WWW 2014 Workshop - Connecting Online & Offline Life (COOL2014)

You are cordially invited to submit a contribution to "Connecting Online & Offline Life" (COOL2014), a one-day workshop of the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'14), to be held in Seoul, Korea on April 8, 2014.

The cross-fertilization of social and technical systems research is rapidly
expanding: new fields of research, such as computational social science, data science, data-driven urban research and anthropology, are emerging and the big social data is revolutionizing many classical disciplines.

This workshop represents an effort toward melding these communities to trigger new collaborations and delineate future challenges.

Particular attention will be devoted, but not limited to, the following topics:

- Studying offline (real-world) human activities using online data
- Comparing social interactions on the web with offline ones
- Urban research and geo-social studies using web and social data
- Harnessing online data to understand and predict offline phenomena
- Studying human behaviors using online games
- Personal analytics and online sharing behaviors
- Social movements and the web
- Politics online and offline
- Crime on the web and crimes using the web

More information on COOL2014 can be found here: http://www.cool2014.com More information on WWW'14 can be found here: http://www2014.kr

On Twitter: @COOLws2014 (#cool2014): https://twitter.com/COOLws2014

Important Dates
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- Workshop paper deadlines: Jan 7, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
- Workshop paper notifications: Feb 4, 2014
- Workshop paper final copy hard deadline: Feb 12, 2014

Requirements
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Participants are invited to submit their papers via the EasyChair system at the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cool2014

The authors will submit original research paper occupying up to 8 pages, including references. The paper must be written in English, and formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template.

Submissions must include the following information: title, list of authors with affiliations, abstract and full paper attachment. Accepted format is PDF only.

Publication
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All papers accepted in the workshop will appear in the WWW 2014 Conference proceedings and will be published through the ACM Digital Library.

More information, about selection, registration, etc., can be found here:
http://www.cool2014.com/?page_id=14

Special Issue: The best contributions will be considered for an invitation in extended version in the thematic series “Collective behaviors and Networks” published on EPJ Data Science (Springer).


Organizing Committee
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Emilio Ferrara, Indiana University, US
Yana Volkovich, Barcelona Media, Spain
Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University, US
Young-Ho Eom, University of Toulouse, France

Program Committee
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Luca M. Aiello (Yahoo! Research)
Giovanni Ciampaglia (Indiana University)
Michele Coscia (Harvard University)
Pasquale De Meo (University of Messina)
Alessandro Flammini (Indiana University)
Santo Fortunato (Aalto University)
Matteo Gagliolo (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Bruno Goncalves (Aix-Marseille Université)
Maria Grineva (Yandex Labs)
Jerome Kunegis (University of Cambridge)
Andrea Lancichinetti (Northwestern University)
Illias Leontiadis (Telefonica Research)
Nicola Perra (Northeastern University)
Giovanni Petri (ISI Foundation)
Alexander Petersen (IMT Lucca)
Alessandro Provetti (Oxford-Man Institute)
Jose’ J. Ramasco (IFISC CSIC-UIB)
Giancarlo Ruffo (University of Turin)
Roberta Sinatra (Northeastern University)
Claudia Wagner (Leibniz Institute)
Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing)

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ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014)

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) 2014

Oct 6-10, 2014, Foster City, Silicon Valley, California

http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the premier annual event on research and applications of recommendation technologies, the Eighth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014). The conference will be held from Oct 6 to 10, 2014 in Foster City, Silicon Valley, California. Previous conferences have been distinguished by a strong level of interaction between researchers and practitioners in the sharing of ideas, problems and solutions. The 2014 conference will continue and reinforce this tradition due to its location in Silicon Valley, the home of some of the world's largest technology companies and of thousands of startups.

We construe recommender systems broadly, including applications ranging from e-commerce to social networking, platforms from web to mobile and beyond, and a wide variety of technologies ranging from collaborative filtering to case-based reasoning. Topics of interest for RecSys 2014 include (but are not limited to):

- Algorithm scalability

- Case studies of real-world implementations

- Conversational recommender systems

- Context-aware recommenders

- Evaluation metrics and studies

- Explanations and evidence

- Group recommenders

- Impact studies

- Innovative/New applications

- Machine learning for recommendation

- Novel paradigms

- Personalization

- Preference elicitation

- Privacy and Security

- Recommendation algorithms

- Social recommenders

- User interfaces

- Semantic web technologies for recommendation

- Targeted advertising

- Trust and reputation

- Theoretical foundations

- User modelling

- User studies

We encourage various types of submissions:

TECHNICAL PAPERS 

- Long paper submissions should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. The maximum length is 8 pages. Each accepted long paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented in a plenary session as part of the main conference program. We expect the review process to be highly selective: the acceptance rates for full papers in the past three years were 20-24%.

- Short paper submissions typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. The maximum length is 4 pages. Each accepted short paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented in a poster session. The presentation may include a system demonstration. Note that rejected long paper submissions will not be automatically considered as short papers.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS

The Doctoral Consortium will provide doctoral students with the opportunity to have substantive interaction with other researchers on their dissertation topic. It will also allow students to establish a supportive community, including other doctoral students at similar stages of their dissertation research. The maximum paper length is 4 pages. Each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented in the doctoral consortium.

WORKSHOPS

The goal of the workshops is to provide additional venues for presenting research-in-progress on topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges in greater depth and detail. A 2-page summary of each accepted workshop will be included in the conference proceedings.

  

TUTORIALS

The goal of the tutorials is to provide the larger conference community an opportunity to learn about recommender system concepts and techniques, and to serve as a venue to share presenters' expertise with the global community of recommender system researchers and practitioners. A 2-page summary of each accepted tutorial will be included in the conference proceedings.

DEMOS

The demo session provides an exciting way for researchers and developers to present new recommender ideas, show off their work, and get valuable feedback from the recommender systems community. Demo submissions must include a narrated screen capture. A 2-page summary of each accepted demo will be included in the conference proceedings.

POSTERS

The poster session offers an opportunity for presenting late-breaking research results and speculative or innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the poster session encourages presenters and participants to engage in lively discussions about the presented work. A two-page summary of each accepted poster will be included in the extended proceedings of the conference.

All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically in PDF format. RecSys 2014 submissions should be prepared according to the standard ACM SIG proceedings format. We provide paper templates in Microsoft Word and LaTeX on the conference website. More details on the submission procedure will be available at http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/call/ closer to the submission deadlines. The fully-refereed proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library and, like past RecSys proceedings, are expected to be widely read and cited. The extended proceedings will be made available differently.

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Important Dates

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Long/Short Papers:

- Papers due: May 7, 2014

- Acceptance notification: July 7, 2014

- Camera-ready papers due: July 24, 2014

Doctoral Consortium Papers:

- Papers due: June 2, 2014

- Acceptance notification: July 7, 2014

- Camera-Ready papers due: July 24, 2014

Workshop Proposals:

- Proposals due: April 7, 2014

- Acceptance notification: April 28, 2014

- Workshop papers due: July 21, 2014

- Camera-ready workshop summaries due: July 24, 2014

Tutorial Proposals:

- Proposals due: May 19, 2014

- Acceptance notification: June 9, 2014

- Camera-ready tutorial summaries due: July 24, 2014

Demos:

- Proposals due: May 19, 2014

- Acceptance notification: July 7, 2014

- Camera-ready demo summaries due: July 24, 2014

Posters (late-breaking contributions):

- Submissions due: July 21, 2014

- Acceptance notification: August 18, 2014

- Camera-ready poster summaries due: August 29, 2014

Conference Dates: Oct. 6-10, 2014

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Questions?

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More information at: http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/ACMRecSys

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acmrecsys

LinkedIn group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ACM-RecSys-7421136

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/recsys/

General Co-chairs (general2014*):

- Alfred Kobsa, UC Irvine, USA

- Michelle Zhou, IBM, USA

Program Co-chairs (program2014*):

- Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University, Canada

- Yehuda Koren, Google, USA

Workshop Co-chairs (workshops2014*):

- Lior Rokach, Ben Gurion University, Israel

- Badrul Sarwar, eBay, USA

Tutorial Co-chairs (tutorials2014*):

- Alexander Felfernig, TU Graz, Austria

- Bee-Chung Chen, LinkedIn, USA

Doctoral Symposium Co-chairs (doctoral2014*):

- Yi Zhang, UC Santa Cruz, USA

- Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA, Australia

Poster and Demo Co-chairs (posters2014*):

- Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

- Jalal Mahmud, IBM Research, USA

Proceedings Chair (proceedings2014*):

- Bark Knijnenburg, UC Irvine, USA

Publicity Co-chairs (publicity2014*):

- Alan Said, CWI, The Netherlands

- Tim Hussein, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Treasurer (treasurer2014*):

- Susan Crow, IBM, USA

Local Arrangements and Student Volunteer Co-chairs (local2014*):

- Jian Wang, LinkedIn, USA

- Susan Crow, IBM, USA

*) for email address, replace '*' by '@recsys.acm.org'

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Second International Workshop on Collaboration and Gaming (CoGames 2014)

Second International Workshop on Collaboration and Gaming (CoGames 2014)

Call for Papers and Participation

As part of The 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2014)  

http://cts2014.cisedu.info

May 19-23, 2014

The Commons Hotel

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP (Pending)

Submission Deadline: December 30, 2013

Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters


SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
Development of video games is by definition a multi disciplinary process involving several professions, ranging from artists to engineers.  The AAA game titles produced today require rather large teams with a high level of competence (technology, programming, networks, architecture, etc.), creativity and skills.  Compared to traditional software development, game development is characterized by rapid changes of hardware, high performance requirements, and software requirements that are unstable and hard to predict.  Video games are also used for other purposes than pure entertainment, e.g., for education, training, exercising, and simulation.

In the current trends, game developers are focusing more and more on games where players must collaborate to achieve goals in the game.  Collaborative games introduce challenges for game developers to handle technical issues, performance issues, network issues, distributed environments, sharing of information, and heterogeneous networks and devices.  Further, collaborative games open new areas and applications for games to be used for new purposes that can benefit from more than just fun. Creation of these "serious collaborative games" adds additional challenges including matching of content and game activity and modeling of player proficiencies.  As players expect that games can be played anywhere, the integration of mobile gaming, hand-held and online-gaming on smartphones, consoles and tablets is becoming ever more important.  This integration introduces new challenges and leads to new opportunities.

This Workshop on Collaboration and Gaming - held as part of the 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2014) - will focus on the area of collaboration and gaming, with emphasis on new game concepts, new technologies, evaluations, usage areas and games prototypes.  Special attention is dedicated to serious games, in particular for learning.  The aim is to have a dedicated track that fosters closer interactions among researchers, industry and users communities, providing an opportunity for them to meet and discuss their ideas.  We invite original contributions from researchers in academia and computer industry on these emerging and important areas of information technology.  Papers should contribute to an advancement over the state of the art, preferentially providing empirical results from new tools/systems and/or user studies.

CoGames Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): • Collaborative games, game technology and game frameworks • Collaborative serious games • Platforms for collaborative games • Usability of collaborative games • Mobile collaborative games and game frameworks • Quality of service in collaborative games • Online collaborative games • Computational and artificial intelligence to support collaborative gaming • User profiling and performance assessment in collaborative games • Modelling of users and interactions • Learning and Adaptation in collaborative games • Reliability and availability in collaborative games • Real-time issues (e.g., networking, computation) in collaborative games • Integration and interoperability in collaborative games • Pervasive/ubiquitous collaborative games • New software engineering tools and methods for designing collaborative games • Requirement engineering of collaborative games • Design and software a!
rchitecture of collaborative games • Data mining in collaborative games • Database support for collaborative games • Testing and prototyping of collaborative games • Context-aware gaming • Privacy and Security in collaborative games • Repository and content management of collaborative games • Tools (authoring, assessment, etc.) and sub-systems for collaborative games • Human-Computer Interaction (devices, methodologies and tools) to support collaboration • Serious games aimed at supporting collaboration • Animation and Virtual Reality in game design • Learning and Adaptation in Collaborative Games • Human, social and psychological aspects of games • Business modelling and economic aspects of collaborative games

PAPER SUBMISSION
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to collaboration technologies and systems in games and gaming.  Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere.  Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses.  Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words.  The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format.  Additional pages will be charged additional fee.  Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to  http://cts2014.cisedu.info/home/posters   for the posters submission details) will also be accepted for submission.  Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.

Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript via the Workshop submission Web page at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cogames2014.    If the submission is for a short paper, a poster paper, or a poster, please indicate that on the manuscript as well.

Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the Workshop link above.  Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews.  Papers will be selected based on their relevance, contribution to advance the state if the art, originality, technical value and clarity of presentation.  Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted.  Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop.

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings.  Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the CTS 2014 Conference web site.  It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference.  The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed in major indexing services accordingly.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers.

http://cts2014.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop-18-cogames

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submissions: --------------------------------------- December 30, 2013 Acceptance Notification: --------------------------------- January 21, 2014 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: ---------  February 21, 2014 Conference Dates:  ---------------------------------------  May 19 - 23, 2014


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Francesco Bellotti
   ELIOS Lab - DITEN
   University of Genoa, Via Opera Pia 11/a, 16145 Genoa, Italy
   Phone: + 39-010-3532227
   Fax:     + 39-010-3532795
   Skype:  f.bellotti
   Email:   franz@elios.unige.it

Kristen DiCerbo
     Pearson
     Center for Digital Experience and Analytics, 400 Center Ridge Drive, Austin, TX 78753, USA
     Voice:  +
     Fax:     +
     Email: kristen.dicerbo@pearson.com

C. Shaun Longstreet
      Center for Teaching and Learning
      Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA
      Voice: +1 (414) 288-0263
      Fax:    +
      Email:  shaun.longstreet@marquette.edu, cslongstreet@gmail.com                                               

International Program Committee*:
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members following similar criteria used in CTS 2014. • Aida Azadegan, University of the West of Scotland (UWS), U.K.
• Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, University of Bremen, Germany • Riccardo Berta, University of Genoa, Italy • Rafael Bidarra, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands • Maira Carvalho, DITEN, University of Genoa, Italy • Brent Cowan, University of Ontario, Canada * • Alessandro De Gloria, University of Genoa, Italy • Giusy Fiucci, ORT, Paris, France • Casper Harteveld, Northeastern University, MA, USA • Andrew Hogue,  University of Ontario, Canada * • Sebastian Kelle, Stuttgart Media University, Germany • Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany • Theo Lim, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, U.K.
• Michael Kickmaier-Rust, Technical University of Graz, Austria • Pablo Moreno Ger, University Complutense Madrid, Spain • Michela Mortara, CNR IMATI, Genoa, Italy • Magda Popescu, National Defence University "Carol I", Romania * • Margarida Romero, ESADE Barcelona, Spain • Ioana Stanescu, Advanced Distributed Learning,  Romania


For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference's web site at URL: http://cts2014.cisedu.info/home   or contact one of the Conference's organizers or Co-Chairs.

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Special Issue on Recommender System Benchmarking - ACM TIST

Call for Papers

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Special Issue on Recommender System Benchmarking

 http://tist.acm.org/CFPs/TIST-SI-RSB.html

Overview
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Recommender systems add value to vast content resources by matching users with items of interest. In recent years, immense progress has been made in recommendation techniques. The evaluation of these systems is still based on traditional information retrieval and statistics metrics, e.g. precision, recall, RMSE often not taking the use-case and situation of the system into consideration.

However, the rapid evolution of recommender systems in both their goals and their application domains foster the need for new evaluation methodologies and environments.

This special issue serves as a venue for work on novel, recommendation-centric benchmarking approaches taking the users utility, the business values and the technical constraints into consideration.

New evaluation approaches should evaluate both functional and non-functional requirements. Functional requirements go beyond traditional relevance metrics and focus on user-centered utility metrics, such as novelty, diversity and serendipity.

Non-functional requirements focus on performance (e.g., scalability of both model building and on-line recommendation phases) and reliability (e.g., consistency of recommendations with time, robustness to incomplete, erroneous or malicious input data).

Topics of Interests
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We invite the submission of high-quality manuscripts reporting relevant research in the area of benchmarking and evaluation of recommendation systems. The special issue welcomes submissions presenting technical, experimental, methodological and/or applicative contributions in this scope, addressing -though not limited to- the following topics:

• New metrics and methods for the quality estimation of recommender systems
• Mapping metrics to business goals and values
• Novel frameworks for the user-centric evaluation of recommender systems
• Validation of off-line methods with online studies
• Comparison of evaluation metrics and methods
• Comparison of recommender algorithms across multiple systems and domains
• Measuring technical constraints vs. accuracy
• Robustness of recommender systems to missing, erroneous or malicious data
• Evaluation methods in new application scenarios (cross domain, live/stream recommendation)
• New datasets for the evaluation of recommender systems
• Benchmarking frameworks
• Multiple-objective benchmarking
• Real benchmarking experiences (from benchmarking event organizers)

Submissions
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Manuscripts shall be sent through the ACM TIST electronic submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select "Special Issue: Recommender System Benchmarking" as the manuscript type). Submissions shall adhere to the ACM TIST instructions and guidelines for authors available at the journal website: http://tist.acm.org.

The papers will be evaluated for their originality, contribution significance, soundness, clarity, and overall quality. The interest of contributions will be assessed in terms of technical and scientific findings, contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the problem, methodological advancements, and/or applicative value.

Important Dates

Paper submission due: January 20th, 2014
First round of reviews: March 15th, 2014
First round of revisions: April 15th, 2014
Second round of reviews: May 15th, 2014
Final round of revisions: June 15th, 2014
Final paper notification: July 15th, 2014
Camera-ready due: August 2014

Guest Editors
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Paolo Cremonesi - Politecnico di Milano
• paolo.cremonesi@polimi.it
• http://home.dei.polimi.it/cremones/

Alan Said - CWI
• alansaid@acm.org
• http://www.alansaid.com

Domonkos Tikk - Gravity R&D
• domonkos.tikk@gravityrd.com
• http://www.tmit.bme.hu/tikk.domonkos

Michelle X. Zhou - IBM Research
• mzhou@us.ibm.com
• http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-mzhou

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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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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
-------------------

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
----------------------------

#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
-------------------

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
------------

* 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
----------------

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
-------

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
-----------

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



CHALLENGE EVALUATION COMMITTEE:
--------------------------------

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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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

===================================
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
===============================
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
===============================
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
===============================
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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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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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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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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