Special Issue on Participatory Sensing and Crowd Intelligence - ACM TIST

Call for papers

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST)

Special Issue on

Participatory Sensing and Crowd Intelligence (PS/CI)

Introduction
Participatory Sensing (PS) is an emerging computing paradigm that tasks
everyday mobile devices to form participatory sensor networks. It allows
the increasing number of mobile phone users to share local knowledge
acquired by their sensor-enhanced devices, e.g., to monitor pollution
level or noise level, traffic condition, etc. Here, we make an extension
to the original definition of sensing sources in participatory sensing,
from mobile devices to any human life-loggers, such as sensor-equipped
vehicles, smart cards, social network services (the so-called virtual
sensors), and so on. The sensing data from volunteer contributors can be
further analyzed and processed to form Crowd Intelligence (CI), and
leveraged in many areas such as environment monitoring, urban planning,
emergency management, as well as public healthcare/safety. Numerous
challenges are raised: How can people and devices be connected so that
they act more intelligently than any individuals or devices have ev!
er done before? How to accomplish the tasks unintentionally or with
minimum user effort? How to extract crowd intelligence/knowledge from
multimodal, low quality data contributed by volunteers? What are the
incentive mechanisms to encourage human participation? How to protect
human data privacy¡­
This theme issue of ACM TIST (indexed by SCI-E and EI) provides the
opportunity for researchers and product developers to review and discuss
the state-of-the-art and trends of PS/CI techniques and intelligent
systems.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):
- AI techniques in PS/CI
- Crowd Data Collection and Intelligent Task Allocation
- Incentive Mechanisms for Human Participation
- Data Processing and Crowd Intelligence Mining
- Data Quality, Trust, and Privacy
- Knowledge Modeling and Management in PS/CI
- Intelligent applications supported by PS/CI (Smart City, Public Health, etc.)
- Crowd Intelligence Systems
- Intelligent User Interfaces for PS/CI
- Evaluation Metrics and Empirical Studies of PS/CI

It should be noted that we welcome papers that are relevant to the above
topics, but discourage papers that make contributions to only
networking/sensor issues but do not contribute to topics of interest to
TIST (e.g., topics on AI, intelligent systems).

Submissions
Manuscripts should be submitted online:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist (please select "Special Issue:
Participatory Sensing and Crowd Intelligence" as the manuscript type).
Details of the journal and manuscript preparation are available on the
website: http://tist.acm.org/authors/.


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

Alvin Chin
Nokia
alvin.chin@nokia.com

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

Runhe Huang
Hosei University, Japan
rhuang@hosei.ac.jp

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

Important Dates
Deadline for manuscript submission: Dec. 31, 2013.
Notification of first review: Feb. 28, 2014
Submission of revised manuscript: Apr. 15, 2014
Notification of final acceptance: May. 31, 2014
Final manuscript due: Jun. 30, 2014
Publication date: 3rd Quarter, 2014 (Tentative)

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

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Deadline Extension: Analyzing and Improving Collaborative eScience with Social Networks (eSoN 2012)

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Call for Papers

The 2^nd Workshop on Analyzing and Improving Collaborative eScience with Social Networks (eSoN 12)

October 8, Chicago IL, USA (http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/eson2012/)

Co-Located with eScience 2012, October 8-12, Chicago IL, USA (http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/escience2012/)

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submissions Due: August 17, 2012 (extended)

Notification of Acceptance: September 3, 2012 (extended)

Camera Ready Versions Due: September 17, 2012

Workshop: October 8, 2012

OVERVIEW

Social networking is profoundly changing the way that people communicate and interact on a daily basis. As eScience is inherently collaborative, social networks can serve as a vital means for supporting information and resource sharing, aiding discovery of connected researchers, improving communication between globally dispersed individuals, and even measuring scientific impact. Consequently, eScience systems are increasingly integrating social networking concepts to improve collaboration. For example, researcher profiles and groups exist in publication networks, such as Google scholar and Mendeley, and eScience infrastructures, such as MyExperiment, NanoHUB and GlobusOnline all utilize social networking principles to enhance scientific collaboration. In addition to incorporating explicit social networks, eScience infrastructures can also leverage implicit social networks extracted from relationships expressed in collaborative activities (e.g. publication authorship or citation networks).
This workshop aims to bring together researchers from a diverse range of areas to establish a new community focused on the application of social networking to analyze and improve scientific collaboration. There are two complementary areas of focus for this workshop 1) how to efficiently share information, infrastructure and software resources, such as data and tools through social networks, and 2) how to analyze and enhance scientific collaboration through implicit and explicit social networks, for example analyzing scientific impact through citation networks or improving collaboration by associating data and tools with networks of publications and researchers.

WORKSHOP SCOPE

The topics of interest are, but not limited to, the use of social networks to analyze and improve collaborative eScience:

• The use of social networks and social networking concepts in eScience
• Social network applications used for eScience
• Social network based resource sharing and collaboration architectures
• New forms of collaborative computing and resource sharing
• Crowdsourcing of scientific applications using social media
• Social Cloud computing
• Novel applications of digital relationships and trust
• Definition of novel principals, models and methodologies for harnessing digital relationships
• Extraction of implicit social networks from scientific activities (e.g. publication, citation and grants)
• Analysis of collaborative scientific activity through social networks

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit papers containing unpublished, original work (not under review elsewhere) of up to 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines.
Templates are available from: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the workshop's paper submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eson12
At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop and all workshop participants must pay the eScience 2012 registration fee. It is expected that all accepted papers will be published by the IEEE in the same volume as the main conference. All papers will be reviewed by an International Programme Committee (with a minimum of 3 reviews per paper). Papers submissions should be performed using the easychair system, by the date mentioned above.

ORGANIZERS

• Kyle Chard, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Tanu Malik, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Wei Tan, IBM T.J. Watson Lab, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE

• Christine Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University, USA
• Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

• Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, China
• Justin Cappos, Polytechnic Institute of New York, USA
• Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Mike Conlon, University of Florida, USA
• Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, Italy
• Roberto M Cesar jr, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Peter Komisarczuk, Thames Valley University, UK
• Nicolas Kourtellis, University of South Florida
• Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK
• Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
• Christof Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Wenjun Wu, Beihang University, China
• Lynn Zetner, Purdue University, USA
• Hui Zhang, Bejing University, China
• Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA

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1st International Workshop on Socially Intelligent Computing (SINCOM 2012)

1st International Workshop on Socially Intelligent Computing

Part of the OnTheMove OTM Federated Conferences and Workshops 2012 (OTM'12)

Rome, Italy, 13 - 14 September 2012

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/sincom2012

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abstract submission by May 18 2012
paper submission by May 25, 2012
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ABOUT SINCOM’12
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The International Workshop on Socially Intelligent Computing (SINCOM) provides a forum on the study, design, development and evaluation of the emergent intelligence that human-computer systems demonstrate. Socially intelligent computational systems bring together people and computers, support the creation of radically new forms of collaboration, communication and intelligence and allow the generation of new, emergent behaviors. Socially Intelligent Computing research is closely related to two
other areas of research: “social computing”, i.e. the design and use of information and communication technologies that consider social context; and to the field of “collective intelligence”, i.e. systems that facilitate the collective behavior of groups of individual actors – people, computational agents, and organizations – and exhibit intelligent characteristics such as perception, learning, judgment, or problem solving.

The International Workshop on Socially Intelligent Computing (SINCOM) addresses all technological aspects of socially intelligent computing, that span a variety of issues from advanced collaborative systems to using semantic technologies and the web of linked open data to support sociality in computational systems. The workshop aims to attract research that addresses either intra- and cross-enterprise settings  or uses intelligent computing infrastructures that exploit social media on the web. There is no restriction in the application focus of work to be submitted: papers from different domains ranging from e.g. corporate idea management to citizen engagement are welcome.

The objective of the 1st International Workshop on Socially Intelligent Computing is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss research issues and experiences in the study, development and deployment of Socially Intelligent Computing concepts, applications, and systems. The workshop will provide an international forum for the presentation of both theoretical and practical results aiming at the identification of items for a research agenda.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics that are addressed by SINCOM’12 include but are not limited to the following:

Socially Intelligent Computing principles and approaches
* Theories and Methodologies for Socially Intelligent Computing
* Modeling of Social Behavior in Social Computational Systems
* Architectures and Design of Socially Intelligent Computational Systems

Social Media Management within Social Computational Systems
* Social Media Analytics and Monitoring
* Using Social Media to Predict the Future
* Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
* Stream Processing of Social Data and Social Activities

Semantic Web and Linked Data for Social Computational Systems
* Ontologies for Socially Intelligent Computing
* Integration of heterogeneous social data
* Merging social data and Linked Open Data

Leveraging Social Networks for Socially Intelligent Computing
* Discovery, Collection, and Extraction of Social Network Data
* Privacy Policies for Social Networks
* Privacy and Security Tradeoffs in Social Networks
* Visualization of Social Networks
* Services in Social Networks

Information Retrieval and Recommendations for Socially Intelligent Computing
* Social Recommender Systems
* Machine Learning Methods for Socially Intelligent Computing

Social Intelligence within and across Enterprises
* Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
* Wisdom of crowds applications (e.g., prediction markets)
* Crowdsourcing in Enterprises Management

IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract Submission deadline: May 18, 2012
Paper Submission deadline:  May 25, 2012
Acceptance Notification: July 2, 2012
Camera-Ready due: July 16, 2012
Author Registration due: July 16, 2012
SINCOM’12 Workshop: September 13 - 14, 2012

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Papers submitted to SINCOM’12 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee. All submissions must be in English.

Papers should not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Submissions must be laid out according to the final camera-ready formatting instructions and must be submitted in PDF format.

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Additionally, extended versions of the best papers from the Workshop may be considered for a submission in a special issue of an International Journal indexed by ISI Thomson Reuter.

Author instructions can be found at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.

The paper submission site will be announced shortly.

Chaired by:
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Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Gregoris Mentzas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Program Committee
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Steffen Budweg, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Stefan Decker, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Sean Goggins, iSchool Drexel University, USA
Sergio Gusmeroli, TXT e-Solutions, Italy
Nils Jeners, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, UK
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Michael Koch, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Centre for Research and Technology, Greece
Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know Center, Austria
Giorgio de Michelis, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Marc Pallot, INRIA, France
Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Klaus-Dieter Thoben, BIBA, Germany
Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Alessandra Toninelli, INRIA Paris Rocquencourt, France
Wolfgang Woerndl, TU M?nchen, Germany

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12th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2012) - Call for Workshop Papers

Call for Workshop Papers - ICWE 2012

12th International Conference on Web Engineering

July 23 - 27, 2012, Berlin

http://icwe2012.webengineering.org

Workshops at the 12th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2012) offer an opportunity for highly interactive sessions, which include in-depth, topical presentations and discussions of emerging research challenges. All submitted papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format. All accepted papers will be made available at the respective workshops and will be printed as Springer LNCS post-proceedings after the workshops. Each published paper requires at least one full registration to the workshop.

The workshops at ICWE 2012 are as follows:

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1st International Workshop on Crowdsourced Web Engineering (CroWE'12)
http://crowe.ethz.ch

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Crowdsourcing techniques have been proposed to address different aspects of web engineering ranging from the generation of content to the design and adaptation of web sites. At the same time, many Web 2.0 platforms have been designed around crowdsourcing models that enable the functionality to be extended through community-developed applications or plugins. Here, potential security issues have gained particular attention among researchers. Recently, a number of researchers have also begun to look at the use of crowdsourcing to support the evaluation of not only web sites and their interfaces but also various tools that form part of the design and development process. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers who have applied crowdsourcing in a diversity of ways in order that they may learn from the experience of others and to stimulate discussion with a view to fostering new research ideas.

Papers may be related to any aspect of crowdsourced engineering. The following list gives an indication of possible topics:
-) crowdsourcing models and architectures
-) methods for crowdsourced web engineering
-) crowdsourced design
-) crowdsourcing for web site augmentation and adaptation
-) novel forms of crowdsourcing content
-) crowdsourcing linked data
-) crowdsourcing web search
-) use of crowdsourcing in evaluation
-) end-user development approaches for the web
-) applications of the crowdsourced paradigm in web engineering
-) quality aspects of crowdsourcing
-) security issues in crowdsourced systems
-) usability issues in crowdsourced systems

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Moira Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, norrie@inf.ethz.ch
Beat Signer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, bsigner@vub.ac.be
Bernhard Thalheim, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany, thalheim@is.informatik.uni-kiel.de

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3rd Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management - Linking Social and Semantic Web (SPIM'12)
2012.spim-workshop.org

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
The Third Semantic Personalized Information Management (SPIM 2012) workshop aims at investigating new challenges and requirements for web based information systems that arise with the advent of the Social and Semantic Web. The scope ranges from new solutions how to manage the huge amount of information (user generated content, semantic web sources, etc.) in the back-end to new systems and algorithms to take advantage of the information to improve improve the quality of search results and thus better satisfy the users? information need. Of special interest are practical approaches and ideas that aggregate social data from different applications or combine data from social platforms like Facebook with Semantic Web and Linked Open Data (http://linkeddata.org/) sources to enhance the performance of WIS. While there is already research done in the area, no standards or commonly agreed techniques are available. This workshop can prepare the ground for a standardized techniques allowing data and knowledge exchange between IR systems.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Ernesto William De Luca, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany, deluca@fh-potsdam.de
Aldo Gangemi, Italian National Research Council, Italy, aldo.gangemi@cnr.it
Michael Hausenblas, National University of Ireland, Galway, michael.hausenblas@deri.org

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4th International Workshop on Lightweight Integration on the Web (ComposableWeb'12)
https://sites.google.com/site/composableweb2012/

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
ComposableWeb aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with different research interests and belonging to communities like Web Engineering, Service Engineering, Business Process Management, Databases, Semantic Web, Software Composition, and Software Engineering and to advance the state of the art in the areas of web mashups, lightweight composition, and service-oriented computing. The workshop particularly aims to stimulate the discussion of key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications, engineering practices, and novel trends.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy, daniel@disi.unitn.it
Sven Casteleyn, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, Sven.Casteleyn@upv.es
Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, g.j.p.m.houben@tudelft.nl

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8th International Workshop on Model-Driven and Agile Engineering for the Web (MDWE'12)
http://mdwe2012.pst.ifi.lmu.de

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
What will be the future of Web development? Web Engineering is a specific domain in which systematic development is needed and therefore approaches such as model-driven and agile development can be successfully applied. Existing model-based Web engineering approaches already provide methods and tools for the design and development of most kinds of Web applications. They address different concerns using separate models (navigation, presentation, workflows, etc.) and come with model compilers that produce most of the application?s Web pages and logic based on these models. In practice, however, most of these Web Engineering proposals do not fully exploit all the potential benefits of Model-driven Engineering (MDE), such as complete platform independence, metamodeling, and model transformations.

The MDE paradigm offers advantages such as technology independent models and (partially) automatic generation of applications, but also well-known problems as maintenance of the models. Thus, there are defenders of MDE and also defenders of alternative paradigms such as agile development processes. We want to raise a lively and constructive discussion on pro and cons, and how in practice we can benefit from both a MDE and an agile development process. Find some responses at the workshop!

Following the Internet trends, we want to focus the workshop on two main topics and how MDE and/or an agile process could help in the development, evolution and maintainability of social Web and social enterprise apps as well as multi-device, mobile and rich Web applications (RIAs).

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Nora Koch, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany, kochn@pst.ifi.lmu.de
Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, mbrambil@elet.polimi.it
Santiago Meliá, University of Alicante, Spain, santi@dlsi.ua.es

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3rd Workshop on The Web and Requirements Engineering (WeRE'12)
http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/were12/

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
The International Workshop on the Web and Requirements Engineering (WeRE) intends to be an international event for exchanging ideas on both using Web technologies as a platform in the requirements engineering field, and applying requirements engineering in the development and use of Web applications. Papers focused on new domains and new experiences with the connection between requirements engineering and the Web are also highly encouraged. The workshop will be a forum for researchers, designers, and users who are related to the combination of these two main topics.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
María José Escalona, University of Seville, Spain, mjescalona@us.es
Irene Garrigós, University of Alicante, Spain, igarrigos@dlsi.ua.es
Nora Koch, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany, kochn@pst.ifi.lmu.de
Jose-Norberto Mazón, University of Alicante, Spain, jnmazon@dlsi.ua.es

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3rd International Workshop on Quality in Web Engineering (QWE'12)
http://www.dsic.upv.es/workshops/qwe12

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
The main objective of the workshop is allowing participants to discuss and get to know the most innovative and advanced experiences for guaranteeing the quality of Web applications and content, and the role that Web Engineering methods can play in this task. This includes, among other aspects, focusing on the way in which Web Engineering methods can be further empowered by taking into account quality principles and by integrating sound quality assessment techniques that have proven their effectiveness (review guidelines, usability models, usability evaluation methods, usability checkers, accessibility verifiers, information quality tools, logging tools, automatic metric capture tools, statistical tools, etc.). The workshop will particularly try to encourage the discussion on new emergent issues related to current trends in the creation of modern Web applications, commonly referred to as Web 2.0 applications.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, cappiell@elet.polimi.it
Adrian Fernandez, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, afernandez@dsic.upv.es
Luis Olsina, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina, olsinal@ing.unlpam.edu.ar / olsinal@yahoo.com

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1st International Workshop on User Interface Description Languages in Web Engineering (UIDL-WE'12)

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
The UIDL-WE workshop is aimed at investigating open research/development issues in the area of user interfaces of web applications based on a User Interface Description Language (UIDL). First, fundamental aspects need to be addressed in order to rigorously pave the way for a sound UIDL: models, meta-models, languages, and notations. Second, applied aspects of a UIDL should also be discussed in order to properly operationalize the UIDL:
(meta-)model editors, computer-aided software engineering, software support, rendering engines and code generators, but also requirements for industrial uptake, including case studies in real-world conditions and the investigation of factors that may determine acceptance by developers. Third, in order to ensure the quality of web applications for the end-users, some evaluation needs to be conducted in order to assess the quality of the application that can be derived by the UIDL, especially from the viewpoint of visual quality, usability, and efficiency.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
David Faure, Thales Research & Technology, France, david.faure@thalesgroup.com
Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, piero.fraternali@elet.polimi.it
Jean Vanderdonckt, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, jean.vanderdonckt@uclouvain.be

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