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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Open PhD position @ Web Engineering Group, TU/e, The Netherlands

Open 4-year PhD position @ Web Engineering Group, TU/e

We offer a 4-year full-time PhD research position in the WiBAF project (Within-Browser Adaptation Framework) situated on the crossroads of the Adaptive Hypermedia, Data Mining and User Modeling areas. The project is funded by the Data Science research center of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands.
The research will be conducted at the Information Systems Group, Department of Computer Science.

RESEARCH PROJECT AND TASK DESCRIPTION
Personalized information systems will undergo dramatic changes in the near future, caused in part by rising privacy concerns (and
legislation) and in part by the need to distribute the computation involved in generating recommendations and performing adaptation.

In Web-based information systems data mining techniques are applied to model user intent, preferences or current context and thus facilitate data-driven personalization. Such data-driven user modeling has been heavily used already in recommender systems that employ content-based and collaborative filtering, and in search engines with personalized or context-aware ranking of organic search results or ad placement.
In the area of personalization and adaptation of content, interaction and navigation, with applications in e.g. e-learning and e-culture, either hand-crafted adaptation rules or semantically rich databases have been used as the basis for deciding how to perform personalization.

The main objective for the PhD student in WiBAF project is to investigate how to bring these two currently distinct and to a large extent isolated approaches to personalization, i.e. purely hand-crafted and purely data-driven, together to perform within-site or even within-page adaptation based on both the analysis of user behavior and background knowledge of a certain domain.

One of the concrete targets is defining, studying and implementing a complete framework including a generic language for expressing adaptation and for generating client-side code that performs this within-browser adaptation, based on local client-side user model and global adaptation knowledge available at the server-side.

The framework should enable meta-adaptation which continuously adapts (updates) the adaptation process as user behavior changes.
This makes use of research into the topics of explore-exploit trade-off in adaptive information systems like recommenders, context-awareness and recurrent concept drift in data mining.

It is expected that the PhD candidate will be involved in the complete R&D cycles including theory, framework and techniques development; implementation of the software prototypes; and experimentation with real use cases that are facilitated by the industrial collaborator - Digital Innovations Lab of the Web analytics company Adversitement B.V.

PROFILE
We are looking for highly motivated applicants with a Master degree in Computer Science or other related disciplines.
(Candidates expecting to graduate by August 2013 are also eligible to apply.) You are expected to have good knowledge and at least some experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Adaptive hypermedia, personalization and user modeling,
- Data mining/machine learning/pattern recognition,
- Recommender systems and/or (personalized) information retrieval,
- Web technology

Successful candidates are expected to posses
- Good analytical and software development skills,
- Good command of spoken and written English,
- Good communication skills and willingness to collaborate with other researchers and developers having diverse computer science background,
- Experience with writing research papers and technical reports is a plus.

SETTINGS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
This is a fixed term 4-year full-time fully funded PhD research position with a formal evaluation after the first year.

The PhD candidate will be guided by prof. dr. Paul De Bra (http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~debra/) and dr. Mykola Pechenizkiy (http://www.win.tue.nl/~mpechen/).

You will also collaborate with other researchers of the Information Systems group working on related projects, e.g. STW CAPA project (http://www.win.tue.nl/~mpechen/projects/capa/), participate in the Dutch national research school
SIKS: School for Information and Knowledge Systems (http://www.siks.nl/) and get an opportunity to go for a visiting research/do an internship at R&D labs abroad.

Digital Innovations Lab of the Dutch company Adversitement B.V. (http://www.adversitement.nl/) is teaming up with TU/e to contribute to the development of the foundations and generic technology for on-site within browser or within page adaptation. adaptation. PhD student is expected to spend one day a week collaborating with their researchers and developers, particularly with dr. David Smits (nl.linkedin.com/pub/david-smits/6/287/768).

The conditions of employment are according to Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities. The gross salary is € 2062 during the first year, increasing to € 2638 in the fourth year.

HOW TO APPLY
Applications including:
- Motivation letter explaining your interest in the proposed research field;
- Curriculum Vitae;
- Copies of diplomas (MSc or equivalent) and other relevant certificates (like MOOC courses);
- A complete list of attended courses and corresponding grades;
- A copy or a link to your master thesis;
- Some evidence of your proficiency in English;
- Names and contact details of two references willing to provide recommendations;

should be submitted electronically at https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/TUE/vacancy/18628/apply/.
Applications without included motivation letter are not likely to be considered. Selected candidates will be invited for an interview on Skype and/or on site.

The deadline for submitting applications is August 25th, 2013. However, the screening process will start by the end of June 2013 and continue until the position is filled. Therefore, it is advisable to apply asap.
Candidates must be available to start working in this position at the earliest possible date, but no later than December 1st, 2013.

For more information about the project please send inquiries to wibaf.tue@gmail.com

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

SMAP 2013

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

December 12-13, 2013

Bayonne, France

www.smap2013.org

technically co-sponsored by 

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)

and

IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS)

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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3rd Int'l Workshop on Adaptive Learning via Interactive, Collaborative and Emotional Approaches (ALICE 2013)

ALICE 2013 

Third International Workshop on Adaptive Learning via Interactive, Collaborative and Emotional approaches

In conjunction with the CISIS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on

Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems

(http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/cisis/2013/)

July 3 - 5, 2013

Taichung, Taiwan

SUPPORTED AND ORGANIZED by

The FP7-EU project ALICE (http://www.aliceproject.eu)


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: December 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance:
February 15, 2013 Camera-Ready Submission: March 23, 2013
Registration: March 23, 2013
Workshop and CISIS main Conference: July 3 - 5, 2013

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

Despite a great potential and some initial successes, e-learning systems do
not yet have the impact that many believe is possible. Moreover, the gap
seems to be increasing because of the greater expectations of the current
generation (Digital Natives) who have grown up with modern technology. There
are also more general problems. In particular, an over-emphasis on cost
effectiveness has meant that content is often not as strong as it needs to
be and this deficiency has contributed to a lack of user engagement and some
high attrition rates. Studies have consistently highlighted the important
relationship between engagement and learning, with students who are highly
motivated being more likely to engage in the learning process.
The Second International Workshop ALICE 2012 aims at providing a forum for
innovative adaptive e-learning combining personalization, collaboration,
simulation and storytelling aspects within an affective/emotional based
approach able to contribute to the overcoming of the quoted limitations of
current e-learning systems and content. Special emphasis is given to
environments that are interactive, challenging and context aware while
enabling learners' demand of empowerment, social identity, and authentic
learning experience.
The expected contributions should be able to effectively involve learners in
educational, cultural and informative activities. Empirical results from
real users in real learning and training settings will be very valuable in
order to evaluate and discuss the impact of the proposed innovative
features. Academic researchers, professionals and practitioners are invited
to exchange their experiences and ideas about problems and solutions related
to the design, development and use of advanced and innovative, knowledge
based learning systems and applications. Researchers can report their ideas,
models, designs and experiences on the proposed topics.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The main topics of interest within the scope of advances and innovative
e-Learning systems include, but are not limited to:
- Affective and Emotional Approaches
- Live and Virtualized Collaboration
- Simulation and Serious Games
- New Forms of Assessment
- Storytelling
- Adaptive and Knowledge-based Technologies

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Nicola
Capuano, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Thanasis Daradoumis, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Vincenzo Loia,
University of Salerno, Italy Saverio Salerno, University of Salerno, Italy
Sara de Freitas, Coventry University, UK Eric Lin, Hamastar Technology Co.
Ltd., Taiwan Chang-Shing Lee, National University of Tainan, Taiwan
Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Jordi Conesa, Open
University of Catalonia, Spain Josep Prieto, Open University of Catalonia,
Spain David Gañán, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Néstor Mora, Open
University of Catalonia, Spain Michalis Feidakis, Michalis Feidakis,
University of Aegean, Greece Sergio Miranda, Centre for Research in Pure and
Applied Mathematics, Italy Anna Pierri, Centre for Research in Pure and
Applied Mathematics, Italy Giuseppina Rita Mangione, MOMA S.p.A., Italy
Margit Höfler, Graz University of Technology, Austria Luis Casillas,
University of Guadalajara, Mexico Maria Kordaki, University of the Aegean,
Greece

PAST EVENTS

ALICE 2012: Second International Workshop on Adaptive Learning via
Interactive, Collaborative and Emotional approaches (in conjunction with The
Sixth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software
Intensive Systems: CISIS-2012), Palermo, Italy ALICE 2011: First
International Workshop on Adaptive Learning via Interactive, Collaborative
and Emotional approaches (in conjunction with Fifth International Conference
on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems: CISIS-2011),
Fukuoka, Japan

PAPER PRESENTATION

Regular Papers, Oral Presentations and Posters.

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

The manuscripts should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in
the Proceedings, which will be maximum 6 pages in IEEE double column format.
Please format your paper, as described in the IEEE Computer Society Press
Proceedings Author Guidelines where you can find instructions (Word, PDF,
Postscript).
See further details at main conference web site of CISIS 2013:
http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/cisis/2013/

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers (presented orally or as a poster) with paid registration
will be included in the Proceedings of CISIS 2013. ALICE 2013 papers will be
published by IEEE Computer Society.
After the conference, selected papers will be invited to submit an extended
version of their papers for inclusion in related journals and books (to be
announced).
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper.
SUBMISSIONS

The submission site for CISIS-2013 and all workshops is available at
http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/cisis/2013/submit.html
The file format of the initial submissions and final accepted papers should
be PDF. In order to proceed with the submission, please use the submission
system of CISIS 2013.

CONTACT

Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
scaballe@uoc.edu

Nicola Capuano, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy ncapuano@unisa.it

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Special Issue on Ubiquitous User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction - UMUAI

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue on Ubiquitous User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI)

  *** Extended abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2013

  *** Paper submission deadline (for accepted abstracts): July 15, 2012 UMUAI 

Web site: http://www.umuai.org/

SCOPE
As ubiquitous and pervasive computing becomes a reality, there is both the opportunity and need to create a solid foundation for personalization research in this area. Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) and Pervasive Computing are now synonymous for many, and represent a new model of computing in which computation is everywhere and computer functions are integrated into everything. For UbiComp, Weiser postulated that ``It will be built into the basic objects, environments, and the activities of our everyday lives in such a way that no one will notice its presence''. Such a model of computation will “weave itself into the fabric of our lives, until it is indistinguishable from it”. Everyday objects will be places for sensing, input, processing along with user output (Greenfield, 2006). In practice, this means the ubiquitous availability of many computing devices that are carried or embedded in our homes, cars, offices, in walls and tables, or worn as part of smart clothing. To realise this, we need to provide personalized services to users, individuals as well as groups, wherever they are and whenever they need it. Notably, UbiComp introduces the potential for context-aware personalisation. Context includes information from the person (physiological state), the sensed environment (environmental state), and computational environment (computational state) that can be provided to alter an applications behaviour.

Ubiquitous and Pervasive User Modelling (UPUM) has a key role to play in the visions for personalisation that are central to ubiquitous and pervasive computing. The large amounts of personal data that are increasingly being captured across each individual’s personal digital ecosystem have the potential to contribute to a user model, which, in turn, can drive personalised services. The multi-faceted challenges of achieving this have been recognised as critical for the progress towards ubiquity and pervasiveness. For example, Caceres and Friday, in reflecting on 20 years of research, point to the importance of dealing with issues such as pervasive ubiquitous data, support for users to control their own data and the personalisation based on it, particularly in terms of privacy, but also in ensuring people control their own smart environments.

Rapid technological changes, such as widespread smarter and cheaper devices providing personal sensing and services, has brought important progress in the field of UPUM. Many of these changes have occurred over the past seven years, since the previous UMUAI special issue on user modeling in UbiComp. It makes this a timely opportunity to call for an update of the state of the art in the field. Such updates can provide a critical review of what was central research then and is now on the periphery, or what new challenges and gaps have emerged or remained present. Overall, this issue will focus on the scientific challenges of ubiquitous user modelling in today’s dynamic environments.

This UMUAI special issue builds on recent activities in this area and is designed to solicit papers that report on recent significant advances, carry out innovative explorations, and establish foundations for further research. It interprets the notion of context broadly, as any additional conditions and circumstances beyond user profile and item content information that may affect user preferences for items.  It is intended to reflect the changes in the domain in the past seven years (since the previous special issue) and therefore, a wide range of topics are included. Those topics include (but are not limited to):

* Infrastructure for Ubiquitous User Modelling
* Information storage for easy access and reasoning
* Information fusion from multiple sources
* Standardization in user modeling
* Privacy as an infrastructure component
* Communicating user modeling data
 * Between user models and environments
 * Between applications
 * Back to the user model
* User model architectures
 * Distributed, in the cloud
 * Local
 * Synchronization of user models (connected/disconnected modes)
* Lifelong Ubiquitous User Modelling
* Storing personal information
-- Application domains for Lifelong Ubiquitous User Modelling
 * How to deal with current versus historical data
* Reasoning and abstraction of personal information
* Remembering and forgetting personal information
* Application domains for Lifelong Ubiquitous User Modelling
* Cultural Heritage
* Mobile recommenders
* Mobile learning
* Ubiquitous User Modelling with Situated Public Displays
* Health and Wellness
* Privacy aspects of Ubiquitous User Modeling
* Representing the user’s privacy policy
* Keeping the user in control and aware
* User control and intelligibility in Ubiquitous User Modeling

PAPER SUBMISSION & REVIEW PROCESS
The prospective authors must first submit an extended abstract of no more than 4 single-spaced pages, formatted with 12 pt font and 1 inch margins, by email directly to the special issue editors by *** March 1, 2013 ***.
All submitted abstracts will receive an initial screening by the special issue editors.  Authors of abstracts will be notified about the results of the initial screening by *** March 15, 2013 ***.  Abstracts that do not pass this initial screening (i.e., the abstracts that are deemed not to have a reasonable chance of acceptance) will not be considered further.
Authors of abstracts that pass the initial screening will be invited to submit the full version of their paper by *** July 15, 2013 ***.  Authors will be given initial feedback by the editors by ***August 15, 2013*** with suggestions about possible improvements to their papers. The formatting guidelines and submission instructions for full papers can be found at http://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html.  The special issue papers should not exceed 40 pages in journal format.  Each paper submission should note that it is intended for the Special Issue on Ubiquitous User Modeling and be submitted via email to the address mentioned in the submission instructions above (submission@umuai.org).

The further tentative timeline for the special issue is as follows:
* September 15, 2013                         Initial feedback from the editors with suggestions for improvements
* October 15, 2013:                            Submission deadline for improved versions
* November 15, 2013                         Notification to authors
* January 15, 2014:                             Revisions of papers due
* March 15, 2014:                               Final notifications due
* April  15, 2014:                                Camera ready papers due
* June 1, 2014:                                    Publication of special issue

GUEST EDITORS:
Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia
Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel
Aaron Quigley, University of St Andrews, UK

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Special Issue on "Semantic Social Media Dynamics" - IJSWIS

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)

Special Issue on "Semantic Social Media Dynamics"

Guest Editors:

Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University, Greece
Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece
Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

URL: http://www.ijswis.org/?q=node/45

Important dates:

Manuscript Submission Deadline: *February 15, 2013*
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 31, 2013
Final Accepted Manuscript Due: July 31, 2013
Estimated Publication Date: Vol. 9, Issue 3 or 4, 2013

Submission Procedure

Submissions to this special issue should follow the journal's guidelines for
submission (http://www.ijswis.org/?q=node/36). Manuscripts should be
submitted through the online EasyChair Submission Site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssmd13. After submitting a
paper, please also inform guest editors by email to
ijswis-ssmd13@image.ntua.gr about the specific paper ID assigned by the
submission system. If a submission is based on a prior publication in a
workshop or conference, the journal submission must involve substantial
advance (a minimum of 50%) in conceptual terms as well as in exposition
(e.g., more comprehensive testing/evaluation/validation or additional
applications/usage). More info on this Special Issue may be found at:
http://www.ijswis.org/?q=node/45.

Summary

The objective of this Special Issue is to collect and report on recent high
quality research that addresses the problem of mass digital media content
generation and sharing. As social media keep extending over the Web as we
know it, new innovative dynamics are formed in the sense of media content
acquiring and sharing trends. Research in this area is important to combine
the fields of semantics and knowledge engineering within social media
platforms, mainly because of the overwhelming amount of disseminated
information and different contextualization types. High quality
contributions addressing related theoretical and practical aspects are
expected.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following semantic
media adaptation & personalization aspects in social media:

# Content creation, annotation and modelling for semantic social web
# Semantics-driven indexing and retrieval of multimedia contents
# Semantics-based recommender systems: theory and applications
# Semantic context modelling and extraction
# Social and semantic media collaboration platforms (e.g. semantic wikis)
# Social multimedia tagging and multimedia content communities
# Content customization and adaptation
# Context-aware multimedia applications
# Social network aggregation
# User modelling and dynamic profiling
# Adaptive and personalized multimedia summaries
# Intelligent personalized interfaces
# Hybrid socio-semantic approaches to profiling, recommendation engines or adaptation systems

Contacts

Please address all correspondences regarding this Special Issue to the Guest
Editors:

Phivos Mylonas, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Fernando Bobillo, Markus
Strohmaier, Geert-Jan Houben
ijswis-ssmd13@image.ntua.gr

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21st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2013)

UMAP 2013

21st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization

June 10-14, 2013

Rome, Italy

http://www.umap2013.org 

The International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (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 and Adaptive Hypermedia conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. The conference spans a wide scope of topics related to user modeling and personalization, including construction of user models, adaptive responses, tailoring of search results, recommending products, Web usage mining, collaborative and content-based filtering. Please see the more detailed listing of conference topics below.
As the combination of the two leading conference series in this area, UMAP is now the single “place to be” for anyone involved in user modeling, adaptation, and personalization. The conference proceedings will be widely available in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Moreover, they will be included in the ACM Digital Library. These sources will be the first place that people look to find the latest results in this area. The Conference will include invited talks from leading researchers in the field, research presentations (long papers, short papers, and posters), industry papers, demos, tutorials, and workshops as well as a Doctoral Consortium. Accepted papers are eligible for the Springer Best Paper Award. In addition, UMAP provides student support and full papers with a student as the first author are eligible for the James Chen Award for the best student paper.
UMAP solicits submissions on a wide range of topics including, but not limited to:

* Purposes of UMAP
- Personalizing information
- Recommending products
- Tailoring search results
- Enhancing learning outcomes
- Adapting interfaces
- Personalizing support
- Assuming routine tasks

* User Characteristics for UMAP
- Knowledge and skills
- Interests and preferences
- Special needs
- Affective states
- Personality
- Goals and plans
- Contexts of use
- Roles
- Cultural characteristics

* Computational methods for UMAP
- Data collection
- User model construction and representation
- Algorithms for personalization and adaptation
- Architectures for UMAP

* Application domains for UMAP
- E-commerce
- E-learning
- Cultural heritage
- Healthcare
- Assistive technologies
- Digital libraries
- Entertainment and Games
- Office work
- Recommender systems
- Targeted advertisement
- Digital TV
- Social media

* Environments for UMAP
- Web-based systems (including the semantic/social Web)
- Desktop systems
- Groupware systems
- Mobile and wearable systems
- Smart environments
- Smart objects
- Virtual environments

* Methods for design and evaluation of UMAP
- Requirements gathering
- Formative evaluation
- User testing
- Validation
- Performance tests

* Usability issues for UMAP
- Ensuring adequate control, understanding, and predictability
- Preserving privacy and security
- Avoiding excessive narrowing of experience

IMPORTANT DATES
December 10, 2012 Workshop proposals
January 7, 2013 Abstract submission (requested but not obligatory)
January 14, 2013 Research paper submissions (long and short papers)
January 14, 2013 Industry track submissions
March 1, 2013 Author notification
March 8, 2013 Doctoral Consortium submissions
March 8, 2013 Poster submissions (for publication in the proceedings)
April 15, 2013 Final versions of papers for proceedings
May 1, 2013 Late-breaking poster submissions
June 10, 2013 UMAP conference

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
*** Long research papers (12 pages maximum) 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 should present original and unpublished highly promising research, whose merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity and technical validation.
*** Industry Track submissions should present innovative commercial implementations or applications of UMAP technologies, and experience in applying recent research advances to practical situations. Submissions may be either long papers (12 pages maximum) whose technical density should be comparable to that of long research track submissions, or short papers (6 pages). Industry Track submissions must describe work performed in industry or concern industrial applications, and will typically include at least one industry author.
*** Doctoral Consortium papers (4 pages) should include original and unpublished descriptions of the student's topic, proposed contributions, and results achieved so far. They should clearly indicate the work that remains to be done and the questions on which the student would especially like to receive advice.
*** Poster submissions posters (3 pages) should be original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, projects, or results. They should be accompanied by a draft poster of up to 9 slides or a single slide of about 24"x36" / ISO A1. Posters (except for late-breaking posters) will be allocated 3 pages in the main proceedings.
All submissions will be rigorously reviewed by a program committee comprised of experts in the field and must adhere to the Springer LNCS format, and be made through the EasyChair conference system. They will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, validity and clarity.

PUBLICATION
Accepted research, industry, poster and doctoral consortium papers will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, both in hardcopy and electronically through SpringerLink. They will also be indexed in the ACM Digital Library. Accepted descriptions of demonstrations, workshops and tutorials will be published in the UMAP Adjunct Proceedings. Significantly enhanced versions of research papers can be submitted to User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI) after the conference.
ORGANIZATION

* General Co-Chairs:
- Alessandro Micarelli, Roma Tre University, Italy
- Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

* Program Co-Chairs:
- Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware, USA
- Stephan Weibelzahl, National College of Ireland, Ireland

* Industry Track Co-Chairs:
- Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo! Research, Spain
- Michael Pazzani, University of California Riverside, USA

* Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs:
- Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
- Stephanie Elzer-Schwartz, Millersville University, USA

* Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs:
- Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA, Australia
- Pasquale Lops, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

* Poster and Demo Co-Chairs:
- Eelco Herder, L3S, Germany
- Olga Santos, aDeNu UNED, Spain

* Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:
- Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University, Italy
- Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University, Italy

* Student Volunteers:
- Carla Limongelli, Roma Tre University, Italy

* Publicity Chair:
- Ivan Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

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CRIWG 2012 doctoral consortium

18th CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology

Doctoral Consortium

September 16th, 2012

Duisburg, Germany

Submission deadline: July 8th, 2012

http://criwg2012.collide.info/index.php?id=doctoral-consortium

The CRIWG Doctoral Consortium aims at bringing together PhD students working
on groupware and give them the opportunity to present and discuss their
research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The goals of the
Doctoral Consortium event are:
- To provide fruitful feedback and advice to the selected Ph.D. students on
their research thesis.
- To interact with other PhD students and stimulate an exchange of ideas and
suggestions among participants.

To help achieving this goal the doctoral consortium will be moderated by
experienced researchers from the field. For the CRIWG 2012 Doctoral
Consortium these are:
- Daniel Suthers, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA
- Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
- José A. Pino, Universidad de Chile, Chile

In the morning, the consortium PhD researchers will present and discuss
their dissertation research progress. After lunch, consortium participants
will receive feedback and suggestions regarding their research in
face-to-face meetings with selected faculty members. Participating faculty
will engage in discussions on academic research in GDN and the academic
community in general.

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Topics
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- Web-based cooperative applications/environments
- Collaborative workspaces
- Collaboration through social media
- Administration and communication support for distributed communities
- Monitoring and analysis of group interactions
- Social media analytics
- Workflow modeling/Workflow management and coordination
- Groupware development frameworks and toolkits
- Languages and tools supporting collaboration
- Organizational computing
- Multi-user interfaces and group awareness mechanisms
- Social aspects of group work
- Nomadic and/or mobile collaborative work
- Virtual groups and virtual worlds
- Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL)
- Group decision and negotiation support (GDSS)
- Meeting support for mixed and face-to-face settings
- Adaptive collaborative environments
- Collaborative applications and case studies
- Group-oriented knowledge management technologies
- Multi-agent systems and architectures to support collaborative work

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Submission Process
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We encourage all PhD students that have a clear picture of their research
plan, but not have yet finished their research, to participate. To apply for
participation at the doctoral consortium, please send a short paper or
research proposal describing your doctoral work to the organizer (Stephan
Lukosch, s.g.lukosch@tudelft.nl) of the consortium. The submission deadline
is: July 8th, 2012

The paper/research proposal must:
- briefly describe your motivation to participate at the Doctoral Consortium
- what you would like to take home from the consortium,
- clearly describe the motivation for the research,
- clearly formulate the research question & objective,
- describe the proposed approach & research methodology,
- describe the results achieved so far,
- point out the intended contribution to science,
- point out the intended contribution to practice.

We encourage you to use not more than 3000 words.

You will be notified about acceptance on July 23th, 2012.

For the consortium you will be asked to prepare a short presentation of your
work. Details about this will be communicated by the doctoral consortium
moderators to all accepted participants upon acceptance.

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Important Notice
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Participation in the Doctoral Colloquium has no additional fee and is open
to every registered CRIWG 2012 participant.

Based on applications, a limited number of free participations covering the
conference registration fee can be granted to graduate students.
Applications need to be sent to the CRIWG 2012 organization chair Marc
Jansen (E-mail: Marc.Jansen@hs-ruhrwest.de) from whom also further
information on the application procedure can be obtained.

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Deadline Extension: 7th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2012)

Deadline Extension - June 15

Call for Papers

SMAP 2012: 7th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization

December 3-4, 2012, Luxembourg-city (Luxembourg)

http://www.smap2012.org

The Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP) workshop is the evolution of the Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization initiative, which was founded during the summer of 2006 in an effort to discuss the state of the art, recent advances and future perspectives for semantic media adaptation and personalization. As social media applications have substantially transformed the way organizations, communities, and individuals interact, the scopes of the workshop are now extended towards this new trend, seeking to bring together researchers from the social web as well as from the semantic web communities, under the umbrella of the media adaptation and personalization domain.

After six successful workshops –in Athens, London, Prague, San Sebastian, Limassol and Vigo-, the SMAP workshop series has consolidated as a reference event in order to discuss about the newest advances in the field. The 7th SMAP workshop will be held in Luxembourg -city, Luxembourg. The 1-track, 2-day conference aims to provide a platform for exchanging fresh ideas and expertise, and for obtaining feedback on ongoing research. Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS).

SMAP 2012 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man, & Cybernetics Society. It is supported by the IEEE CIS Semantic Web Task Force and the IEEE-SMC Technical Committee on Intelligent Internet Systems. Discussions are in progress to get additional sponsoring from the Fonds National de La Recherche Luxembourg (FNR).


Keynote speakers
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 *   Dr. Lora Aroyo, Associate Professor at the Web and Media group, at the Department of Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
 *   Dr. Vania Dimitrova, Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.


Important dates for SMAP 2012
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Submission of full papers:                      15th June 2012 (extended)
Notification of acceptance:                     24th August 2012
Submission of camera ready:                     TBA
Main Workshop:                                  3rd - 4th December 2012


Publications
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All papers presented at the workshop will be published and indexed by the IEEE Computer Society. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a Special Issue journal publication TBA.


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


Conference Chairs
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 *   Yannick Naudet, Henri Tudor Public Research Centre, Luxembourg
 *   Djamel Khadraoui, Henri Tudor Public Research Centre, Luxembourg
 *   Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece

Program Committee
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 *   Harry Agius, Brunel University, United Kingdom
 *   Panos Alexopoulos, iSOCO, Spain
 *   Christos Anagnostopoulos, Ionian University, Greece
 *   Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, University of the Aegean, Greece
 *   Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece
 *   Frederic Andres, University of Advanced Studies, Tokyo, Japan
 *   Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology, Slovak Republic
 *   Yolanda Blanco-Fernandez, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
 *   Fernando Bobillo, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
 *   Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
 *   Claudia Buzzi, Italian National Research Council, Italy
 *   Silvia Calegari, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
 *   Ivan Cantador, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
 *   George Caridakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 *   Claudia d'Amato, Universita di Bari, Italy
 *   Mathieu d’Aquin, The Open University, UK
 *   Ernesto Damiani, Universita di Milano, Italy
 *   Martine de Cock, Ghent University, Belgium
 *   Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
 *   Mario Doeller, University of Passau, Germany
 *   Muriel Foulonneau, Henri Tudor Public Research Centre, Luxembourg
 *   Panagiotis Germanakos, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
 *   Andrzej Glowacz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
 *   William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
 *   Rajkumar Kannan, BHC, India
 *   Martin Lopez-Nores, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
 *   Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University, United Kingdom
 *   Kris Luyten, Hasselt University, Belgium
 *   Ilias Maglogiannis, University of Central Greece, Greece
 *   Ferran Marques, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
 *   Trevor Martin, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
 *   Vasileios Mezaris, Centre of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
 *   Angelos Michalas, Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Greece
 *   Phivos Mylonas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 *   Yannick Naudet, Henri Tudor Public Research Centre, Luxembourg
 *   Viviana Patti, Universita di Torino , Italy
 *   Jose J. Pazos-Arias, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
 *   Petr Saloun, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
 *   Miguel Angel Sicilia, Universidad de Alcala, Spain
 *   Evaggelos Spyrou, Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece
 *   Petros Stefaneas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
 *   Zenonas Theodosiou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
 *   Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
 *   Chrisa Tsinaraki, Technical University of Crete, Greece
 *   Michalis Vafopoulos, National Technical University, Greece
 *   David Vallet, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
 *   Paulo Villegas, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
 *   Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece

 
Submission Procedure
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Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least three members of the Workshop Program Committee, based on its originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English, and can present mature research or experimental results as well as promising work in progress. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Papers must be formatted according to the CPS formatting guidelines, with a limit of 6 IEEE 2-column style pages, including all figures, tables, and references. A minimum paper length of 4 IEEE 2-column style pages is also imposed.

Papers must be submitted electronically through the SMAP 2012 website:
http://www.smap2012.org/cms/SMAP2012/content.nsf/id/submission?opendocument&language=EN.

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Personal Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2012) @ UMAP 2012

Call for Papers

4th International Workshop on Personal Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2012)

http://patch2012.wordpress.com/

Co-located with the 20th conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2012)

Montreal, Canada, July 16-20, 2012

Background:

Cultural heritage (CH) has traditionally been a privileged area for personalization research. Visitors come to cultural heritage sites willing to experience and learn new things, usually without a clear idea of what to expect. CH sites are typically rich with objects and information, much more than the visitor can absorb during a limited time of a visit. The challenge is: can we provide an engaging experience for the ‘digital’, ‘mobile’ and ‘traditional’ museum visitors before, during and after a visit by exploiting information from previous interactions on CH sites and elsewhere on the ubiquitous Web. Further, an interesting problem to explore is can this kind of support be a basis for maintaining a lifelong chain of personalized CH experiences.

Personalization could improve the interaction and experience of visitors both on museum websites and with museum guide systems by supporting visitors' navigation and assisting them in quickly finding an appropriate starting point, and in discovering new relevant information. In this process, the museum systems consider visitors' personal characteristics, such as age, education, previous knowledge and experience (when available), together with the visitors’ behavior, in order to improve access to the collection and learning experiences, e.g. automatically adapting content presentation using user preferences and interest profiles collecting explicit user data from questionnaires or implicit data from monitoring visitors’ activities.

While currently various museum initiatives already invite people to engage with their collections online (e.g., Tate Modern, Powerhouse Museum), or reach out via Social Web platforms, e.g., Flickr the

Commons, Brooklyn Museum on Facebook, augmented reality browser of Netherlands Architecture Institute with Layar, personalization strategies for CH reside mainly in research projects and experiments, e.g., PEACH, INTRIGUE, Kubadji, PIL, CHIP,  and PrestoPrime, and focus mainly on ad-hoc, within-session or -visit personalization.

The workshop will aim at building a research agenda for personalization in CH where the abstract goal is to make the individual CH experience a link in a chain of a lifelong CH experience, where it is built on past experience, linked to daily life experience and provides the foundation for future experiences.

Topics of interest:

Personalized services and personalized information access and presentation for Cultural Heritage, navigation and browsing in digital and physical cultural heritage collections

·         Navigation and browsing in digital and physical cultural heritagecollections

·         Recommendation strategies

·         Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content

·         NLG techniques for mobile user modeling

·         Integration of virtual and physical collections

·         Ambient Cultural Heritage

·         Mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants

·         Context-aware information presentation

·         Adaptive navigation and browsing

·         Personalized museum guides

·         Interactive user interfaces

·         Personalization for group of visitors

Important Dates

            May 13, 2012              Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)

            June 04, 2012              Notification of acceptance

            June 18, 2012              Camera ready

            July  16/17, 2012         Workshop

Paper Submissions

All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not

currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their

significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and

relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is

expected to attend the workshop.

We welcome the following types of contributions:

·         Short (up to 6 pages) and full (up to 12 pages) research papers will be reviewed by at least two independent referees.

·         Demo papers (system demonstrations) and position statements should not exceed 3 pages.

All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors: Information for LNCS

Authors (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0).

Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format to EasyChair

(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patch2012)

Workshop Organizers:

·         Lora Aroyo - VU University Amsterdam

·         Anthony Collins  -  the University of Sydney

·         Eyal Dim - the University of Haifa

·         Judy Kay - the University of Sydney

·         Tsvi Kuflik - the University of Haifa.

·         Bob Kummerfeld - the University of Sydney.

Program Committee:

·         Liliana Ardissono - University of Turin, IT

·         Lora Aroyo - VU University Amsterdam, NL

·         Keith Cheverst - The University of Lancaster, UK

·         Anthony Collins  -  the University of Sydney, AU

·         Eyal Dim - the University of Haifa, IL

·         Cristina Gena - University of Turin, IT

·         Susan Hazan - Israel Museum, IL

·         Judy Kay - the University of Sydney, AU

·         Tsvi Kuflik - the University of Haifa, IL

·         Bob Kummerfeld - the University of Sydney, AU

·         Paul Mulholland – The Open University, UK

·         Ingrid Zukerman Monash University, AU

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3rd International Workshop on Social Recommender Systems @ UMAP 2012

Image "What should I go in?" courtesy of my wife Michaela

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

3rd International Workshop on Social Recommender Systems

(in conjunction with UMAP 2012 http://umap2012.polymtl.ca/en/ )

Montreal, Canada, July 16-20, 2012

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~lichen/srs2012/

Social media sites have become tremendously popular in recent years. Yet,
the abundance and popularity of social media floods users with huge volumes
of information and hence poses a great challenge in terms of information
finding. Social Recommender Systems aim to alleviate information overload
for users by presenting the most relevant and useful information items.
Social recommender systems that suggest content (e.g., wikis and forum
posts), people, and communities often use personalization techniques to
adapt to the needs and interests of individual users, or a group of users.
This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners around the
emerging topics of social recommender systems. We will review
state-of-the-art advances in the field and identify key challenges going
forward.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

Social recommender technologies and applications User modeling techniques
and their impact on social recommender systems Recommendations for
individuals and communities and their applications Social recommender
systems in the enterprise Diversity and novelty in social recommender
systems

User interfaces in social recommender systems, especially in recommending
people and communities (SRS) Transparency and explanations in SRS Adaption
and personalization for SRS User feedback in SRS Trust and reputation in SRS
Social awareness and visualization

Evaluation
Evaluation methods and evaluations of SRS User studies

Special focus area: people recommendation Recommending people to connect
with or follow in social media sites Recommending people for communities
User modeling for people recommendation

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IMPORTANT DATES
May 13, 2012: Submission of title and abstract (500 words) June 4, 2012:
Author notification June 18, 2011: Submission of final versions July 16/17:
Workshop held

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PAPER SUBMISSION

We are seeking participants from academia and industry who are conducting
researches on all aspects of social recommender systems.

An abstract of 500 words (with author names and affiliations) should be
submitted in PDF format by email to >ido@il.ibm.com by
May 13, 2012. The abstract should include a statement of the objective and
significance of the proposed presentation, a description of methods and a
discussion of results. The selection will be based on a peer review process.

Authors, whose abstract is accepted, will be required to further submit a
full paper (1 to 8 pages long) by June 18, 2012, to be published on the
workshop site. The full version should be prepared according to HCI Archive
Format
(http://cscw2011.org/cfp/format.html#hci-archive).

Full Paper Categories:
Position papers (1 to 2 pages) ­ your research background and experiences in
this area, and your interested topics to be discussed in the workshop Short
papers (2 to 4 pages) - submissions typically discuss work in progress that
is not yet mature enough for a long paper, or the description of a demo
system Long papers (5 to 8 pages) - submissions should report substantial
contributions of lasting value

Organizers

Ido Guy, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
(ido@il.ibm.com)
Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
(lichen@comp.hkbu.edu.hk)
Michelle X. Zhou, IBM Almaden Research Lab, USA
(mzhou@us.ibm.com)

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