WWW 2014 Call for Papers - Research Track

WWW 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS - RESEARCH TRACK
The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference
April 7-11, 2014 / Seoul, Korea
http://www2014.kr

For more than two decades, the International World-Wide Web Conference has been the premier venue for researchers, academics, businesses, and standard bodies to come together and discuss latest updates on the state and evolutionary path of the Web. The main conference program of WWW 2014 will have 11 areas (or themes) for refereed paper presentations. and we invite you to submit your cutting-edge, exciting, new breakthrough work to the relevant area. In addition to the main conference, WWW 2014 will also have a series of co-located workshops, keynote speeches, tutorials, panels, a developer track, and poster and demo sessions.

The list of areas for this year is as follows:

Behavioral Analysis and Personalization
Content Analysis
Crowd Phenomena
Internet Economics and Monetization
Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse
Semantic Web
Social Networks and Graph Analysis
Software Infrastructure, Performance, Scalability, and Availability
User Interfaces, Human Factors, and Smart (Mobile) Devices
Web Mining
Web Search

Important Dates:

Research track abstract registration:
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Research track full paper submission:
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Notifications of acceptance:
Saturday, January 4th, 2014

Paper Submission Requirements:

All submitted paper must:

be written in English;
contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt;
be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size;
occupy no more than ten pages, including the abstract and appendices, but excluding references.

It is the authors¡¯ responsibility to ensure that their submission adheres strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review.

Submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2014

General Chair:
Chin-Wan Chung (KAIST)

General Vice Chairs:
Sang-goo Lee (Seoul National University)
Sue Moon (KAIST)
In-soo Park (MOTIE/KATS)

PC Co-Chairs for Research Track:
Andrei Broder (Google)
Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University)
Torsten Suel (New York University)

Area Chairs:

Behavioral Analysis and Personalization
Pearl Pu (EPFL)
Andrew Tomkins (Google)

Content Analysis
Seung-won Hwang (POSTECH)
Lillian Lee (Cornell University)

Crowd Phenomena
Panos Ipeirotis (NYU)
Stefano Leonardi (Univ. La Sapienza)

Internet Economics and Monetization
Arpita Ghosh (Cornell University)
Vanja Josifovski (Google)

Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse
Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
Yongdae Kim (KAIST)

Semantic Web
Ramanathan Guha (Google)
Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio)

Social Networks and Graph Analysis
Aristides Gionis (Aalto University)
Alessandro Panconesi (Univ. La Sapienza)

Software Infrastructure, Performance, Scalability, and Availability
Zhen Xiao (Peking University)
Malgorzata Steinder (IBM Research)

User Interfaces, Human Factors, and Smart Devices
Cecilia Mascolo (Univ. of Cambridge)
Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia)

Web Mining
Yukata Matsuo (University of Tokyo)
Rajeev Rastogi (Amazon)

Web Search
Junghoo Cho (UCLA)
Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo!)

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Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA 2013)

Call for Papers

Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA)

Sept 30th to Oct 2nd, Karlsruhe, Germany

http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/

https://www.facebook.com/IEEESCA

https://twitter.com/scaconf2013

**** Overview ****

Social computing is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges.

SCA (Social Computing and its Applications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing and its broadly related areas.

**** Scope and Topics of Interest ****

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

    Fundamentals of social computing

    Modelling of social behaviour

    Social network analysis and mining

    Computational models of social simulation

    Web 2.0 and semantic web

    Innovative HCI and touch-screen models

    Modelling of social conventions and social contexts

    Social cognition and social intelligence

    Social media analytics and intelligence

    Broad Data and Social Computing

    Group formation and evolution

    Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts

    Social system design and architectures

    Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology

    Handheld/mobile social computing

    Social Cloud Computing

    Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling

    Service science and service oriented interaction design

    Cultural patterns and representation

    Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process

    Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets

    Connected e-health in social networks

    Social policy and government management

    Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum

    Business social software systems

    Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments

    Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction

    Social computing applications and case studies

**** Important Dates ****

Abstract Submission: May 05th 2013

Paper Submission: May 12th 2013

Author Notification: July 10th 2013

Camera Ready: August 12th 2013

**** Submission Guidelines ****

Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for full conference papers, 6 pages for short / work in progress papers, and 2 pages for posters, including all tables and figures in the IEEE CS format. The template files for LaTeX or Word can be downloaded from http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) as a PDF at the SCA2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2013.

**** Publication ****

Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (Indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.

**** Distinguished Papers ****

Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of high quality SCI indexed international journals: TBA

**** Organization ****

General Chair

    Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK

Steering Committee

    Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair)

    Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Wesley Chu, University of California, USA

    Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China

    Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK

    Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

    Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

    Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia

    V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA

    Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China

    Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

    John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA

    Program Chairs

    Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy

    Georg Groh, Technical University Munich, Germany

    Panayiotis Zaphiris, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Tutorial Chair

    Jasminko Novak, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund / European Institute for Participatory Media, Germany

Workshop Chairs

    Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA

    Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

Publication Chair

    Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Publicity Chair

    Martin Chorley, Cardiff University, UK

Local Organization

    Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (chair)

    Margeret Hall, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

    Wibke Michalk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

**** More Information: Conference Website ****

http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/

https://www.facebook.com/IEEESCA

https://twitter.com/scaconf2013

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Fully funded PhD student positions at the University of Zurich, Switzerland

The Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group is looking for multiple

   Research Doctoral Students

with a keen interest in at least one the the following areas

   - Large-scale Graph Processing
   - Human Computation / HCI
   - Semantic Web / Linked Data
   - Economics of Computing
   - Social Network Analysis

to work on a number of new and existing research projects (including
ViSTA-TV [1], CrowdLang [2], Signal/Collect [3]).

We offer:

   - motivated colleagues [4] who are passionate about research
   - a work environment that is well equipped with the newest
     hardware and software technology
   - a salary according to the standard university regulations
     ( > 45'000 - 57'000 CHF / year; increases with experience)
   - support for your personal development and career planning
   - an attractive work environment both within the research group
     and beyond (Zurich is repeatedly voted the city with the highest
     standard of living in the world)
   - A highly successful PhD program [5] with graduates at top rated
     institutions world-wide

You will be collaborating in a larger research team consisting of the Dynamic
and Distributed Information Systems Group (DDIS; http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/)
headed by Prof. Abraham Bernstein [6], which is part of the Department of
Informatics [7] of the University of Zurich [8]. The group is active in
International and Swiss National research projects and we are looking for
candidates to help us continue these efforts.

You have:

   - a master's degree in informatics, computer science, information
     systems (or an equivalent university study)
   - expertise in database systems, Semantic Web / Linked Data, HCI,
     social network analysis, or econimics
     (note: only expertise in one of the fields is necessary;
      multiple areas is desirable)
   - good programming skills in several languages
   - an interest in applying computer science research to real-world
     problems
   - excellent command of English
   - German is a plus but not required

If you are interested:

Send your application (including CV, final grades, and - if possible -
thesis copy as a PDF or ZIP archive containing PDFs) via e-mail to:

 Prof. Abraham Bernstein, Ph.D.
 Department of Informatics
 University of Zurich, Switzerland
 http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/people/bernstein/
 Email: ddisjobs "at" lists "dot" ifi "dot" uzh "dot" ch

Applications are reviewed on a continuous basis, but please do not submit
later that January 15, 2013.

The University of Zurich is committed to enhancing the number of women in
scientific positions and, therefore, particularly invites women to apply. Women
who are as qualified for the position in question as male applicants will be
given priority.

This add is available in HTML with active links at: http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/jobs.html


Links:

[1] http://vista-tv.eu/
[2] http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/research/CrowdLang.html
[3] http://code.google.com/p/signal-collect/
[4] http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/people.html
[5] http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/teaching/studiengaenge/phd.html
[6] http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/people/bernstein/
[7] http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/
[8] http://www.uzh.ch/

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Special Issue on "Semantic Social Media Dynamics" - IJSWIS

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)

Special Issue on "Semantic Social Media Dynamics"

Guest Editors:

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

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

Important dates:

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

Submission Procedure

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

Summary

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

Topics

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

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

Contacts

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

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

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24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

(HYPERTEXT 2013)

http://ht.acm.org/ht2013/

May 1-3, 2013

Palais des Congrès, Paris, France

Abstract submission: December 13, 2012
Full and Short Paper Submission: December 18, 2012

The ACM Hypertext and Social Media conference is a premium venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. It is concerned with all aspects of modern hypertext research including social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. The ACM Hypertext and Social Media 2013 conference will focus on exploring, studying and shaping relationships between three important dimensions of links in hypertextual systems and the World Wide Web: people, data, and documents.

In 2013, HYPERTEXT is taking place as part of the First ACM European Computing Research Congress (ECRC 2013) which is co-located with the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013).


\___  Conference tracks and track co-chairs  __________

Track 1: Linking people: Social Media
- Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany
- Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California, USA

Track 2: Linking data: semantic data
- Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
- Elena Simperl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Track 3: Linking documents: adaptive hypertext and narrative connections
- Paul de Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- David Millard, Southampton University, UK


\___  Important Dates and Submission  ________________

Abstract deadline: December 13, 2012
Full and short paper submission deadline: December 18, 2012
Notification: January 30, 2013
Camera-ready version due: February 17, 2013

Submission details will be made available at http://ht.acm.org/ht2013/
Submissions will be accepted via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ht2013

\___  Organizing Committee  __________________________

General Chair:
Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany

PC Chair:
Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany

Workshop Chair:
Denis Helic, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Publicity Chair:
Folke Mitzlaff, University of Kassel, Germany

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WWW 2013 - Call for Workshops

WWW 2013 Call for Workshops

WWW 2013 will feature a number of co-located workshops that are intended to provide
a forum for researchers and practitioners in Web technologies to discuss and
exchange positions on current and emergent Web topics. Workshop attendants will
exchange ideas and experiences, establish common ground in research areas or
practical problems, and hopefully identify new opportunities for collaboration and
new directions for future activity. Preference will be given to timely topics that
will favor highly interactive discussions. WWW 2013 will offer logistic support for
the workshops, where registration, catering, room allocation and audio/visual will
be arranged by the conference organizers. The supported workshops will take place on
the 13th and 14th of May 2013, before the main conference, at the conference venue.

A workshop proposal must include :
       • A concise title.
       • The names and affiliations of the organizers; a typical workshop should count no
more than three co-chairs affiliated with different organizations.
       • Proposed duration of the workshop (half or full day.)
       • Preference for a date; but, the proposal must not be conditioned on the workshop
date, since it is likely that some workshops will not get their preferred date
       • A statement of the workshop's objective/goals
       • A statement detailing: Why is the workshop topic important? Why is the workshop
timely? How is it relevant to WWW?
       • A two-paragraph description of the workshop topic and themes.
       • If the workshop was conducted before, where and when was it conducted? (Please
give details on number of attendees, number of submissions, and acceptance ratio.
       • A description of the workshop format – how many papers do you hope to present,
how many invited speakers, type of activities (e.g., short paper presentation,
invited talks, demos, posters, etc.), and an approximate timeline (breaks should be
synchronized with scheduled breaks if possible.)
       • A description of how workshop submissions will be evaluated, and a tentative PC
list (with indication of whether PC members have already been contacted and/or have
expressed interest.)
       • An indication on whether the workshop registration will be open to all interested
registered parties or limited.
       • A short bio of the workshop organizers, including a description of their
qualifications relative to the topic area, and past experience in
organizing/facilitating workshops or research meetings.

Submission:
Workshop proposals should be no more than five pages in length (10pt with reasonable
margins) and must be in PDF written in English.
Workshop proposals should be submitted through EasyChair at :
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2013ws
Inquiries can be sent to: workshops@www2013.org

Important dates:
Workshop submission deadline: Nov 28th, 2012
Acceptance notification:      Dec 21st, 2012
Workshops dates:              May 13th and/or 14th, 2013

In your proposal, be aware that workshop proceedings will normally be published
through the ACM Digital Library, leading to the following tight production
deadlines:
Suggested workshop paper deadlines:      Feb 25th, 2013
Suggested workshop paper notifications:  March 13th, 2013
Workshop paper final copy hard deadline: April 3rd

Workshop chairs:
       • Leslie Carr (University of Southampton, UK)
       • Alberto Laender (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)

To contact the workshop chairs, please email workshops@www2013.org

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Open PostDoc and PhD Position on Web Data Integration at the University of Mannheim, Germany

The Focus Area Web-based Systems (Prof. Christian Bizer) within the Research
Group Data and Web Science at the University of Mannheim is seeking to fill
two full-time positions:
1. PostDoc Researcher – EU Project LOD2
2.Graduate Research Associate / PhD Student – EU Project LOD2


PostDoc Researcher – EU Project LOD2

The researcher is expected to carry out research on Web Data Integration
(Schema Matching, Identity Resolution, Data Quality Assessment and Fusion)
as well as Large-Scale Data Extraction in the context of the EU research
project LOD2. The results of the research work should contribute to the
further development of the LDIF – Linked Data Integration Framework,
WebDataCommons and DBpedia and be integrated into the LOD2 Technology Stack.
The future holder of this position should have a proven academic record in
one or several of the following areas:
• Data Integration
• Data Mining
• Linked Data and Semantic Web Technologies We expect candidates to have a
PhD degree in computer science or a related discipline, have good
programming skills (Java or Scala) and be fluent in English. Experience with
large-scale data processing techniques such as Hadoop is a plus. The
position should ideally be filled in November 2012 and is available until
the end of the LOD2 project in August 2014.


Graduate Research Associate / PhD Student – EU Project LOD2

The graduate research associate is expected to carry out research on Web
Data Integration (Schema Matching, Identity Resolution, Data Quality
Assessment and Fusion) as well as Large-Scale Data Extraction in the context
of the EU research project LOD2. The results of the research work should
contribute to the further development of the LDIF – Linked Data Integration
Framework, WebDataCommons and DBpedia and be integrated into the LOD2
Technology Stack. The graduate research associate is expected to work
towards a PhD degree on a topic connected with the project.
Experience in scientific work as well as knowledge in one or several of the
following areas are of advantage:

• Data Integration
• Data Mining
• Linked Data and Semantic Web Technologies
• Large-scale Data Processing Techniques such as Hadoop
We expect candidates to have a university degree in computer science or a
related discipline, have good programming skills (Java or Scala) and be
fluent in English. The position should ideally be filled in November 2012
and is available until the end of the LOD2 project in August 2014.


How to apply?

The University of Mannheim is an equal-opportunities employer. Preference
will be given to applicants with disabilities provided they have the same
qualifications. The University of Mannheim strives to increase the
proportion of women in research and teaching and we therefore encourage
qualified women to apply.
Please send your application together with the usual documents (curriculum
vitae, information about research and software development experience, list
of publications, copies of certificates) no later than 15th October 2012 as
PDF by email using a subject line starting with [LOD2 Application] to

Prof. Dr. Christian Bizer
Research Group Data and Web Science
Universität Mannheim
chris@informatik.uni-mannheim.de

Further information about the Research Group Data and Web Science is found
at
http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/

Further information about the LOD2 Project is found at
http://lod2.eu/

This job posting is also found at
http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/detail/news/2012/09/26/open-po
stdoc-and-phd-position-on-web-data-integration-in-the-eu-project-lod2/

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PhD candidate position at Stoneroos and Eindhoven University of Technology

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
for combined PhD researcher position at Eindhoven University of Technology and Stoneroos BV.

We offer a 4-year full-time PhD research position in the field of Adaptive
Hypermedia and User Modeling at the department of Computer Science,
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands.
The candidate will be enrolled in FP7 research project EURECA: Enabling
information re-Use by linking clinical REsearch and Care
(http://eurecaproject.eu/) that studies linkage of healthcare information
residing in electronic health record systems with information in clinical
research information systems, such as clinical trials.

The Dutch company Stoneroos BV (http://www.stoneroos.nl/en) is teaming up
with TU/e to contribute to the semantic interoperability and data mining
research aspects in this project in order to design a personalized
information source for patients (and patient groups). Stoneroos is an
innovative company, sprouted from the TV-domain, which focuses on products
like iTV applications, second screen apps, metadata enrichment, etc.,
bringing cutting-edge technologies like semantic Web technology in the area
of personalization to the real world, resulting e.g. in the iFanzy
personalized TV recommender system. TU/e has guided that research in the
past and has extensive experience in data mining and personalization.

RESEARCH PROJECT AND TASK DESCRIPTION
In the EURECA project 18 partners from 8 countries work together to offer
better information to both patients and specialists, using many ICT
techniques such as information system architecture, semantic
interoperability, data mining and knowledge discovery.

The successful candidate will focus on a set of tasks aiming to integrate
state-of-the-art and yet to be invented techniques in personalization, user
modeling, semantic interoperability and data-driven intelligence for
developing personalized/adaptive information services for different groups
of patients and medical professionals.
It is expected that the PhD candidate will be involved in the complete R&D
cycles including theory/framework building, implementation of the software
prototypes, experimentation with real data and evaluations/user studies.

PROFILE
We are looking for highly motivated applicants with a Master degree in
Computer Science or other related disciplines. You are expected to have good
knowledge and at least some experience in one or more of the following
areas:
- Personalization and user modeling,
- Semantic interoperability,
- Data mining, recommender systems, information retrieval.
Successful candidates are expected to posses
- Good analytical and software development skills,
- Good command of spoken and written English,
- Good communication skills and willingness to collaborate with other
researchers and developers having diverse background,
- Experience with writing research papers and technical reports is a plus,
but not mandatory,
- Basic knowledge of medical informatics and clinical research is a plus,
but not mandatory.

CONDITION
Stoneroos is offering a position as researcher and software developer in the
EURECA project. The assignment involves a full-time position for 4 years.
The candidate is expected to prepare and defend a PhD at TU/e within these 4
years.

As researcher/developer you will be staying on average 3 to 4 days a week at
Stoneroos and 1 to 2 days at the TU/e for guidance in the PhD process and
further collaboration with the TU/e researchers, mainly prof. dr. Paul De
Bra, dr. Mykola Pechenizkiy and dr. George Fletcher.

You will also collaborate with researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
and Philips Research taking part in EURECA, and participate in the Dutch
national research school SIKS: School for Information and Knowledge Systems.

APPLICATION
Applications including CV, (link to) master thesis, motivation letter and 2
references for recommendation should be sent by email to
tue.stoneroos@gmail.com.

For more information about the job description, please send inquiries to the
same e-mail address (or one of the corresponding advisors).

The screening process will start immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Candidates must be available to start working in this position at the earliest possible date, but no later than December 1st, 2012.

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22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013) - Preliminary Call for Papers

Preliminary Call for Papers

22nd International World Wide Web Conference

WWW 2013 - May 13-17 - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

http://www2013.org/

For more than two decades, the International World-Wide Web Conference has been the premier venue for researchers, academics, businesses, and standard bodies to come together and discuss latest updates on the state and evolutionary path of the Web. The main conference program of WWW
2013 will have 12 tracks (or themes) for refereed paper presentations and we invite you to submit your cutting-edge, exciting new breakthrough work. In addition to the main conference, WWW 2013 will have a series of co-located workshops, keynote speakers, tutorials, panels, a developers’ track, and a poster and demo session.

The CfP will be updated with more detailed info about individual tracks, their topics and program committee members. The conference web site will be updated regularly and monthly newsletters will keep you current with the latest information.

Important Dates

Main conference paper abstract registration:
Monday, November 19th, 2012 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Main conference full paper submission:
Monday, November 26th, 2012 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)

Paper notifications: Friday, February 8th, 2013

Organization

General chairs: Virgilio Almeida (UFMG), Hartmut Glaser (NIC.br), Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio)

Program chairs: Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Labs), Sue Moon (KAIST)

Tracks and Chairs

Behavioral analysis and personalization
Eugene Agichtein (Emory U), Yoelle Mareek (Yahoo! Labs)

Bridging structured and unstructured data Kevin Chang (UIUC), Peter Mika (Yahoo! Labs)

Content analysis
Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google), (TBA)

Internet monetization and incentives
Vanja Josifovski (Google), David Pennock (MSR NYC)

Search systems and applications
Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Mumbai), Wei-Ying Ma (MSR Asia)

Security, privacy, trust, and abuse
Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS), (TBA)

Semantic web
Steffen Staab (U of Koblenz), (TBA)

Social networks and graph analysis
Sharad Goel (MSR NYC), Wolfgang Nejdl (U of Hannover), Ben Zhao (UCSB)

Software infrastructure and their performance, scalability, and availability Torsten Suel (PI), (TBA)

User interfaces, human factors, and smart devices James Landay (UW), Nuria Oliver (Telefonica R&D)

Web engineering
Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien), Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft),

Web mining
Tanya Berger-Wolf (UIC), Bing Liu (UIC), Kyuseok Shim (SNU)

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Special Issue Co-creation enabled by social web @ Information Systems Management

CFP Special Issue "Co-creation enabled by social web: Opinion mining solutions to information overload"

Information Systems Management

(JCR, IMPACT FACTOR 2010: 1.029)

Internet is now a vehicle to express opinions and share information to a
global community. The Web 2.0 phenomenon made the Web social, initiating an
explosion in the number of users of the Web and in the information
available. In this new scenario, collaboration and co-creation with
customers has emerged through habitual use of Web 2.0, by both companies and
clients alike (Vargo & Lusch, 2004). As a consequence of the endless
opportunities of social web, customers today have powerful tools to express
their opinions and influence in business systems. Armed with new tools and
dissatisfied with available choices, consumers want to interact with firms
and thereby ?co-create?
value (Prahalad & Ramaswamy, 2004)

Co-creation concept was introduced by Prahalad and Ramaswamy in their 2000
Harvard Business Review article, ?Co-Opting Customer Competence?.
These authors later pointed out that co-creation is an extension of the idea
developed by researchers interested in user-driven product innovation.
Co-creation is about joint creation of value by the company and the
customer. Corporation must create an experience environment in which
consumers can have active dialogue and co-construct personalized
experiences. Social web appears to adopt a key role in such environment.

But in spite of the importance of the concept and its endless applications
in business, co-creation enabled by social web faces a major challenge:
information overload. With the Social Web, the number of online reviews in
which people freely express their opinions on a whole variety of topics is
constantly increasingly. Opinion mining refers to a new subarea of
information retrieval and computational linguistics which identify and
extract the opinion and sentiments that a text expresses. It determines
critics? opinions about a given product, book review, etc. which are
expressed in online forums, blogs or comments. Opinions are very important
when someone wants to hear the other?s opinions before making a decision.
Opinion Mining has recently been applied in a wide variety of applications
in Politics, Government and Marketing applications.

The purpose of this special issue is to collect innovative and high-quality
research contributions regarding the role played by Opinion Mining and
Sentiment Analysis technologies in the industry.
This special issue aims to explore the application these technologies in the
product/service development cycle by soliciting original scientific
contributions in the form of theoretical and experimental research and case
studies.

Specifically, we seek original contributions on the following topics:
? Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
? Feature based opinion mining
? Application of Semantic Web technologies to opinion mining
? Opinion mining in product or service reviews
? Applications and case-studies


References
Vargo, S. L., & Lusch, R. F. (2004). Evolving to a new dominant logic for marketing. Journal of Marketing, 68(1), 1-17.
Prahalad, C.K., & Ramaswamy, V. (2004). The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
Prahalad, C.K., & Ramaswamy, V. (2000). Co-opting Customer Competence. Harvard Business Review, Jan/Feb2000, Vol. 78 Issue 1, p79-87.

Submission procedure
Papers submitted must have not been published previously or under
consideration for publication, though they may represent significant
extensions of prior work. Manuscripts should not normally exceed 7500 words
and should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/uism.
Authors will have to select Special Issue Submission as the manuscript type.
Author guidelines are available at ?Information for Authors? at
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1058-0530&linktype=44.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed following the double-blind review
process. The objective is to apply very high standards of acceptance while
ensuring fair, timely and efficient review cycles.

Working schedule
? Submission deadline: September 15th, 2012
? Completion of first round reviews: November 1st, 2012
? Revised papers: December 1st, 2013
? Target of the second (last) round of reviews: February , 28th, 2013
? Target for sending the accepted manuscripts to the publisher: April 1st, 2013
? Publication (tentative): Last quarter of 2013

Special Issue Editors
Rafael Valencia-García, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
http://webs.um.es/valencia/miwiki/doku.php?id=inicio
email: valencia@um.es

Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
http://www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/grupos_investigacion/softlab/RicardoColomoPalacios
email: ricardo.colomo@uc3m.es

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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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Permanent University Positions with Research in Semantic Web @ DERI Galway

At NUI Galway we have two permanent University positions with teaching and research commitments which

will support the research agenda of the Digital Enterprise Institute.

This is an opportunity to work with the largest Semantic Web Research Institute (DERI (http://www.deri.ie) has about 130 people working on the Semantic Web) and be part of a hub for Web Science in a permanent academic University position.
The successful candidates will a full faculty members in the College for Engineering and Informatics with all academic rights and obligations  including PhD student supervision.

Applicants will be expected to possess:
· A PhD in Computer Science/Engineering, Information
Science/Technology or closely related areas.
· Significant experience of University teaching, excellent
communication skills, and a demonstrable commitment to continuous
improvement in all aspects of teaching and learning.
· An international peer-reviewed track record of publications
in relevant journals and internationally-ranked conferences.
· Demonstrated experience of successful graduate student
supervision at PhD level.
· Demonstrated experience of competing successfully for
national and international research funding.
· A clear vision for how their research can contribute to the
achievement of NUI Galway's research priorities in Computer Science
and ICT, specifically Web Science, Linked Data and the Semantic Web.
· Ability and commitment to develop collaborative
relationships with other academic staff in related disciplines in the
pursuit of teaching and research objectives.
· Demonstrated experience in working with industry and strong
commitment to future industrial engagements.

Salary is €55,853 p.a. to €73,288 p.a. for new entrants
(€62,059 p.a. to €81,431 p.a. for people already working in the Irish
public sector).

Closing date for receipt of applications is midnight (local time) on
Thursday, 21st June 2012. It will not be possible to consider
applications received after the closing date. Applications should be
sent to nuigposts@publicjobs.ie

For more details please see:
http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/campaignAdvert/5003.htm

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The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'12)

Final CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'12)

    

December 4-7, 2012, Macau SAR, China

http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012/WI/

A Special Event of the Alan Turing Year (Centenary of Alan Turing's birth) as part of World Intelligence Congress 2012

Turing Keynote Speaker: Edward Feigenbaum
(1994 Turing Award Winner)

Important Dates:
Electronic submission of full papers: June 1, 2012 Workshop paper submission: June 25, 2012 Tutorial proposal submission: July 10, 2012 Notification of paper acceptance: August 1, 2012 Camera-ready of accepted papers: August 31, 2012
Workshops: December 4, 2012
Conference: December 5-7, 2012
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WI'12 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, to increase the cross-fertilization of ideas and explore the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence engineering and Advanced Information Technology on the next generation of Web systems.

Here AI-engineering is a general term that refers to a new area, slightly beyond traditional AI: brain informatics, human level AI, intelligent agents, social network intelligence and classical areas, such as knowledge engineering, knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and data mining are examples.  Advanced Information Technology includes wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, data/knowledge grids, as well as service oriented architecture, cloud computing.

Web Intelligence has been recognized as one of the most important as well as promising direction for scientific research and development in the era of Web and agent intelligence to bring in the next generation Web systems.  The IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT 2012 joint conferences
(WI-IAT'12) will co-locate with AMT'12, BI'12, and ISMIS'12 as a Congress, a Special Event of the Alan Turing Year (Centenary of Alan Turing's birth).  The Congress will have a joint opening, keynotes, reception and banquet.

The topics and areas include, but not limited to:
1) Web Intelligence Foundations
2) World Wide Wisdom Web
3) Web Information Retrieval and Filtering
4) Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
5) Semantics and Ontology Engineering
6) Intelligent Human-Web Interaction
7) Web Mining and Farming
8) Social Networks
9) Ubiquitous Intelligence
10) Web Agents
11) Web Services
12) Web Support Systems
13) Intelligent E-Technology

High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited.  Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format.  The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers (see the Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting).

All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.

Note that WI'2012 will accept ONLY on-line submissions in PDF format. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI.

*** Contact Information ***
Ryan Leang Hou U, University of Macau
Email: ryanlhu@umac.mo

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