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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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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