The8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2014)

THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA (ICWSM-14)

SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

* Abstracts Due: January 15, 2014 (by 11:59 pm PST)

* Full Papers Due: January 22, 2014 (by 11:59 pm PST)

* Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2014

* Conference: June 1-4, 2014 in Ann Arbor, Michigan

The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) is a forum for researchers in computer science and social science to come together to share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn about cutting-edge research in diverse fields with the common theme of online social media. This overall theme includes research in new perspectives in social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing social media. ICWSM is a singularly fitting venue for research that blends social science and computational approaches to answer important and challenging questions about human social behavior through social media while advancing computational tools for vast and unstructured data.

ICWSM, now in its eighth year, has become one of the premier venues for computational social science, and previous years of ICWSM have featured papers, posters, and demos that draw upon network science, machine learning, computational linguistics, sociology, communication, and political science. The uniqueness of the venue and the quality of submissions have contributed to a fast growth of the conference and a competitive acceptance rate of 20% for full-length research papers published in the proceedings by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 

For ICWSM-14, in addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, posters and invited presentations, the main conference will include a selection of keynote talks from prominent social scientists and technologists. Building on successes in previous years, ICWSM-14 will also hold a day of workshops and tutorials in addition to the main conference.

SUMMARY SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

Full paper format: Full paper submissions to ICWSM are recommended to be 8 pages long, and must be at most 10 pages long, including figures and references. The final camera-ready length (between 8-10 pages) for each full paper in the proceedings will be at the discretion of the program chairs. All papers must follow AAAI formatting guidelines.

Poster and demo paper format: Poster paper submissions to ICWSM must be 4 pages long, including figures and references. Demo paper submissions to ICWSM must be 2 pages long, including figures and references. All papers must be follow AAAI formatting guidelines.

Anonymity: Paper submissions to ICWSM must be anonymized.

Social science track with only abstracts in the proceedings: We will be continuing the “social science” track at ICWSM-14 following its successful debut in 2013. This option is for researchers in social science who wish to submit full papers without publication in the conference proceedings. While papers in this track will not be published, we expect these submissions to describe the same high-quality and complete work as the main track submissions. Papers accepted to this track will be full presentations integrated with the conference, but they will be published only as abstracts in the conference proceedings.

DISCIPLINES

* Computational approaches to social media research including

   * Natural language processing

   * Text / data mining

   * Machine learning

   * Image / multimedia processing

   * Graphics and visualization

   * Distributed computing

   * Graph theory and graphical models

   * Human-computer interaction

* Social science approaches to social media research including

   * Psychology

   * Sociology and social network analysis

   * Communication

   * Political science

   * Economics

   * Anthropology

   * Media studies and journalism 

* Interdisciplinary approaches to social media research combining computational algorithms and social science methodologies

TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA include

* Weblogs (posts, comments, and/or social shares)

* Social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn)

* Microblogs (e.g., Twitter, Tumblr)

* Wiki-based knowledge sharing sites (e.g., Wikipedia)

* Social news sites and websites of news media (e.g., Huffington Post) 

* Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups

* Community media sites (e.g., YouTube, Flickr, Instagram)

* Social Q & A sites (e.g., Quora, Yahoo Answers)

* User reviews (e.g., Yelp, Amazon.com)

* Social curation sites (e.g., Reddit, Pinterest)

* Location-based social networks (e.g., Foursquare)

TOPICS INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO)

* Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media

* Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media

* Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media

* Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors

* Ranking/relevance of blogs and microblogs; web page ranking based on weblogs 

* Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery

* Collaborative filtering

* Trust; reputation; recommendation systems

* Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization

* Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction, linguistic analyses of social media behavior

* Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification

* Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting

* Measuring predictability of real world phenomena based on social media, e.g., spanning politics, finance, and health

* New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques

* Social innovation and effecting change through social media

* Social media usage on mobile devices; location, human mobility, and behavior

* Organizational and group behavior mediated by social media; interpersonal communication mediated by social media

* Studies of digital humanities (culture, history, arts) using social media

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

http://icwsm.org/2014/

General Co-Chairs

Eytan Adar, University of Michigan

Paul Resnick, University of Michigan

PROGRAM Co-Chairs

Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft Research

Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute

Alice Oh, KAIST

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First International Workshop on Media fragment creation and reMIXing (MMIX'13) @ IEEE ICME 2013

Call for papers
1st International Workshop on Media fragment creation and reMIXing (MMIX'13)

at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2013), San Jose, California, USA, July 15-19, 2013

http://mediamixer.eu/event/mmix2013/

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop Paper Submission: March 7, 2013 Notification of Workshop Paper
Acceptance: April 15, 2013 Camera-Ready Paper Due: April 30, 2013

TOPICS OF INTEREST

While technologies for the manipulation of complete videos have been
well-studied and are already used in relevant applications, e.g. in stock
footage portals, media libraries or TV archives, where entire videos may be
found and also purchased for re-use in new media production situations,
these applications and markets do not permit the easy purchase or sale of
smaller fragments of multimedia content. Making possible the latter would
have significant benefits for both the creators and the potentials consumers
of the content, most notably in terms of lowering the cost associated with
re-using and re-mixing existing pieces of multimedia content towards
creating new multimedia experiences. Besides benefits, though, the
manipulation of multimedia content at such a finer granularity level also
presents significant challenges, both purely technological (e.g. with
respect to the automatic creation of meaningful media fragments, or the
extraction of information that can describe such fragments and make them easily searchable) and more application-oriented ones (e.g. with respect to the required user interfaces, the use cases and
even the business models associated with the re-use and re-mixing of media
fragments).

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the
different fields that contribute to the development of technologies and
applications for media fragment creation and remixing, with emphasis both on
the presentation of new supporting technologies for the creation and
understanding of media fragments (e.g. video decomposition at different
granularity levels; extraction of concepts, events, or textual descriptions
that capture the meaning of specific media fragments) and on novel
applications of such technologies for media fragment re-use and re- mixing
in various domains, such as the traditional media industry, the news
industry, video blogging and social media applications, and others.

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

- Multimedia fragmentation techniques
- Concept detection from media fragments
- Event detection from media fragments
- Event recounting and textual description of media fragments
- Media fragment description
- Media fragment search and retrieval
- Media fragments in the social Web
- User interfaces for media fragment manipulation
- Novel media fragment re-use and remixing results with commercial
application

We encourage researchers from industry and academia to submit original
works. Submitted manuscripts should be no longer than 6 pages, including all
text, figures, and references. They must be formatted in standard IEEE
camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font, letter (8.5?11-inch) paper)
and must be submitted as PDF files. Please note that reviewing is double
blind. Further information for prospective authors (including Latex/Word
templates and detailed instructions for preserving the anonymity of the
submissions – same as those for the ICME main track submissions) can be
found on the ICME web page, http://www.icme2013.org.

Workshop organizers:
- Benoit Huet, Eurecom, France
- Vasileios Mezaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
(CERTH-ITI), Greece
- Lyndon Nixon, STI International, Austria

For further information please visit: http://mediamixer.eu/event/mmix2013/

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International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications

SIGMAP website: http://www.sigmap.icete.org/

July 29 - 31, 2013

Reykjavík, Iceland

Co-organized by: RU
Sponsored by: INSTICC
INSTICC is Member of: WfMC


IMPORTANT DATES:
Regular Paper Submission: February 22, 2013
Authors Notification (regular papers): May 6, 2013
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: May 20, 2013

The purpose of SIGMAP 2013, the International Conference on Signal
Processing and Multimedia Applications, is to bring together researchers,
engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and
applications in the context of Signal Processing, including theory and
practice in the field of telecommunications, image, video, audio,
biometrics, etc., and Multimedia Applications related to representation,
storage, authentication and communication of multimedia information.
The signal processing field, when combined with multimedia information
encompasses a large number of research topics and emerging applications.

We would like to highlight the presence of the following keynote speakers:
- Laurence T. Yang, St FrancisXavier University, Canada
- Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France

SIGMAP is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be
confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 75 submissions, 5% were
accepted as full papers. Additionally, 28% were presented as short papers
and 17% as posters.

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All
accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an
ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and
extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a
CCIS Series book

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier
Index).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).

Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session.
Please check the website for further information
(http://www.sigmap.icete.org/BestPaperAward.aspx).


Workshops, Special sessions, Tutorials as well as Demonstrations dedicated
to other technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies
interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers
interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference
secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from
logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and
financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.

SIGMAP 2013 will be held in conjunction with DATA 2013
(http://www.dataconference.org/), ICSOFT 2013 (http://www.icsoft.org/) and
SIMULTECH 2013 (http://www.simultech.org/) in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Registration to SIGMAP will enable free attendance to any sessions of DATA,
ICSOFT and SIMULTECH conferences as a non-speaker.

We hope to welcome you in Reykjavík, Iceland next July, 2013!
Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me.

ICETE Conference Chair
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, United States


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Enrique Cabello, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Maria Virvou, University
of Piraeus, Greece

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Please check the program committee members at
http://www.sigmap.icete.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx


CONFERENCE TRACKS:

Area 1: Multimedia and Communications

- MPEG Standards and related issues
- Digital Audio and Video Broadcasting
- Architecture and Protocols
- Interactive Multimedia: Games and Digital Television
- Mobile Multimedia (GSM, GPRS, RF, Wi-Fi,.)
- Multimedia Devices
- Multimedia Security and Cryptography
- Performance Measurement and Evaluation, QoS.


Area 2: Multimedia Signal Processing

- Multidimensional Signal Processing
- Multimodal Signal Processing
- Biometrics and Pattern Recognition
- Education in Signal Processing
- Image and Video Processing, Compression and Segmentation
- Neural Networks, Spiking Systems, Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic
- Perceptual/Human Audiovisual System Modeling
- Sensors and Multimedia


Area 3: Multimedia Systems and Applications

- Authentication and Watermarking
- Distributed Multimedia Systems
- Audio and Video Quality Assessment
- Multimedia Databases, Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval
- E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications
- Human-Machine Interface
- Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
- Multimedia Authoring, Editing and Sharing
- Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data
- 3D Virtual Environments and Surveillance Applications
- Biomedical Applications
- Location Based Applications

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The 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM 2013)

The 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia

http://www.acmmm13.org

October 21-25, 2013 Barcelona, Spain.

Since the founding of ACM SIGMM in 1993, ACM Multimedia has been the worldwide premier conference and a key world event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products in the multimedia field. At ACM Multimedia 2013, we will celebrate its twenty-first iteration with an extensive program consisting of technical sessions covering all aspects of the multimedia field in forms of oral and poster presentations, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations and workshops, bringing into focus the principal subjects of investigation, competitions of research teams on challenging problems, and also an interactive art program stimulating artists and computer scientists to meet and discover together the frontiers of artistic communication

UPCOMING DEADLINES

* Abstracts for Papers Due: March 1, 2013

* Full/short Papers Due: March 8, 2013 http://acmmm13.org/submissions/call-for-papers/

* Workshop Proposals Due: January 9, 2013 http://www.icwsm.org/2013/submitting/workshops/

* Tutorials Due: January 15, 2013 http://www.icwsm.org/2013/submitting/tutorials/

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Full paper format: Full paper submissions to ACM MM '13 are recommended to be 10 pages long at maximum, including figures and citations. The final camera-ready length for each full paper in the proceedings will be at the discretion of the program chairs. All papers must follow the ACM formatting guidelines.

Anonymity: Paper submissions to ACM MM '13 must be anonymized.

TOPIC AREAS

* Art, Entertainment, and Culture

* Authoring and Collaboration

* Crowdsourcing

* Media Transport and Delivery

* Mobile & Multi-device

* Multi-media Analysis

* Multimedia HCI

* Music & Audio

* Search, Browsing, and Discovery

* Security and Forensics

* Social Media & Presence

* Systems and Middleware

ORGANISATION

General Chairs

Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes, Yahoo!, Spain

Nicu Sebe, Univ. of Trento, Italy

Nozha Boujema, INRIA, France

Program Co-Chairs

Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP & EPFL, CH

David A. Shamma, Yahoo!, US

Marcel Worring, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Roger Zimmermann, Natl. Univ. of Singapore, SG

Author's Advocate

Pablo Cesar (CWI, The Netherlands)

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