The 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013)

Call for Papers

The 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 

CIKM 2013

Oct. 27 - Nov. 1, 2013 

San Francisco Airport Marriot Waterfront, 

Burlingame, CA, USA

http://www.cikm2013.org

Sponsored by: ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB

The 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013) will be held from October 27 to November 1, 2013 in San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront, Burlingame, California, USA. CIKM is a top-tier ACM conference in the areas of information retrieval, knowledge management and databases. Since 1992, it has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the three communities. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future research directions through the publication of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. In CIKM 2013, we will continue the tradition of promoting collaboration among multiple areas. We encourage submissions of high quality papers on all topics in the general areas of databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest in the three tracks include, but are !
not limited to:

Databases
* Access methods and indexing
* Authorization, data privacy and security
* Concurrency control and recovery
* Data adaptability, reusability and quality
* Database languages, models and interfaces
* Information integration, data provenance, probabilistic databases
* Cloud computing, peer-to-peer, parallel and distributed databases
* Query processing, optimization and performance
* Semi-structured data processing, XML filtering and routing
* Stream-based processing, real-time and network databases
* String databases, blogs and social search
* Systems, middleware, applications and experiences
* Temporal, spatial, mobile, multimedia and scientific databases

Information Retrieval
* Semi-Structured Information Retrieval
* Semantic and Entity-Based Information Retrieval
* Domain-specific IR (legal, genome, chemical, etc.)
* Citation Analysis and Social Networks for IR
* Distributed IR and Peer-to-Peer Search
* Filtering (recommender systems, topic tracking)
* User Modeling for IR, Search Personalization
* User Analysis and Privacy
* IR Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency
* IR Evaluation and User Studies
* Language Specific IR (multi-lingual, NLP, question and answer)
* Machine Learning for IR
* Multimedia IR (Audio, Speech, Video, Image)
* Web Search and Advertising
* Adversarial IR and Spam
* Novel IR Interfaces (mobile, explorative, interactive)
* Foundation of Information Retrieval (theory, ranking, etc.)

Knowledge Management
* Data mining theory, methods, and applications
* Machine learning applications
* Big data analytics
* Data warehousing and business intelligence
* Information extraction and filtering
* Knowledge Synthesis and Visualization
* Semantic Techniques
* Social networks and social media
* Knowledge management in innovative applications, such as healthcare information and network security intelligence

=== Paper Submissions for CIKM 2013 ===

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Papers will be handled through the online submission system https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/CIKM2013/.

ACM CIKM review is double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize your submission. Papers cannot exceed 10 pages in length. There is no short paper track. The organizers may offer the authors of selected paper submissions to prepare a shorter version of their paper for presentation. Uploading instructions and more detailed submission instructions for papers, and workshop proposals, are available at the conference website http://www.cikm2013.org.

Each accepted paper is required at least a full registration fee regardless of the status of the registered author. Also, one of the authors (or a qualified substitute) must give a presentation of the paper at the conference. Otherwise, the paper will not be indexed by the ACM digital library.

For any questions about paper submissions, please contact the program committee co-chairs at pc-chair@cikm2013.org.

=== Important Dates ===

Full Papers

Abstracts due: May 10, 2013
Full papers due: May 17, 2013
Notifications: Jul 15, 2013
Camera-ready due: Aug 11, 2013

Posters

Posters due: May 31, 2013
Notifications: Jul 22, 2013
Camera-ready due: Aug 11, 2013

Workshops

Proposals due: April 1, 2013
Proposal acceptance notifications: April 19, 2013 Papers due: Jun 21, 2013
Notifications: Jul 22, 2013
Camera-ready due: Aug 11, 2013

Demonstrations

Demonstration papers due: June 3, 2013
Notifications: July 22, 2013
Camera-ready due: Aug 11, 2013

Tutorials

Proposals due: Jul 15, 2013
Proposal acceptance notifications: Jul 25, 2013


=== CIKM 2013 Organization Team ===

General Chairs
Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Waston Research Center Qi He, IBM Almaden Research Center

Program Chairs
Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada (KM Track) Rajeev Rastogi, Amazon, Bangalore, India (DB Track) Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Germany (IR Track)

IR Track Associate Chair
Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy

Best Paper Award Committee Chair
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Tutorial Chairs
Xuedong Huang, Microsoft
Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research

Workshop Chairs
Esteban Zimanyi, University Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Jianshu Weng, HP Labs, Singapore

Poster Chair
Yuanyuan Tian, IBM Almaden Research Center

Demo Track Chairs
Shuming Shi, Microsoft Research Asia
Luna Dong, Google Inc, USA

Sponsorship Chairs
Amol Ghoting, IBM T.J. Waston Research Center Rong Yan, Facebook Inc, USA

Industry Track Chairs
Brian Johnson, eBay Inc., USA
Baojun Qiu, eBay Inc., USA

Proceedings Chair
Luo Si, Purdue University

Publicity and Media Chair
Yuan Tian, Facebook Inc, USA

Local Arrangement Chairs
Yi Fang, Santa Clara University
Jiang Bian, Microsoft Research Asia

Treasurer
Mu Qiao, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Ek Park

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13th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Computing (i-KNOW 2013)

13th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Computing (i-KNOW 2013)

4-6 September 2013

Graz, Austria

i-KNOW 2013

I-KNOW proceedings published by ACM ICPS

Submission Deadline: 25 March 2013

The 13th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Computing (i-KNOW 2013) will be held from September 4 to 6, 2013 at the Messe Congress in Graz, Austria. i-KNOW is a top-tier international conference in the areas of knowledge management and knowledge computing. Since 2001, it has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from these communities and attracted annually over 500 international attendees.

The purpose of the conference is to provide a crystallization point for different disciplines of knowledge management (such as Business Science and the Social Sciences) and knowledge computing (such as knowledge discovery, social networks and context-aware computing). Renown researchers from these knowledge disciplines meet to identify challenging problems facing the development and introduction of future knowledge systems, and to shape future research directions through the publication of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings.

I-KNOW 2013 will continue the successful tradition of the conference series and will specifically provide interactive and innovative formats to support the synergies of knowledge management and knowledge computing fields. We encourage submissions of high quality papers on all topics in the general areas of knowledge & data analytics, social & ubiquitous computing, knowledge & innovation management, and science 2.0.

Based on successful collaboration, I-KNOW 2013 will continue the tradition of collocating with the I-SEMANTICS conference, the 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems (www.i-semantics.at).
Important Dates

Full Paper Submissions
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 25, 2013
Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: May 3, 2013
Camera-Ready Paper: June 10, 2013

Poster & Demonstration Submissions
Submission Deadline: May 21, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2012

Conference Topics
Knowledge & Data Analytics

I-KNOW 2013 seeks for novel contributions in advancing the field of knowledge & data analytics as well as in providing new means to utilize, navigate and search large, heterogeneous data pools. We aim to bridge data-centric and user-centric approachesand welcome contributions from both ends of the spectrum. Besides new algorithms and techniques, we are also interested on applications in the wild, user-centric evaluations of real-world applications as well as empirical studies. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining

• Big Data in Knowledge Discovery
• Data Mining in the Linked Data Cloud
• Text/Web/Social/User Behaviour Mining
• Unsupervised Machine Learning
• Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning
• Deep Machine Learning
• Enterprise Retrieval
• Temporal Knowledge Discovery
• Data Structures, Frameworks, and Models underlying Knowledge and Data Mining
• Natural Language Analysis and Sentiment Detection
• Data and Information Retrieval (e.g. cross-language retrieval, interactive retrieval methods, multimedia and cross-modal information retrieval)
• Data and Information Quality
• Knowledge Base Population and Information Extraction

Visual Analytics & Information Visualisation

• Visual Analytics and Intelligent User Interfaces for Data Analytics
• Information Visualisation
• Scalability of Visual Analytics and Knowledge Discovery Techniques
• Interactive Knowledge Discovery
• Visual Representations and Interaction Techniques
• Visualisation of Knowledge, Semantic Information and Linked Data
• Visualisation of Search Results, Text and Multimedia Corpora
• Visualisation of Temporal, Spatial and Sensory Data
• Process and Workflow Visualisation
• Visual Support for Reasoning and Decision Making
• Discourse and Collaborative Visualisation
• Cognitive and Perceptual Factors in Visualization
• Social & Mobile Computing

I-KNOW 2013 seeks for innovative contributions in the fields of social and ubiquitous computing, specifically with the focus on supporting to mobile knowledge work. We aim at developing deeper insights into the mechanisms of collaborations, communities, content quality, etc. – not only based on user behaviour in virtual environments but also in the real world. The currently open challenge is, to technically deal with behaviour and usage data and to analyse it in such a way as to benefit the individual in highly distributed and mobile situations at work and in personal tasks, such as in health care and crisis settings as well as in community engagements and self-directed learning. Besides new apps, methods, and architectures, we are also interested on applications in the wild, user-centric evaluations of real-world applications as well as conceptual overviews that help us understand – or challenge our understanding of – the impact of these technologies. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Social Computing

• Social Media, Social Web, and Social Network Analysis
• Web 2.0, Future Internet, and Web Science
• Collaborative Knowledge Creation and Crowdsourcing
• Information Quality and Knowledge Maturing
• Community Evolution
• Social Information Seeking and Recommender Systems
• Social Search and Retrieval Systems
• Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Social and Information Networks
• Social-Semantic-Content Networks and their Analysis
• Semantic Uplifting in Social Networks
• Spam, Misinformation and Malicious Activity Discovery in Social Systems
• Social Gaming and Human Computing
• Privacy & Trust

Mobile Computing

• Mobile and Ubiquitous Data Management and Processing
• Bridging the Digital and Physical Worlds
• Sensors and Sensor Analytics
• Usage and Usage Data Analytics
• Mobile Social Networking and Mobile Web
• Mobile Work (requirements, characteristics, solutions…)
• Context-aware Systems and Applications
• Ubiquitous Computing Architectures and Infrastructures
• User Interaction and Usability on Mobile Devices
• Security and Privacy Aspects of (mobile) Sensing Applications
• Knowledge Management in Industry & Science

Like all major societal challenges, knowledge management touches diverse aspects of life and thus needs a multi-disciplinary approach for finding solutions. We seek for novel contributions from management science, social sciences, psychology and computer science which address the challenges of managing knowledge in increasingly distributed and mobile work settings as well as turning knowledge into high impact innovations. We will examine these topics within enterprise and the scientific settings. Besides new theories, models and approaches, we are also interested on applications in the wild, user-centric evaluations of real-world applications as well as empirical studies. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Knowledge Management

• Enterprise 2.0 and Corporate Web 2.0
• Mobile Work and Performance Support
• Creativity and Knowledge Work
• Personal Information Management
• Innovative Business Models
• Open Innovation and Crowd Funding
• Innovation Process and Knowledge Maturing
• Knowledge Transfer and Experience Management
• Process-oriented Knowledge Management
• Increasing Efficiency and Measurement Approaches
• Convergence of Knowledge Management and Learning
• Skill and Competency Management
• Service-oriented Architectures and Knowledge Infrastructures
• Trust & Privacy Approaches

Science 2.0

• New Publication and Research Processes
• Opportunities and Challenges for Researchers and Research organizations
• New Indicator Systems to Measure Scientific Quality
• Awareness-support for Science 2.0 Activities
• New Paradigms for Scientific Communication
• New Feedback Mechanisms among Researchers and between Science and Society
• Empirical Studies on the Use of Web 2.0 Tools for Science 2.0
• Marketplaces for Scientific Data and Publications
• Recommender Systems in Science 2.0
• Virtual Research Environments
• Digital Research Libraries
• Applications in and for Science 2.0
• Crowd-sourcing in Science
• Robust Methods for dealing with Noisy Crowd-sourced Data
• Data Schemes and Interoperability Formats
• Social Mining and Metadata Extraction in Academic Resources
• Metadata Quality and Quality Assessment
• Design and architecture of data sharing facilities
• Semantic Web Standards for Science 2.0
• Systems design accounting for standardized data sets

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Seventh IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

RCIS 2013

Seventh IEEE International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES in

INFORMATION SCIENCE

Date and Location: 29-31 May, 2013, Paris, FRANCE

Papers submission deadline: January 27, 2013

http://rcis-conf.com/

RCIS 2013 is a conference of RCIS Conference Series and is sponsored by
IEEE France section. This year, RCIS will be co-located with the 31st
French Conference on Information Systems (INFORSID 2013), a prominent
French scientific event sharing with RCIS the interest on the field of
Information Science.



SCOPE AND TOPICS
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The Seventh International Conference on RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN
INFORMATION SCIENCE aims at providing an international forum for
scientists, researchers, engineers and developers from a wide range of
information science areas to exchange ideas and approaches in this
evolving field. While presenting research findings and state-of-art
solutions, you are especially invited to share experiences on new
research challenges in these main topics:

- Information System Engineering
- Requirements Engineering
- Database and Information System Integration
- Data Management
- Information Search and Discovery
- Software Testing
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Web Information Systems
- Grid Computing and Cloud Computing
- Social Computing
- User Centred Approaches
- Decision Information Systems
- Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Discovery from Data
- Business Process Analysis, Modelling and Design
- Business Applications
- Information Security Risk
- Information and Value Management

Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although
authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are
also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the conference main topics.


CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS AND BEST PAPERS
----------------------------------------------------
Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for
other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at
RCIS 2013. Authors are invited to submit papers in English. Each
submitted paper will have to be associated to one of the four following
categories.

- Technical solution papers present solutions that are novel or
significantly improve existing solutions. A technical solution paper
must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution. Results
must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in
later research (12 pages).
- Evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate
proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies,
experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The
research method must be sound and appropriate (12 pages).
- Industrial practice and experience papers present problems or
challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories,
or report on industrial practice. The practice must be clearly described
and its context must be given (12 pages).
- Doctoral Papers are papers submitted by doctoral students only and are
related to research work in progress (6 pages).
- Poster papers as well as Demo papers aim to gather researchers in a
forum to showcase their work and obtain feedback on on-going research
from knowledgeable conference attendees (2 pages).

The submission site address
ishttps://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2013

By submitting a paper, authors implicitly agree that at least one of
them will register to the conference and present the paper. Only papers
that have been presented by their authors during the conference will be
published in IEEE Proceedings.

Authors of papers that obtain the highest marks in the reviewing process
will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the
International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IGI),
to appear at the end of 2014 (vol. 5 issue 4).

Since Proceedings will be published with the IEEE Conference
Publications Program through IEEE Xplore digital library, paper
submissions must be formatted using the IEEE 2-column format (see
Conference Templates,
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
).
They should be limited to a maximum of 12 pages and be submitted in PDF
format. Please use the IEEE PDF eXpress tool
(http://www.pdf-express.org/) to convert your source file into IEEE
Xplore compliant PDF File or to check if your own PDF file is IEEE
Xplore compliant. IEEE PDF eXpress is a free service to IEEE
conferences, allowing their authors to make IEEE Xplore-compatible PDFs
(Conversion function) or to check PDFs that authors have made themselves
for IEEE Xplore compatibility (PDF Check function). The conference ID
for IEEE PDF eXpress tool will be provided soon on the RCIS 2013 web
site. It is important to note that submitting a file to IEEE PDF eXpress
is only for creation of a compliant PDF file, you must still submit your
final paper through online submission.

See How to Use IEEE PDF express athttp://rcis-conf.com/rcis2013/express.php


IMPORTANT DATES
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- Papers submission deadline: January 27, 2013
- Tutorial proposals submission deadline: February 15, 2013
- Posters& Demos submission deadline: February 15, 2013
- Doctoral Consortium submission deadline: February 15, 2013
- Notification to Authors and Registration Opening: March 18, 2013
- Camera-ready copies for all papers: April 5, 2013
- RCIS'2013 Conference: May 29-31, 2013


CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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General Chairs
Colette Rolland, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France
Jean Louis Cavarero, Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

Program Chairs
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Selmin Nurcan, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France

Steering Committee Chairs
Peri Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, UK
Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Andre Flory, INSA de Lyon, France

IEEE Organizational Unit
Francis Rousseaux, IEEE France section
Daniel Pasquet, IEEE France section

IEEE Liaison
Martine Collard, University of the French West Indies and Guiana,
France

Tutorial Chairs
Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brasil
Corine Cauvet, Universite Aix-Marseille, France

Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politecnica de Cataluna, Spain
Jolita Ralyte, Université de Geneve, Suisse

Posters& Demos Chairs
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit),
CSIC, Spain
Martine Collard, University of the French West Indies and Guiana,
France

Publicity Chairs
Sergio Espana, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Erick Stattner, University of the French West Indies and Guiana,
France

Proceedings Chairs
Said Assar, Institut TELECOM - Ecole de Management, France

Local Organization Chair
Rebecca Deneckere, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France

Financial Chair
Carine Souveyet, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France

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21st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2013)

Call for Papers

ECIS2013

21st European Conference on Information Systems

www.ecis2013.nl

 June 5-8, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Important Dates
Submissions open: October 1, 2012
Submission deadline: December 7, 2012 (strict and only deadline!)
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2013

Beyond Borders
It is our honor and pleasure to bring the IS community back to the Netherlands, nearly 20 years
after the 2nd ECIS-conference was held in the Netherlands in 1994. In 2013, the conference is
organized in Utrecht where we will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Utrecht, signed
in 1713. The Treaty of Utrecht also inspired the proposed conference theme: "Beyond Borders".
ECIS2013 features a topical, diverse and exciting set of conference tracks. Track chairs and associate
editors represent a wide range of countries and topics.

Tracks open for submission
We invite you to submit your paper to one of the conference tracks:
*    Accounting Information Systems and ERP
*    Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management
*    Business Process Management
*    Cloud Computing and Services in Global Settings
*    Data Governance and Data Quality Management
*    e-Health
*    Enterprise Systems and Change, Competencies and Organizational Learning
*    Enterprise Transformation
*    Evolution of Public Sector ICT
*    Green Information Systems
*    Human-Computer Interaction
*    ICT and Sustainable Global Development
*    Information Technology Project Management
*    Inter-Organizational Systems, Information Infrastructures and Innovation Dynamics
*    IS Curriculum, Pedagogy and Enrollment Issues
*    IS Economics
*    IS Innovation, Adoption and Diffusion
*    IS Security and Privacy
*    IT Governance and Sourcing
*    Methods, Tools and Human Factors in IS/IT Development and Management
*    Openness as an IS/IT Strategy, Open Data, Models, Platforms, and Sources
*    Personal Data Markets
*    Persuasive Systems Design
*    Service Engineering and Service Management
*    Social Media and Society
*    Teaching Cases
*    Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems

Research, Research-in-Progress, and Teaching Cases
Papers for ECIS cover all aspects of information systems, broadly defined, and may take the form of
completed research papers and research-in-progress. Research papers should document established
results and be presented according to the highest academic standards. Research-in-progress may
address work still under development; academic rigor is, however, still expected. The Teaching
Cases track has specific guidelines for submissions (see the info on the website).
Research papers, research-in-progress, and teaching cases will be published in the ECIS conference
proceedings and made available in the AIS eLibrary (aisel.aisnet.org/ecis/). Research papers and
teaching cases will be presented in interactive conference track sessions. Research-in-progress
papers will be presented in a poster session specifically designed to allow interaction between
authors and their interested colleagues.

Formatting and Submission
Authors should submit to the track that best fits the research. Research papers and research-in-
progress papers are limited to 12 pages in length. Teaching cases can be up to 16 pages long.  All
submissions must use the Word template on the website. Submissions to ECIS2013 must be original
and must NOT already have been published previously in a journal or conference proceedings, nor
presented at another conference. Moreover, they must NOT be currently under consideration for
publication or presentation elsewhere. Note that a person can be (co)author of NO more than 3
submissions to ECIS 2013 to assure diversity at the conference. Deadline for submissions is 7
December, and no extensions will be allowed.

Copyright
Copyright for all papers resides with the authors. By submitting the final paper to the conference
organizers, the authors agree to allow the conference organizers to have non–exclusive use of the
material for publication in the conference proceedings. Authors are actively encouraged to develop
their papers for journal publication after the conference. Several tracks have arranged fast-track
submission to journals; please check the track descriptions on the website.

Author guidelines
Please go to the conference website www.ecis2013.nl for author guidelines. There a Word document
template is available that will simplify the layout of your submission.

Your contact links
Website: www.ecis2013.nl    Facebook: www.facebook.com/ecis2013    Twitter: #ECIS2013

We are looking forward to welcome you at ECIS 2013 in Utrecht in 2013! Besides the conference
there will also be a Doctoral Consortium, Panels, Workshops, Affiliated events and Social
Events. To organize a workshop or affiliated event, please check the separate call for workshops
on the ECIS 2013 website. The call for panels will be issued in December 2013. Please monitor our
website and do not forget to have a look at the important dates page.

The ECIS 2013 program chairs and committee,
Jos van Hillegersberg, University of Twente, The Netherlands, program co-chair
Sarah Spiekermann, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, program co-chair
Ronald Batenburg, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, program co-chair
Regina Conolly, Dublin City University, Ireland, program co-chair
Eric van Heck, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, program co-chair
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, general chair
Remko Helms, Utrecht University, organizing chair

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Special Issue on: "Knowledge Strategies in Learning Organisations" - International Journal on Learning and Intellectual Capital

Special Issue on: "Knowledge Strategies in Learning Organisations"

Guest Editors:
Constanţa-Nicoleta Bodea and H.C. Constantin Bratianu, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania

Knowledge management and learning organisation are two powerful concepts developed in recent decades and implemented significantly in the last few years. In his seminal book, The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge (1990, p.14) underlined the fact that a learning organisation is “an organization that is continually expanding its future. For such an organization, it is not enough merely to survive.” Thus, Senge suggested the need for integrating knowledge management and learning organisation into strategic management.

The purpose of this special issue is to analyse the trend of integrating these basic concepts, and to understand the pragmatic ways of building up knowledge strategies for developing learning organisations. Knowledge increasingly becomes a strategic resource, and knowledge management a necessary dynamic capability required to achieve a competitive advantage.

You are invited to contribute to this challenging interdisciplinary domain with your research, focusing mainly on the following topics below.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Knowledge dynamics in the framework of learning organisations
• Organisational learning and learning organisations
• Dynamic capabilities for learning organisations
• Intergenerational learning in learning organisations
• Universities as learning organisations
• Knowledge strategies
• Knowledge management systems
• Computational intelligence

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: 30 November, 2012

Notification of authors: 30 January, 2013

Final paper due (with any changes): 30 March, 2013

Editors and Notes

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to Online Submissions of Papers. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contactsubmissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the names of the Guest Editors

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Special Issue on: "Social Knowledge Discovery and Management" - International Journal of Social Network Mining

Special Issue on: "Social Knowledge Discovery and Management"

Guest Editors:
Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia
Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Wu Zhiang, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China
Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada

With the rising popularity of social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Answer, etc.), some types of spontaneous experience are being gained by daily users. This type of experience can be recognised as a particular way to cultivate domain knowledge.

One typical instance is friend-sourcing. Friend-sourcing gathers social information in a social context which can be used to personalise users’ computing experiences, for example to aid answering questions for topics comprehensible only to a few of a user’s friends. That is, people search on the web (i.e. social environment) to find solutions for issues that they are dealing, rather than finding them through traditional methods.

This reveals not only the problems that are being solved but also the process through which knowledge is discovered based upon the experience of other people. In these ways it is said that paradigms such as social computing and social networking have changed the behaviour of human beings.

In this context, knowledge discovery is the process of automatic extraction of interesting and useful knowledge from very large data, whereas knowledge utilisation consists of a range of strategies and practices to identify, create, represent, distribute and enable the adoption of novel insights and experiences for decision making. It is critical that issues regarding knowledge discovery and management are investigated. Various considerations should be carefully identified from both theoretical and practical perspectives to ensure the successful incorporation of these technologies.

This special issue aims to provide a forum for a timely, in-depth presentation of problems, current studies and solutions regarding how knowledge is discovered and managed in a socialised environment to facilitate human experience and satisfaction. Authors are encouraged to submit research papers on latest trends in technologies, techniques, methods and applications associated with social knowledge discovery and management.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Social knowledge creation, sharing and management
• Semantic web, linked data and knowledge representation for the social web
• Social knowledge modelling
• Validation and verification of user-generated content
• Temporal and spatial analysis for complex data
• Scalability, visualisation and optimisation
• Intelligent systems for human-centric computing
• Adversarial blogging and counter measures
• Link analysis and network structure discovery
• Community detection and evolution
• Blog search and retrieval
• Group interaction, collaboration and recommendation
• Knowledge discovery (collective wisdom, trend analysis, topic detection)
• Social aspects of blogosphere
• Human interface and interaction techniques for social media
• Multimedia tools or applications to implement social knowledge networks
• Pedagogical issues of social knowledge
• Usability study of using social knowledge
• Structure, organisation and storage issues for user-generated content
• Context-awareness collective intelligence
• Social technologies for personalisation
• Concepts and case studies of knowledge discovery and utilisation

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page.

Important Dates

First submission deadline: 1 February, 2013

First notification: 1 April, 2013

Revision deadline: 10 May, 2013

Final decision and notification: 10 July, 2013

Editors and Notes

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to Online Submissions of Papers. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contactsubmissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the names of the Guest Editors

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2nd International Workshop on evidenced-based Technology Enhanced Learning (ebTEL 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS 

2nd International Workshop on evidenced-based Technology Enhanced Learning (ebTEL 2013) 

In conjunction with the PAAMS 2013 Conference 

University of Salamanca (Spain) 

Salamanca, Spain, 22-24 May, 2013 

http://ebtel.usal.es

SCOPE

Research on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) investigates how information and communication technologies can be designed in order to support pedagogical activities. The Evidence based Design (EBD) of a system bases its decisions on empirical evidence and effectiveness. The evidence-based TEL workshop (ebTEL) brings together TEL and EBD. The workshop aims at collecting contributions concerning evidence based TEL systems, like their design following EBD principles as well as success stories or best practices that educators, education stakeholders or educational psychologists used to improve their students' learning experience, in particular for students with specific difficulties (e.g. poor/slow readers, students living in impoverished communities or families).

The previous edition of ebTEL collected TEL contributions from computer science, artificial intelligence, evidence-based medicine, educational psychology and pedagogy. Like the previous edition, the international ebTEL´13 edition wants to be a forum in which TEL researchers and practitioners alike can discuss innovative evidence-based ideas, projects, and lessons related to TEL. The meeting will be held in Salamanca on May 22nd-24th 2013, in parallel with the PAAMS'13 International Conference.

KEYWORDS

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

- Evidence-based personalisation, user modelling and adaptation in TEL
- Evidence-based games and game learning for TEL
- Knowledge representation and reasoning for evidence based TEL
- Knowledge management and evidence based TEL
- Natural language processing and evidence based TEL
- Semantic web and evidence based TEL
- Web 2.0 and Social Learning environments for evidence based TEL
- Sharing and interoperability between evidence-based TEL systems
- Effective teaching techniques and strategies for learning
- Evidence based design case studies
- Evaluation guidelines, methodologies and methods for evidence based TEL
- Evidence based TEL for users with special needs

EXPECTED PARTICIPANTS

The ebTEL workshop invites contributions in the area of TEL, both from computer science as well as evidence based medicine, educational psychology and pedagogy. Researchers from these areas and education stakeholders are all expected contributors or participants. The organising committee will particularly encourage the participation of stakeholders and researchers in the educational or TEL field so as to foster the sharing of best practices in the field, and disseminate the research progress in the educational context.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

We invite the submission of papers (max. 8 pages in Springer format) reporting original research, not previously published, relevant to the workshop's themes.

All submissions will be carefully reviewed by an international program committee. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least two experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.

he proceedings of the previous edition of ebTEL are available via Springer at http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/book/978-3-642-28800-5.

PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION

ebTEL will be a full-day workshop. It also foresees keynote presentations by experts in the TEL area.

All the accepted papers will be presented during the workshop and published by Springer in the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing series. At least one of the authors will be required to register for the workshop in order to present the paper and have it included in the proceedings.

STEERING COMMITTEE

Juan M. Corchado - University of Salamanca (Spain)
Fernando De la Prieta - University of Salamanca (Spain)
Rosella Gennari - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
Ivana Marenzi - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
Pierpaolo Vittorini - University of l'Aquila (Italy)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (preliminary)

Fabian Abel - Delft University of Technology (Nederland)
Anthony Baldry - University of Messina (Italy)
Juan M. Corchado - University of Salamanca (Spain)
Fernando De la Prieta - University of Salamanca (Spain)
Juan F. De Paz Santana - University of Salamanca (Spain)
Dina Di Giacomo - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
Tania Di Mascio - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
Rosella Gennari - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
Ana Belén Gil - University of Salamanca
Óscar Gil - University of Salamanca
Nicola Henze - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
Eelco Herder - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
Ralf Kerstel - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
Ralf Klamma - RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
Rita Kupetz - Leibniz University Hanover (Germany)
Ivana Marenzi - L3S, Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany)
Maria Moreno Jaén - University of Granada (Spain)
Stefano Necozione - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
Emanuele Pianta - FBK-irst (Italy)
Sara Rodríguez - Univeristy of Salamanca
Maria Grazia Sindoni - University of Messina (Italy)
Marcus Specht - Open University of the Netherlands
Sara Tonelli - FBK-irst (Italy)
Pierpaolo Vittorini - University of l'Aquila (Italy)
Carolina Zato - University of Salamanca

DATES

Submission deadline: November, 26th, 2012.
Notification of acceptance: January, 28th, 2013.
Final version submission: February, 25th, 2013.
Conference: 22nd - 24th May, 2013.

CONTACTS

URL: http://ebtel.usal.es
Mail: ebtel@usal.es

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The 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2012) - Call for Workshop Papers

ICWL 2012

The 11th International Conference on Web-based Learning

2-4 September 2012, Sinaia, Romania

http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2012/

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to one of the 4 fantastic workshops which will be held in conjunction with the ICWL 2012 conference. For more information on submission procedure, important dates, program committee and contacts, please refer to the website of each single workshop
(http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~icwl2012/workshops.php)


International Symposium on Knowledge Management and E-Learning (KMEL 2012) 

Website: http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~kwchiu/kmel2012.htm
Organizers:
  * Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong
  * Federick Li, Durham University, UK
  * Maggie M. Wang, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong


International Workshop on Creative Collaboration through Supportive Technologies in Education (CCSTED 2012) 

Website: http://ccsted.ssai.valahia.ro/
Organizers:
  * Gabriel Gorghiu, Valahia University Targoviste, Romania
  * Mikhail Fominykh, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
  * Tommi Inkilä, University of Oulu, Finland
  * David Lamas, Tallinn University, Estonia
  * Margarida Romero, Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain


International Workshop on Learning within and from the 'Smart Cities' (SCiLearn 2012)

Website: http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/scilearn2012/index.php
Organizers:
  * Carlo Giovannella, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  * Alke Martens, PH Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education, Germany


International Workshop on New Approaches to Serious Games (IWNASG 2012)

Website: http://www.seriousgamesnet.eu/IWNASG/
Organizers:
  * Carlos Vaz de Carvalho, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
  * Baltasar Fernandez Manjon, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  * Siu Cheung Kong, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
  * Janet C Read, University of Central Lancashire, UK
  * Pedro Latorre, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

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Deadline Extension: The 1st Int'l Workshop on Social Knowledge Discovery and Utilization (SKDU 2012) @ ASNONAM 2012

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED! May 21, 2012 PST

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 1st Int'l Workshop on Social Knowledge Discovery and Utilization

SKDU2012

http://people.cs.aau.dk/~rpan/skdu/

In conjunction with IEEE/ACM ASONAM2012, Istanbul, Turkey,

August 26-29, 2012. (http://www.asonam2012.etu.edu.tr/)

OVERVIEW

Today the emergence of web-based communities and hosted services such as
social networking sites, microbloggings, wikis and folksonomies, brings in
tremendous freedom of Web autonomy and facilitate collaboration and
knowledge sharing between users. Along with the interaction between users
and computers, social cyberspace is rapidly becoming an important part of
our digital experience, ranging from digital textual information to diverse
multimedia forms. These aspects and characteristics constitute of the core
of second generation of Web. Some sorts of on-the-fly experience is learned
and obtained by daily users. This type of experience can, in addition, be
recognized as a particular way to cultivate domain knowledge. One typical
instance is friend-sourcing. Friend-sourcing gathers social information in a
social context, which information can be used to personalize users's
computing experiences, for example to aid question answering for topics
comprehensible only to a few of a user's friends.

A prominent challenge lies in modeling and mining this vast pool of data to
extract, represent and distribute the meaningful knowledge and to utilize
structures and dynamics of the social knowledge, such as emerging social
networks residing in the social media, for better user experience and
satisfaction. This workshop attempts to fill the gap between social
experience and knowledge discovery and utiliztion, encouraging to share
achievements, experiments, and ideas from the perspective of knowledge
discovery and data mining, and to propose a range of strategies and
practices to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable the
adoption of novel insights and experiences for knowledge utilization.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The main goals of the workshop are: (1) to create a platform to discuss
latest issues, trends, solutions, and cutting-edge research strategies in
knowledge discovery and utilization in context of social cyberspace; (2) to
bring together acdemic researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss
problems, current studies, and solutions on how the knowledge is discovered
and utilized in a socialized environment to facilitate human experience and
satisfaction.

We solicit original and high quality submissions addressing all aspects of
this field. The topics of interest include, but are not be limited to the
following:

- Computational models for social media
- Influence, trust, and privacy
- Search in social networks and social media
- Interoperability among social applications and social media
- Techniques for social-network analysis/mining and for the analysis of social-media phenomena
- Adversarial blogging and counter measures
- Counter-Terror social network analysis
- Social networking security risks
- Social engineering through social networks
- Data privacy in Social Networks
- Secure information sharing in online communities
- Social networking safety
- Security issues in mobile social networking
- Trust-based social networks
- Anonymization of social network datasets
- Link analysis and network structure discovery
- Community detection and evolution
- Blog search and retrieval
- Group interaction, collaboration, and recommendation
- Knowledge discovery (collective wisdom, trend analysis, and topic detection)
- Social aspects of Blogosphere
- Human interface and interaction techniques for social media

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the
workshop topics are solicited. These papers will follow an academic review
process. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of
8 pages (using the IEEE two-column template).

Papers should be submitted to the EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=skdu2012

Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, technical
depth, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Paper submission implies that
at least one of the authors will do a full registration and go to present
the paper if their paper is accepted.

All papers accepted for workshop will be included in the Workshop
Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Hence all the
rules and regulations of IEEE CPS will be applied as explained in the
following link: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/policies

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: May 21, 2012 (PST) EXTENDED!
Notification: June 3, 2012 (PST)
Camera-ready deadline: June 10, 2012 (PST) Author registration: June 10,
2012 (PST)

SPECIAL ISSUE

The extended versions of selected papers presented during the SKDU
2012 workshop will be invited for a special issue of International Journal of Social Network Mining (IJSNM):
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijsnm

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia
Tieyun Qian, Wuhuan University, China
Zeki Bozkus, Kadir Has University, Turkey

Web Master and Publicity Chair

Rong Pan, Aalborg University, Denmark

Program Committee

Muhammad A Ahmad, University of Minnesota,Twin Cities, USA
Songul Albayrak,Yildiz University, Turkey
Taner Arsan Arsan, Kadir Has University, Turkey
James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia
Ahmet Bulut, Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey
Ling Chen, UTS, Australia
Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark
Ersin Elbasi, Tubitak, Turkey
Cesim Erten, Kadir Has University, Turkey
Flavius Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherland
Irene Garrigos, University of Alicante, Spain
Paolo Garza, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Xueqing Gong, Eastern China Normal University, China
Yanhui Gu, University of Tokyo, Japan
Takako Hashimoto, Chiba University of Commerce, Japan
Ben He, GUCAS, China
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Wenxin Liang, Dalian University of Technology, China
Akiyo Nadamoto, Konan University, Japan
Shinsuke Nakajima, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Satoshi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan
Darko Obradovic, GMX, Germany
Kenta Oku, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Shingo Otsuka, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Sherif Sakr, NICTA and UNSW, Australia
Munehiko Sasajima, Osaka University, Japan
Mingsheng Shang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Julien Velcin, University of Lyon, France
Daling Wang, Northeastern University, China
Zongda Wu, Wenzhou University, China
Zhenglu Yang, University of Tokyo, Japan
Jianwei Zhang, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Xiuzhen Zhang, RMIT, Australia
Tingshao Zhu, GUCAS, China
Yu Zong, West Anhui University, China

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