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

CALL FOR PAPERS 

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

In conjunction with the PAAMS 2013 Conference 

University of Salamanca (Spain) 

Salamanca, Spain, 22-24 May, 2013 

http://ebtel.usal.es

SCOPE

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

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

KEYWORDS

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

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

EXPECTED PARTICIPANTS

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

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

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

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

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

PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION

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

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

STEERING COMMITTEE

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

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (preliminary)

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

DATES

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

CONTACTS

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

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Deadline Extension: 18th CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology Doctoral Consortium

18th CRIWG Conference on Collaboration and Technology

Doctoral Consortium

September 16th, 2012

Duisburg, Germany

Extended submission deadline: August 13th, 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
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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 Stephan Lukosch (s.g.lukosch@tudelft.nl) and Marc Jansen (Marc.Jansen@hs-ruhrwest.de). The submission deadline is: August 13th, 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 August 24, 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
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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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Deadline Extension: 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom 2012)

4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science 

(IEEE CloudCom 2012)

The Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan, December 03-06, 2012

http://2012.cloudcom.org

Abstract Submission: July 13, 2012 --> July 20, 2012

Full Submission: July 27, 2012 --> July 31, 2012

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1. Sponsors:
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Organized by
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Chung Hua University, Taiwan
National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
Tunghai University, Taiwan

Sponsored by:
IEEE
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Technical Commitee on Scalable Computing
IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative
Taiwan Association of Cloud Computing
National Science Council (Taiwan)
Taipei City Government
OpenGrid Forum
Academia Sinica
Institute for Information Industry
Ministry of Economic Affairs, R.O.C.
Quanta Computer
iS-Land Technology

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2. Important Dates:
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Abstract Submission (obligatory): July 13, 2012 --> July 20, 2012
Full Submission: July 27, 2012 --> July 31, 2012
Notification: Sep. 7, 2012
Camera-ready & Author registration: Sep. 28, 2012
Poster and Demo: Sep. 10, 2012
Poster and Demo Notification: Sep. 20, 2012

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3. Topics:
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1. Architecture
*Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
*Cloud Platform as a Service
*Cloud federation and hybrid cloud infrastructure
*Programming models and systems/tools
*Green data center
*Networking technologies for data center
*Cloud system design with FPGA, GPU, APU
*Monitoring, management and maintenance
*Economic and business models
*Dynamic resource provisioning

2. MapReduce
*Performance characterization and optimization
*MapReduce on multi-core, GPU
*MapReduce on hybrid distributed environments
*MapReduce on opportunistic / heterogeneous computing systems
*Extension of the MapReduce programming model
*Debugging and simulation of MapReduce systems
*Data-intensive applications using MapReduce
*Optimized storage for MapReduce applications
*Fault-tolerance & Self-* capabilities

3. Security and Privacy
*Accountability
*Audit in clouds
*Authentication and authorization
*Cryptographic primitives
*Reliability and availability
*Trust and credential management
*Usability and security
*Security and privacy in clouds
*Legacy systems migration
*Cloud Integrity and Binding Issues


4. Services and Applications
*Cloud Service Composition
*Query and discovery models for cloud services
*Trust and Security in cloud services
*Change management in cloud services
*Organization models of cloud services
*Innovative cloud applications and experiences
*Business process and workflow management
*Service-Oriented Architecture in clouds

5. Virtualization
*Server, storage, network virtualization
*Resource monitoring
*Virtual desktop
*Resilience, fault tolerance
*Modeling and performance evaluation
*Security aspects
*Enabling disaster recovery, job migration
*Energy efficient issues

6. HPC on Cloud
*Load balancing for HPC clouds
*Middleware framework for HPC clouds
*Scalable scheduling for HPC clouds
*HPC as a Service
*Performance Modeling and Management
*Programming models for HPC clouds
*HPC cloud applications
*Optimal cloud deployment for HPC

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4. Keynote Speakers
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Academia/Government:
Dr. San-Cheng Chang, Executive Yuan, Republic of China (Taiwan)
Prof. Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA
Prof. Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Amr El-Abbadi, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

Industrial:
Dr. Siani Pearson (HP Cloud & Security Research Lab, UK)
Dr. Mazin Yousif (Shell, USA)
Dr. Joe Baguley (VMware, UK) (Pending)

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5. Special Issues
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Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers.

Selected papers, after further extensions and revisions, will be published in special issues of the following prestigious journals

Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 2.365)
International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.229)
Journal of Systems Architecture (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.768)
Automated Software Engineering (Springer) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.806)
Journal of Internet Technology (ISI Impact Factor = 0.448)
Information System Frontier (Springer) (ISI Impact Factor = 1.596)
Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (Hindawi) (ISI Impact Factor = 2.436)
International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing (Scopus, EI)

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6. Workshops
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The following workshops will be organized in conjunction with the IEEE CloudCom-2012.
Proceedings of CloudCom 2012 Workshops will be also published by IEEE CS Press (IEEE-DL & EI indexed)

- The 2012 International Workshop on Cloud Computing for Simulations
- The 2012 International Workshop on Cloud Computing for Research Collaborations
- The 1st International Workshop on Cloud Computing for Internet of Things
- The 2nd International Workshop on Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing
- The 2012 International Workshop on GPU Computing in Clouds
- The 2012 International Workshop on Cloud Computing for Bioinformatics and Its Applications
- The 2012 International Workshop on Data Analytics and Mining in the Cloud
- The 2012 Internatinal Workshop on IT Service Management in Distributed Computing
- The 2012 International Workshop on SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) Architecture and Engineering

For details of workshops, please visit http://grid.chu.edu.tw/cloudcom2012/workshops.html

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7. Panels and Tutorials
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The following panels/tutorials will be organized in conjunction with the IEEE CloudCom-2012.

- Standards and Interoperability (S. L. Diamond, Chair of the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative)
- MapReduce/Hadoop Tutorial (Viraj Bhat, Principal Technical, Yahoo! Inc., USA)
- Tutorial on Hadoop (Yahoo!)

For details in organizing a Panel / Tutorial with CloudCom, please contact
Panels and Tutorials Chair, Prof. Sartaj Sahni (sahni@cise.ufl.edu)

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8. Submission & Publication
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For main conference, the page limit will be 8 pages.
For workshops, the page limit will be 6 pages.
For Ph.D. consortium and Industrial applications, the page limit will be 6 pages.
For short papers, poster and demo, the page limit will be 4 pages.

All accepted papers will be published by IEEE CS Press (IEEE Xplore) and Indexed by EI.

The IEEE CloudCom 2012 submission site:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ieeecloudcom2012

Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE CS format, and submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system

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9. Best Paper Awards
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Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers, after further extensions and revisions, will be published in special issues of prestigious journals associated with this conference

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Interplay between User Experience Evaluation and System Development (I-UxSED 2012)

Interplay between User Experience Evaluation and System Development (I-UxSED 2012)

IC0904 TwinTide 2nd Open Workshop

Date: 14th October 2012 (Sunday)
Venue:  IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (in conjunction with NordiCHI 2012)
Deadline for submission: 17th August 2012
Website: users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/i-uxsed2012/

GOAL
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While the gap between HCI and Software Engineering (SE) with regard to usability has somewhat been narrowed, it may be widened again due to the new emphasis on user experience (UX).  The main goal of I-UxSED 2012 is to bring together people from HCI and SE to identify challenges and plausible resolutions to optimize the impact of UX evaluation feedback on software development.

RAIONALES & CHALLENGES
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Usability evaluation methods (UEMs) and metrics are relatively more mature. In contrast, UX evaluation methods (UXEMs) which draw largely on UEMs are still taking shape. It is conceivable that feeding outcomes of UX evaluation back to the software development cycle to instigate the required changes can even be more challenging than doing so for usability evaluation (UE). It leads to several key issues:

* UX attributes are (much) more fuzzy and malleable, what kinds of diagnostic information and improvement suggestion can be drawn from evaluation data. How does the evaluation feedback enable designers/developers to fix this experiential problem (cf. usability problem) and how can they know that their fix works (i.e. downstream utility)?
* Emphasis is put on conducting UE in the early phases of a development lifecycle with the use of low fidelity prototypes. However, is this principle applicable to UX evaluation? Is it feasible to capture authentic experiential responses with a low-fidelity prototype?  If yes, how can we draw insights from these responses?
* The persuasiveness of empirical feedback determines its worth. Is UX evaluation feedback less persuasive than usability feedback? If yes, will the impact of UX evaluation be weaker than UE?
* The Software Engineering (SE) community has recognized the importance of usability. Can such recognition and implications be taken for granted for UX, as UX evaluation methodologies and measures could be very different?
* Analysis approaches developed by researchers are applied to a limited extent by practitioners.  Such divorce between research and practice could be bitterer in UX analysis approaches, which are essentially lacking.

I-UxSED 2012 aims to address the above as well as other related ones.

WORKSHOP TOPICS
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Contributions, preferably with empirical studies, on the following topics (but are not limited to) are invited:

* Which artefacts of software development are useful as the basis for UX evaluation and how do such artefacts influence the selection of UX evaluation methods?
* What are the forms and characteristics of UX evaluation feedback that are considered or proved useful and necessary for software development (including the UI design)?
* How can UX evaluation methods be integrated in emerging techniques and approaches for software development (including the UI design)?
* How do software designers’/developers’ perceptions of UX evaluation feedback relate to their redesign strategies and approaches (e.g. prioritisation)?
* How can the effectiveness of UX evaluation feedback in improving software quality be evaluated (i.e., the issue of downstream utility)?
* How can analysis in UX practical evaluation be supported with techniques and tools applicable to actual industrial practices?

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
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Submissions of 2 to 6 pages (SIGCHI format) describing a specific position or an empirical study are invited. Design, development and evaluation cases as well as theoretical frameworks relevant to the workshop topics are welcome. Each submission will be peer reviewed by the program committee members (see the list on the website). All submissions should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iuxsed2012 

EXPECTED OUTCOMES
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Accepted papers will be compiled as workshop proceedings downloadable from the TwinTide website (http://www.twintide.org/).  A special issue on the topic “Interplay between UX Evaluation and Software Development” in a prestigious HCI journal will be applied. If successful, extended versions of selected papers from the workshop will be included in it.

IMPORTANT DATES
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* Deadline for submission:     17th August 2012
* Author notification:         3rd September 2012
* Early registration deadline:     16th September 2012
* Full-day workshop:         14th October 2012

ORGANISERS
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* Effie Lai-Chong Law, University of Leicester, UK/ ETH Zurich, Switzerland
* Silvia Abrahão, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
* Arnold P.O.S. Vermeeren, TU Delft, the Netherlands
* Ebba Thora Hvannberg, University of Iceland

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The 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2013)

Call for Papers

The 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW

2013)

21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus.

Submission deadline for full papers and notes: 4 February, 2013.

General Chair: George Angelos Papadopoulos.
Program Chairs: Olav W. Bertelsen and Antonietta Grasso.


ECSCW 2013 calls for submissions reporting on investigations into
cooperation in real world settings and designs of innovative technologies to
support collaboration.

ECSCW is interested in cooperative settings in the workplace, in everyday
life, and the civic society, and across boundaries between these spheres of
life.


The conference is soliciting high quality contributions that advance the
state of the art in CSCW:
- empirical studies of work that contribute to the design space,
- novel techniques and technologies,
- enhancement of the conceptual foundations.


In particular, the conference welcomes contributions that focus on:
- Empirical studies of collaboration in settings ranging from work to
civic engagement and everyday life.
- Comparative analyses of empirical studies that contribute to a deeper
understanding of domain specific or more general CSCW principles.
- Empirical studies on the appropriation of innovative technologies.
- Studies on collaborative work in emergent and developing economies.
- Investigations into the usage and design of coordination artefacts as
well as webs of technology (infrastructures).
- New technology-enabled forms of organization and virtual organizing.
- Innovative technologies, applications, or functionality in support of
collaborative work.
- Conception, construction and use of CSCW technologies in complex and
demanding settings, like manufacturing, software engineering,
healthcare, care giving, security, and control systems.
- Architectures supporting CSCW technologies with quality requirements,
such as flexibility, tailorability, and adaptability.
- Ubiquitous and mobile computing in collaborative settings: empirical
research of use, studies of integration with other CSCW technologies
and applications.
- Innovative use of social media to support collective action.


All contributions will be rigorously evaluated in terms of their
novelty, significance, quality, and contribution to the discipline.
Accepted research papers and notes will be included in the conference
proceedings published by Springer and freely available at the ECSCW
website at: www.ecscw.org. They will also be indexed in and available
through the ACM digital library.

ECSCW 2013 requires that submissions have not been published previously
and that papers submitted are not under simultaneous review for any
other publication.

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Communities & Technologies 2013 (C&T 2013)

Call for Papers

6th Intl. Conf. on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2013)

Munich, Germany, June 29 - July 2, 2013

http://www.ct2013.cnss.de/

We cordially invite submissions to the Sixth International Conference on
Communities and Technologies (C&T 2013), hosted from 29th June – 2nd July
2013 in Munich. This biennial meeting serves as a forum for stimulating and
disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both
physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies.

C&T 2013 welcomes participation of researchers, designers, educators, and
students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the
interaction between community and technology.

The conference program includes competitively selected, peer-reviewed
papers, as well as workshops, panels, posters, a doctoral consortium, and
invited speakers.

People
• Conference Co-Chairs: Michael Koch & Johann Schlichter
• Paper Chairs: Wolfgang Prinz & Christine Satchell
• Workshop Chairs: Alessandra Agostini & Tom Gross
• Doctoral Consortium Chair: Geraldine Fitzpatrick
• Student Volunteer Chairs: Alexander Richter & Wolfgang Woerndl

Conference Themes

C&T focuses on the notion of communities as social entities comprised of
people who share something in common; this common element may be geography,
needs, interests, practices, organizations, or other bases for social
connection. Communities are considered to be a basic unit of social
experience. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can interact
with communities in many complex ways, For example, ICTs can support
community formation and development by facilitating communication and
coordination among members. Conversely, the lack of attention to the
surrounding community context may inhibit the design and effective use of
ICT innovations thus eroding the potential for new technologies to enhance
everyday life.

Topics appropriate for submission to this conference are manifold. Examples
of some of the vibrant areas of communities and technology research include,
but are not limited to:
• (Virtual) community formation and development
• Technical support for communities
• Communities and innovation
• Urban informatics
• Social capital, communities, and technology
• Interactions between online and offline communities
• Augmenting interactions between physically co-located groups
• Communities and e-government
• Ethnographic and case studies of virtual communities
• Trust, privacy and security issues in virtual communities
• Challenges of coordinating communities during natural disasters
• Economics of technology-facilitated communities
• Inter-organizational communities and technology
• Communities, technology, and learning/education
• Communities, technology, and health
• Enterprise 2.0

Submission categories, Format

We are calling for submission of full (research) papers, posters, workshop
proposals and applications to the doctoral consortium. Please submit all
papers and abstracts in ACM SIGCHI two column layout (see
http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform).

Full Papers

Full papers must be no longer than ten pages, including all additional
material such as references, appendices, and figures. The papers must
include a title, sufficient space for the author name(s) to appear on the
paper, abstract, keywords, body, and references.

Posters

Posters graphically illustrate original systems, experiences, or
applications, and will be shown for the duration of the main conference.
Poster submissions should include an extended abstract of no longer than two
pages. The extended abstract should state the contribution and originality
of the work clearly and explicitly, including just enough background to make
clear how the work differs from significant prior research.

Workshops

Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss and explore emerging areas of
Communities & Technologies research with a group of like-minded researchers
and practitioners. They run for a half or one full day and will take place
on 29. Jun 2013 or 30. Jun 2013.

Proposals of workshop organisers should be no longer than four pages and
should include: the title of the workshop, the list of organisers and their
backgrounds, and an abstract of no more than 150 words; as well as the
workshop's theme, goals and activities; maximum number of participants,
means of soliciting participation, and means of selecting participants.

Please email your proposal as PDF attachment to: ct2013w@gmail.com

Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium is scheduled prior to the main conference program on
30. June 2013. The Doctoral Consortium (DC) offers research students a
special forum where they can present, discuss and progress their research
plans with peers and established senior researchers.

Research students wishing to attend the consortium should submit up to four
pages, addressing the following: Introduction setting up your research area
and specific research question(s)/goals(s) (including key related work);
Overall research approach, methodology, and expected contributions; Work in
progress (including findings to date and next steps); Questions and issues
for discussion, and what you hope to gain from attending the DC; short bio.

Please send applications by 1. May 2013 to Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Doctoral
Consortium Chair: geraldine.fitzpatrick AT tuwien.ac.at.

Student Volunteers

C&T actively encourages students to volunteer at the conference. Being a
student volunteer is a great way to support the research community, meet
other students in the field, and attend an international ACM conference. You
will help the conference organisers with the running of the conference and
support the setting-up of presentations and workshops. You will see the
latest in C&T research and development, and have fun while learning about
running the conference. In return, you will get free registration. To apply,
email us your contact details (email, phone, university), a CV and the
reasons why you would like to be a student volunteer.

Please send applications by email to the Student Volunteer Co-Chairs until
1. May 2013: Alexander Richter (alexander.richter AT unibw.de) and Wolfgang
Woerndl (woerndl AT in.tum.de).


Deadlines
• 1. Feb 2013 Full papers and workshop proposals due
• 1. Mar 2013 Notification of acceptance (for workshop proposals)
• 1. Apr 2013 Notification of acceptance (for full papers)
• 1. May 2013 Camera ready papers
• 1. May 2013 Workshop papers, posters and doctoral consortium and
student volunteer applications due
• 29. Jun – 2. Jul 2013 Workshops and conference in Munich

For more Information see the conference website at
http://www.ct2013.cnss.de/

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Workshop on Information and Decisions in Social Networks @ MIT

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Workshop on Information and Decisions in Social Networks

November 8-9, 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

http://wids.lids.mit.edu/

Interdisciplinary workshop for researchers working on information and decisions in social networks.

During the last decade, it has become clear that network interactions have a much larger role in our lives than had previously been appreciated: social networks have a defining impact on not only consumer choice but are also central in social and political decisions ranging from the political discourse in the blogosphere to the organization and coordination of protests in the Arab spring.  Similarly financial networks seem at the heart of the 2008 crash. Network effects are now seen as major elements in other domains with human decisions including healthcare, public health, smart power grids, urban transportation, and more. As a consequence, both businesses and government are increasingly looking to build new types of networks to improve management abilities.

This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from different communities working on information propagation and decision making in social networks to investigate both rigorous models that highlight capabilities and limitations of such networks as well as empirical and simulations studies of how people exchange information, influence each other, make decisions and develop social interactions.

The workshop is organized by the virtual center Connection Science and Engineering, a multidisciplinary and interdepartmental MIT center that focuses on developing an integrated framework for the study of the connected world we live in. The center is hosted jointly by Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Media Lab, and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Registration is now open. Please visit the workshop website http://wids.lids.mit.edu/  to complete your registration. We have limited seating available and registration will be processed on a first-come first-serve basis.

Submission Instructions:

All contributions, theoretical, empirical, and experimental, on social networks are welcome. There will be no published proceeding. The material submitted to the workshop may also be submitted elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit an abstract of one to three pages by the deadline of September 15, 2012. Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es) on the first page. Pages of the abstract should not be numbered. Electronic submission of manuscripts in PDF format is required.

Please send your manuscript directly to widssubmission@gmail.com by September 15, 2012.

Important Dates

June 2012: Registration begins

September 15, 2012: Submission deadline

October 10, 2012: Program available

November 8-9, 2012: Workshop

Organizers

    Frank Alexander, LANL

    Vincent Blondel, UCLouvain (Belgium) and LIDS, MIT

    Costis Daskalakis, CSAIL, MIT

    David Gamarnik, Sloan School, MIT

    Asu Ozdaglar, LIDS, MIT

    Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Media Lab, MIT

    Devavrat Shah, LIDS, MIT

   John Tsitsiklis, LIDS, MIT

Scientific committee

Daron Acemoglu

Itai Ashlagi

Laszlo Barabasi

Kostas Bimpikis  

Larry Blume  

Damon Centola  

Munther Dahleh 

Costis Daskalakis   

Ben Golub 

Marta Gonzalez 

Sanjeev Goyal  

Julien Hendrickx 

Cesar Hidalgo

Ali Jadbabaie

Patrick Jaillet

Sep Kamvar

Gary King

David Lazer 

Jure Leskovec

Andrew W. Lo

Mihai Manea

Andrew McAfee

Christos Papadimitriou 

Pablo Parrilo

R. Ravi

Whitman Richards

Alessandro Vespignani  

John Williams

If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to
mas-ms-owner@media.mit.edu  Thanks!

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