* Topics of interest
The topics of the Cloud-I workshop include, but are not limited to, the
following list.
- Analytics as a service
- Analytics for complex, temporal, spatial, spatio-temporal, mobile, linked data...
- Cloud/Big Data analytics (OLAP, data mining...): algorithms, techniques and systems
- Cloud data warehouse design and architecture, Cloud infrastructure for analytics
- Cloud Intelligence scalability and parallelization: MapReduce and beyond
- Cloud Intelligence benchmarking
- Collaborative/cooperative Cloud Intelligence, Crowd intelligence, Result sharing
- Economic/payment models for cloud intelligence
- Extracting, Transforming and Loading data over the cloud, Open and private data cross-integration
- Human-Computer interaction for Cloud Intelligence, Accessibility of Cloud Intelligence
- Massively-scaled performance
- Personal intelligence
- Real-time/right-time and event-based analytics
- Security and Reliability in Cloud Intelligence
- Semantic Web intelligence
* Important dates
- Paper submission deadline: May 16, 2013
- Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2013
- Camera ready paper submission: June 17, 2013
- Workshop date: August 26, 2013
* Submission guidelines
Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files following the ACM
proceedings format.
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
Regular papers and position papers must not to exceed 8 and 4 pages in
length, respectively, and must be submitted electronically on the
workshop's EasyChair website.
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudi2013
* Workshop chairs
- Jéróme Darmont, Université de Lyon, France
- Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark
* Program committee
- Alberto Abello, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Fadila Bentayeb, Université de Lyon, France
- Sandro Bimonte, IRSTEA Clermont-Ferrand, France
- François Briant, IBM France
- Laurent d'Orazio, Université Clermont-Ferrand II, France
- Matteo Golfarelli, University of Bologna, Italy
- Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA
- Nouria Harbi, Université de Lyon, France
- Anne Laurent, Université Montpellier 2, France
- Daniel Lemire, Université du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
- Morten Middelfart, TARGIT & illo, Denmark
- Jose-Norberto Mazon, University of Alicante, Spain
- Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy
- Juan Trujillo, University of Alicante, Spain
- Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
- Gottfried Vossen, Universität Münster, Germany
Saturday, 4 May 2013
Call for Papers
Workshop on Social Clouds:
Cloud Computing through Social Networks
alongside the IEEE CloudCom Conference,
Bristol, UK December 2-5, 2013
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialcloud2013
http://www.facebook.com/events/109914549183542/
http://www.facebook.com/SocialCloudComputing
Overview
Social network platforms have rapidly changed the way that people
communicate and interact. Platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and
LinkedIn enable the establishment of and participation in digital
communities; and the representation, documentation and exploration of
social interactions as well as relationships. Consequently, electronic
relationships are quickly becoming intertwined with their real world
counterparts. Social networks have always served as a vital means for the
sharing and exchange of informal information, improving the understanding
of relationships, improving communication between globally dispersed
individuals, and more recently measuring scientific impact. As social
network platforms as well as the "apps" they enable become more
sophisticated social networks can also serve as a means of service,
resource and data sharing. Or in other words, social networks can
facilitate the construction of Social Clouds: the provisioning of Cloud
infrastructure through social network constructs.
As the cost of personal computing has decreased, the capabilities and
resources of Internet connected users has dramatically increased. We know
from volunteer computing that at the edges of the Internet, resource
owners are willing to make their resources freely available for “good
usesâ€. Taking Facebook as an example, and discounting the 60% of users
that access Facebook with mobile devices, skimming just 1% of users’
compute resources would yield a computational infrastructure 4 times
larger than the total resources contributed to the SETI@home project. 2%
would begin to be comparable to a top500.org supercomputer. In addition,
crowdsourcing leverages the capabilities of both skilled and unskilled
communities of individuals to perform a wide variety of tasks.
However, constructing a compute, data or resource sharing platform through
a social network is not straightforward. There are many challenges that
sit at the intersection of computer science, information systems,
computational social science and economics that must be addressed. At the
centre of this workshop is the question: How can members of a social
network efficiently share infrastructure and software services across
digital relationships?
In order to address different aspects of this question, the following
topics are of (representative) interest:
- Social network-based resource sharing in Cloud environments
- Forming "edge" Clouds through user contributed resources and services
- Peer-2-Peer resource sharing to form distributed Cloud systems
- Cloud federation through user provisioned resources
- Social network-based resource sharing and collaboration architectures
- Testbed implementations of Social Clouds
- Data caching and sharing through socially formed relationships
- Content and data distribution via socially formed relationships
- Novel methods of observing and applying digital relationships and trust
- Middleware for the construction and management of Social Clouds
- Definition of novel principles, models and methodologies for the harnessing of digital relationships in the construction of Social Clouds
- Social network analysis in Cloud environments
- Qualitative Studies for the understanding of Social Cloud actors as well as their social and cognitive processes
- Representing (Soft) agreements for service and resource sharing and exchange
- Social Cloud Markets
- Social matching mechanisms
- Economic and incentive models for resource sharing in Social Cloud environments
- Methods for resource, service and capability representation in Social Networks and/or Social Clouds
- Case studies into Social Clouds
- Recommender Systems for Sharing, Exchange and Collaboration
- Crowdsourcing using Social Networks and Social media
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Important Dates
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- Paper Submissions Due: July 15, 2013
- Notification of Acceptance: September 2, 2013
- Camera Ready Versions Due: September 16, 2013
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Submission Details
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Authors are invited to submit papers containing unpublished, original work
(not under review elsewhere) of up to 6 pages of double column text using
single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11
manuscript guidelines. Templates are available from:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm
l.
Authors should submit a PDF file. Papers conforming to the above
guidelines can be submitted through the workshop's paper submission system
on EasyChair -- available at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialcloud2013
At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop
and all workshop participants must pay the CloudCom 2013 workshop
registration fee, as well as the conference fee. All accepted papers will
be published by the IEEE in the same volume as the main conference. All
papers will be reviewed by an International Programme Committee. Papers
submissions should be performed using the EasyChair system, by the date
mentioned above.
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Organisers:
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- Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
- Kyle Chard, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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Programme Committee
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- David de Roure, Oxford University, UK
- Christof Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia
- Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Josef Spillner, TU Dresden, Germany
- Ioan Petri, Cardiff University, UK
- Magdalena Punceva, University of Applied Sciences & Arts, Western Switzerland
- Wei Tan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait
- Peter Komisarczuk, University of West London, UK
- Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, China
- Laura Pullum, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Raihan ur Rasool, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
- Wenjun Wu, Beihang University, China
- Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Georg Groh, TU Munich, Germany
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Conference Call For Papers, Workshop Proposals, Demo and Participation (orderd by submission deadline)
1. 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: May 5, 2013
2. EMC 2013 (August 23-25, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan)
The 8th International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing
http://emc2013.niu.edu.tw
*Submission deadline: May 11, 2013
3. IEEE iThings2013 (Aug 20-23, 2013, Beijing, China)
The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things
http://www.china-iot.net/ithings2013.htm
*Submission deadline: May 19, 2013
4. IEEE CPSCom2013 (Aug 20-23, 2013, Beijing, China)
The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing
http://www.china-iot.net/cpscom2013.htm
*Submission deadline: May 19, 2013
5. IEEE GreenCom2013 (Aug 20-23, 2013, Beijing, China)
The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications
http://www.china-iot.net/greencom2013.htm
*Submission deadline: May 19, 2013
6. 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: May 19, 2013
7. 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: May 20, 2013
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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 Communications
Special Issue on "Smart Grid Communications"
http://www.dnagroup.org/PDF/SpeicalIssue_SmartGridCommunications_CallForPapers.pdf
*Manuscript Due: May 15, 2013
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Special Issue on"Enabling Technologies for Cloud and Network Sustainability"
http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=2203
*Manuscript Due: September 15, 2013
8. New Generation Computing
Special Issue on Propagation Phenomenon in Complex Networks: Theory and Practice
http://www.ii.pwr.wroc.pl/~krol/eng_EPP.htm
*Manuscript Due: September 30, 2013
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
*** Final Call for papers/demos -- Extended Deadline***
MobiWIS 2013
MobiWIS 2013
The 10th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems
Coral Beach Conference Hotel and Resort
Paphos, Cyprus, August 26-28, 2013
The International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS)
aims to advance the state of the art in scientific and practical research
on mobile Web and information systems. It provides a forum for researchers
and practitioners from academia, industry, and the public sector in an
effort to disseminate latest research results and to share knowledge and
experiences regarding tools, techniques, technologies, models, and
methodologies that lead to better information and service provisioning in
the mobile Web.
The conference comprises a set of carefully selected tracks that focus on
the particular challenges regarding mobile Web Information Systems in
research areas such as, among others, Web Engineering, Service-Oriented
Computing, Web Search, Data and Knowledge Management, Cloud Computing,
Security and Human-Computer Interaction.
Conference Tracks
* Mobile Web and social applications
* Middleware/SOA for mobile Web information systems
* Mobile Web searching
* Context- and location-aware services
* Data management in the mobile Web
* Mobile cloud services
* Mobile Internet of Things
* Mobile Web security, trust and privacy
* Mobile networks, protocols and applications
* Mobile commerce and business services
* Mobile Web for social and economic development
* HCI in mobile applications
* Industry track - Mobile Web and Information Systems
* General - Mobile Web and Information Systems
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: May 13, 2013 (extended)
Demo submissions: May 13, 2013
Author notification: May 27, 2013
Final manuscript due: June 12, 2013
Paper Submission Instructions
Papers must be in English and must not exceed 15 pages. Papers must be
formatted in Springer's LNCS format; see formatting instructions and
stylesheets:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0
Papers are submitted as PDF files via the EasyChair conference management
system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobiwis2013
Submitted research papers may not overlap with papers that have already
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference with proceedings.
Demo Submission Instructions
MobiWIS 2013 will offer the opportunity for demonstrations of systems
or applications that exhibit novel features regarding all thematic
areas of the conference. Proposals for demonstrations
describing the system/application, its novel features, and the
demonstration
should be submitted through the conference submission system by the
demonstration deadline, track "Demonstrations":
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobiwis2013
Submissions of demonstration proposals are accepted in pdf format only.
Demonstration proposals should be up to 4 pages in length, and should
follow the LNCS paper formatting guidelines:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0.
Demonstration proposals should be up to 4 pages
in length, and should otherwise be in the format required for papers.
Publication
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
series. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the
conference and plan to present the paper. Authors of selected papers will
be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for a special
issue on Mobile Web Information Systems in the Computing journal published
by Springer.
Accepted demonstration papers will be included in the main conference
proceedings to be published with Springer. At least one proposer of every
accepted demonstration must register to the conference, attend the event,
and present the demonstration live during a dedicated demonstration
session. Suitable facilities (e.g., a table, chairs and power plugs) will
be provided by the conference.
General Chair
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
General Vice-Chairs
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Program Chairs
Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
Philippe Thiran, Sirris and University of Namur, Belgium
Program Vice-Chairs (Conference Tracks)
- Mobile Web and social applications
Leondro Wives, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
- Middleware/SOA for mobile Web information systems
Zaki Malik, Wayne State University, USA
- Mobile Web searching
Daqiang Zhang, Institute Telecom, France
- Context- and location-aware services
Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Data management in the mobile Web
Roberto De Virgilio, Università Roma Tre, Italy
- Mobile cloud services
Claudio Geyer, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
- Mobile Internet of Things
Federico M. Facca, CREATE-NET, Italy
- Mobile Web security, trust and privacy
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Mobile networks, protocols and applications
Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Mobile commerce and business services
Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada
- HCI in mobile applications
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK
- Industry track - Mobile Web and Information Systems
Pikkarainen Minna, VTT, Finland
- General - Mobile Web and Information Systems
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Call for Papers
Fourth ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC)
October 1st-3rd 2013, Santa Clara, California, USA
Web Site: http://www.socc2013.org
The ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2013 (ACM SoCC 2013) will be the
fourth in a series of symposia that brings together researchers,
developers, users, and practitioners interested in cloud computing. ACM
SoCC is the premier conference on cloud computing; it is the only
conference co-sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups on Management
of Data (SIGMOD) and on Operating Systems (SIGOPS). In 2013 SoCC will
again be held in Silicon Valley at Santa Clara University.
The scope of SoCC is broad and encompasses diverse systems topics such as
software as a service, virtualization, and scalable cloud data services.
Many facets of systems and data management issues must be revisited in the
context of cloud computing. Suggested topics for paper submissions include
but are not limited to:
* Administration and Manageability
* Data Privacy
* Data Services Architectures
* Distributed and Parallel Query Processing
* Energy Management
* Distribution and Cloud Networking
* High Availability and Reliability
* Infrastructure Technologies
* Large Scale Cloud Applications
* Multi-Tenancy
* Programming Models
* Provisioning and Metering
* Resource mgmt. and Performance
* Scientific Data Management
* Security of Services
* Service Level Agreements
* Storage Architectures
* Transactional Models
* Virtualization Technologies
Paper submission:
** Deadline: July 2 at midnight PST.
** Notification of acceptance/rejection will occur by September 1.
Authors are invited to submit original papers that are not being
considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be
submitted in PDF format and formatted in 10-point type using the LaTeX
templates available at http://www.socc2013.org/home/call-for-papers. A
submission to the symposium may be one of the following types: (a)
Research papers: We seek papers on original research work in the broad
area of cloud computing. The length of research papers is limited to
twelve pages (excluding references). (b) Industrial papers: We also
welcome submissions that describe experiences with deployed,
state-of-the-art cloud systems, that are of value to the community.
Industrial paper submissions may be up to twelve pages long (excluding
references), though shorter papers (e.g., six pages) will also be
considered. (c) Vision papers: Speculative but well-reasoned,
thought-provoking essays of up to six pages in length (excluding
references). All SoCC submissions will be hel!
d to a high quality standard, and evaluated based on their originality,
technical merit, topical relevance, value to the community, and likelihood
of leading to insightful technical discussions at the symposium.
Tutorial proposals: Those wishing to give a tutorial at SoCC 2013 should
submit a two-page proposal to the co-program chairs via email:
pc-chairs@socc2013.org.
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General Chair:
Guy Lohman, IBM Almaden
Program Chairs:
Christopher Olston, Google
Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell
Local Organization Chairs:
Harry Li, Facebook
Yee Jiun Song, Facebook
Steering Committee:
Phil Bernstein, Microsoft Research
Ken Birman, Cornell University
Joseph M. Hellerstein, UC Berkeley
Raghu Ramakrishnan, Microsoft
Doug Terry, Microsoft Research
John Wilkes, Google
Treasurer:
Subho Chatterjee (Salesforce.com)
Publicity:
Greg Chockler (U. of London)
Webmaster:
Anne Rowand (Cornell University)
John Wilkes (Google)
Publication:
Carlo Curino (Microsoft Research)
Program committee: Ashraf Aboulnaga (Waterloo), Divyakant Agrawal (UCSB),
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau (Wisconsin), Ron Avnur (10gen), Mahesh Balakrishnan
(Microsoft Research), Hitesh Ballani (Microsoft Research), Theo Benson
(Duke), Nicolas Bruno (Microsoft), Randal Burns (Johns Hopkins), Matthew
Caesar (UIUC), Beng Chin Ooi (NU Singapore), Byung-Gon Chun (Microsoft),
Tyson Condie (UCLA), Brian Cooper (Google), Carlo Curino (Microsoft), Jens
Dittrich (Saarland U.), Rodrigo Foncesca (Brown), Roxana Geambasu
(Columbia), Garth Gibson (CMU), Garth Goodson (Natero), Steve Gribble
(Washington), Ajay Gulati (VMWare), Haryadi Gunawi (Chicago), Indranil
Gupta (UIUC), Andreas Haeberlen (Penn), Jeff Hammerbacher (Cloudera),
Bingsheng He (Nanyang Technical U.), Zack Ives (Penn), Hani Jamjoom (IBM),
Christopher Jermaine (Rice), Anthony Joseph (UC Berkeley), Donald Kossmann
(ETH Zurich), Michael A. Kozuch (Intel Labs), Tim Kraska (Brown), Jinyang
Li (NYU), Feifei Li (Utah), Balakrishnan Mahesh !
(Microsoft Research), Frank McSherry (Microsoft Research), Arnab Nandi
(Ohio State), George Porter (UCSD), Benjamin Reed (Facebook), Adam
Silberstein (Trifacta), Kaushik Veeraraghavan (Facebook), Xiaodan Wang
(Salesforce)
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