10 PhD positions in new Data Science Centre at Edinburgh, UK

 10 PhD places in new Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Science

 Web site: http://datascience.inf.ed.ac.uk/

 Application deadline: 27 January 2014 (first round)

The Edinburgh Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Data Science is
now inviting applications for 10 fully-funded PhD studentships, to
start in September 2014. Students with a strong background in computer
science, mathematics, physics, or engineering are particularly
encouraged to apply.

The CDT focuses on the computational principles, methods, and systems
for extracting knowledge from data. Large data sets are now generated
by almost every activity in science, society, and commerce - ranging
from molecular biology to social media, from sustainable energy to
health care. Data science asks: How can we efficiently find patterns
in these vast streams of data?  Many research areas have tackled parts
of this problem: machine learning focuses on finding patterns and
making predictions from data; ideas from algorithms and databases are
required to build systems that scale to big data streams; and separate
research areas have grown around different types of unstructured data
such as text, images, sensor data, video, and speech.  Recently, these
distinct disciplines have begun to converge into a single field called
data science.

The CDT is a 4-year programme: the first year provides Masters level
training in the core areas of data science, along with a significant
project. In years 2-4 students will carry out PhD research in Data
Science, guided by PhD supervisors from within the centre. The CDT is
funded by EPSRC and the University of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh has a large, world-class research community in data science
to support the work of the CDT student cohort.  The city of Edinburgh
has often been voted the 'best place to live in Britain', and has many
exciting cultural and student activities.

Because of constraints from funding agencies, there are different
rules for funding depending on your fee status:
   * UK and EU students: Full funding (fees and stipend) is available.
   * Non-EU students: Funding is significantly more competitive;  see
     http://datascience.inf.ed.ac.uk/apply/information-for-non-eu-students/
     for details.

See http://datascience.inf.ed.ac.uk/apply/ for further information and
application forms. Enquiries via datascience@inf.ed.ac.uk .

There are two deadlines for applications:

 * First round deadline for full consideration. Apply by 27 January
   2014. (Any non-EU candidates must apply by this date, as well as
   following the specific instructions for non-EU residents.)

 * Second round: Any remaining scholarships will be awarded in a
   second round of applications. The deadline for the second round is
   31 March 2014.

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WWW 2014 Workshop - 4th Workshop on Data Extraction and Object Search (DEOS’14)

DEOS 2014: Fourth Workshop on Data Extraction and Object Search (April 7) in conjunction with WWW'14, April 7-11, Seoul, South Korea.

http://diadem.cs.ox.ac.uk/deos14/

Important Dates
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Paper submission: *Jan 7, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)* Paper notification: *Feb 4, 2014* Paper camera-ready copy: *Feb 12, 2014* (hard deadline) Workshop date: April 7, 2014
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Description
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The Fourth International Workshop on “Data Extraction and Object Search” (DEOS 2014) will take place as a satellite event of WWW 2014 in Seoul, South Korea, on April 7th, 2014.

Web data extraction is witnessing a renaissance. In an increasing number of applications such as price intelligence or predictive analytics, the value of data-driven approaches has been conclusively proven. However, the necessary data is often available only as HTML, e.g., in form of online shops of competitors that can serve as sources for pricing and offer data. DEOS is a regular forum for researchers and practitioners in data extraction and object search, to present and discuss ongoing work on data extraction and object search for products, events, reviews, and other types of structured data on the web.

This is the fourth installation of DEOS, the first held in Como in 2010, the second in Vienna in 2011, the third in Oxford in 2013. The workshop is supported by the ERC DIADEM grant (http://diadem.cs.ox.ac.uk/) and the Oxford Martin school (http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/). There is a small amount of travel support available from the sponsors.


Topics
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This installment of the workshop places a particular emphasis on benchmarking and effective evaluation measures for data extraction.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Large-scale data extraction approaches capable of dealing with a large number of websites without per-site supervision.
* Object identification and extraction approaches in domains such as products, events, reviews, forum posts, ...
* Reducing and simplifying supervision in wrapper induction and the use of crowdsourcing.
* Automatic crawling and exploration of web interfaces with a particular focus on highly-visual, scripted web applications.
* Information extraction meets data extraction including approaches that integrate information extraction, e.g., from product titles, with data extraction for mutual verification of the data.
* Automated data extraction approaches that identify wrappers fully automatically at high accuracy.
* Integration and cleaning of extracted web data for object search including approaches or tools for deduplication (intra- and inter-site) and for reconciliation of conflicting attribute values.
* Object search approaches and systems that provide a search interface to data extracted from the web.
* Evaluation, benchmarking, and replicability in web data extraction and object search.


Submissions
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DEOS’14 welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers. Benchmark papers are particularly encouraged and demonstration papers are also welcome.

Submitted papers should be 8 pages (4 pages for demo proposals, work in progress, or vision papers) maximum in length, including figures and references. The paper must be formatted as PDF according to style guidelines of ACM SIG Proceedings Template available here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.

All papers should be submitted online on the workshop submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=deos14.

Further information is available at http://diadem.cs.ox.ac.uk/deos14/.

Organization
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Tim Furche, University of Oxford, <tim@furche.net>
Giorgio Orsi, University of Oxford, <giorgio.orsi@cs.ox.ac.uk>
Paolo Merialdo, Università Roma Tre, <merialdo@dia.uniroma3.it>
Valter Crescenzi, Università Roma Tre, <crescenz@dia.uniroma3.it>

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Deadline Extension - The 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'14)

The 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
New paper submission deadline: 9 December 2013
Note count-down clock! 

http://delab.csd.auth.gr/caise2014/important_dates.php  

Call for Papers

Information Systems Engineering in Times of Crisis
http://delab.csd.auth.gr/caise2014/

Real-time information systems and overly complex financial products have been blamed as causes of recent financial crises. The IS Engineering community is treating such phenomena as challenges, to be addressed through research and improved practices. In particular, our community has begun to address the role of information systems in predicting, preventing, and reacting to crises of many different kinds: data-centric financial and fiscal dependency analysis of the globalized financial systems, resilience of critical infrastructures by information management, reaction to natural disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, etc. Due to the very nature of crises as unexpected events with broad and vast impact, IS Engineering challenges traditional wisdom and methodologies, as well as interactions between research and practice including stakeholders such as crisis victims.
CAiSE '14 will, as always, act as a forum of discussion that brings together researchers and practitioners in the field of IS Engineering. It will be the place to share mature research, ground-breaking ideas, and experience reports in our discipline.
CAiSE welcomes all submissions that fall in the domain of information systems engineering. This year, the conference extends a special welcome to papers that address the role of IS engineering in crisis situations. Four kinds of contributions are accepted: technical papers, empirical evaluation papers, reports of experience, and exploratory papers. The CAiSE topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Methods, techniques and tools for IS engineering
•    Innovation and creativity in IS engineering
•    Enterprise architecture and enterprise modelling
•    Requirements engineering
•    Business process modeling, analysis and management
•    Requirements, models, and software reuse
•    Adaptation, evolution and flexibility issues
•    Domain engineering
•    IS in networked & virtual organizations
•    Method engineering
•    Knowledge, information, and data quality
•    Languages and models
•    Mining, monitoring and predicting
•    Variability and configuration
•    Matching, compliance and alignment issues
•    Conceptual design and modelling
•    Security
•    Service science

Innovative platforms, architectures and technologies for IS
•    Service-oriented architecture
•    Model-driven architecture
•    Component based development
•    Agent architecture
•    Distributed, mobile, and open architecture
•    Innovative database technology
•    Semantic web
•    IS and ubiquitous technologies
•    Adaptive and context-aware IS

Domain specific IS engineering:
•    Crisis Management
•    eGovernment
•    Enterprise applications (ERP, COTS)
•    Data warehouses and business intelligence
•    Workflow systems
•    Knowledge management systems
•    Content management systems

Important dates
•    Paper submission deadline: 9 December 2013
•    Tutorial submission deadline: 13 December 2013
•    Notification of acceptance: 17 February 2014
•    Conference, Workshops & Related Events: 16-20 June 2014

Author Guidelines
Types of contributions. We invite four types of original and scientific papers:
Formal and/or technical papers describe original solutions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of IS engineering. A technical paper should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and the potential - or, even better, the evaluated - benefits of the contribution.
Empirical evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, formal analyses, mathematical proofs, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and practices in industry also falls into this category. The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as well as its causal or logical properties must be clearly stated. The research method must be sound and appropriate.
Experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial practice. The focus is on 'what' and on lessons learned, not on an in-depth analysis of 'why'. The practice must be clearly described and its context must be given. Readers should be able to draw conclusions for their own practice.
Exploratory Papers can describe completely new research positions or approaches, in order to face to a generic situation arising because of new ICT tools or new kinds of activities or new IS challenges. They must describe precisely the situation and demonstrate how current methods, tools, ways of reasoning, or meta-models are inadequate. They must rigorously present their approach and demonstrate its pertinence and correctness to addressing the identified situation.
Submission Conditions. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding 15 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. The type of paper (technical/empirical evaluation/experience/exploratory paper) should be indicated in the submission.
Publication. Accepted papers will be presented at CAiSE'14 and published in the conference proceedings, which is published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors elected best papers from the conference will be invited to submit an expanded version for publication in the journal, Information Systems.

Venue
Thessaloniki is the second largest city of Greece, with a population of 1.000.000 people. Apart from its landmark, the White Tower, the city boasts important historical sites, museums and cultural activities. It is also known as a cosmopolitan and commercial center, with exceptional nightlife in its famous Ladadika quarter. The music scene in the city is vibrant and diverse and includes nightclubs, dance halls, discos, cafes and music bars, jazz clubs and more, along with a wealth of live performances, both musical and theatrical. In addition to important Byzantine and Archaeological museums within the city, travellers can visit the Archaeological site of Vergina (the capital of ancient Macedonia). This is the venue of Phillip's tomb (the father of Alexander the Great), a site full of remarkable treasures of art and culture. Also within a short distance (45 minutes by car) one can visit mount Olympus (the mountain of the ancient Gods) where "Dion" the holy city of ancient Macedonia is located. For these and many other reasons, Thessaloniki is the cultural capital of northern Greece! CAISE'2014 will be hosted at the MET Hotel (http://www.themethotel.gr), located very close to the historic center of Thessaloniki, 17 km from "Macedonia" airport. A block of rooms has been reserved for the conference registrants.

Organising Committee
Steering Committee
•    Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
•    Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica València, Spain
•    John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Advisory Committee
•    Arne Sølvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
•    Janis Bubenko Jr, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
•    Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1, France
General Chairs
•    Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1, France
•    Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
•    Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London, UK
Program Board Chair
•    Eric Dubois, Public Research Center H. Tudor, Luxembourg
Program Chairs
•    Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
•    John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy
•    Christoph Quix, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Tutorial and Panel Chairs
•    Jaelson Castro, University of Pernambuco, Brasil
•    Dimitri Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Workshops Chairs
•    Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
•    Mike Papazoglou, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
•    Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Forum Chairs
•    Selmin Nurcan, University of Paris 1, France
•    Elias Pimenidis, University of East London, UK
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
•    Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica València, Spain
•    Yannis Vassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Organizing Committee Chairs
•    Anastasios Gounaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
•    Apostolos Papadopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Publicity Chairs
•    Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece
•    Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
•    Eric Yu, University of Totonto, Canada
•    Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brasil
•    Naoufel Kraiem, Université de Manouba, Tunisia

Web and Social Media Master
•    Ioannis Karydis, Ionian University, Greece

See website for full details.

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WWW 2014 Workshop - 4th Joint Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2014)

 

1st CALL FOR PAPERS

The 4th Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2014)

Workshop to be held at the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW

2014) in Seoul, Korea

http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/webquality2014/

IMPORTANT DATES

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Jan 7, 2014: Paper submission deadline
Feb 4, 2014: Notification of acceptance
Feb 12, 2014: Camera ready copy deadline April 7, 2014: Workshop date
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OBJECTIVES

The Web and social media are growing both in size and complexity, as well as
playing an increasing role in our lives. Finding relevant, timely and
trustworthy content in a sea of seemingly irrelevant chatter remains a
challenging research issue. On one hand, this workshop deals with the more
blatant and malicious attempts that deteriorate web quality such as spam,
plagiarism, or various forms of abuse and ways to prevent them or neutralize
their impact on users' experience. On the other hand, it will also provide a
venue for exchanging ideas on quantifying and modeling issues of content
quality, credibility and author reputation.

The objective of the workshop is to provide the research communities working
on web quality topics with a survey of current problems and potential solutions.
It presents an opportunity for close interaction between researchers and
practitioners who may be focused on isolated sub-areas. We also want to
gather crucial feedback for the academic community from participants
representing major industry players on how web content quality research can
contribute to practice.

TOPICS

Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Assessing the credibility of content and people on the web and social media
* Measuring quality of web content
* Uncovering distorted and biased content
* Modeling author identity, trust, and reputation
* Role of groups and communities
* Multimedia content credibility

Fighting spam, abuse, and plagiarism on the Web and social media
* Reducing web spam
* Reducing abuses of electronic messaging systems
* Detecting abuses in internet advertising
* Uncovering plagiarism and multiple-identity issues
* Promoting cooperative behavior in social networks
* Security issues with online communication

Other topics are listed on the workshop website.

We invite two kinds of submissions: (i) full papers and (ii) short papers.
Full papers are limited to 8 pages, while short papers are limited to 4 pages.
Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the ACM style
guide http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
and submitted via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webquality2014
The accepted papers will appear in ACM Digital Library.

ORGANIZERS

Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University)
Carlos Castillo (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
James Caverlee (Texas A&M University)
Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

see the website

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WWW 2014 Workshop - The 4th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2014)

The 4th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2014) at WWW 2014

http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/microposts2014

7 April 2014, Seoul, Republic of Korea


THEME
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Making Sense of Microposts: Big things come in small packages

Microposts, such as Twitter status updates, Instagram likes and photos and Foursquare checkins, form a notable part of published web content. Smart phones, after overtaking sales of personal computers in 2012, now play a significant role in enabling ubiquitous communication, and have contributed to the steep increase in publication of Microposts, via native mobile apps and mobile-specific web sites. The increase in Micropost publication is evident across Twitter, where 500 million posts are now published every day, up from 175 million in 2012. Facebook sees 30 billion pieces of content shared on it every month. Such statistics reflect the growing production and consumption of data by users and the widespread sharing of information through social networks. The utility of Microposts is such that we are now providing up-to-date information about a range of topics formed in disparate contexts, providing information about emerging events, online presence, emergency response and c!
rowd movement. Being able to make sense of Microposts therefore impacts on the ability to act upon information quickly and effectively, and aids the understanding of evolving user behaviour, events and public perception and opinion about their worlds.

The central objective of the #Microposts workshop is to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to discuss and debate current efforts toward analysing and understanding Microposts. We define a Micropost as information published on the Web that is small in size (e.g. a Tweet, Facebook share, Instagram like) and that requires minimal effort to publish. Although individual Microposts are small, collectively they provide a rich source of current information about a range of topics across all walks of life. Gleaning information from such content effectively requires a degree of understanding of what is being discussed and, with very large amounts, semi- to fully automated analytical and extraction approaches.
The workshop aims to provide a forum to enable discussion and hence, improve understanding of social and cultural phenomena that influence the publication and reuse of Microposts; and to discuss applications of Micropost data in a variety of contexts, including emergency response, crowd and event tracking, public opinion and sentiment analysis. Enabling the understanding and application of Micropost content requires analytical techniques and tools that function at scale and that can handle the high rate at which Microposts are published. The workshop invites submissions that deal with publication rate and scale, and approaches that facilitate understanding of Microposts through their semantics and where available, contextual information.

Microposts are both a technical and a social phenomenon, and the nature of the challenge related to their treatment is therefore multi-disciplinary. We continue to promote a multidisciplinary workshop, as achieved in the past three in the series, by also encouraging social scientists and other non-Computer Science researchers to submit work that looks at the theories behind Micropost usage and communication through this medium. The workshop also encourages demonstration of practical application of the results of analysis of Micropost data, both within the research community and in everyday, real-world scenarios. We encourage submissions using this and last year’s challenge data for contributions to the main track.



TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The workshop will focus on topics including, but not exclusive to, the three areas below:

Data mining from Microposts
-Emergent semantics
-Opinion mining, sentiment and sentic analysis -Network analysis and community detection -Influence detection and social contagion modelling -Prediction approaches -Linking Microposts into the Web of Data -Semantic entity disambiguation

Social & Web Science Studies
-Collective awareness
-Education & citizen empowerment, data journalism -Civil action, media & politics -Political and polemical aspects of Microposts -Ethics, legal and privacy issues -Psychological profiles and psychological aspects of Micropost-based interactions -Cultural and regional differences in access and use

Applications
-Collective intelligence, including user profiling, personalisation & recommendation -Business analytics & market intelligence -Event & topic detection and tendency tracking -Microposts as second screen to TV -Geo-localized, Micropost-based services -Public consensus & citizen participation -Security, emergency response & health -Linking social and physical signals, in, e.g., crowd tracking




ENTITY EXTRACTION & DISAMBIGUATION CHALLENGE
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#Microposts2014 will host an 'Entity Extraction & Disambiguation Challenge', where participants must label Microposts in a given dataset with the entities referenced and their semantic web URIs. Existing entity extraction and disambiguation tools are intended for use over news corpora and similar document-based corpora with relatively long length. The aim of the challenge is to foster research into novel, more accurate entity extraction and disambiguation for (much shorter) Micropost data. Detailed information on how to enter the challenge will be provided in a separate call for challenge submissions as well as on the workshop website.



WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
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A keynote address from an invited speaker will open the day. This will be followed by paper presentations. We will hold a poster and demo session to trigger further, in-depth interaction between workshop participants. The last set of presentations will be brief overviews of selected submissions to the Entity Extraction & Disambiguation Challenge The workshop will close with the presentation of awards for the best paper and the highest ranking challenge submission.


SUBMISSIONS
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* Full papers: 8 pages ACM SIG format
* Short and position papers: 4 pages ACM SIG format
* Demos & Posters: 2 pages ACM SIG format
* Challenge extended abstracts: 5 pages Springer LNCS format

Main track submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), and should include author names and affiliations, and 3-5 keywords.
Further detail for challenge submissions will be provided in a separate call.

Submission is via the EasyChair Conference System, at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microposts2014. Where a submission includes additional material submission this should be made as a single, unencrypted zip file that includes a plain text file listing its contents.

Each submission will receive, in addition to a meta-review, at least 2 peer reviews, with full papers at least 3 peer reviews.

The workshop proceedings will be published through the ACM Digital Library.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission deadline: ***7 Jan 2014***
Paper Notification: 4 Feb 2014
Camera-ready (hard) deadline (short & long papers): 12 Feb 2014

(all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time)

Workshop program issued: 15 Mar 2014
Main track proceedings to be published by ACM
Workshop - 7 April 2014 (Registration open to all)



CONTACT
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E-mail: microposts2014@easychair.org
Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910
Facebook Public Event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/116134955169543
Twitter hashtag: #microposts2014
W3C Microposts Community Group: http://www.w3.org/community/microposts


ORGANISERS
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Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University, UK
Milan Stankovic, Université Paris-Sorbonne & Sépage, France
Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Birmingham, UK



CHALLENGE EVALUATION COMMITTEE:
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Challenge Chairs:
A. Elizabeth Cano, Aston University, UK
Giuseppe Rizzo, Università degli studi di Torino, Italy

Dataset Chair:
Andrea Varga, The University of Sheffield, UK

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ACIS Annual Report 2012-2013

Please find the report of the Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS) group at RWTH Aachen University. It covers our activities from October 2012 to September 2013.

Advanced Community Information Systems Group (ACIS) Annual Report 2013 from Ralf Klamma

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ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2014)

ACM International 

Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 

Glasgow, UK,

1st - 4th April 2014  

http://www.icmr2014.org/

Important dates

***** DECEMBER 2, 2013 – Paper Submission, Full and Short *****

* December 14, 2013 – Doc Symposium
* December 14, 2013 – PhD Showcase
* December 15, 2013 - Tutorial Proposals
* January 13, 2014 - Demonstrations

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The Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR)
offers a great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval
ideas among researchers, practitioners and other potential users of
multimedia retrieval systems. ICMR 2014 is seeking original high quality
submissions addressing innovative research in the broad field of multimedia
retrieval. We wish to highlight significant contributions addressing the
main problem of search and retrieval but also the related and equally
important issues of multimedia content management, user interaction, and
community-based management. The conference will be held in Glasgow during
1-5 April 2014.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Content- and context-based indexing, search and retrieval of images and video
* Multimedia content search and browsing on the Web
* Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio, image, video and 3D data
* Multimedia content analysis and understanding
* Semantic retrieval of visual content
* Learning and relevance feedback in media retrieval
* Query models, paradigms, and languages for multimedia retrieval
* Multimodal media search
* Human perception based multimedia retrieval
* Studies of information-seeking behavior among image/video users
* Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for image/video retrieval
* HCI issues in multimedia retrieval
* Evaluation of multimedia retrieval systems
* High performance multimedia indexing algorithms
* Community-based multimedia content management
* Applications of Multimedia Retrieval: Medicine, Multimodal Lifelogs, Satellite Imagery, etc.
* Image/video summarization and visualization

Based on the Chinese Computing Federation Conference Ranking (2013):
ACM ICMR is the #1 Multimedia Retrieval conference in the world and
the#4 conference in the category of multimedia and graphics.

All papers should be prepared and submitted according to the following
guidelines.

Paper format
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Full papers must not exceed 8 pages in total. Papers must be formatted
according to ACM guidelines and must be in PDF format. Papers exceeding the
limits will be rejected without review.

Submissions
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Submitted papers must describe unpublished original work, emphasizing
completed or advanced research and a parallel submission to other venues
should be clearly indicated to the program committee.
Submissions are double-blind and will be reviewed by at least three program
committee members.

Double-blind Review
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The ICMR uses a double-blind review process for regular paper selection.
Authors should not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and
reviewers should not know the name(s) of the authors.
Please prepare your paper in a way that preserves anonymity of the authors.

* Do not put your name(s) under the title.
* Avoid using phrases such as "our previous work" when referring to earlier
publications by the authors.
* Remove information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgments
(e.g., co-workers and grant IDs).
* Check supplemental material (e.g., titles in the video clips, or
supplementary documents) for information that may identify the authors
identity.
* Avoid providing links to websites that identify the authors.

Conference organization
=======================

General Chairs
Joemon Jose (University of Glasgow, UK)
Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Cambridge, UK)

TPC Chairs
Mohan Kankanhalli (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Stefan Rueger (The Open University, UK)
R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts, USA)

Industry and Practitioners Day
Rong Yan (Facebook, USA)
Johan Oomen (Sound and Vision, Netherlands)
Alejandro Jaimes (Yahoo! Labs, Spain)

Special session Chairs
Rainer Lienhart (University of Augsburg, Germany)
James Wang (Penn State University, USA)
Jingdong Wang (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

Workshop Chairs
Benoit Huet (EURECOM, France)
Chong-Wah Ngo (City University HK)
Vincent Oria (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

Demonstrations Chairs
Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ichiro Ide (Nagoya University, Japan)

Tutorials
Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Manjunath B. S. (University of California, USA)
Thierry Urruty (Département XLIM-SIC, France)

Doctoral Symposium
Xuelong Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Stephane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

Panels Chairs
Shin'ichi Satoh (Japanese National Institute, Japan)
John Smith (IBM, USA)

PhD student showcase
Jialie Shen (Singapore Management University, Singapore )
Ioannis Patras (Queen Margaret University London, UK)

Brave New Ideas
Nicu Sebe (University of Trento, Italy)
Alexander Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Proceedings Chairs
Robert Villa (University of Sheffield, UK)
Frank Hopfgartner (Technical University Berlin, Germany)

Publicity Chairs
Joao Magalhaes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Jun Wang (University College London, UK)

Sponsorship Chairs
Noel O'Connor (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yiannis (Ioannis) Kompatsiaris (ITI, Greece)

Local Organizing Committee
Martin Halvey (University of Caledonian, UK)
Philip McParlane (University of Glasgow, UK)

Website
Philip McParlane (University of Glasgow, UK)

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Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) DATA CHALLENGE 2014

 

LAK DATA CHALLENGE 2014

http://lak.linkededucation.org

collocated with Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2014

The LAK Dataset (http://lak.linkededucation.org/) provides access to
structured metadata from research publications in the field of learning
analytics. Beyond merely publishing the data, we are actively
encouraging its innovative use and exploitation as part of a public LAK
Data Challenge sponsored by the European Project LinkedUp
(http://linkedup-project.eu<http://linkedup-project.eu/>), co-located with the Learning Analytics &
Knowledge Conference 2014 conference in Indianapolis, Indiana (US) in
March 2014.


IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

- 20th January, 2014: submission deadline
- 3rd February, 2014: notification deadline
- 24-28 March, 2014: LAK2014 Conference.


CHALLENGE OBJECTIVE
-------------------
What do analytics on learning analytics tell us? How can we make sense
of this emerging fieldís historical roots, current state, and future
trends, based on how its members report and debate their research?
Challenge submissions should exploit the LAK Dataset for a meaningful
purpose. This may include submissions which cover one or more of the
following, non-exclusive list of topics:

- Analysis & assessment of the emerging LAK community in terms of
topics, people, citations or connections with other fields
- Innovative applications to explore, navigate and visualise the dataset
(and/or its correlation with other datasets)
- Usage of the dataset as part of recommender systems
- Analysis of the evolution of the LAK discipline
- Improvement and enrichment of the LAK Dataset


SUBMISSION FORMAT
-----------------
Each submission should be accompanied by a 2-4 page paper (ACM format,
see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) that
contains at least:

- an abstract of the submission
- motivation: which purposes does your system or dataset serve?
- description of your dataset (e.g. if the LAK data is combined with
other datasets), system or demo
- a link to your dataset and/or system or demo

Please use the EasyChair submission form
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lakdatachallenge2014) for
all submissions.


EVALUATION
----------
There will be a light review by members of the challenge committee to
pre-select submissions for presentation. During the LAK conference and
based on the presentations, the challenge winner(s) will be identified
based on votes by the audience and the committee.


PUBLICATION, PRESENTATION & AWARDS
----------------------------------
Accepted submissions will be published in online proceedings and
presented during an interactive LAK Data workshop collocated with the
LAK 2014 conference in Indianapolis, Indiana (US). The three best papers
of each workshop will be invited to a Special Issue in the Journal for
Learning Analytics. In addition, there will be awards for the winning
submissions with very cool prizes (further details to be announced)!


CHALLENGE COMMITTEE
-------------------

- Mathieu D'Aquin (The Open University, United Kingdom)
- Stefan Dietze (L3S Research Center, Germany)
- Hendrik Drachsler (Open Universiteit Nederland, Netherlands)
- Eelco Herder (L3S Research Center, Germany)
- Davide Taibi (Institute for Educational Technologies CNR, Italy)


CONTACT
--------
lakdatachallenge2014@easychair.org<mailto:lakdatachallenge2014@easychair.org>

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The 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM '14)

ASONAM '14

The 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference

on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining

Beijing China August 17-20, 2014

Home Page: www.asonam2014.org

Call for Papers

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network
Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) provides a premier interdisciplinary
forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from all social
networking analysis and mining related fields for presentation of
original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of
innovative, practical development experiences. ASONAM 2014 seeks to
address important challenging problems with a specific focus on the
emerging trends and industry needs associated with social networking
analysis and mining. The conference solicits experimental and
theoretical findings along with their real-world applications.

General areas of interest to ASONAM 2014 include the design, analysis
and implementation of social networking theory, systems and
applications from information science, mathematics, communications,
business administration, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied
linguistics, biology and medicine. More specialized topics within
ASONAM include, but are not limited to:

* Agent based social simulation and computational models
* Anomaly detection in social network evolution
* Application of social network analysis and mining
* Community discovery and analysis in large scale online/offline social networks
* Connection between biological similarities and social network formulation
* Contextual social network analysis and mining
* Crime network analysis
* Crowd sourcing
* Cyber anthropology
* Dark Web
* Data models for social networks and social media
* Data protection inside communities
* Economical impact of social network discovery
* Evolution of communities/patterns on the Web and in large organizations
* Impact of social networks on recommendations systems
* Incorporating social information in query processing and query optimization
* Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
* Influence of cultural aspects on the formation of communities
* Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis
* Misbehavior detection in communities
* Migration between communities
* Multi-actor/multiple-relationship networks
* Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis
* Open source intelligence
* Pattern presentation for end-users and experts
* Personalization for search and for social interaction
* Political impact of social network discovery
* Privacy, security and civil liberty issues
* Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and
establishment of social relations
* Scalability of social networking/search algorithms
* Social and cultural anthropology
* Social geography
* Social psychology of information diffusion
* Spatial/knowledge networks
* Statistical modeling of large networks
* Trust networks and evolution of trust
* Visual representation of dynamic social networks

Key Dates
*********

Full paper submission deadline: April 9, 2014
Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2014
Camera-ready papers due: June 24, 2014
Conference events: August 17-20, 2014

Paper Submissions
*****************

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining
to the above topics are solicited. The papers will reviewed by a
minimum of two subject experts. Full paper manuscripts must be in
English with a maximum length of 8 pages using the IEEE CPS two-column
template. Papers should be submitted to the Conference Web site:
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2014/asonam14/cbc_index.php. IEEE will
retain the copyright for accepted papers and the IEEE copyright form
found at
http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/copyrightmai
n.html
will therefore have to be completed. Papers will be accepted for the
conference based on the reviewers comments on their originality,
timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. If
the paper is accepted, the paper will appear in the proceedings of the
conference if one author presents the paper at the conference and at
least one author register as a full conference participant.

Publications
************

Accepted and presented papers will be included in the ASONAM 2014
Conference Proceedings and forwarded for inclusion in IEEE Computer
Society Digital Library (CSDL), IEEE Xplore and the ACM Digital
Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for EI indexing
through INSPEC by the IEEE.

ASONAM 2014 Organizing Committee
********************************

Honorary Chair:
Binxing Fang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Conference Chairs:
Yan Jia, National University of Defence Technology, China
Jon Rokne, University of Calgary, Canada

Program Committee Chairs:
Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA and Hefei University of Technology, China
Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Steering Committee Chair:
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada

Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Daniel Zeng, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Arizona
Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China

Workshops Chairs:
Bettina Berendt, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
Wolfgan Nejdl, Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany

Tutorial Chairs:
V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA
Meng Wang, Hefei University of Technology, China
Carson Leung, Manitoba University, Canada

Panels Chairs:
Alvin Chin, Nokia Research, China
Jing Xu, Peking University, China
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Tsukuba University, Japan

Demos Chairs:
Tansel Ozyer, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
Wei Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia

Publicity Chairs:
Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas, USA
Panagiotis Karampelas, Hellenic American University, Greece
Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea

Publication Chairs:
Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Min-Yuh Day, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Registration Chair
QIngshun Meng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Finance Chair
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Lu Xu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Web Chair:
Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China

Further Information:
********************

asonam2014@gmail.com

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WWW 2014 Workshop - 5th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2014)

CALL FOR PAPERS
5th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2014)
Mining Big Data in Social Media and the Web
http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2014/
to be held on April 8, 2014, Seoul, Korea
co-located with ACM WWW 2014

Important Dates:
** Submission Deadline: January 7, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
** Notification of Acceptance: Feb 4, 2014
** Final Papers Due: Feb 12, 2014
** Workshop date: April 8, 2014


Workshop Organizers:
Alvin Chin, Nokia, Beijing, China; alvin.chin@nokia.com
Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany; atzmueller@cs.uni-kassel.de
Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria; trattner.christoph@gmail.com


In our first workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2010 in Toronto, Canada), we explored various different models of social media ranging from user modeling, hypertext models, software engineering models, sociological models and framework models. In our second workshop (MSM 2011 in Boston, USA),  we addressed the user interface aspects of modeling social media. In our third workshop (MSM 2012 in Milwaukee, USA), we looked at the collective intelligence in social media, i.e. making sense of the content and context from social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Foursquare by analyzing tweets, tags, blog posts, likes, posts and check-ins, in order to create a new knowledge and semantic meaning. Last year's workshop (MSM 2013 in Paris, France), we discussed about mining, modeling and recommending "things" in social media.

For this workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working in the field of big data mining and machine learning using web and social media data. Big data is a hot topic in the research community, and we would like to invite researchers in the data and web mining community to
lend their expertise to help make understanding of the web and social media that we have out there (e.g. Facebook and Twitter, and browsing web logs). Thus, we invite submissions which may include the following topics, but are not limited to:

* novel big data mining and analytics methods or frameworks for social media and the web
* novel approaches for personalization and recommendations
* novel methods for social structure and community discovery
* novel methods for tie strength or link prediction
* novel methods for predicting user behavior
* novel methods for user modeling and profiling
* novel methods for big data information visualization
* privacy and security issues in mining big data from web and social media
* applications of any of the above methods and technologies

The goal of this workshop is to apply big data mining approaches and algorithms on social media. Big data is everywhere and social media is now becoming one of the proponents of generating big data, especially since the data is in real time. Every company internally and externally has big data, but the issue is how to mine and make use of this big data to help companies make informed decisions. This workshop helps to address methods, algorithms, and frameworks to solve this problem from expert researchers. Hence, the workshop aims to attract and discuss various novel aspects of personalization,
recommendation, community discovery, profiling and prediction from social media. In short the workshop invites topics that deal with user and social behavior that is inferred from mining the social media through big data analytics. Thus, our goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world in the big data mining, machine learning and recommendation communities interested in

1) exploring different perspectives and approaches to mine (complex) and analyze social media data,
2) inferring user and social behavior through big data analytics, personalization and recommendation and
3) building models and frameworks for evaluating the designed approaches.

Submissions: We solicit short position papers (1-2 pages) and peer-reviewed research papers (4-8 pages) in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2014

Program Committee:
* Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
* Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA, Australia
* Robin Burke, de Paul, USA
* Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, INRIA, France
* Polo Chau, Georgia Tech, USA
* Guanling Chen, University of Massachussetts – Lowell, USA
* Padraig Cunningham, University College Dublin, Ireland
* Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain
* Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany
* Ido Guy, IBM Research, Israel
* Eelco Herder, L3S, Germany
* Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
* Geert-Jan Houben, TU-Delft, Netherlands
* Elisabeth Lex, Know-Center, Austria
* Kris Jack, Mendeley, UK
* Else Nygren, Uppsala University, Sweden
* Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
* Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA
* Denis Parra, PUC, Chile
* Haggai Roitman, IBM Research, Israel
* James She, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
* Christoph Scholz, University of Kassel, Germany
* Marc Smith, ConnectedAction, USA
* Zhiyong Yu, Institut Telecom Sud de Paris, France
* Shengdong Zhao, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Arkaitz Zubiaga, New York City University, USA

Proceedings: We intend to include the publications in the ACM WWW Conference Proceedings and provide them to the attendees of the conference on a USB stick.

Contact:
msm2014pc@gmail.com

Follow us on:
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/
Twitter https://twitter.com/MSM_workshop

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PhD candidate in Visual Analytics/Information Visualization, Vienna University of Technology

Job: Junior Research Position (PhD candidate) in Visual
Analytics/Information Visualization, TUW, LBC CVAST [DL: Jan. 15, 2014]

Vienna University of Technology:
LBC CVAST (Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology)

We are seeking for a highly motivated PhD candidate in the field of Visual
Analytics, Information Visualization, visual Data Mining and Interaction
Design in the Laura Bassi Center of Expertise (LBC), Centre for Visual
Analytics Science and Technology (CVAST), which is established at the
Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems
(http://www.isis.tuwien.ac.at/), Vienna University of Technology, Vienna,
Austria.


== RESPONSIBILITIES ==

The successful applicant will

* perform research and develop concepts in the field of Visual Analytics,
Information Visualization, visual Data Mining and Interaction Design
* design new techniques and implement interactive prototypes
* write scientific publications
* review scientific publications
* participate in scientific and consulting projects
* participate in writing research proposals
* work within a creative, highly motivated, and international team
* (to a smaller extent) participate in teaching and supervision of student
projects and theses


== REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS ==
* University degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics/Information
Systems, or an equivalent university-level degree that qualifies to enroll
as a Ph.D. student
* Strong analytical skills and good skills in programming (preferably Java,
JavaScript, C++, or similar)
* Knowledge or interest in one or more of the following: Visual Analytics,
Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Data Mining
* Abilities to work as an independent and flexible researcher in
interdisciplinary teams
* Good knowledge of English in speaking and writing


== DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS ==
* Knowledge or interest in one or more of the following: Business Process
Management, visual process mining, temporal uncertainty, data quality, and
time-oriented data
* (for international applicants) Basic proficiency in German or willingness
to learn


== DATES & DETAILS ===

* Application deadline: as soon as possible, but not later than January 15,
2014
* Start date: April 1, 2014 (negotiable)
* Duration: 3 years
* Working Hours: 40 hours/week
* Salary: following the guidelines of the collective agreement (KV) of the
Vienna University of Technology. Currently, starting with a gross salary of
2.562,00 per month (35.868,00 per year).
for more information (in German) :
http://www.tuwien.ac.at/fileadmin/t/pers1/downloads/Personalkostensaetze_201
3_NEU_ab_01.06.2013.pdf



== APPLICATION AND CONTACT ==
If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Silvia Miksch:
miksch@ifs.tuwien.ac.at


Associate Univ.-Prof.
SILVIA MIKSCH, Ph.D
Vienna University of Technology
Faculty of Informatics
Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ISIS)
Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188
A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe          

email:          miksch@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
url:            http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia
phone:          +43-1-58801-18824
phone-sec:      +43-1-58801-18801
fax:            +43-1-58801-18899





Please send your application (with the usual documents including a statement
of interest (motivation letter), full CV, list of subjects taken at
university plus grades, publications, etc.) by email with the subject "CVAST
Junior Research Position" to Theresia Gschwandtner
(gschwandtner@cvast.tuwien.ac.at).

The Vienna University of Technology aims for enhancing the number of women
in scientific positions and therefore particularly invites women to apply.
We encourage sending your application in electronic form. Applicants are not
entitled to claim reimbursement of traveling expenses and/or other costs
caused by the application procedures.

== MORE INFO==
Vienna University of Technology: www.tuwien.ac.at

Institute for Software Technology and Interactive Systems:
www.isis.tuwien.ac.at

LBC CVAST (Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology)
http://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/

Information Visualization:
www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php?title=Information_Visualization




==== Background: Laura Bassi Centers of Expertise and CVAST ====

The Laura Bassi Centers of Expertise (LBC) are funded by the Federal
Ministry of Economy, Family, and Youth of the Republic of Austria. This
initiative program, the only one of its kind in Europe, is committed to
equal opportunities and to establishing a new research culture to carry out
applied basic research in the natural sciences, engineering and technology
in an interdisciplinary way.
For more information see: http://www.w-fforte.at/en/laura-bassi-centres
A booklet about the LBC (in German): http://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/node/629

CVAST is one of the eight funded Laura Bassi Centers of Expertise in
Austria.



CVAST aims at designing and developing innovative methods of interactive
visualization and analysis of data to cope with the daily flood of
information. Scenarios that involve temporal properties of such data are in
the focus of our scientific interest.


For more information: http://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/cvast

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WWW 2014 Workshop - 4th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb)

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Proceedings published by ACM

4th Temporal Web Analytics Workshop (TempWeb 2014) 

in conjunction with WWW

2014 April 8, 2014, Seoul, Korea 

http://www.temporalweb.net/

After 3 successful editions, Tempweb workshop's specific focus on temporal
dimension is getting more and more relevant. Established fields of research
(IE/IR, Web mining , etc. ) are challenged to leverage time signals and
expressions to capture dynamics and trends and understand time
contextualization. The maturity of the Web, the emergence of large scale
repositories of Web material, makes this very timely and a growing set of
research and services are emerging that have this focus in common. Having a
dedicated workshop has proven relevant and fruitful to take a rich and
cross-domain approach to this new research challenge with a strong focus on
the temporal dimension. TempWeb will take place April 8, 2014 in conjunction
with the International World Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea.

TempWeb focuses on investigating infrastructures, scalable methods, and
innovative software for aggregating, querying, and analyzing heterogeneous
data at Internet scale. Particular emphasis is given to temporal data
analysis along the time dimension for Web data that has been collected over
extended time periods. A major challenge in this regard is the sheer size of
the data it exposes and the ability to make sense of it in a useful and
meaningful manner for its users. Web scale data analytics therefore needs to
develop infrastructures and extended analytical tools to make sense of the
mass of information that the historic and current web represent. Topics of
TempWeb therefore include, but are not limited to the following:

- Web scale data analytics
- Temporal Web analytics
- Distributed data analytics
- Web science
- Web dynamics
- Data quality metrics
- Web spam evolution
- Content evolution on the Web
- Systematic exploitation of Web archives
- Large scale data storage
- Large scale data processing
- Time aware Web archiving
- Data aggregation
- Web trends
- Topic mining
- Terminology evolution
- Community detection and evolution

Important Dates:
- Paper submission deadline: January 7, 2014
- Notification of acceptance: February 4, 2014
- Camera-ready copy deadline: February 12, 2014
- Workshop: April 8, 2014

Please post your submission (up to 8 pages) using the ACM template:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
at:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=tempweb2014

Workshop Team

PC-Chairs and Organizers:
Marc Spaniol (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany) Julien Masanès
(Internet Memory Foundation, France and Netherlands) Ricardo Baeza-Yates
(Yahoo! Labs, Spain)

Program Committee (tentative):
Eytan Adar (University of Michigan, USA) Omar Alonso (Microsoft Bing, USA)
Ralitsa Angelova (Google, Switzerland) Srikanta Bedathur (IIIT-Delhi, India)
Andras A. Benczur (Hungarian Academy of Science) Klaus Berberich (Max Planck
Institute for Informatics, Germany) Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Labs, Spain) Philipp
Cimiano (University of Bielefeld, Germany) Renata Galante (Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan)
Scott Kirkpatrick (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel) Frank McCown
(Harding University, USA) Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University, USA)
Kjetil Nørvåg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Nikos
Ntarmos (University of Patras, Greece) Rodrygo Luis Teodoro Santos
(University of Glasgow, UK) Philippe Rigaux (CNAM and Mignify, France)
Thomas Risse (L3S Research Center, Germany) Pierre Senellart (Telecom
ParisTech, France) Torsten Suel (NYU Polytechnic, USA) Masashi Toyoda (Tokyo
University, Japan) Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow, UK) Gerhard
Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)

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Deadline Extension - 5th International Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol 2014) at PerCom 2014

5th International Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking - PerCol 2014

March 24 or March 28 (TBD), 2014
Budapest, Hungary 
http://percol.inf.tu-dresden.de

Paper deadline: November 25, 2013 (extended)

in association with IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication - PerCom 2014

OVERVIEW

The 5th workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol) addresses the research field at the intersection of pervasive computing and social computing. We are interested in various types of human-to-human interaction with pervasive devices like mobile social networking, crowdsourcing, collaborative apps, location-based games or interaction with public displays. While this is an application-driven research field, we also welcome research on the foundations of Pervasive Social Computing like middleware and development methods, rich presence, pervasive social context, social signal processing and robust and energy-efficient communication in the pervasive scenario.

TOPICS

Topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not limited to):
-    Mobile and pervasive social networking
-    Activity streams in a pervasive and distributed setting
-    Social and pervasive context
-    Interaction with public displays and/or smart items
-    Novel types of collaboration based on online social networks
-    Crowdsourcing
-    The role of location and proximity for social applications
-    Using sensor information beyond location
-    Real-life use case experiences (e.g., pervasive health care)
-    Location-based and other pervasive games
-    Frameworks, middleware and development methods for pervasive social applications
-    Application and service interoperability issues
-    Social pervasive content sharing and media distribution
-    Pervasive presence and awareness
-    Energy efficient and mobile enabled protocols

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to the workshop topics of pervasive collaboration and social networking. All papers should be in the IEEE format. Papers should be no more than 6 pages in length. All papers will be managed electronically through EDAS. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the PerCom 2014 Workshops proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers due by:            November 25, 2013 (extended)
Paper selections due by:  December 21, 2013
Final papers due to IEEE: January 24, 2014

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Daniel Schuster, TU Dresden, Germany
Thomas Springer, TU Dresden, Germany
Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alberto Rosi, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Antonio Alfredo Loureiro, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Dries Harnie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Hyggo Oliveira de Almeida, UF Campina Grande, Brazil
Li Fei, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Licia Capra, UC London, United Kingdom
Luca Foschini, Università di Bologna, Italy
Marco Mamei, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research, Australia
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Stephan Lukosch, TU Delft, Netherlands
Ville Antila, VTT Technical Research Centre Oulu, Finland

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2 Research Associate Positions in the Field of "Social Computing" at Know-Center @ TUG, Austria

2 Research Associate Positions in the Field Of Social Computing at the Competence Center for Knowledge Technologies @ TUG, Austria (http://know-center.tugraz.at/)

Duties:

Know-Center seeks two motivated and outstanding research associates in the area of "social computing" to develop and evaluate new recommender concepts or adaptive and personalization methods based on Social Semantic Web technologies.

Qualifications:

* Completed University Diploma/Master's Degree or PhD in computer science, software development and economy, telematics or technical mathematics (mandatory)

* Prior knowledge in the areas of Social Semantic Web, recommender systems, social network analysis, machine learning, information retrieval (highly desirable).

* Programming experience with XHTML, mySQL, JavaScript, CSS, Java (mandatory)

* Experience with HTML5, MATLAB, Python, R, PHP (highly desirable)

* Team work and self-reliance (mandatory)

* Fluent English (mandatory)

Interest in:

Social Semantic Systems, Data Mining, User Profiling, Adaptation, Personalization, Recommender Systems, Machine Learning and HCI

Working Environment:

Know-Center is an Austrian competence center for Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies. At our location in Graz, we have over 50 highly-qualified employees who perform research and development work under the motto "from data to intelligence." As a part of the network of more than 100 research facilities around the world, Know-Center has numerous publications in the leading professional media. Know-Center aims at increasing the proportion of women employees and urges qualified women to apply. Among candidates with the same qualifications, women will be given a priority.

We offer:

* Young, creative team.

* Innovative tasks: we perform research and development at the interface between science and industry.

* Pleasant working atmosphere.

* Opportunities for professional and personal growth. Both technical and scientific career paths are possible.

* Compensation of 2,065 Euros and up, depending on your qualifications and experience (e.g., the type of university degree and length of work experience).

How to Apply:

We are looking forward to your application. Please email it to us together with relevant attachments at jobs@know-center.at

Questions:

If you have questions, please contact Dr. Christoph Trattner, Head of the Social Computing Research Group and Deputy Division Manager of the Knowledge Service Area @ Know-Center, Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 13/6, 8010 Graz, Austria, E-mail: ctrattner@know-center.at, Tel: +43 316 873 30840, Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info

See also: 

* http://know-center.tugraz.at/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/SC_Stellenausschreibung_Wiss_en.pdf (english)

* http://know-center.tugraz.at/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/SC_Stellenausschreibung_Wiss_de.pdf (german)

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LinkedUp Vidi Competition: Linked and Open Data for Education

LinkedUp Vidi Competition: Linked and Open Data for Education

*Submission deadline 14 February 2014* 

Presentations and awards at ESWC 2014 

(25-29 May 2014, Crete)  

http://linkedup-challenge.org/

The LinkedUp Project launches the second of the LinkedUp Challenge competitions – the Vidi Competition.

The LinkedUp Project aims to push forward the exploitation of the vast amounts of public, open data available on the Web, in particular by educational institutions and organizations.

For Vidi we're inviting you to design and build innovative and robust prototypes and demos for tools that analyse and/or integrate open web data for educational purposes. You can submit your Web application, App, analysis toolkit, documented API or any other tool that connects, exploits or analyses open or linked data and that addresses real educational needs. For Vidi your tool may contain some bugs, as long as it has a stable set of features and you have some proof that it can be deployed on a realistic scale.

This time we also have two focused tracks to run alongside our open track. In these tracks we are asking you to design a solution to the problem we have described.
- *Simplificator* calls for applications easing access to complex information by summarizing them in a simpler form.
- *Pathfinder* requires applications easing access to recommendation and guidance when chosing appropriate curriculum of courses and related resources.

You can find out more about the focused tracks from the LinkedUp Challenge website.

The Vidi competition will run from 4th November 2013 till 14th February 2014. Prizes (up €3,000 for first prize) will be awarded at the European Semantic Web Conference in Crete, Greece in May 2014. That gives you 3 months to get designing and building. You can find out more details about the catalogue of datasets we've collated for you and ideas to get you started on the LinkedUp Challenge website.

So get designing!


More information:

- Find out about the LinkedUp challenge: http://linkedup-challenge.org/
- You can take a look at our new video to get a better idea of what we are after: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMRnNmNjdS8
- Explore the LinkedUp Data Cataloque:
http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/catalog/
- Subscribe to our mailinglist:
https://www.l3s.de/mailman/listinfo/linkedup-public
- Follow @linkedupproject and #linkedupproject :
http://twitter.com/linkedupproject
- Contact us directly: http://linkedup-project.eu/contact/
- Get more information about the LinkedUp Project:
http://linkedup-project.eu/

Important dates:

- November 2013: Launch of the Challenge
- 14 February 2014: Submission deadline
- 28 March 2014: Notifications and Nominations
- 25-29 May 2014: Presentations and Award Ceremony at ESWC 2014 (Crete)

LinkedUp Challenge Team:

Mathieu d'Aquin, KMI, Open University (UK) Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center (Germany) Hendrik Drachsler, Open Universiteit Nederland (Netherlands) Marieke Guy, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK) Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center (Germany) Sander van der Waal, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)

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The8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2014)

THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA (ICWSM-14)

SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

* Abstracts Due: January 15, 2014 (by 11:59 pm PST)

* Full Papers Due: January 22, 2014 (by 11:59 pm PST)

* Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2014

* Conference: June 1-4, 2014 in Ann Arbor, Michigan

The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) is a forum for researchers in computer science and social science to come together to share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn about cutting-edge research in diverse fields with the common theme of online social media. This overall theme includes research in new perspectives in social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing social media. ICWSM is a singularly fitting venue for research that blends social science and computational approaches to answer important and challenging questions about human social behavior through social media while advancing computational tools for vast and unstructured data.

ICWSM, now in its eighth year, has become one of the premier venues for computational social science, and previous years of ICWSM have featured papers, posters, and demos that draw upon network science, machine learning, computational linguistics, sociology, communication, and political science. The uniqueness of the venue and the quality of submissions have contributed to a fast growth of the conference and a competitive acceptance rate of 20% for full-length research papers published in the proceedings by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 

For ICWSM-14, in addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, posters and invited presentations, the main conference will include a selection of keynote talks from prominent social scientists and technologists. Building on successes in previous years, ICWSM-14 will also hold a day of workshops and tutorials in addition to the main conference.

SUMMARY SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

Full paper format: Full paper submissions to ICWSM are recommended to be 8 pages long, and must be at most 10 pages long, including figures and references. The final camera-ready length (between 8-10 pages) for each full paper in the proceedings will be at the discretion of the program chairs. All papers must follow AAAI formatting guidelines.

Poster and demo paper format: Poster paper submissions to ICWSM must be 4 pages long, including figures and references. Demo paper submissions to ICWSM must be 2 pages long, including figures and references. All papers must be follow AAAI formatting guidelines.

Anonymity: Paper submissions to ICWSM must be anonymized.

Social science track with only abstracts in the proceedings: We will be continuing the “social science” track at ICWSM-14 following its successful debut in 2013. This option is for researchers in social science who wish to submit full papers without publication in the conference proceedings. While papers in this track will not be published, we expect these submissions to describe the same high-quality and complete work as the main track submissions. Papers accepted to this track will be full presentations integrated with the conference, but they will be published only as abstracts in the conference proceedings.

DISCIPLINES

* Computational approaches to social media research including

   * Natural language processing

   * Text / data mining

   * Machine learning

   * Image / multimedia processing

   * Graphics and visualization

   * Distributed computing

   * Graph theory and graphical models

   * Human-computer interaction

* Social science approaches to social media research including

   * Psychology

   * Sociology and social network analysis

   * Communication

   * Political science

   * Economics

   * Anthropology

   * Media studies and journalism 

* Interdisciplinary approaches to social media research combining computational algorithms and social science methodologies

TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA include

* Weblogs (posts, comments, and/or social shares)

* Social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn)

* Microblogs (e.g., Twitter, Tumblr)

* Wiki-based knowledge sharing sites (e.g., Wikipedia)

* Social news sites and websites of news media (e.g., Huffington Post) 

* Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups

* Community media sites (e.g., YouTube, Flickr, Instagram)

* Social Q & A sites (e.g., Quora, Yahoo Answers)

* User reviews (e.g., Yelp, Amazon.com)

* Social curation sites (e.g., Reddit, Pinterest)

* Location-based social networks (e.g., Foursquare)

TOPICS INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO)

* Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media

* Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media

* Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media

* Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors

* Ranking/relevance of blogs and microblogs; web page ranking based on weblogs 

* Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery

* Collaborative filtering

* Trust; reputation; recommendation systems

* Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization

* Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction, linguistic analyses of social media behavior

* Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification

* Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting

* Measuring predictability of real world phenomena based on social media, e.g., spanning politics, finance, and health

* New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques

* Social innovation and effecting change through social media

* Social media usage on mobile devices; location, human mobility, and behavior

* Organizational and group behavior mediated by social media; interpersonal communication mediated by social media

* Studies of digital humanities (culture, history, arts) using social media

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

http://icwsm.org/2014/

General Co-Chairs

Eytan Adar, University of Michigan

Paul Resnick, University of Michigan

PROGRAM Co-Chairs

Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft Research

Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute

Alice Oh, KAIST

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The Future of Experiencing Cultural Heritage (PATCH’2014) at IUI 2014

Call for Papers 

PATCH’2014 

The Future of Experiencing Cultural Heritage

Haifa, Israel. February 24, 2014

The 7th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2014) will be this year co-located with the Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (http://www.iuiconf.org/). IUI is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. It takes place in Haifa, Israel on 24 February 2014. Next to the full research papers, we also encourage submissions of position papers, short papers and demonstrations to enable active discussion of the open challenges and issues in this area of research. For more details check PATCH2014 webpage: http://patch2014.wordpress.com/.

The PATCH workshop series (http://patchworkshopseries.wordpress.com/) is the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage and personalization research – using technology to enhance the personal experience in cultural heritage applications. We aim at building a research agenda for personalization in cultural heritage in order to make the individual cultural heritage experience a link in a chain of a lifelong cultural heritage experience which builds on past experience, is linked to daily life and provides the foundation for future experiences. The workshop aims to be multi-disciplinary. It is intended for researchers, practitioners, developers and students of information and communication technologies (ICT), cultural heritage domains, e.g. museums, archives, libraries, and more, and personalization.

                                                          

Topics

Multimedia information systems, such as interactive tours, visualizations and search engines, are now positioned centrally in a shared information space consisting of (1) digitized artifacts (2) the social web (3) and links between them. Personalization in multimedia information systems can improve the experience of visitors by assisting them in finding appropriate starting points, and in discovering new relevant information. Critically, these systems must become smart, so that they are able to adaptively act, react, respond and learn intelligently from user interactions. This workshop investigates three timely and interrelated issues relevant to the domains of both intelligent user interaction and cultural heritage:

• Mobile, personalized and context-aware cultural heritage information delivery – using mobile devices, large displays, projectors embedded in the environment and new technologies including Google Glass.

• Grow existing knowledge with new knowledge – Explore methods and tools to capture knowledge resulting from interactions between users (collective intelligence), professionals and collection artifacts, and interaction between users and different (intelligent systems) collecting information about them

• Extend contexts of use – Appropriation of digitized artifacts from memory organizations outside the traditional museum and research context for both visitors and professionals

Call for papers

Besides the full research papers, we also encourage submissions of position papers, short papers and demonstrations to enable active discussion of the open challenges and issues in this area of research. We invite submissions of work at all stages of development that address any aspects of personalization in the cultural heritage domain, e.g., papers which describe work in progress, empirical results, position statements, and demonstrations of existing systems.

An extended abstract of the workshop will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2014.

Submissions

Paper submissions should follow the general ACM Multimedia submission guidelines and must comply with the formatting instructions:

• Full papers: max. 10 pages

• Position papers: max. 4 pages

• Short papers: max. 4 pages

• Demo papers: max. 4 pages

All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system. (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patch2014iui2014).

An international panel of experts will review all submissions.

Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it

introduces a significant addition to the previously published work.

Important dates

• Paper Submission: Dec 14, 2013

• Author Notification: Jan 17, 2014

• Camera-ready Version: Feb 10, 2014

• Workshop: Feb 24, 2014

Organizers

• Cristina Gena - Università di Torino, Italy

• Alan J. Wecker - University of Haifa, Israel

• Johan Oomen - Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Netherlands

• Lora Aroyo - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands

Contact

• Contact chairs at: joomen@beeldengeluid.nl

• Website: http://patch2014.wordpress.com/

• Twitter: @PATCH_Workshop, #patch2014

Programme committee

Alan J. Wecker (University of Haifa)

Cristina Gena (Università di Torino)

Eero Hyvönen (Helsinki University of Technology)

Ivan Cantador (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Johan Oomen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)

Joris Pekel (Europeana Foundation)

Dick van Dijk  (Waag Society)

Liliana Ardissono (Università di Torino)

Lora Aroyo (VU University Amsterdam)

Otmar Moritsch (Technisches Museum Wien)

Raffaella Santucci (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)

Susan Hazan (Israel Museum)

Tsvi Kuflik (University of Haifa)

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