22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2014)

Call for Papers

UMAP2014: 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization 

7-11 July 2014, Aalborg, Denmark

http://um.org/umap2014/ 

UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent information about users for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. 

UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where adaptation may be applied. This include (but is in no way limited to) a number of domains in which researchers are enabling significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation: Intelligent tutoring systems and intelligent learning environments; Recommender systems; eCommerce; Advertising; Credit checking; Digital humanities; eGovernment; Cultural heritage; Personalized health; and more. 

UMAP2014 will explore, study and shape a broad range of dimensions faced by modern user adaptive systems, covering the following Key Areas chaired by leading researchers: 

UMAP in the social era [area chairs: Kalina Bontcheva & Werner Geyer] 

- Modeling individuals, groups and communities 

- Social network analysis 

- Social recommenders 

- Social learning and learning support 

- Collaboration support 

- Social workforce & social organizations 

- Heterogeneous networks 

- Folksonomies 

- Social navigation 

- Crowdsourcing 

- Engagement, influence & sustainability 

UMAP in the era of big data [area chairs: Bamshad Mobasher & Wolfgang Nejdl] 

- Complex decision making 

- Web dynamics 

- Linked Data 

- Adaptive information visualization 

UMAP in the era of pervasive computing [area chairs: Keith Cheverst & TBA] 

- Ongoing continuous modeling 

- Lifewide modelling 

- Context-awareness 

- Sensor networks 

- Handheld and mobile devices 

- Physiological signals 

- Natural interaction (speech, language, gestures) 

Infrastructures, architectures, and methodologies [area chairs: Bob Kummerfeld & Owen Conlan] 

- Non-standard database representations (networks, graphs) 

- Standards, specifications 

- Interoperability, semantics 

- Evolution, temporal aspects 

- Evaluation methodologies and metrics 

- Adaptive hypermedia systems 

- Adaptive Web-based systems 

Human factors and Models [area chairs: Elisabeth Andre & Cristina Conati] 

- Behavior change and persuasion 

- Affective aspects 

- User experience 

- UMAP underpinning by Sociology models 

- UMAP underpinning by Psychology models 

- UMAP and Anthropology theories 

- UMAP and Economics models 

Personal and Societal issues [area chairs: Kaska Poryasta-Pomsta & Alfred Kobsa] 

- User awareness and control 

- Privacy, perceived security and trust 

- Special needs 

- Lifelong learning and support 

- Therapy 

- Personality 

- Cultural variations 

UMAP2014 will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above key areas and organised in two main tracks - Experience Track and Research Track. Maintaining the high quality and impact of the UMAP series, each paper will have three reviews by program committee members and a meta-review presenting the reviewers' consensual view; the review process will be coordinated by the program chairs in collaboration with the corresponding area chairs. 

EXPERIENCE TRACK 

Peer reviewed papers showcasing innovative use of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalisation, exploring the benefits and challenges of applying user modeling techniques and adaptation technology in real-life applications and contexts. Papers will be assessed based on the novelty of the application, the potential impact from the utilization of user modeling and adaptation technologies in the specific case, and the usefulness of the presented experience for extending the UMAP research and application. 

- Long experience papers (12 pages): Long experience papers should present substantive 'in-use' case for UMAP research. They should place the work within the field, clearly indicate the novelty of the application, and present the impact and significance of the experience to advance the UMAP research and application. 

- Short experience papers (6 pages): Short experience papers should present an original and highly promising application of user modeling and adaptation technologies, whose merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity and extensive user validation. 

RESEARCH TRACK 

Peer reviewed, original, and principled research papers addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Papers will be assessed based on the originality and significance of the presented contribution to the research field, as well as their technical soundness and overall readability. 

- Long research papers (12 pages): Long research papers should present original reports of substantive new research. They should place the work within the field, and clearly indicate its innovative aspects and its significance. 

- Short research papers (6 pages): Short research papers should present original and highly promising research, whose merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity and technical validation. 

SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION 

Papers must be formatted according to Springer's LNCS style guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and not exceed the page length, as specified above. The long and short paper categories will be strictly kept apart in the submission and review process. 

Accepted papers will be distributed to conference attendees, and also published by Springer in both online and printed conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. 

IMPORTANT DATES 

Paper submission: 3rd February 2014 (abstract due 27th January) 

Notification to authors: 24th March 2014 

Camera ready submission: 14th April 2014 

Note the dates apply to both experience and research track papers. The submissions times are 11:59pm Hawaii time. 

CONFERENCE CHAIRS 

Program Chairs: Vania Dimitrova and Tsvi Kuflik 

General Chairs: Peter Dolog and Geert-Jan Houben 

CONFERENCE WEB SITE 

http://um.org/umap2014/ 

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First Learning Layers Developer Camp at RWTH Aachen University

The idea of organizing developer camps comes from the ROLE project. The main goal is to facilitate community building among the project internal developers as well as with external developers from university and the open source movement. In ROLE we had a couple of developer camps during the project and the most visible outcome was the ROLE SDK which is now available as open source software. In Learning Layers we are starting the process with a developer camp in Aachen. We are using the premises of RWTH Aachen's computer science department and invite students from the university but also other developers to join the core group of Learning Layers developers coming from Graz, Helsinki, Karlsruhe and Aachen.
The developer camp 2013 is organized by ACIS team members István Koren and Petru Nicolaescu. Petru has already experiences organizing the i5 developer days as a research student a couple of years ago. The both created a couple of news items and a poster to make the event most visible within the university and the local developer community. For sure, I support this by giving a number of links here:

• Developer Camp news items on the website of our chair
• Developer Camp news item on the website of the project
• Developer Camp news item on the website of RWTH computer science department
• Registration

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Winter School Multimedia Processing and Applications (WMPA'14)

 

Call for Participation - REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

1st Winter School on Multimedia Processing and Applications (WMPA 2014)

Dublin, Ireland, January 6-8, 2014, Co-located with the MMM 2014 Conference

(http://mmm2014.org/)

WMPA 2014 school's web page: http://winterschool.mediamixer.eu/

WMPA 2014 aims at offering Masters and PhD students and junior researchers
from all over the world training on the latest technological developments in
the area of multimedia processing (media analysis, media annotation, media
rights management) and of emerging multimedia applications (in the Sensor
Web, audiovisual archives, TV broadcasting, digital preservation and
e-learning domains).

The school will combine delivering in-depth lectures with giving to its
participants the possibility for gaining hands-on experience on the use of
new multimedia processing techniques (e.g. media fragment annotation and
re-use technologies), and on the effectiveness, privacy etc. issues that may
arise. The latest R&D in EU funded projects and latest insights from experts
in the industry domains which stand to benefit from these new technologies
will help students to appreciate the state of the art and future chances for
industry adoption. The school will also support the close interaction
between the students and all participants of the MMM'14 conference; among
other possibilities, all school's students will have the chance to bring a
poster describing their current research work and present it in a joint
winter school – MMM'14 poster session.

School's topics include:

TOPICS
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- Multimedia analysis
- Multimedia annotation
- Semantic multimedia
- Sensor Web
- Digital rights management
- Multimedia preservation
- Audiovisual archive applications
- TV industry applications
- E-learning video applications

SPEAKERS
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- Dr. Sandra Collins, Digital Repository of Ireland, Ireland
- Ms. Brid Dooley, RTE Archives, Ireland
- Prof. Roberto Garcia, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
- Ms. Bettina Heidkamp-Tchegloff, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany
- Prof. Benoit Huet, Eurecom, France
- Dr. Mitja Jermol, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
- Dr. Vasileios Mezaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
- Dr. Claudia Niederee, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany
- Dr. Lyndon Nixon, STI International, Austria
- Prof. Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Prof. Tinne Tuytelaars, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

VENUE
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The winter school will take place in Dublin, Ireland, January 6 to 8, 2014.
It will be co-located and closely connected with the 20th anniversary
edition of the International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling 2014 (MMM
2014). Both WMPA'14 and MMM'14 will be held at the Guinness Storehouse,
Ireland's most popular tourist attraction, located in the heart of Dublin,
Ireland.

For further information on WMPA'14 please visit:
http://winterschool.mediamixer.eu/

REGISTRATION
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Registration for the WMPA 2014 winter school is now open! Besides
stand-alone WMPA registration, there are very attractive joint WMPA+MMM 2014
registration options, giving you access to a week-long series of events
where the latest advances in multimedia processing and applications will be
presented.

All registrations for the winter school will be handled via the MMM 2014
registration webpage. Please register for WMPA'14 at:
http://mmm2014.org/registration/

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Participatory Design Conference 2014

Call for Papers

The 13th biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 

in Windhoek, Namibia

(6.– 10. October 2014)

www.pdc2014.org

Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Pdc2014

Join us in Windhoek, Namibia in 2014 to celebrate the 13thParticipatory Design Conference (PDC).

The conference theme of the PDC 2014 is "Reflecting connectedness". We are
currently experiencing a technologically pushed trend in 'being always
connected'. This is manifested in a number of designed artifacts, such as
smart-phones, social networks, computer supported cooperative work and
distributed working tools.By 'reflecting connectedness' in PD, we
acknowledge influential relations across continents, societies, people,
disciplines and time, beyond the direct involvement of stakeholders. While
PD has evolved as a discipline on its own, we should continuously reflect on
interrelations of theories and practices within and across the field and
thereby enriching PD within a wider context. We must further engage in
critical debates of what it means to design within and for a multilayered
network, such as the on-line world versus off-line interactions, the
blurring distinction of designers and users, researchers and artists, design
and research 'in the wild', designing for social justice, inclusiveness, and
sustainability. We invite authors to deliberate on these relations within
and beyond the field of PD, which affect its conceptualization and practices
all over.
The 2014 PDC seeks to attract submissions from different disciplines,
academics, practitioners and artists in form of tutorials, workshops,
doctorial consortiums, participatory art encounters, papers, and industry
cases.

Important dates:

Conference dates: 6. – 10. October 2014
Full papers 28 February 2014
Short papers 10 March 2014
Workshop proposals 10 March 2014
Tutorials 10 March 2014
Doctorial Consortium 10 March 2014
Industry Cases 10 March 2014
pArt Installations 10 March 2014
Nomination to the Artful Integrators Award 10 March 2014 Acceptance
Notification 13 June 2014

PDC'14 invites submissions in the following categories:
Research papers: (full papers - maximum 10 pages). Research papers should
report on original research which advances Participatory Design (PD) and
reflect on state of the art themes in our field.
As a single track conference, and the only one exclusively dedicated to PD,
PDC Research papers have a broad impact on the development of PD theory,
approaches and practices. Research papers will be published in the ACM
International Conference series. Each submitted paper will be double blind
reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Each submission will be managed by a
meta-reviewer to ensure that feedback is relevant, the learning experience
significant and the process fair. Please make sure your submission is
correctly anonymized. Accepted papers should be revised according to the
review reports and the language should be checked by a native English
speaker.

Short papers: (short papers – maximum 4 pages). Short papers should present
original, unpublished ideas and research that advances the field of
Participatory Design (PD) and reflect on its potential future developments.
As discussed in parallel, thematic sessions, PDC Short Papers can benefit
from a clear scope and are expected to contribute to the emergence of new
possibilities for PD. Compared to Research Papers, Short Papers may offer a
more limited discussion of related work, or they may, for example, provide a
novel design, method or theoretical concepts, without a full evaluation or
with less detailed explanation. Short Papers are reviewed to the same
standard of scientific quality as Research Papers, but the contribution is
more focused and clear-cut. Each submitted short paper will be double blind
reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Please make sure submissions are
anonymous. Accepted papers should be revised according to the review reports
and the language should be checked by a native English speaker.

Interactive Workshops: (maximum 2 pages) The workshop proposal should
describe half day or full day sessions on topics that include methods,
practices, and other areas of interest related to Participatory Design (PD).
They should support an interactive format wherein active participation is
possible, beyond a presentation format. These formats could include a
mapping of a problem definition, small discussion groups, etc. The proposal
must be written in a format that can be used for recruitment via the web. It
should justify the need for the workshop and should contain a title, goals,
format, method or technique, its relevance to PD and a schedule. Intended
participants and how they will be recruited should also be described. In the
recruitment procedure important dates should be clearly communicated to the
participants (see timing). Also, it should be clear to the organizers and
the participants what the maximum amount of participants is for the workshop
and what the workshop duration is (half day or full day). Finally, the
workshop proposal should include a clear statement about the expected
outcomes of the workshop (e.g. journal publication, research proposal,
exhibition, etc.).

Tutorials: (2 page proposal) Half day and full day sessions for teaching
conceptual frameworks, methods/techniques, and novel approaches in
Participatory Design (PD). The proposal should contain a title, goals,
method or technique, relevance to PD and a schedule. Please describe in the
proposal any handouts that you intend to make available.

Industry Cases: (2-4 page case description) should report on the use of
participatory methods, tools, and/or practices within commercial,
non-profit, or governmental organizations. We are interested in a broad
range of submissions that explore what a participatory approach means to
different practitioners and audiences and may include ideas, approaches,
projects, experimentations or reflections on participation. We encourage
submissions from practitioners who might not ordinarily attend the
Participatory Design (PD) conference but who are grappling with the
complexities of participation or who are experimenting with novel
approaches. Cases should highlight the benefits, challenges, and outcomes
from the application of participatory approaches and should provide concrete
lessons for others who are interested in applying PD in their organizations.
Each submitted case will be peer reviewed for applicability to the PD
community.

Doctoral consortium: (4 page proposal) The doctoral consortium is a full-day
session intended for PhD students working within the field of Participatory
Design (PD). It will provide students with an opportunity to discuss issues
of concern to them in their studies and receive extensive feedback from the
session co-chairs and other student participants. Enrollment is limited and
selection will be based on the quality of application submissions, taking
into account how the research is related to PD. The aim will be to include a
spread of students with different disciplinary emphases, at different stages
of study, and coming from different cultural backgrounds. The proposal
should give an overview of the PhD project, including research motivations,
questions, methods, status of current work, major findings and plans for
further research. Accepted applicants will be asked to provide a revised and
elaborated research summary (4 pages), and to participate in some
pre-workshop on-line discussions.

Art installations: (2 page proposal) Interdisciplinary collaborations have
often yielded surprising yet astonishing results, leading both research and
knowledge to new heights. PDC has a long history of incorporating
participatory art installations to inspire and innovate. Artists and
designers working with any form of interactive participatory methods are
invited to submit their projects. The works can take inspiration from visual
and digital media, performance arts, installations, communication
technologies, touch, sound and any other genres that allow participants to
take part or become part of the art piece.
Projects should address/explore the theme 'reflecting connectedness'. Please
submit a 2 page proposal of the art work, in which the project is described
(incl. sketch/design), the relation to PD, and specific requirements for
display. Alternatively artists can submit audio or video files describing
the project.

The Artful Integrators' Award: We welcome nominations for the sixth Artful
Integrators' Award, to be presented at PDC 14 in Namibia. The Award is
intended to recognize outstanding achievement in the area of participatory
design of information and communications technologies. Where traditional
design awards have gone to individual designers and/or singular objects, the
Artful Integrator's Award emphasizes the importance of collaborative
participation in design, and a view of good design as the effective
alignment of diverse collections of people, practices and artefacts.

Submission and formatting guidelines
The submissions in all categories are subject to double-blind peer review.
For previous PDC conferences, the acceptance rate for research papers has
been about 25% and for the other submission categories about 50%.All
submissions should follow thePDC paper template to be found on the
conference website (www.pdc2014.org).

The PDC 2014 proceedings will be published as part of the International
Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM and available online from the
ACM Digital Library. Accepted research papers will comprise Volume I of the
Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference.
Volume II of the proceedings will comprise the accepted papers in the other
submission categories.
Authors of accepted papers will need to complete the ACM copyright form as a
condition of inclusion in the proceedings.Only PDF files (.pdf) may be
submitted and submissions are only accepted through the PDC conference
management system.

Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Vincenzo D'Andrea & Ole Sejer Iversen
PDC'14 chairs.

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First GALA Serious Games Doctoral Consortium, Paris, France

First Serious Games Doctoral Consortium

http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/gala-dc/

Wednesday, October 23, 2013, Paris, France

If you are a PhD student or candidate in the area of Serious Games we would like to invite you to participate in the First Serious Games Doctoral Consortium to be held in the GALA Conference (http://www.galaconf.org/), Paris. It will be a full day event in which you will have the opportunity to present your work, ideas and methodology to field experts that will provide you with personalized feedback. 

The event will also feature a keynote talk focusing on Serious Games research and a panel in which participants and tutors will debate the impacts and challenges that students face during their PhD programs.

Submissions

Each participant should submit a work in progress paper OR a research proposal OR a first year research plan from their PhD. The work submitted should not exceed 4 pages and authors are recommended to follow the template used for the GALA Conference: http://www.galaconf.org/download/template.doc 

To submit, simply send your work to both:

ana.paiva@inesc-id.pt

goncalo.pereira@gaips.inesc-id.pt

Deadline

7th October 2013

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Post-doc position in Multimedia Indexing at EURECOM, Multimedia Communications Department, Sophia Antipolis, France

Post-doctoral position in Multimedia Indexing
Location: EURECOM, Multimedia Communications Department, Sophia Antipolis, France

Duration: 12 months

Description

We have an open position for a post-doc to work on several aspects of
Multimedia Indexing, in particular Multimedia fusion and co-training. We
are looking for candidates who are highly motivated to conduct high
quality research, propose and evaluate innovative solutions for the
difficult problems that arise when automatically analyzing Multimedia
content. This research is conducted in partnership with other French
laboratories and companies.

Candidates should have a PhD Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science,
or a closely related area, with a good knowledge of Machine Learning
techniques, and possibly an experience on multimedia analysis. Good
programming skills are expected. A good level of written and spoken
English is mandatory.

Application

Screening of applications will begin immediately, and the search will
continue until the position is filled. Applicants should send, to the
email address below (i) a CV, (ii) a motivation letter, (iii) contact
details for three referees, (iv) a two page statement of research
interests and motivation.

Postal address :
EURECOM,
Campus SophiaTech,
450 route des Chappes,
06410 Sophia Antipolis,
France

Contact : Prof. Bernard Merialdo, Bernard.Merialdo@eurecom.fr
Web page : http://www.eurecom.fr/mm/
Phone number : +33 4 93 00 81 29
Fax number : +33 4 93 00 82 00

EURECOM is a French graduate school and a research center in
communication systems based in the international science park of Sophia
Antipolis, which brings together renowned universities such as Télécom
ParisTech, Aalto University (Helsinki), Politecnico di Torino,
Technische Universität München (TUM), Norwegian University of Science
and Technology (NTNU) and Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh Ville
(VNU). The Principality of Monaco is a new institutional member. The
Institut Mines-Télécom is EURECOM¹s founding member.

EURECOM benefits from a strong interaction with the industry through its
specific administrative structure: Economic Interest Group (kind of
consortium), which brings together international companies such as:
Swisscom, SFR, Orange, ST Microelectronics, BMW Group Research &
Technology, Symantec, Monaco Telecom, SAP, IABG. EURECOM deploys its
expertise around three major fields: Networking and security, Multimedia
Communications and Mobile Communications. EURECOM is particularly active
in research in its areas of excellence while also training a large
number of doctoral candidates. Its contractual research is recognized
across Europe and contributes largely to its budget.

Thanks to its strong ties set up with the industry, EURECOM was awarded
the ³Institut Carnot² label jointly with the Institut Telecom right from
2006. The Carnot Label was designed to develop and professionalize
cooperative research. It encourages the realization of research projects
in public research centers that work together with socioeconomic actors,
especially companies.

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PhD Position for Computer Games Research, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Here is an open position for a doctoral student in the CROSMOS project at the Klagenfurt University in Austria. PDF File

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

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

1. IEEE ICCVE 2013 (Dec. 2-6, 2013, Las Vegas, USA)
The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo
http://www.iccve.org/
*Submission deadline: Sept. 23, 2013

2. IEEE WCNC 2014 (April 6-9, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey)
IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communication & Networking Conference
http://wcnc2014.ieee-wcnc.org/
*Submission deadline: Sept. 23, 2013

3. CloudCom-Asia 2013 (Dec. 16-18, Fuzhou, China)
2013 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data
http://www.cloudbd2013.com/
*Submission deadline: Sept. 25, 2013

4. FGCT 2013 (December 12-14, 2013, London, UK)
The 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies
http://www.socio.org.uk/fgct
*Submission deadline: Oct. 10, 2013

5. CCIT 2014 (April 9-12, 2014, Daejeon, Korea)
The 5th FTRA International Conference on Creative Converged IT
http://www.ftrai.org/ccit2014
*Submission deadline: Oct. 15, 2013

6. IEEE MobileCloud 2014 (April 8-11, 2014, Oxford, UK)
The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing, Services and Engineering
http://www.mobile-cloud.net/
*Submission deadline: Oct. 22, 2013

7. CITS 2014 July 7-9, 2014, Jeju, Korea)
2014 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems
http://atc.udg.edu/CITS2014/

Journal Special Issues CFP (orderd by submission deadline)

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1. 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 22, 2013

2. 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

3. International Journal of Big Data Intelligence
Inaugual Issue Call for Papers
http://inderscience.com/ijbdi
*Manuscript Due: Sept. 30, 2013

4. Neurocomputing
Special Issue on Computational Intelligence Techniques for New Product Development
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/neurocomputing/call-for-papers/computational-intelligence-techniques/
*Manuscript Due: November 1, 2013

5. IEEE Trans. on Cloud Computing
Special Issue on Cloud Security
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tcc
*Manuscript Due: December 15, 2013

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The 8th FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE-14)

MUE-14 (Zhangjiajie, China, May, 2014) Call for Papers (Springer-LNEE Proceedings)

The 8th FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE-14)

http://www.ftrai.org/mue2014

Zhangjiajie, China, May 29-31, 2014

Published by Springer-LNEE (indexed by EI and SCOPUS)

The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in increasingly effective ways, contributing to the multimedia revolution and having a significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, education, and governmental domains.

This conference provides an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of multimedia and ubiquitous environment including models and systems, new directions, novel applications associated with the utilization and acceptance of ubiquitous computing devices and systems.

The goals of this conference are to provide a complete coverage of the areas outlined and to bring together the researchers from academic and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, challenges, and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of this field.

MUE-14 is the next event in a series of highly successful the International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, MUE-13 (Seoul, Korea, May 2013), MUE-12 (Madrid, Spain, July 2012), MUE-11 (Loutraki, Greece, June 2011), MUE-10 (Cebu, Philippines, August 2010), MUE-09 (Qingdao, China, June 2009), MUE-08 (Busan, Korea, April 2008), and MUE-07 (Seoul, Korea, April 2007).

Topics
We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:
1. Multimedia Modeling and Processing
- Media Representation and Algorithms
- Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression
- Computer Graphics and Simulation
- Image and Signal Processing
- Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Multimedia Indexing
- Multimedia network transmission/streaming
- Multimedia Standards and Related Issues
- Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport
- Current Challenges in Multimedia

2. Multimedia and Digital Convergence
- Home Entertainment Devices
- 3D Video, Recording, Storage, Compression, Transcoding
- Cooperative Driving and Associated Automotive Technologies
- Advances and Challenges in HD Device Interconnects
- Green-Home Consumer Electronics Technologies
- Gesture and Expression Recognition
- Smart Grid
- Power Line Communication
- Robot control, Mobile robotics
- Consumer Electronics (CE) device platform
- CE operating system
- CE device driver/firmware

3. Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
- Ubiquitous Computing and Technology
- Context-Aware Ubiquitous Computing
- Physical model of UI & SW
- Ubiquitous database methodologies
- Embedded systems and softwares
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Human centric computing
- High-performance computing and simulation and modeling
- Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems
- Context modeling and reasoning
- Adaptive and context-aware computing
- Smart object
- Multimodal sensing
- Intelligent platforms
- Internet of Things
- Parallel/Distributed system
- Grid and cloud computing
- Novel Machine Architectures

4. Ubiquitous Networks and Mobile Communications
- Tiny Operating systems and Middleware supports
- Peer to Peer Network
- Machine-to-Machine Communications
- Mobile system performance
- Wireless communications
- Wirless Sensor Network
- Wireless Body Area Network
- Internet access and mobility
- Trustworthy Internet and communications
- Mobile data management and processing
- Cross-Layer Design and Optimization
- Algorithms and protocols for cognitive wireless networks
- Ad hoc and sensor network
- Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks and Vehicular Technology
- WiMax / Wi-Fi, UWB, Bluetooth Technology
- Mobility Management
- Smartphone and mobile devices
- Social networks and computing

5. Intelligent Computing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Pattern and Speech Recognition
- Fuzzy logic and soft computing
- Neural networks and applications
- Expert systems
- Decision support systems
- Automated problem solving
- Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid
- Knowledge discovery and representation
- Knowledge acquisition
- Intelligent web-based business
- Intelligent agents and user interface
- Intelligent information fusion

6. Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing Security
- Key Management and Authentication
- Authorization and Access Control
- Privacy and Trust Management
- Sensor Networks and RFID Security
- Security in Ubiquitous Databases
- Multimedia Information Security
- Intellectual Property & Licensing
- Digital Right Management
- CAS/STB Security
- Digital Forensics
- Watermarking
- Security in Commerce and Industry

7. Multimedia and Ubiquitous Services
- Multimedia RDBMS Platforms
- Multimedia in Telemedicine
- Multimedia Embedded Systems
- Multimedia standards
- Mobile Multimedia system and services
- U-City and U-Town
- Smart highway
- Smart work
- Intelligent Transport Systems
- Location Based System
- Telematics
- Virtual Reality and Game Technology
- Mobile Gaming and entertainment
- Location Based Services
- Ambient Intelligence
- Smart Home/building/spaces
- Green IT services
- Semantic Web and Grid Services
- Smart-Camera and Multi-View Systems
- Surveillance System
- Entertainment Industry for MUE
- Ubiquitous Database Methodologies
- U/E Healthcare services
- U/E-Commerce and Education

8. Multimedia Entertainment
- Music and Movie Distribution
- QoS and Security Support for Entertainment
- 3D TV for Entertainment
- Computer Animation
- Technology for Entertainment
- Agent-based Entertainment
- Interactive Television and Theatre
- Massive Multiplayer Games
- Mobile and Wireless Entertainment
- Digital Interactive Storytelling
- Pervasive Entertainment
- Personalized and User-Adapted Television
- Sport, News and Entertainment
- Wearable Entertainment
- Wireless and Mobile Gaming
- Digital Entertainment and Sports
- Digital Entertainment and Pleasure
- Games for Special Audiences
- Human Computation Games

9. Other IT and Multimedia Applications

**Call for Workshop Proposals**
In conjunction with MUE-14, we will organize some workshops.

The workshop proposals should be submitted to the Leading Workshop Chair - Prof. Namje Park (namjepark@jejunu.ac.kr) or

FTRA Conference Manager - David Kang (ftraconf.manager@gmail.com) by
**Oct. 1st, 2013**.

Several workshops will be held in conjunction with MUE-14 with the aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists, engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on hot topics on Future Information Technology.

Workshops for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on implementations of systems and services are very welcome.

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).

In general, a workshop takes one day, although multiple-days and half-day workshops are welcome.

The workshop proposal should include following information:

1. Title of the workshop: International Workshop on ...
2. Workshop Organizers(s): name, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail.
3. Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words)
4. Expected number of papers to be submitted
5. Call for paper of the workshop (draft version - 1 page CFP MS Word version)
6. Tentative list of program committee members (Name, affiliation, country, email address)
7. Your workshop web address (Tentative)

Financial Support for Workshop Organizer:

We will provide workshop organizers to some honorariums for their contribution (at least 6 registed papers).

Organization

Steering Chair
James J. Park, SeoulTech, Korea

General Chairs
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Timothy K. Shih, National Central University, Taiwan
Doo-soon Park, SoonChunHyang University, Korea
Qingguo Zhou, Lanzhou University, China

Program Chairs
Joon-Min Gil, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea
Neil Y. Yen, The University of Aizu, Japan
Shingchern You, National Taipei Universiy of Technology, Taiwan

Workshop Chairs
Namje Park, Jeju National University, Korea Shijian Li, Zhejiang University, China
Michele Ruta, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Vincent Huang, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Chengcui Zhang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Ka Lok Man, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

International Advisiory Committee
Young-Sik Jeong, Dongguk University, Korea (Leading Chair) Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan
Seok Cheon Park, Gachon University, Korea
Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan
Weijia Jia, City U. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Bin Hu, Lanzhou University, China
Yi Pan, Georgia State University USA
Koji Nakano, University of Hiroshima, Japan
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
Martin Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea

Publicity Chairs
Kehua Guo, CSU, China Mohamed Gaber, University of Portsmouth, UK
Jason C. Hung, Oversea Chinese University, Taiwan
Ryan Leong Hou U, Universidade De Macau, China
Chengjiu Yin, Kyushu University, Japan
Jian-Lian Chen, Aletheia University, Taiwan
Junbo Wang, University of Aizu, Japan
Bong-Hwa Hong, Kyung Hee Cyber University, Korea
Nan-Chen Hsieh, National Taipei University and Health Sciences, Taiwan
Deok-Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea
Young-Ae Jeong, Sunmoon University, Korea

Publication Chair
Hwa Young Jeong, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Local Arrangement Chairs
Kehua Guo, CSU, China Ryan Leong Hou U, Universidade De Macau, China

== Program Committee ==

- See http://www.ftrai.org/mue2014/programcommittees.html

Important Dates
Workshop Proposal Submission Due: October 1, 2013
Paper Submission Due: September 15, 2013
Accept Notification: November 15, 2013
Camera-ready paper Due: December 15, 2013
Registration Due: December 15, 2013
Conference/Workshop Dates: May 29-31, 2014

Submission and Publication

There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers. Prospective authors are invited, in the first instance, to submit papers for oral presentations in any of the areas of interest for this conference. Authors should submit a paper with 5~6 pages at both two types in length, including all figures, tables, and references. If you want to submit more than page limitation, you can add up to 2 extra pages with the appropriate fee payment.

Papers must strictly adhere to page limits as follows.

* Regular Paper: 6 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost : by 8 pages)
* Cyber Presentation Paper: 5 page (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost : by 7 pages)

Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

Please use the Springer Proceedings format for submission. Template is available here: Manuscript Templates
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings as one of Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) series published by Springer (indexed by EI & SCOPUS).

Type 1. Regular Paper Submission : http://www.editorialsystem.net/mue2014

Type 2. Cyber presentation paper submission : http://www.editorialsystem.net/mue2014cyber

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings as one  of Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) series published by Springer (indexed by EI & SCOPUS).

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in MUE 2014, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals: (Pending)

The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) - Springer (SCIE)
Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer
International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA

Venue
Travel Information
Please refer following Information:
* Zhangjiajie Municipal Government: http://english.zhangjiajie.gov.cn/m.php?name=travel
* Toptrip travel: http://english.zhangjiajie.com/

Contact Information
If you have any questions about the CFPs and papers submission, please email to Profs. James Park (parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com) or Neil Yen (neil219@gmail.com).



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Special Issue on Recommendation Techniques for Services Computing and Cloud Computing -TSC

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing Special Issue on Recommendation Techniques for Services Computing and Cloud Computing

With the prevalence of services computing and cloud computing, a large
number of services are now offered by competing service providers, the
applications have become large-scale and complex, and a large volume of
information is generated by various service-oriented applications and cloud
applications. It is challenging for users to find the right information that
they want (e.g., determine the optimal web service when making service
selection, detect vulnerable components in complex service-oriented
applications and cloud applications, identify suitable servers for deploying
cloud applications, etc.). Efficient and effective recommendation techniques
are becoming important to help users (including developers) employ the
information in services computing and cloud computing intelligently in their
decision-making processes for critical application developments.
Recommendation techniques aim to support users in their decision making
while interacting with large information spaces. In services computing and
cloud computing, they provide users with information to guide them in a
number of activities (e.g., service selection, service discovery, cloud
deployment, etc.). Recommendation techniques can draw from a wide variety of
input data, and benefit from different types of analyses.
Original papers with novel and solid research results on recommendation
techniques for services computing and cloud computing are solicited for this
special issue. It is expected that this special issue, as a whole, will
provide an integrated and synthesized view of the current state of the art,
identify key challenges, possible research directions, and opportunities,
and promote community-building among researchers and practitioners in
related fields. It is highly desirable to have some real-world case studies
or realistic illustrative examples to facilitate understanding of the
research results.

Topics of interest for original papers include, but are not limited to:
- Infrastructure of recommendation systems for services computing and cloud
computing
- Recommendation algorithms for services computing and cloud computing
- Social recommendation for services computing and cloud computing
- Location-based service recommendation
- Time-aware service recommendation
- Recommendation techniques for service QoS prediction
- Recommendation techniques for service selection and composition
- Recommendation techniques for service discovery
- Recommendation techniques for trustworthy cloud computing
- Recommendation techniques for cloud deployment
- Context-/situation-sensitive recommendations for services computing and
cloud computing
- Evaluation of recommendation results for services computing and cloud
computing
- Presentations of recommendation results including usability issues,
visualization, etc.
- Case studies of real-world implementations

Important Dates:
- 1 December 2013: Deadline for paper submission
- 1 April 2014: First-round review notification
- 15 May 2014: Revised submission due
- 20 June 2014: Final acceptance notification

Submissions
Please submit your papers through TSC's online system
(https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tsc-cs)
and select SI on Service Recommendation. Paper formatting guidelines are
available at the journal¡¯s website (http://www.computer.org/tsc). Submitted
papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under
consideration for publication elsewhere.

Guest editors:
- Michael R. Lyu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Liang-Jie Zhang, Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited

If you have questions on this special issue, please send e-mail to
ieeetsc@cse.cuhk.edu.hk for a query.

For more details, please check http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ieeetsc

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Special Theme on E-Learning in the Workplace in the Bulletin of the TCLT

Call For Articles – BULLETIN OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON LEARNING TECHNOLOGY
(ISSN 2306-0212)
http://www.ieeetclt.org/content/bulletin
publication of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning Technology (TCLT)

* Special Theme: E-Learning in the Workplace
* Deadline for submission: Sept 25, 2013.


The Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Learning Technology (former Learning Technology Newsletter) aims at publishing and disseminating current research about new and emerging learning technologies as well as their design, usage, application, and evaluation in different contexts of technology enhanced learning.

The special theme of this issue will focus on topics related to e-learning in the workplace, including (but not limited to) research on concepts, design and practical applications of technologies, systems and tools to support learning at the workplace; case studies and exploratory studies on e-learning in the workplace; and evaluations of technologies, systems and tools for learning at the workplace.

Articles that are not in the area of the special theme are most welcome as well and will be published in the regular article section. The Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Learning Technology invites short articles, case studies, and project reports for the April issue. This issue will be published in Volume 15, Issue 4 (October, 2013).


** The bulletin is of non-refereed nature though the articles will be selected and edited by the Editors. **


Submission procedure:

1. Authors have to follow the IEEE author guidelines when preparing their articles (please see http://www.ieeetclt.org/content/authors-guidelines for further information)

2. The articles in the bulletin are limited to 4 pages. Over-length articles will not be published.

3. The manuscripts should be either in Word or RTF format. Any figures used in the contributions would be required separately in a graphic format (gif or jpeg). The figures should also be embedded in the text at appropriate places.

4. Please send the manuscripts by email to karagian@uth.gr and sabineg@athabascau.ca (Subject: Bulletin of TCLT Submission).

5. In the email, please state clearly that the manuscript is original material that has not been published, and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

For further information please see http://www.ieeetclt.org/content/bulletin.

Best regards,
Sabine Graf
Charalampos Karagiannidis
(Editors of the Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Learning Technology)

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SIGMOD 2014

SIGMOD 2014 CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
Snowbird, UTAH, USA
June 22-27, 2014
http://www.sigmod2014.org

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

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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

• Storage, indexing, and physical database design
• Query processing and optimization
• Text databases, XML, keyword search
• Cloud computing, MapReduce, parallel and distributed data management
• Security, privacy, authenticated query processing
• Aggregation, data warehouses, OLAP, analytics
• Streams, sensor networks, complex event processing
• Knowledge discovery, data mining, clustering
• Spatial, temporal, multimedia and scientific databases
• Graph management, RDF, social networks
• Systems, performance, transaction processing
• Database models, uncertainty, schema matching, data integration, crowd sourcing

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled electronically. Submissions must adhere to the paper formatting instructions. Research papers will be judged for quality and relevance through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Thus, author names and affiliations must not appear in the papers, and bibliographic references must be adjusted to preserve author anonymity. Submissions should be uploaded at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SIGMOD2014/.

SUBMISSION DEADLINES (all on 4:59PM PST)

• Industrial papers and Demo papers   10 December 2013
• Tutorial and panel proposals          6 January 2014

Research papers: Unlike previous SIGMOD conferences, there are two submission deadlines as below. Each submission cycle involves two rounds of reviewing to allow for minor revisions. Papers rejected in the first cycle are not allowed to be re-submitted in the second cycle.

FIRST SUBMISSION DATES

• Abstract submission   9 Sep 2013
• Paper submission     16 Sep 2013
• Notification         19 Nov 2013
• Revised submission   19 Dec 2013
• Notification         25 Jan 2014
• Camera-ready due     12 Feb 2014

SECOND SUBMISSION DATES

• Abstract submission   3 Dec 2013
• Paper submission     10 Dec 2013
• Notification         12 Feb 2014
• Revised submission   13 Mar 2014
• Notification         19 Apr 2014
• Camera-ready due      8 May 2014

PROCEEDINGS AVAILABILITY

The proceedings will be publicly available from the ACM Digital Library 15 days before the start of the conference. Therefore, the official publicaton date for papers will be 9 June 2014. The proceedings will remain open for one year and will be accessible from ACM DL using Author-izer links.

Organizers

General Chairs:

• Curtis Dyreson, Utah State University
• Feifei Li, University of Utah

Program Chair:

• M. Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo

SIGMOD Program Committee Group Leaders:

• Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Michael Franklin, University of California, Berkeley
• Alfons Kemper, Technical University of Munich
• Laks Lakshmanan, University of British Columbia
• Ioana Manolescu, Inria Saclay
• Tova Milo, Tel Aviv University
• Elke Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Ken Salem, University of Waterloo
• Dennis Shasha, New York University
• Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs-Research
• Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore
• Patrick Valduriez, Inria Sophia-Antipolis Mediterranee
• Xiaokui Xiao, Nanyang Technological University

Tutorials Chairs:

• Chris Jermaine, Rice University
• Yufei Tao, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Keynotes Chair:

• Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zürich

Industrial Program Chairs:

• Nesime Tatbul, Intel Labs and MIT
• Fatma Özcan, IBM Almaden

Demonstration Chairs:

• Wolfgang Lehner, Technical University of Dresden
• Bettina Kemme, McGill University

Panels Chairs:

• Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania
• Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay

Workshop Chair:

• Anastasia Ailamaki, EPFL

Undergraduate Research Program Chair:

• Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta
• Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM TJ Watson Laboratories

Proceedings Chairs:

• Xiang Lian, University of Texas - Pan American
• Florin Rusu, University of California Merced

Finance Chair:

• Nikolaus Augsten, University of Salzburg

Publicity Chairs:

• Guoliang Li, Tsinghua University
• Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Duke University

Social Media Chair:

• Ming Hua, Facebook

Sponsorship Chairs:

• Yi Chen, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Nick Koudas, University of Toronto

Exhibit Chairs:

• Rui Zhang, The University of Melbourne Peixiang Zhao, Florida State University

Local Arrangements Chair:

• Ryan Johnson, University of Toronto

Registration Chairs:

• Tingjian Ge, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Gabriel Ghinita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Demonstration and Workshop Local Arrangements Chair:

• Jeff Phillips, University of Utah

Web/Information Chairs:

• Huiping Cao, New Mexico State University

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WWW 2014 Call for Papers - Research Track

WWW 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS - RESEARCH TRACK
The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference
April 7-11, 2014 / Seoul, Korea
http://www2014.kr

For more than two decades, the International World-Wide Web Conference has been the premier venue for researchers, academics, businesses, and standard bodies to come together and discuss latest updates on the state and evolutionary path of the Web. The main conference program of WWW 2014 will have 11 areas (or themes) for refereed paper presentations. and we invite you to submit your cutting-edge, exciting, new breakthrough work to the relevant area. In addition to the main conference, WWW 2014 will also have a series of co-located workshops, keynote speeches, tutorials, panels, a developer track, and poster and demo sessions.

The list of areas for this year is as follows:

Behavioral Analysis and Personalization
Content Analysis
Crowd Phenomena
Internet Economics and Monetization
Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse
Semantic Web
Social Networks and Graph Analysis
Software Infrastructure, Performance, Scalability, and Availability
User Interfaces, Human Factors, and Smart (Mobile) Devices
Web Mining
Web Search

Important Dates:

Research track abstract registration:
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Research track full paper submission:
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Notifications of acceptance:
Saturday, January 4th, 2014

Paper Submission Requirements:

All submitted paper must:

be written in English;
contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt;
be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size;
occupy no more than ten pages, including the abstract and appendices, but excluding references.

It is the authors¡¯ responsibility to ensure that their submission adheres strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review.

Submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2014

General Chair:
Chin-Wan Chung (KAIST)

General Vice Chairs:
Sang-goo Lee (Seoul National University)
Sue Moon (KAIST)
In-soo Park (MOTIE/KATS)

PC Co-Chairs for Research Track:
Andrei Broder (Google)
Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University)
Torsten Suel (New York University)

Area Chairs:

Behavioral Analysis and Personalization
Pearl Pu (EPFL)
Andrew Tomkins (Google)

Content Analysis
Seung-won Hwang (POSTECH)
Lillian Lee (Cornell University)

Crowd Phenomena
Panos Ipeirotis (NYU)
Stefano Leonardi (Univ. La Sapienza)

Internet Economics and Monetization
Arpita Ghosh (Cornell University)
Vanja Josifovski (Google)

Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse
Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
Yongdae Kim (KAIST)

Semantic Web
Ramanathan Guha (Google)
Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio)

Social Networks and Graph Analysis
Aristides Gionis (Aalto University)
Alessandro Panconesi (Univ. La Sapienza)

Software Infrastructure, Performance, Scalability, and Availability
Zhen Xiao (Peking University)
Malgorzata Steinder (IBM Research)

User Interfaces, Human Factors, and Smart Devices
Cecilia Mascolo (Univ. of Cambridge)
Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia)

Web Mining
Yukata Matsuo (University of Tokyo)
Rajeev Rastogi (Amazon)

Web Search
Junghoo Cho (UCLA)
Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo!)

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Postdoctoral positions in Computer Science in Helsinki, Finland

POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE IN HELSINKI, FINLAND
Application deadline Sept 30, 2013, 3:00 p.m. EEST

Topics include: Algorithms, Bioinformatics, Human-Computer
Interaction, Information retrieval, Logic, Machine Learning, Networks,
Statistical Data Analysis, etc. http://www.hiit.fi/postdoc-call-2013

Jobs are available at:
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto Univ and
Univ Helsinki;
Dept Computer Science, Univ Helsinki;
Dept Information and Computer Science, Aalto Univ;
Dept Computer Science and Engineering, Aalto Univ;
Dept Mathematics and Statistics, Univ Helsinki.

Why Helsinki? The collaborating Aalto University and University of
Helsinki form a leading hub of computer science and modelling.
Helsinki region is a safe, pleasant and attractive place to live in,
with well-functioning services such as public transport etc. Finland
has a comprehensive social security and health care system, including
exceptionally good parental leaves, and children's day care services.

Positions are offered in:

Algorithm engineering (String Algorithms group)
Algorithmic bioinformatics (Genome-Scale Algorithmics group)
Automated reasoning and search, especially propositional logic (Computational Logic group)
Computational astrophysics and/or data analysis (Computational Methods and Data Analysis for Astrophysics group)
Computational biology and statistical methods in bioinformatics (Computational Systems Biology group)
Computational creativity and data mining (Discovery group)
Dynamic and large-scale networked systems (Data Communications Software group)
Intelligent multimodal information access (Content-Based Image and Information Retrieval Group)
Machine learning and neuroscience (Statistical Machine Learning group)
Machine learning for structured data (Kernel Machines, Pattern Analysis and Computational Biology group)
Machine learning methods for infectious disease epidemiology (Bayesian Statistics Group)
Probabilistic modeling and machine learning (Complex Systems Computation group)
Statistical machine learning (Statistical Machine Learning group)
Analysing ubiquitous sensor data (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)
Interactive visualization (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)
Affective computing and BCI (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)
Intelligent user interfaces and/or recommender systems (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)
Information retrieval (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)
Machine learning and data analysis, especially information retrieval, HCI, text and context data (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)
Probabilistic modeling and data analysis for bioinformatics (HIIT-Wide Focus Area)

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ACIS Keynote - Supporting Professional Communities in the Next Web

I had the pleasure to give a keynote at the PWM Wissenstag Social Enterprise @ I-KNOW 2013 in Graz, Austria on September 4, 2013. Also I demoed the ROLE Sandbox and our new DireWolf Framework for distributing web user interfaces on different devices. Here are the slides.

 

Supporting Professional Communities in the Next Web from Ralf Klamma

If you are interested in the demos. They are available on the web.

• Realtime Interwidget Communication with the ROLE SDK: http://role-sandbox.eu/spaces/iwc
• DireWolf - Distributing Web Interfaces on Multiple Devices: http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/cms/projects/the-xmpp-experience/direwolf

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