Deadline Extension - 5th International Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol 2014) at PerCom 2014

5th International Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking - PerCol 2014

March 24 or March 28 (TBD), 2014
Budapest, Hungary 
http://percol.inf.tu-dresden.de

Paper deadline: November 25, 2013 (extended)

in association with IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication - PerCom 2014

OVERVIEW

The 5th workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol) addresses the research field at the intersection of pervasive computing and social computing. We are interested in various types of human-to-human interaction with pervasive devices like mobile social networking, crowdsourcing, collaborative apps, location-based games or interaction with public displays. While this is an application-driven research field, we also welcome research on the foundations of Pervasive Social Computing like middleware and development methods, rich presence, pervasive social context, social signal processing and robust and energy-efficient communication in the pervasive scenario.

TOPICS

Topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not limited to):
-    Mobile and pervasive social networking
-    Activity streams in a pervasive and distributed setting
-    Social and pervasive context
-    Interaction with public displays and/or smart items
-    Novel types of collaboration based on online social networks
-    Crowdsourcing
-    The role of location and proximity for social applications
-    Using sensor information beyond location
-    Real-life use case experiences (e.g., pervasive health care)
-    Location-based and other pervasive games
-    Frameworks, middleware and development methods for pervasive social applications
-    Application and service interoperability issues
-    Social pervasive content sharing and media distribution
-    Pervasive presence and awareness
-    Energy efficient and mobile enabled protocols

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to the workshop topics of pervasive collaboration and social networking. All papers should be in the IEEE format. Papers should be no more than 6 pages in length. All papers will be managed electronically through EDAS. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the PerCom 2014 Workshops proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers due by:            November 25, 2013 (extended)
Paper selections due by:  December 21, 2013
Final papers due to IEEE: January 24, 2014

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Daniel Schuster, TU Dresden, Germany
Thomas Springer, TU Dresden, Germany
Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alberto Rosi, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Antonio Alfredo Loureiro, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Dries Harnie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Hyggo Oliveira de Almeida, UF Campina Grande, Brazil
Li Fei, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Licia Capra, UC London, United Kingdom
Luca Foschini, Università di Bologna, Italy
Marco Mamei, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research, Australia
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Stephan Lukosch, TU Delft, Netherlands
Ville Antila, VTT Technical Research Centre Oulu, Finland

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The 8th FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE-14)

MUE-14 (Zhangjiajie, China, May, 2014) Call for Papers (Springer-LNEE Proceedings)

The 8th FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE-14)

http://www.ftrai.org/mue2014

Zhangjiajie, China, May 29-31, 2014

Published by Springer-LNEE (indexed by EI and SCOPUS)

The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in increasingly effective ways, contributing to the multimedia revolution and having a significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, education, and governmental domains.

This conference provides an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of multimedia and ubiquitous environment including models and systems, new directions, novel applications associated with the utilization and acceptance of ubiquitous computing devices and systems.

The goals of this conference are to provide a complete coverage of the areas outlined and to bring together the researchers from academic and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, challenges, and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of this field.

MUE-14 is the next event in a series of highly successful the International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, MUE-13 (Seoul, Korea, May 2013), MUE-12 (Madrid, Spain, July 2012), MUE-11 (Loutraki, Greece, June 2011), MUE-10 (Cebu, Philippines, August 2010), MUE-09 (Qingdao, China, June 2009), MUE-08 (Busan, Korea, April 2008), and MUE-07 (Seoul, Korea, April 2007).

Topics
We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:
1. Multimedia Modeling and Processing
- Media Representation and Algorithms
- Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression
- Computer Graphics and Simulation
- Image and Signal Processing
- Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Multimedia Indexing
- Multimedia network transmission/streaming
- Multimedia Standards and Related Issues
- Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport
- Current Challenges in Multimedia

2. Multimedia and Digital Convergence
- Home Entertainment Devices
- 3D Video, Recording, Storage, Compression, Transcoding
- Cooperative Driving and Associated Automotive Technologies
- Advances and Challenges in HD Device Interconnects
- Green-Home Consumer Electronics Technologies
- Gesture and Expression Recognition
- Smart Grid
- Power Line Communication
- Robot control, Mobile robotics
- Consumer Electronics (CE) device platform
- CE operating system
- CE device driver/firmware

3. Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
- Ubiquitous Computing and Technology
- Context-Aware Ubiquitous Computing
- Physical model of UI & SW
- Ubiquitous database methodologies
- Embedded systems and softwares
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Human centric computing
- High-performance computing and simulation and modeling
- Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems
- Context modeling and reasoning
- Adaptive and context-aware computing
- Smart object
- Multimodal sensing
- Intelligent platforms
- Internet of Things
- Parallel/Distributed system
- Grid and cloud computing
- Novel Machine Architectures

4. Ubiquitous Networks and Mobile Communications
- Tiny Operating systems and Middleware supports
- Peer to Peer Network
- Machine-to-Machine Communications
- Mobile system performance
- Wireless communications
- Wirless Sensor Network
- Wireless Body Area Network
- Internet access and mobility
- Trustworthy Internet and communications
- Mobile data management and processing
- Cross-Layer Design and Optimization
- Algorithms and protocols for cognitive wireless networks
- Ad hoc and sensor network
- Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks and Vehicular Technology
- WiMax / Wi-Fi, UWB, Bluetooth Technology
- Mobility Management
- Smartphone and mobile devices
- Social networks and computing

5. Intelligent Computing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Pattern and Speech Recognition
- Fuzzy logic and soft computing
- Neural networks and applications
- Expert systems
- Decision support systems
- Automated problem solving
- Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid
- Knowledge discovery and representation
- Knowledge acquisition
- Intelligent web-based business
- Intelligent agents and user interface
- Intelligent information fusion

6. Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing Security
- Key Management and Authentication
- Authorization and Access Control
- Privacy and Trust Management
- Sensor Networks and RFID Security
- Security in Ubiquitous Databases
- Multimedia Information Security
- Intellectual Property & Licensing
- Digital Right Management
- CAS/STB Security
- Digital Forensics
- Watermarking
- Security in Commerce and Industry

7. Multimedia and Ubiquitous Services
- Multimedia RDBMS Platforms
- Multimedia in Telemedicine
- Multimedia Embedded Systems
- Multimedia standards
- Mobile Multimedia system and services
- U-City and U-Town
- Smart highway
- Smart work
- Intelligent Transport Systems
- Location Based System
- Telematics
- Virtual Reality and Game Technology
- Mobile Gaming and entertainment
- Location Based Services
- Ambient Intelligence
- Smart Home/building/spaces
- Green IT services
- Semantic Web and Grid Services
- Smart-Camera and Multi-View Systems
- Surveillance System
- Entertainment Industry for MUE
- Ubiquitous Database Methodologies
- U/E Healthcare services
- U/E-Commerce and Education

8. Multimedia Entertainment
- Music and Movie Distribution
- QoS and Security Support for Entertainment
- 3D TV for Entertainment
- Computer Animation
- Technology for Entertainment
- Agent-based Entertainment
- Interactive Television and Theatre
- Massive Multiplayer Games
- Mobile and Wireless Entertainment
- Digital Interactive Storytelling
- Pervasive Entertainment
- Personalized and User-Adapted Television
- Sport, News and Entertainment
- Wearable Entertainment
- Wireless and Mobile Gaming
- Digital Entertainment and Sports
- Digital Entertainment and Pleasure
- Games for Special Audiences
- Human Computation Games

9. Other IT and Multimedia Applications

**Call for Workshop Proposals**
In conjunction with MUE-14, we will organize some workshops.

The workshop proposals should be submitted to the Leading Workshop Chair - Prof. Namje Park (namjepark@jejunu.ac.kr) or

FTRA Conference Manager - David Kang (ftraconf.manager@gmail.com) by
**Oct. 1st, 2013**.

Several workshops will be held in conjunction with MUE-14 with the aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists, engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on hot topics on Future Information Technology.

Workshops for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on implementations of systems and services are very welcome.

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer (indexed by EI and SCOPUS).

In general, a workshop takes one day, although multiple-days and half-day workshops are welcome.

The workshop proposal should include following information:

1. Title of the workshop: International Workshop on ...
2. Workshop Organizers(s): name, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail.
3. Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words)
4. Expected number of papers to be submitted
5. Call for paper of the workshop (draft version - 1 page CFP MS Word version)
6. Tentative list of program committee members (Name, affiliation, country, email address)
7. Your workshop web address (Tentative)

Financial Support for Workshop Organizer:

We will provide workshop organizers to some honorariums for their contribution (at least 6 registed papers).

Organization

Steering Chair
James J. Park, SeoulTech, Korea

General Chairs
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Timothy K. Shih, National Central University, Taiwan
Doo-soon Park, SoonChunHyang University, Korea
Qingguo Zhou, Lanzhou University, China

Program Chairs
Joon-Min Gil, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea
Neil Y. Yen, The University of Aizu, Japan
Shingchern You, National Taipei Universiy of Technology, Taiwan

Workshop Chairs
Namje Park, Jeju National University, Korea Shijian Li, Zhejiang University, China
Michele Ruta, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Vincent Huang, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Chengcui Zhang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Ka Lok Man, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

International Advisiory Committee
Young-Sik Jeong, Dongguk University, Korea (Leading Chair) Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan
Seok Cheon Park, Gachon University, Korea
Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan
Weijia Jia, City U. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Bin Hu, Lanzhou University, China
Yi Pan, Georgia State University USA
Koji Nakano, University of Hiroshima, Japan
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
Martin Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea

Publicity Chairs
Kehua Guo, CSU, China Mohamed Gaber, University of Portsmouth, UK
Jason C. Hung, Oversea Chinese University, Taiwan
Ryan Leong Hou U, Universidade De Macau, China
Chengjiu Yin, Kyushu University, Japan
Jian-Lian Chen, Aletheia University, Taiwan
Junbo Wang, University of Aizu, Japan
Bong-Hwa Hong, Kyung Hee Cyber University, Korea
Nan-Chen Hsieh, National Taipei University and Health Sciences, Taiwan
Deok-Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea
Young-Ae Jeong, Sunmoon University, Korea

Publication Chair
Hwa Young Jeong, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Local Arrangement Chairs
Kehua Guo, CSU, China Ryan Leong Hou U, Universidade De Macau, China

== Program Committee ==

- See http://www.ftrai.org/mue2014/programcommittees.html

Important Dates
Workshop Proposal Submission Due: October 1, 2013
Paper Submission Due: September 15, 2013
Accept Notification: November 15, 2013
Camera-ready paper Due: December 15, 2013
Registration Due: December 15, 2013
Conference/Workshop Dates: May 29-31, 2014

Submission and Publication

There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers. Prospective authors are invited, in the first instance, to submit papers for oral presentations in any of the areas of interest for this conference. Authors should submit a paper with 5~6 pages at both two types in length, including all figures, tables, and references. If you want to submit more than page limitation, you can add up to 2 extra pages with the appropriate fee payment.

Papers must strictly adhere to page limits as follows.

* Regular Paper: 6 pages (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost : by 8 pages)
* Cyber Presentation Paper: 5 page (Max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost : by 7 pages)

Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.

Please use the Springer Proceedings format for submission. Template is available here: Manuscript Templates
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings as one of Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) series published by Springer (indexed by EI & SCOPUS).

Type 1. Regular Paper Submission : http://www.editorialsystem.net/mue2014

Type 2. Cyber presentation paper submission : http://www.editorialsystem.net/mue2014cyber

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings as one  of Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) series published by Springer (indexed by EI & SCOPUS).

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in MUE 2014, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following international journals: (Pending)

The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) - Springer (SCIE)
Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer
International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA

Venue
Travel Information
Please refer following Information:
* Zhangjiajie Municipal Government: http://english.zhangjiajie.gov.cn/m.php?name=travel
* Toptrip travel: http://english.zhangjiajie.com/

Contact Information
If you have any questions about the CFPs and papers submission, please email to Profs. James Park (parkjonghyuk1@hotmail.com) or Neil Yen (neil219@gmail.com).



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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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Special Issue on Ubiquitous User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction - UMUAI

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue on Ubiquitous User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI)

  *** Extended abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2013

  *** Paper submission deadline (for accepted abstracts): July 15, 2012 UMUAI 

Web site: http://www.umuai.org/

SCOPE
As ubiquitous and pervasive computing becomes a reality, there is both the opportunity and need to create a solid foundation for personalization research in this area. Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) and Pervasive Computing are now synonymous for many, and represent a new model of computing in which computation is everywhere and computer functions are integrated into everything. For UbiComp, Weiser postulated that ``It will be built into the basic objects, environments, and the activities of our everyday lives in such a way that no one will notice its presence''. Such a model of computation will “weave itself into the fabric of our lives, until it is indistinguishable from it”. Everyday objects will be places for sensing, input, processing along with user output (Greenfield, 2006). In practice, this means the ubiquitous availability of many computing devices that are carried or embedded in our homes, cars, offices, in walls and tables, or worn as part of smart clothing. To realise this, we need to provide personalized services to users, individuals as well as groups, wherever they are and whenever they need it. Notably, UbiComp introduces the potential for context-aware personalisation. Context includes information from the person (physiological state), the sensed environment (environmental state), and computational environment (computational state) that can be provided to alter an applications behaviour.

Ubiquitous and Pervasive User Modelling (UPUM) has a key role to play in the visions for personalisation that are central to ubiquitous and pervasive computing. The large amounts of personal data that are increasingly being captured across each individual’s personal digital ecosystem have the potential to contribute to a user model, which, in turn, can drive personalised services. The multi-faceted challenges of achieving this have been recognised as critical for the progress towards ubiquity and pervasiveness. For example, Caceres and Friday, in reflecting on 20 years of research, point to the importance of dealing with issues such as pervasive ubiquitous data, support for users to control their own data and the personalisation based on it, particularly in terms of privacy, but also in ensuring people control their own smart environments.

Rapid technological changes, such as widespread smarter and cheaper devices providing personal sensing and services, has brought important progress in the field of UPUM. Many of these changes have occurred over the past seven years, since the previous UMUAI special issue on user modeling in UbiComp. It makes this a timely opportunity to call for an update of the state of the art in the field. Such updates can provide a critical review of what was central research then and is now on the periphery, or what new challenges and gaps have emerged or remained present. Overall, this issue will focus on the scientific challenges of ubiquitous user modelling in today’s dynamic environments.

This UMUAI special issue builds on recent activities in this area and is designed to solicit papers that report on recent significant advances, carry out innovative explorations, and establish foundations for further research. It interprets the notion of context broadly, as any additional conditions and circumstances beyond user profile and item content information that may affect user preferences for items.  It is intended to reflect the changes in the domain in the past seven years (since the previous special issue) and therefore, a wide range of topics are included. Those topics include (but are not limited to):

* Infrastructure for Ubiquitous User Modelling
* Information storage for easy access and reasoning
* Information fusion from multiple sources
* Standardization in user modeling
* Privacy as an infrastructure component
* Communicating user modeling data
 * Between user models and environments
 * Between applications
 * Back to the user model
* User model architectures
 * Distributed, in the cloud
 * Local
 * Synchronization of user models (connected/disconnected modes)
* Lifelong Ubiquitous User Modelling
* Storing personal information
-- Application domains for Lifelong Ubiquitous User Modelling
 * How to deal with current versus historical data
* Reasoning and abstraction of personal information
* Remembering and forgetting personal information
* Application domains for Lifelong Ubiquitous User Modelling
* Cultural Heritage
* Mobile recommenders
* Mobile learning
* Ubiquitous User Modelling with Situated Public Displays
* Health and Wellness
* Privacy aspects of Ubiquitous User Modeling
* Representing the user’s privacy policy
* Keeping the user in control and aware
* User control and intelligibility in Ubiquitous User Modeling

PAPER SUBMISSION & REVIEW PROCESS
The prospective authors must first submit an extended abstract of no more than 4 single-spaced pages, formatted with 12 pt font and 1 inch margins, by email directly to the special issue editors by *** March 1, 2013 ***.
All submitted abstracts will receive an initial screening by the special issue editors.  Authors of abstracts will be notified about the results of the initial screening by *** March 15, 2013 ***.  Abstracts that do not pass this initial screening (i.e., the abstracts that are deemed not to have a reasonable chance of acceptance) will not be considered further.
Authors of abstracts that pass the initial screening will be invited to submit the full version of their paper by *** July 15, 2013 ***.  Authors will be given initial feedback by the editors by ***August 15, 2013*** with suggestions about possible improvements to their papers. The formatting guidelines and submission instructions for full papers can be found at http://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html.  The special issue papers should not exceed 40 pages in journal format.  Each paper submission should note that it is intended for the Special Issue on Ubiquitous User Modeling and be submitted via email to the address mentioned in the submission instructions above (submission@umuai.org).

The further tentative timeline for the special issue is as follows:
* September 15, 2013                         Initial feedback from the editors with suggestions for improvements
* October 15, 2013:                            Submission deadline for improved versions
* November 15, 2013                         Notification to authors
* January 15, 2014:                             Revisions of papers due
* March 15, 2014:                               Final notifications due
* April  15, 2014:                                Camera ready papers due
* June 1, 2014:                                    Publication of special issue

GUEST EDITORS:
Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia
Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel
Aaron Quigley, University of St Andrews, UK

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Deadline Extension: The 7th FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2013)

MUE-13 Call for Papers (Springer-LNEE Proceedings)

The 7th FTRA International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2013)

http://www.ftrai.org/mue2013 (Pending)

Seoul, Korea, May 9-11, 2013

Important Dates

Workshop Proposal Due        Oct. 30, 2012

Paper Submission Due         Nov. 20, 2012

Acceptance Notification      Dec. 15, 2012

Camera-ready paper Due        Jan. 1,   2012   

Registration Due        Jan. 15,  2013

Conference/Workshop Dates    May 9-11, 2013

Published by Springer-LNEE (indexed by EI and SCOPUS)

The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless
integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks,
transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These
key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each
other in increasingly effective ways, contributing to the multimedia
revolution and having a significant impact across a wide spectrum of
consumer, business, healthcare, education, and governmental domains.

This conference provides an opportunity for academic and industry
professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of multimedia and
ubiquitous environment including models and systems, new directions, novel
applications associated with the utilization and acceptance of ubiquitous
computing devices and systems.

The goals of this conference are to provide a complete coverage of the areas
outlined and to bring together the researchers from academic and industry as
well as practitioners to share ideas, challenges, and solutions relating to
the multifaceted aspects of this field.

MUE-13 is the next event in a series of highly successful the International
Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering,
MUE-12 (Madrid, Spain, July 2012), MUE-11 (Loutraki, Greece, June 2011),
MUE-10 (Cebu, Philippines, August 2010), MUE-09 (Qingdao, China, June 2009),
MUE-08 (Busan, Korea, April 2008), and MUE-07 (Seoul, Korea, April 2007).

--------------------
Topics
--------------------
We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the
following topics:


1. Multimedia Modeling and Processing
- Media Representation and Algorithms
- Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression
- Computer Graphics and Simulation
- Image and Signal Processing
- Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Multimedia Indexing
- Multimedia network transmission/streaming
- Multimedia Standards and Related Issues
- Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport
- Current Challenges in Multimedia



2. Multimedia and Digital Convergence
- Home Entertainment Devices
- 3D Video, Recording, Storage, Compression, Transcoding
- Cooperative Driving and Associated Automotive Technologies
- Advances and Challenges in HD Device Interconnects
- Green-Home Consumer Electronics Technologies
- Gesture and Expression Recognition
- Smart Grid
- Power Line Communication
- Robot control, Mobile robotics
- Consumer Electronics (CE) device platform
- CE operating system
- CE device driver/firmware


3. Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
- Ubiquitous Computing and Technology
- Context-Aware Ubiquitous Computing
- Physical model of UI & SW
- Ubiquitous database methodologies
- Embedded systems and softwares
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Human centric computing
- High-performance computing and simulation and modeling
- Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems
- Context modeling and reasoning
- Adaptive and context-aware computing
- Smart object
- Multimodal sensing
- Intelligent platforms
- Internet of Things
- Parallel/Distributed system
- Grid and cloud computing
- Novel Machine Architectures


4. Ubiquitous Networks and Mobile Communications
- Tiny Operating systems and Middleware supports
- Peer to Peer Network
- Machine-to-Machine Communications
- Mobile system performance
- Wireless communications
- Wirless Sensor Network
- Wireless Body Area Network
- Internet access and mobility
- Trustworthy Internet and communications
- Mobile data management and processing
- Cross-Layer Design and Optimization
- Algorithms and protocols for cognitive wireless networks
- Ad hoc and sensor network
- Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks and Vehicular Technology
- WiMax / Wi-Fi, UWB, Bluetooth Technology
- Mobility Management
- Smartphone and mobile devices
- Social networks and computing


5. Intelligent Computing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Pattern and Speech Recognition
- Fuzzy logic and soft computing
- Neural networks and applications
- Expert systems
- Decision support systems
- Automated problem solving
- Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid
- Knowledge discovery and representation
- Knowledge acquisition
- Intelligent web-based business
- Intelligent agents and user interface
- Intelligent information fusion


6. Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing Security
- Key Management and Authentication
- Authorization and Access Control
- Privacy and Trust Management
- Sensor Networks and RFID Security
- Security in Ubiquitous Databases
- Multimedia Information Security
- Intellectual Property & Licensing
- Digital Right Management
- CAS/STB Security
- Digital Forensics
- Watermarking
- Security in Commerce and Industry


7. Multimedia and Ubiquitous Services
- Multimedia RDBMS Platforms
- Multimedia in Telemedicine
- Multimedia Embedded Systems
- Multimedia standards
- Mobile Multimedia system and services
- Virtual Reality and Game Technology
- Mobile Gaming and entertainment
- Location Based Services
- Ambient Intelligence
- Smart Home/building/spaces
- Green IT services
- Semantic Web and Grid Services
- Smart-Camera and Multi-View Systems
- Surveillance System
- Entertainment Industry for MUE
- Ubiquitous Database Methodologies
- U/E Healthcare services
- U/E-Commerce and Education


8. Other IT and Multimedia Applications



============================================================================
====================
**Call for Workshop Proposals**

In conjunction with MUE-13, we will organize some workshops.
The workshop proposals should be submitted to the Leading Workshop Chair,
Dr. Young-Gab Kim (always@korea.ac.kr), by **Oct. 30, 2012**.

Several workshops will be held in conjunction with MUE-13 with the aim to
explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists,
engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new
ideas, and research results on hot topics on Future Information Technology.
Workshops for presenting papers from industrial companies and papers on
implementations of systems and services are very welcome.
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published
by Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) - Springer (indexed by EI
and SCOPUS).
In general, a workshop takes one day, although multiple-days and half-day
workshops are welcome.

The workshop proposal should include following information:

1. Title of the workshop: International Workshop on ...
2. Workshop Organizers(s): name, affiliation, address, phone and fax
numbers, e-mail.
3. Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words)
4. Expected number of papers to be submitted
5. Call for paper of the workshop (draft version - 1 page CFP MS Word
version)
6. Tentative list of program committee members (Name, affiliation, country,
email address)
7. Your workshop web address (Tentative)

Financial Support for Workshop Organizer:
We will provide workshop organizers to some honorariums for their
contribution (at least 6 registed papers).


**Important Dates **
Workshop Proposal Submission Due Oct. 30, 2012
Workshop Acceptance Notification Dec. 15, 2012
Camera-ready paper Due Jan. 1, 2012
Registration Due Jan. 15, 2013
Conference/Workshop Dates May 9-11, 2013

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Organization
------------------
== Organizing Committee ==

Honorary Chairs
---------------
Kim Bum-il, Mayor of Daegu Metropolitan City, Korea
Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan


Steering Chairs
-----------------
James J. Park, SeoulTech, Korea (Founder)
Martin Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea


General Chairs
----------------
Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea (Leading Chair)
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Joseph Kee-Yin Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
C.S. Raghavendra, University of Southern California, USA


Program Chairs
----------------
Sang Oh Park, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information(KISTI),
Korea (Leading Chair)
Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM),
MALAYSIA
SangHyun Seo, University of Lyon 1, CNRS-LIRIS, France


Workshop Chairs
----------------
Young-Gab Kim, Korea University, Korea (Leading Chair)
Lei Ye, University of Wollongong, Australia
Hiroaki Nishino, Oita University, Japan
Neil Y. Yen, The University of Aizu, Japan

Keynote Speakers
----------------------------------
Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan


International Advisiory Committee
-----------------------------------
Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan
Hai Jin, HUST, China
Weijia Jia, City U. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Bin Hu, Lanzhou University, China
Yi Pan, Georgia State University USA
Doo-soon Park, SoonChunHyang University, Korea
Richard P. Brent, Australian National University, Australia
Koji Nakano, University of Hiroshima, Japan
J. Daniel Garcia, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
Kyung-Hyune Rhee, Pukyong National University, Korea


Publicity Chairs
----------------------
Won-Joo Hwang, Inje University, Korea
Chengcui Zhang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Michele Ruta, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada
Junaid Chaudhry, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia


Local Arrangement Chairs
------------------------
Kim Hyunsung, Kyungil University, Korea
Eun-Jun Yoon, Kyungil University, Korea



== Program Committee ==
- See http://www.ftrai.org/mue2013/programcommittees.html



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Important Dates
--------------------
Workshop Proposal Due Oct. 30, 2012
Paper Submission Due Oct. 30, 2012
Accept Notification Dec. 15, 2012
Camera-ready paper Due Jan. 1, 2012
Registration Due Jan. 15, 2013
Conference/Workshop Dates May 9-11, 2013



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Submission and Publication
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==Submission Guidelines==
There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers.
Prospective authors are invited, in the first instance, to submit papers for
oral presentations in any of the areas of interest for this conference.
Authors should submit a paper with 6-8 pages in length, including all
figures, tables, and references. If you want to submit more than page
limitation, you can add up to 2 extra pages with the appropriate fee
payment.
Papers must strictly adhere to page limits - a paper with 8 pages (Max 2
extra pages allowed at additional cost).
Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review.



Please use the Springer Proceedings format for submission. Template is
available here:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0


All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings as one of
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) series published by Springer
(indexed by EI & SCOPUS).
Submission system: EDAS (pending)



Distinguished selected papers accepted and presented in the MUE-13, after
further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following
international journals (Pending):
- The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
- Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) - Springer (SCIE)
- Cluster Computing (CC) - Springer (SCI-E)
- Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience - John Wiley
(SCIE)
- Human-Centric and Information Sciences (HCIS) - Springer
- International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and
Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
- Journal of Convergence (JoC) - FTRA Publishing


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Venue
--------------------
Daegu Metropolitan City
http://english.daegu.go.kr
http://www.lifeinkorea.com/travel2/Taegu


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Contact Information
--------------------
If you have any questions about the CFPs and papers submission, please email
to Dr. Sang Oh Park (pc.sopark@gmail.com).

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Special Issue on "Information Management in Mobile Applications" - Pervasive and Mobile Computing

CALL FOR PAPERS

Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal

Special Issue on Information Management in Mobile Applications

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/call-for-papers/information-management-in-mobile-applications/

Scope

Mobile devices pose tremendous challenges to the design and implementation of
information systems suited for mobile environments. While users expect similar
functionality on their smartphone as provided on their laptop or desktop
computer, the hardware and communication platforms are still limited.
Especially, data-intensive mobile applications require new ways of data
management, processing, and analysis. Crucial issues include energy-efficiency,
limited CPU power and storage, real-time processing, small displays, and
communication costs.

The rapid development in mobile hardware and software has enabled new
applications which pose new challenges for mobile data management. Improvements
in the area of mobile communication and increased bandwidth provide new
possibilities for exchanging and sharing data. Mobile data can have various
forms, such as sensor data, user profiles & user context, spatial data, and
multimedia data. Smartphones, mobile and wearable sensors, and other portable
systems are used in various applications to collect, process, and exchange an
increasing amount of data. Applications can run on several devices (mobile, PCs,
multimedia), but the exchange, the integration, and the querying of data between
these devices remains a challenging problem.

The special issue aims at publishing recent, outstanding research results about
technologies and mechanisms, which support the management of mobile, complex,
integrated, distributed, and heterogeneous data-focused applications. We invite
research papers as well as papers which address challenges in developing
industrial-strength mobile applications.

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

  - Data management and integration in mobile peer-to-peer networks
  - Data stream management in mobile applications/environments
  - Data stream mining for mobile applications
  - Mobile Cloud Computing
  - Data integration in mobile settings
  - Context-aware mobile computing
  - Applications using mobile data management techniques
  - Query processing and optimization for mobile systems
  - Real-time data processing in mobile applications
  - Security and privacy for mobile data management
  - Pervasive data management
  - Transaction processing in mobile applications
  - Expert systems for mobile information systems
  - Sensing and acquisition of data in mobile environments
  - Data sharing and interoperability in mobile applications
  - Managing data intensive mobile applications
  - Management and processing of geospatial data
  - Mobile health data management and analysis
  - Pervasive health systems and services
  - Location-based services
  - Mobile data management systems and middleware
  - Knowledge representation and reasoning in mobile applications


Important Dates

Submission deadline: November 30th, 2012
Expected Publication of Special Issue: 2013


Submission Guidelines

All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as
published in the Journal website at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/pmc/. Authors
should select "SI: Info Mgmt", from the "Choose Article Type" pull-down menu
during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously
published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission
based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major
value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 33% new
material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their
relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the
enhancements made in the journal version.


Guest Editors of the Special Issue:

  - Thierry Delot, University of Valenciennes & Inria Lille, France - Thierry.Delot@univ-valenciennes.fr

  - Sandra Geisler, Information Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - geisler@dbis.rwth-aachen.de

  - Daniela Nicklas, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany - dnicklas@acm.org

  - Christoph Quix, Information Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - quix@dbis.rwth-aachen.de

  - Bo Xu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - boxu@cs.uic.edu

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Deadline Extension: Special Issue on Cross-Community Mining - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC)

Special Issue of ACM/Springer Journal of "Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC)"

on Cross-Community Mining

Introduction

People now live in heterogeneous social communities within cyber-physical spaces - both online communities and social networks where digital content is exchanged, and ad hoc physical communities that exploit opportunistic relationships between pairs of networked devices to exchange content.  These communities have distinct technical features which lead to distinct kinds of interaction - such as patterns of comments and likes in online communities and co-location in ad hoc communities, or issues of friendship, trust and influence in online communities and social popularity and movement patterns in ad hoc communities. Rather than viewing online communities and ad hoc communities as competing, we see them as complementary and suggest that cross-community mining (CCM) can connect these two communities by revealing hidden knowledge about the interplay between different communities and patterns of social interaction within and between them. This theme issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing provides the opportunity for researchers and product developers to review and discuss the state-of-the-art and trends of CCM techniques and applications. Papers on theoretical, practical, methodological issues in Cross-Community Mining are welcome.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):
-Inclusive Design Issues related to CCM
-Forming Online Communities with Knowledge from Ad hoc Community
-Enhancing Communications in Ad hoc Community with Online Community Knowledge
-Knowledge Integration/Transfer among Communities
-Infrastructure Support for CCM (managing heterogeneous/multi-dimensional data, seamlessly switch among distinct communities, etc.)
-Evaluation Metrics for CCM

Submissions

Manuscripts should be prepared and submitted by email to the Corresponding
Guest Editor ¨C Dr. Bin Guo. Please note in your cover letter the theme
issue for which your submission is intended.
Note: Manuscripts must not have been previously published or be submitted
for publication elsewhere. Each submitted manuscript must include title,
names, authors¡¯ affiliations, postal and email addresses, an extended
paper, and a list of keywords. For detailed format information, please refer
to the author introduction at the PUC journal website:
http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779

Guest Editors

Bin Guo (Corresponding Guest Editor)
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
guobin.keio@gmail.com

Daqing Zhang
Institut TELECOM SudParis, France
Daqing.zhang@it-sudparis.eu

Zhiwen Yu
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China zhiwenyu@nwpu.edu.cn

Francisco Camara Pereira
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, SMART/MIT
camara@smart.mit.edu

Important Dates

Deadline for manuscript submission: 30 Sep., 2012 (Extended).
Notification of acceptance: 30 Nov., 2012 Camera-ready final paper due: 30
Dec., 2012 Publication date: 2nd Quarter, 2013(Tentative)

Contact Information

Corresponding Guest Editor, Dr. Guo (guobin.keio@gmail.com)

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CRIWG 2012 doctoral consortium

18th CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology

Doctoral Consortium

September 16th, 2012

Duisburg, Germany

Submission deadline: July 8th, 2012

http://criwg2012.collide.info/index.php?id=doctoral-consortium

The CRIWG Doctoral Consortium aims at bringing together PhD students working
on groupware and give them the opportunity to present and discuss their
research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The goals of the
Doctoral Consortium event are:
- To provide fruitful feedback and advice to the selected Ph.D. students on
their research thesis.
- To interact with other PhD students and stimulate an exchange of ideas and
suggestions among participants.

To help achieving this goal the doctoral consortium will be moderated by
experienced researchers from the field. For the CRIWG 2012 Doctoral
Consortium these are:
- Daniel Suthers, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA
- Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
- José A. Pino, Universidad de Chile, Chile

In the morning, the consortium PhD researchers will present and discuss
their dissertation research progress. After lunch, consortium participants
will receive feedback and suggestions regarding their research in
face-to-face meetings with selected faculty members. Participating faculty
will engage in discussions on academic research in GDN and the academic
community in general.

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Topics
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- Web-based cooperative applications/environments
- Collaborative workspaces
- Collaboration through social media
- Administration and communication support for distributed communities
- Monitoring and analysis of group interactions
- Social media analytics
- Workflow modeling/Workflow management and coordination
- Groupware development frameworks and toolkits
- Languages and tools supporting collaboration
- Organizational computing
- Multi-user interfaces and group awareness mechanisms
- Social aspects of group work
- Nomadic and/or mobile collaborative work
- Virtual groups and virtual worlds
- Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL)
- Group decision and negotiation support (GDSS)
- Meeting support for mixed and face-to-face settings
- Adaptive collaborative environments
- Collaborative applications and case studies
- Group-oriented knowledge management technologies
- Multi-agent systems and architectures to support collaborative work

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Submission Process
==================

We encourage all PhD students that have a clear picture of their research
plan, but not have yet finished their research, to participate. To apply for
participation at the doctoral consortium, please send a short paper or
research proposal describing your doctoral work to the organizer (Stephan
Lukosch, s.g.lukosch@tudelft.nl) of the consortium. The submission deadline
is: July 8th, 2012

The paper/research proposal must:
- briefly describe your motivation to participate at the Doctoral Consortium
- what you would like to take home from the consortium,
- clearly describe the motivation for the research,
- clearly formulate the research question & objective,
- describe the proposed approach & research methodology,
- describe the results achieved so far,
- point out the intended contribution to science,
- point out the intended contribution to practice.

We encourage you to use not more than 3000 words.

You will be notified about acceptance on July 23th, 2012.

For the consortium you will be asked to prepare a short presentation of your
work. Details about this will be communicated by the doctoral consortium
moderators to all accepted participants upon acceptance.

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Important Notice
================

Participation in the Doctoral Colloquium has no additional fee and is open
to every registered CRIWG 2012 participant.

Based on applications, a limited number of free participations covering the
conference registration fee can be granted to graduate students.
Applications need to be sent to the CRIWG 2012 organization chair Marc
Jansen (E-mail: Marc.Jansen@hs-ruhrwest.de) from whom also further
information on the application procedure can be obtained.

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Joint Call For Papers - Conferences / Journal Special Issues in Cloud Computing and Ubiquitous Computing (June 2012)

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Conferences
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1. CSA 2012 (November 22-25, 2012, Jeju, Korea)
The 4th FTRA International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications
http://www.ftrai.org/csa2012/
*Submission deadline: June 14, 2012

2. IEEE ICPADS 2012 (December 17-19, 2012, Singapore)
The 18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems
http://pdcc.ntu.edu.sg/icpads2012
*Submission deadline: June 15, 2012

3. IEEE APSCC 2012 (December 6 -8, 2012, Guilin, China)
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference
http://grid.hust.edu.cn/apscc2012/
*Submission deadline: July 5, 2012

4. IEEE CloudCom 2012 (December 3-6, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan)
The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology Sience
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/cloudcom2012/
*Abstract submission deadline (obligatory): July 13, 2012
*Full submission: July 27, 2012

5. IEEE SOSE 2013 (March 25-28, 2013, San Francisco Bay, USA)
The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering
http://sei.pku.edu.cn/conference/sose2013/
*Submission deadline: October 15, 2012

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Journal Special Issues
-----------------------------

1. Journal of Internet Technology (ISI Impact Factor = 0.448)
Special Issue on "Sustainable Computing"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/JIT/
*Manuscript Due: September 30, 2012

2. Future Generation Computer Systsems (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 2.365)
Special Issue on"Intelligent Big Data Processing"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/FGCS/
*Manuscript Due: December 20, 2012

3. Automated Software Engineering (Springer) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.806)
Special Issue on"Automated Techniques for Migration to the Cloud"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/ASE/
*Manuscript Due: October 31, 2012

4. International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.229)
Special Issue on"Dynamic Intelligence Towards Smart and Green World"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/IJCS/
*Manuscript Due: December 31, 2012

5. Information System Frontier (Springer) (ISI Impact Factor = 1.596)
Special Issue on "Merging Cloud and Communication Services"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/ISF/
*Manuscript Due: December 31, 2012

6. Journal of Systems Architecture (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.768)
Special Issue on"Real-Time Embedded Software for Multi-core Platforms"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/JSA/
*Manuscript Due: December 31, 2012

7. Future Generation Computer Systsems (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 2.365)
Special Issue on"Hybrid Intelligence for Growing Internet and its Applications"
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/calls-for-papers/hybrid-intelligence/
*Manuscript Due: January 1, 2013

8. International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing (Scopus, EI)
Call for special issue proposals
http://www.igi-global.com/journal/ijghpc
Prospective guest editors should send a proposal and/or draft CFP containing the following information
to the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Ching-Hsien Hsu at chh@chu.edu.tw
- Theme of the special issue
- Scope
- Biography of guest editor(s)
- Schedule

9. International Journal of Engineering and Industries (INSPEC, DBLP)
Call for special issue Pproposals
http://www.aicit.org/ijei
Prospective guest editors should send a proposal and/or draft CFP containing the following information
to the managing editor at ijei@aicit.org
- Theme of the special issue
- Scopes
- Biography of guest editor(s)
- Schedule

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Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments (MUSE) @ ECML/PKDD 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

for the 3rd International ECML/PKDD 2012 Workshop on

*MINING UBIQUITOUS AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS*

(MUSE 2012)

http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/muse2012

September 24, 2012 - Bristol, UK

*** Abstract submission: June 22nd, 2012 ***
*** Paper submission deadline: June 29th, 2012 ***

The emergence of ubiquitous computing has started to create new environments
consisting of small, heterogeneous, and distributed devices that foster the
social interaction of users in several dimensions. Additionally, the
upcoming social semantic web also integrates the user interactions in social
networking environments. Mining in ubiquitous and social environments is
thus an emerging area of research focusing on advanced systems for data
mining in such distributed and network-organized systems. It also integrates
some related technologies such as activity recognition, Web 2.0 mining,
privacy issues and privacy-preserving mining, predicting user behavior, etc.

In typical ubiquitous settings, the mining system can be implemented inside
the small devices and sometimes on central servers, for real-time
applications, similar to common mining approaches. However, the
characteristics of ubiquitous and social mining are in general quite
different from the current mainstream data mining and machine learning.
Unlike in traditional data mining scenarios, data does not emerge from a
small number of (heterogeneous) data sources, but potentially from hundreds
to millions of different sources. As there is only minimal coordination,
these sources can overlap or diverge in any possible way. Steps into this
new and exciting application area are the analysis of this new data, the
adaptation of well known data mining and machine learning algorithms and
finally the development of new algorithms.

GOALS AND AUDIENCE
==================
The goal of this workshop is to promote an interdisciplinary forum for
researchers working in the fields of ubiquitous computing, social semantic
web, Web 2.0, and social networks which are interested in utilizing data
mining in an ubiquitous setting. The workshop seeks for contributions
applying state-of-the-art mining algorithms on ubiquitous and social data.
Papers focusing on the intersection of the two fields are especially
welcome. In short, we want to accelerate the process of identifying the
power of advanced data mining operating on data collected in ubiquitous and
social environments, as well as the process of advancing data mining through
lessons learned in analyzing these new data.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
==================
The topics of the workshop are split roughly into four areas which include,
but are not limited to the following topics:

Ubiquitous Mining:
* Analysis of data from sensors and mobile devices
* Resource-aware algorithms for distributed mining
* Scalable and distributed classification, prediction, and clustering algorithms
* Activity recognition
* Mining continuous streams and ubiquitous data
* Online methods for mining temporal, spatial and spatio-temporal data
* Combining data from different sources
* Sensor data preprocessing, transformation, and space-time sampling techniques

Mining Social Data:
* Analysis of social networks and social media
* Mining techniques for social networks and social media
* Algorithms for inferring semantics and meaning from social data
* Privacy and security issues in social data
* How social data can be used to mine and create collective intelligence
* Individual and group behavior in social media and social networks
* Social networks for the collaboration of large communities

Ubiquitous and Social Mining
* Personalization and recommendation
* User models and predicting user behavior
* User profiling in ubiquitous and social environments
* Network analysis of social systems
* Discovering social structures and communities
* Analysis of data from crowd-sourcing approaches

Applications:
* Discovering misuse and fraud
* Usage and presentation interfaces for mining and data collection
* Analysis of social and ubiquitous games
* Privacy challenges in ubiquitous and social applications
* Applications of any of the above methods and technologies

We also encourage submissions which relate research results from other areas
to the workshop topics.

SPRINGER BOOK
=============
As in the previous years, it is planned to publish revised selected papers
as a volume in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
=============================
* Martin Atzmueller, Knowledge and Data Engineering Group,
University of Kassel, Germany (atzmueller@cs.uni-kassel.de)
* Andreas Hotho, Data Mining and Information Retrieval Group,
University of Wuerzburg, Germany (hotho@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
==================
* Ulf Brefeld, Yahoo Research, Spain
* Ricardo Cachucho, Leiden University, The Netherlands
* Michelangelo Ceci, University of Bari, Italy
* Padraig Cunningham, University College Dublin, Ireland
* Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain
* Ido Guy, IBM Research, USA
* Kristian Kersting, University of Bonn, Germany
* Matthias Klusch, DFKI GmbH, Germany
* Claudia Müller-Birn, FU Berlin, Germany
* Alexandre Passant, DERI, Ireland
* Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy
* Maarten van Someren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Markus Strohmaier, TU Graz, Austria
* Ugo Vespier, Leiden University, The Netherlands



SUBMISSIONS AND STYLE
=====================

We invite two types of submissions for this workshop:
* Technical papers in any of the topics of interest of the workshop
(but not limited to them)
* Short position papers in any of the topics of interest of the workshop
(but not limited to them)

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of these
reviews. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop.

Format requirements for submissions of papers are: Maximum 16 pages,
including title page and bibliography for technical papers. Maximum 8 pages,
including title page and bibliography for short position papers.

All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=muse2012

If you have any question please contact the MUSE Organizers. We recommend to
follow the format guidelines of ECML/PKDD (Springer LNCS), as this will be
the required format for accepted papers.

More details can be found on the workshop website:
http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/muse2012

Important Dates
===============
* Abstract Submission: June 22nd
* Paper Submission Deadline: June 29th, 2012
* Author Notification: July 20th, 2012
* Camera Ready Papers: August 3rd, 2012

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Joint Call For Papers - Conferences / Journal Special Issues (May 2012) in Cloud and Ubiquitous Computing

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Conferences
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1. IEEE UIC 2012 (September 4-7, 2012, Fukuoka, Japan)
The 9th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
http://conf.kyusan-u.ac.jp/uic2012/
*Submission deadline: May 15, 2012

2. [IEEE UIC 2012 Workshops] (September 4-7, 2012, Fukuoka, Japan)

WiNA (The Fourth International Workshop on Wireless Network Algorithm and Theory)
http://people.chu.edu.tw/~wina/2012/
USMAP (International Workshop on Ubiquitous Service Models and Applications)
http://iseco.idv.tw/yphuang/~USMAP2012.html
UISTA (International Workshop on Ubiquitous Information Security Techniques and Applications)
http://dns2.asia.edu.tw/~chenyh/UISTA2012.html
WEISS (International Workshop on Embedded Intelligence and Smart Systems)
http://rtes.ee.ncku.edu.tw/weiss2012/
UIPM ( International Workshop on Ubiquitous Information Processing and Management)
https://sites.google.com/site/uicuipm2012/
GreenPS (International Workshop on Green and Pervasive Software)
http://otc.iscas.ac.cn/tcse/jinbeihong/Workshop%20on%20GPS/Workshop%20on%20UIC.html
DDCP (International Workshop on Infrastructure, Technologies and Applications for Distributed Data Collection, Processing and Dissemination)
http://www.lac.inpe.br/DDCPD-2012/

3. IEEE ATC 2012 (September 4-7, 2012, Fukuoka, Japan)
The 9th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing
http://conf.kyusan-u.ac.jp/atc2012/
*Submission deadline: May 15, 2012

4. IET FC 2012 (August 16-18, 2012, Xining, China)
The 2nd IET International Conference on Frontier Computing–Theory, Technologies and Applications
http://ietfc.lzu.edu.cn/
*Submission deadline: May 15, 2012

5. IET UMedia 2012 (August 16-18, 2012, Xining, China)
The 5th IET International Conference on Ubi-media Computing
http://umedia.lzu.edu.cn/
*Submission deadline: May 15, 2012

6. DOA-SVI 2012 (Sept. 10-12, 2012, Rome, Italy)
International Symposium on Secure Virtual Infrastructures
http://www.otm-conferences.org/
*Submission deadline: May 18, 2012

7. CSA 2012 (November 22-25, 2012, Jeju, Korea)
The 4th FTRA International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications
http://www.ftrai.org/csa2012/
*Submission deadline: June 1, 2012

8. IEEE CloudCom 2012 (December 3-6, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan)
The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology Science
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/cloudcom2012/
*Submission deadline: July 13, 2012

9. IEEE SOSE 2013 (March 25-28, 2013, San Francisco Bay, USA)
The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering
http://sei.pku.edu.cn/conference/sose2013/
*Submission deadline: October 15, 2012

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Journal Special Issues
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1. Journal of Internet Technology (SCI, EI)
Special Issue on "Sustainable Computing"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/JIT/
*Manuscript Due: September 30, 2012

2. Future Generation Computer Systsems (Elsevier) (SCI, EI)
Special Issue on"Intelligent Big Data Processing"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/FGCS/
*Manuscript Due: December 20, 2012

3. Automated Software Engineering (Springer) (SCI, EI)
Special Issue on"Automated Techniques for Migration to the Cloud"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/ASE/
*Manuscript Due: October 31, 2012

4. International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley) (SCI, EI)
Special Issue on"Dynamic Intelligence Towards Smart and Green World"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/IJCS/
*Manuscript Due: December 31, 2012

5. Information System Frontier (Springer) (SCI, EI)
Special Issue on "Merging Cloud and Communication Services"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/ISF/
*Manuscript Due: December 31, 2012

6. Journal of Systems Architecture (Elsevier) (SCI, EI)
Special Issue on"Real-Time Embedded Software for Multi-core Platforms"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/JSA/
*Manuscript Due: December 31, 2012

7. International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing (EI)
Call For Special Issue Proposals on Cloud Computing
http://www.igi-global.com/journal/ijghpc
Prospective guest editors should send a proposal and/or draft CFP containing the following information
to the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Ching-Hsien Hsu at chh@chu.edu.tw
- Theme of the special issue
- Scope
- Biography of guest editor(s)
- Schedule

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Joint Call For Papers - Conferences / Journal Special Issues (April 2012) - Cloud and Ubiquituous Computing

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Conferences
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1. [ICPP 2012 Workshop] CloudTech-HPC 2012 (September 10-13, 2012, Pittsburgh, USA)
International Workshop on Cloud Technologies for High Performance Computing
http://sites.google.com/site/cloudtechpc/
*Submission deadline: April 30, 2012

2. IEEE UIC 2012 (September 4-7, 2012, Fukuoka, Japan)
The 9th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
http://conf.kyusan-u.ac.jp/uic2012/
*Submission deadline: April 30, 2012

3. [IEEE UIC 2012 Workshops] (September 4-7, 2012, Fukuoka, Japan)

WiNA (The Fourth International Workshop on Wireless Network Algorithm and Theory)
http://people.chu.edu.tw/~wina/2012/
USMAP (International Workshop on Ubiquitous Service Models and Applications)
http://iseco.idv.tw/yphuang/~USMAP2012.html
UISTA (International Workshop on Ubiquitous Information Security Techniques and Applications)
http://dns2.asia.edu.tw/~chenyh/UISTA2012.html
WEISS (International Workshop on Embedded Intelligence and Smart Systems)
http://rtes.ee.ncku.edu.tw/weiss2012/
UIPM ( International Workshop on Ubiquitous Information Processing and Management)
https://sites.google.com/site/uicuipm2012/
GreenPS (International Workshop on Green and Pervasive Software)
http://otc.iscas.ac.cn/tcse/jinbeihong/Workshop%20on%20GPS/Workshop%20on%20UIC.html
DDCP (International Workshop on Infrastructure, Technologies and Applications for Distributed Data Collection, Processing and Dissemination)
http://www.lac.inpe.br/DDCPD-2012/

4. IEEE ATC 2012 (September 4-7, 2012, Fukuoka, Japan)
The 9th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing
http://conf.kyusan-u.ac.jp/atc2012/
*Submission deadline: April 30, 2012

5. IET FC 2012 (August 16-18, 2012, Xining, China)
The 2nd IET International Conference on Frontier Computing–Theory, Technologies and Applications
http://ietfc.lzu.edu.cn/
*Submission deadline: April 30, 2012

6. IET UMedia 2012 (August 16-18, 2012, Xining, China)
The 5th IET International Conference on Ubi-media Computing
http://umedia.lzu.edu.cn/
*Submission deadline: April 30, 2012

7. ICCS 2012 (July 9-12, 2012, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
Internatioal Conference on Computing and Security
http://iccs12.csie.ntust.edu.tw/
*Submission deadline: May 1, 2012

8. CSA 2012 (November 22-25, 2012, Jeju, Korea)
The 4th FTRA International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications
http://www.ftrai.org/csa2012/
*Submission deadline: June 1, 2012

9. IEEE CloudCom 2012 (December 3-6, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan)
The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology Sience
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/cloudcom2012/
*Submission deadline: July 13, 2012

10. IEEE SOSE 2013 (March 25-28, 2013, San Francisco Bay, USA)
The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering
http://sei.pku.edu.cn/conference/sose2013/
*Submission deadline: October 15, 2012

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Journal Special Issues
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1. Journal of Internet Technology (SCI, EI)
Special Issue on "Sustainable Computing"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/JIT/
*Manuscript Due: September 30, 2012

2. Future Generation Computer Systsems (Elsevier) (SCI, EI)
Special Issue on"Intelligent Big Data Processing"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/FGCS/
*Manuscript Due: December 20, 2012

3. Automated Software Engineering (Springer) (SCI, EI)
Special Issue on"Automated Techniques for Migration to the Cloud"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/ASE/
*Manuscript Due: October 31, 2012

4. International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley) (SCI, EI)
Special Issue on"Dynamic Intelligence Towards Smart and Green World"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/IJCS/
*Manuscript Due: December 31, 2012

5. Information System Frontier (Springer) (SCI, EI)
Special Issue on "Merging Cloud and Communication Services"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/ISF/
*Manuscript Due: December 31, 2012

6. Journal of Systems Architecture (Elsevier) (SCI, EI)
Special Issue on"Real-Time Embedded Software for Multi-core Platforms"
http://grid.chu.edu.tw/SI/JSA/
*Manuscript Due: December 31, 2012

7. International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing (EI)
Call For Special Issue Proposals on Cloud Computing
http://www.igi-global.com/journal/ijghpc
Prospective guest editors should send a proposal and/or draft CFP containing the following information
to the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Ching-Hsien Hsu at chh@chu.edu.tw
- Theme of the special issue
- Scope
- Biography of guest editor(s)
- Schedule

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