40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2014)

Research Track PVLDB Vol. 7 and VLDB 2014 We invite submissions of original

research papers to the volume

7 of Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB). Accepted papers will form

the Research Track for the 2014 VLDB conference.

The annual VLDB conference is a premier annual international forum for
database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers, and
users. PVLDB, established in 2008, is a scholarly journal for short and
timely research papers, with a journal-style review and quality-assurance
process. PVLDB is distinguished by a monthly submission process with rapid
reviews. PVLDB issues are published regularly throughout the year. Your
paper will appear in PVLDB soon after acceptance, and possibly in advance of
the VLDB conference. All papers accepted in time (see details on this below)
will both be published in PVLDB Vol. 7 and presented at the VLDB 2014
conference. At least one author of every submitted paper is expected to
attend the VLDB conference if the paper is accepted.

PVLDB is the only submission channel for research papers to appear in the
VLDB 2014 conference. Detailed information on the submission guidelines and
processes for this track may be found at
http://www.vldb.org/2014/submission_guidelines.html. The submission process
of other VLDB 2014 tracks may differ and is described in the respective
calls for papers.

Important Dates
Submission deadlines: 1st day of each month (first submission: April 1st,
2013, last submission March 1st, 2014) Author Notification: 2 months after
original submission for the 1st review,
2 months after revision submission the 2nd review and final decision.
Conference dates: September 1st-5th, 2014

Topics of Interest
PVLDB welcomes original research papers on a broad range of topics related
to data-centric computation, especially at scale.
The themes and topics listed below are intended as a sample of familiar
themes and topics; we encourage and expect papers on all data-centric
topics.

Systems for Data Management: data system architecture; storage, replication
and consistency; physical representations; query and dataflow processing

Scalable Data Analysis: complex queries and search; approximate querying;
scalable statistical methods; management of uncertainty and reasoning at
scale; data privacy and security

Management of Very Large Data Systems: availability; adaptivity and
self-tuning; power management; virtualization

Data Models and Languages: XML and semi-structured data; multi- media,
temporal and spatial data; declarative languages; language interfaces for
databases;

Performance and Evaluation: benchmarking; experimental methodology at scale;
scientific evaluation of complex data systems

Domain-Specific Data Management: methods and systems for science; developing
regions; networks and mobility; ubiquitous computing; sensors databases

Management of Web and Heterogeneous Data: information extraction;
information integration; meta-data management; data cleaning; service
oriented architectures

User Interfaces and Social Data: data visualization; collaborative data
analysis and curation; social networks; email and messaging analytics

To submit a paper, follow the submission guidelines at
http://www.vldb.org/2014/submission_guidelines.html, and choose the research
track for the correct month. Then carefully choose the subject area(s) that
best describe the paper. The areas indicated impact the choice of both AE
and reviewers.
(Make sure not to choose anything labeled "xxx Track" as a subject area.
This will cause your paper to be moved out of the research track and into
the other track you chose to mark.)

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The 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013)

Call for Papers

The 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 

CIKM 2013

Oct. 27 - Nov. 1, 2013 

San Francisco Airport Marriot Waterfront, 

Burlingame, CA, USA

http://www.cikm2013.org

Sponsored by: ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB

The 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013) will be held from October 27 to November 1, 2013 in San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront, Burlingame, California, USA. CIKM is a top-tier ACM conference in the areas of information retrieval, knowledge management and databases. Since 1992, it has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the three communities. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future research directions through the publication of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. In CIKM 2013, we will continue the tradition of promoting collaboration among multiple areas. We encourage submissions of high quality papers on all topics in the general areas of databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest in the three tracks include, but are !
not limited to:

Databases
* Access methods and indexing
* Authorization, data privacy and security
* Concurrency control and recovery
* Data adaptability, reusability and quality
* Database languages, models and interfaces
* Information integration, data provenance, probabilistic databases
* Cloud computing, peer-to-peer, parallel and distributed databases
* Query processing, optimization and performance
* Semi-structured data processing, XML filtering and routing
* Stream-based processing, real-time and network databases
* String databases, blogs and social search
* Systems, middleware, applications and experiences
* Temporal, spatial, mobile, multimedia and scientific databases

Information Retrieval
* Semi-Structured Information Retrieval
* Semantic and Entity-Based Information Retrieval
* Domain-specific IR (legal, genome, chemical, etc.)
* Citation Analysis and Social Networks for IR
* Distributed IR and Peer-to-Peer Search
* Filtering (recommender systems, topic tracking)
* User Modeling for IR, Search Personalization
* User Analysis and Privacy
* IR Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency
* IR Evaluation and User Studies
* Language Specific IR (multi-lingual, NLP, question and answer)
* Machine Learning for IR
* Multimedia IR (Audio, Speech, Video, Image)
* Web Search and Advertising
* Adversarial IR and Spam
* Novel IR Interfaces (mobile, explorative, interactive)
* Foundation of Information Retrieval (theory, ranking, etc.)

Knowledge Management
* Data mining theory, methods, and applications
* Machine learning applications
* Big data analytics
* Data warehousing and business intelligence
* Information extraction and filtering
* Knowledge Synthesis and Visualization
* Semantic Techniques
* Social networks and social media
* Knowledge management in innovative applications, such as healthcare information and network security intelligence

=== Paper Submissions for CIKM 2013 ===

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Papers will be handled through the online submission system https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/CIKM2013/.

ACM CIKM review is double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize your submission. Papers cannot exceed 10 pages in length. There is no short paper track. The organizers may offer the authors of selected paper submissions to prepare a shorter version of their paper for presentation. Uploading instructions and more detailed submission instructions for papers, and workshop proposals, are available at the conference website http://www.cikm2013.org.

Each accepted paper is required at least a full registration fee regardless of the status of the registered author. Also, one of the authors (or a qualified substitute) must give a presentation of the paper at the conference. Otherwise, the paper will not be indexed by the ACM digital library.

For any questions about paper submissions, please contact the program committee co-chairs at pc-chair@cikm2013.org.

=== Important Dates ===

Full Papers

Abstracts due: May 10, 2013
Full papers due: May 17, 2013
Notifications: Jul 15, 2013
Camera-ready due: Aug 11, 2013

Posters

Posters due: May 31, 2013
Notifications: Jul 22, 2013
Camera-ready due: Aug 11, 2013

Workshops

Proposals due: April 1, 2013
Proposal acceptance notifications: April 19, 2013 Papers due: Jun 21, 2013
Notifications: Jul 22, 2013
Camera-ready due: Aug 11, 2013

Demonstrations

Demonstration papers due: June 3, 2013
Notifications: July 22, 2013
Camera-ready due: Aug 11, 2013

Tutorials

Proposals due: Jul 15, 2013
Proposal acceptance notifications: Jul 25, 2013


=== CIKM 2013 Organization Team ===

General Chairs
Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Waston Research Center Qi He, IBM Almaden Research Center

Program Chairs
Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada (KM Track) Rajeev Rastogi, Amazon, Bangalore, India (DB Track) Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Germany (IR Track)

IR Track Associate Chair
Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy

Best Paper Award Committee Chair
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Tutorial Chairs
Xuedong Huang, Microsoft
Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research

Workshop Chairs
Esteban Zimanyi, University Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Jianshu Weng, HP Labs, Singapore

Poster Chair
Yuanyuan Tian, IBM Almaden Research Center

Demo Track Chairs
Shuming Shi, Microsoft Research Asia
Luna Dong, Google Inc, USA

Sponsorship Chairs
Amol Ghoting, IBM T.J. Waston Research Center Rong Yan, Facebook Inc, USA

Industry Track Chairs
Brian Johnson, eBay Inc., USA
Baojun Qiu, eBay Inc., USA

Proceedings Chair
Luo Si, Purdue University

Publicity and Media Chair
Yuan Tian, Facebook Inc, USA

Local Arrangement Chairs
Yi Fang, Santa Clara University
Jiang Bian, Microsoft Research Asia

Treasurer
Mu Qiao, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Ek Park

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Special Issue on “Transforming the classrooms: Innovative Digital Game-based Learning Designs and Applications” - ETR&D

Special Issue on "Transforming the classrooms: Innovative Digital Game-based Learning Designs and Applications" in Educational Technology Research & Development

Objective

Digital game-based learning has been recognized as being an effective approach in increasing students' learning motivation, which is an important factor of improving students' learning performance. In recent years, many educational computer games have been developed for various courses, such as mathematics, science, social science and engineering. Several studies have reported the effectiveness of educational computer games in enhancing the learning interest of students, and even increase their motivation. In comparison with traditional instructions or conventional technology-enhanced learning, digital game-based learning is able to provide a more interesting and challenging learning environment for acquiring knowledge.
In the meantime, researchers have indicated that the effectiveness of educational computer games might not be as significant as expected if they are developed without embedding learning strategies; therefore, it has become an important issue to develop educational computer games by taking effective learning strategies, knowledge construction tools, or educational theories into account.
The aim of this special issue is to provide an opportunity for researchers to present their studies related to the development of educational computer games with effective learning strategies. The developed games need to be thoroughly evaluated via practical applications. The submitted papers will go through a double-blind review. It is expected that, via this special issue, researchers can share their ideas and research results, and further inspire each other in developing more creative and effective educational computer games in the future.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

• Artificial intelligence strategies in digital game-based learning
• Strategies and practices of developing adaptive educational games
• Strategies and practices of developing collaborative educational games
• Strategies and practices of developing of educational mobile games
• Development and applications of Mindtool-embedded educational computer games
• Development and applications of online educational competition games
• Development and applications of educational computer games with emerging technologies
• Other related issues/topics

Important Dates

1. Prospective schedule of deadlines for the proposed Special Issue:
• Due dates for full paper submissions: April 1, 2013
• Notification of the first run review: May 15, 2013
• Notification of the second run review (or editorial review): June 30, 2013
• Final accepted manuscripts to be posted to ETR&D: July 31, 2013
2. Targeted publication date for the proposed special issue: December, 2013

How to Submit

Go to the journal website at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/etrd/
Login your ETR&D account and choose the paper category as "S. I. : Digital games based on AECT-Asia papers" for your submission.

Guest editors:
Nian-Shing Chen
Chair Professor, Department of Information Management,
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Educational Technology & Society Journal (SSCI).
Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology.
Email: nschen@mis.nsysu.edu.tw
Web: http://www.nschen.net
Tel: +886-7-5252510

Gwo-Jen Hwang
Chair Professor, Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
43, Sec.4, Keelung Rd., Taipei, 106, Taiwan
E-mail: gjhwang.academic@gmail.com
Tel.: +886-915-396558; fax: +886-2-2737-6433
http://www.idlslab.net/

Guest Editors' Vitae
Dr. Nian-Shing Chen is Chair Professor at the Department of Information Management in the National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. He has published over 350 papers in the international referred journals, conferences and book chapters. One of his papers published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International was awarded as the top cited article in 2010. He is the author of three books with one textbook entitled "e-Learning Theory & Practice". Prof. Chen received the distinguished research awards from the National Science Council, Taiwan in 2008 and 2011-2013. His current research interests include assessing e-Learning course performance; online synchronous teaching & learning; mobile & ubiquitous learning; natural user interface & game-based learning. Prof. Chen is serving as editorial board members for many international journals and guest editors for more than 15 special issues of international journals. He has also organized and chaired numerous international conferences and workshops in the area of advanced learning technologies. Professor Chen is a senior member of IEEE, ACM and the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology (http://lttf.ieee.org/). He is Co-Editor-In-Chief of the SSCI-indexed Journal of Educational Technology & Society.

Dr. Gwo-Jen Hwang is currently a Chair Professor at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan in 1991. Dr Hwang serves as an editorial board member and a reviewer for more than 30 academic journals. His research interests include digital game-based learning, mobile and ubiquitous learning, computer-assisted testing, and artificial intelligence in education. Dr. Hwang has published nearly 400 academic papers, including 150 papers in such professional journals as British Journal of Educational Technology, Computers & Education, Educational Technology & Society, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, Interactive Learning Environment, and Computer-Assisted Learning among others. Owing to the good reputation in academic research and innovative inventions in e-learning, he received the annual most Outstanding Researcher Award from the National Science Council in the years of 2007 and 2010.

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PhD Studentship for Game Data Analytics - Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, UK

Coventry University Serious Game Institute and Hildebrand

3-year PhD studentship, 2013–2016
Game Data Analytics: Game Mechanics as Motivators – The Behavioural Economics of Energy Use
Fixed-term, 36 months: £13,000 per annum (tax free) + tuition fees
Application deadline: 15 March
See also: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGB264/phd-studentship-in-game-data-analytics/
Applicants are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship examining the behavioural economics of energy use and specifically the use of game mechanics as motivators.
The Serious Games Institute at Coventry University is globally recognised as a Centre of Excellence for the serious applications of game technology, such as video games, virtual worlds and social networking. Hildebrand is the world-leading expert in data collection, management and presentation for the energy sector and combines research with real-world experience to deliver innovative solutions for its clients. This studentship forms part of a close collaboration between Hildebrand, and the Serious Games Institute at Coventry University. The three-year project will cover the use of game mechanics as motivational tools, primarily for promoting behavioural and attitudinal change towards more responsible energy consumption. Research will seek to gain insight into understanding the use of game mechanics for promoting desired behaviour, using monitoring and assessment of real-time energy data. The PhD student will work closely with the SGI and Hildebrand. The successful candidate will be primarily based at Hildebrand's London offices; though will be an active member of the applied research group at the Serious Games Institute, led by Prof. Sara de Freitas, and will have the opportunity to attend regular tutorials and courses at Coventry University's Serious Games Institute.
Candidate specification
The successful candidate should have or expect to obtain a Masters or first-class honours degree in a relevant discipline, such as psychology, social/behavioural science, economics, computer science, physics, mathematics, or game design.
We are looking for a creative individual with a good understanding of, and keen interest in, game mechanics and game design. This should be supported by sound knowledge of research methodologies and the desire to closely align both research and game development work. A basic understanding of data collection methods, together with some knowledge of analytical techniques would be advantageous. Existing skills relevant to game development, for example previous experience working with a game engine, game development environment, or 3D design tools, would also be beneficial.
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr Maurice Hendrix maurice.hendrix@coventry.ac.uk. Please note that applications sent to this email address will not be accepted.
Complete the application form and return with a covering letter to:
Research Admissions Team
Student Centre
Coventry University
Priory Street
Coventry
CV1 5FB
UK
Fax: +44 (0) 24 7688 8609
Email: research-apps.pg@coventry.ac.uk

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ACM CSCW 2014

CSCW 2014 Call for Participation – Papers

Important Dates

* May 31^st, 2013, 5 p.m. PDT:  Submissions due

* July 6^th: First-round notification (Revise & Resubmit or Reject)

* July 26^th, 5 p.m. PDT: Revised submissions due

* August 23^rd: Final notifications (Accept or Reject)

CSCW, the ACM’s conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on how technology intersects with social practices. The 2014 CSCW conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland from February 15^th – 18^th, 2014. Paper submissions are due on May 31^st, 2013.

We invite submissions that detail existing practices, inform the design or deployment of systems, or introduce novel systems, interaction techniques, or algorithms. The scope of CSCW includes, but is not limited to, social computing and social media, crowdsourcing, technologically-enabled or enhanced communication, CSCL and related educational technologies (e.g., MOOCs), multi-user input technologies (e.g., surface computing), collaboration, information sharing, and coordination. It includes socio-technical activities at work, in the home, in education, in healthcare, in the arts, for socializing, and for entertainment. New results or new ways of thinking about, studying, or supporting shared activities can be in these and related areas:

* Social and crowd computing. Studies, theories, designs, mechanisms, systems, and/or infrastructures addressing social media, social networking, user-generated content, wikis, blogs, online gaming, crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, virtual worlds, collaborative information seeking, etc.

* System design. Hardware, architectures, infrastructures, interaction design, technical foundations, algorithms, and/or toolkits that enable the building of new social and collaborative systems and experiences.

* Theories and models. Critical analysis or organizing theory with clear relevance to the design or study of social and collaborative systems.

* Empirical investigations. Findings, guidelines, and/or ethnographic studies relating to technologies, practices, or use of communication, collaboration, and social technologies.

* Methodologies and tools. Novel methods or combinations of approaches and tools used in building systems or studying their use.

* Domain-specific social and collaborative applications. Including for healthcare, transportation, gaming (for enjoyment or productivity), ICT4D, sustainability, education, accessibility, collective intelligence, global collaboration, or other domains.

* Collaboration systems based on emerging technologies. Mobile and ubiquitous computing, game engines, virtual worlds, multi-touch technologies, novel display technologies, vision and gesture recognition systems, big data infrastructures, MOOCs, crowd labor markets, SNSes, sensor-based environments, etc.

* Crossing boundaries. Studies, prototypes, or other investigations that explore interactions across disciplines, distance, languages, generations, and cultures, to help better understand how to transcend social, temporal, and/or spatial boundaries.

Papers should detail original research contributions. Papers must report new research results that represent a contribution to the field. They must provide sufficient details and support for their results and conclusions. They must cite relevant published research or experience, highlight novel aspects of the submission, and identify the most significant contributions. Papers are evaluated on the basis of originality, significance, quality of research, quality of writing, and contribution to conference program diversity.

Papers Chairs

Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft Research

Madhu Reddy, The Pennsylvania State University

papers2014@cscw.acm.org

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The 3rd Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Applications (SNAA 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 3rd Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Applications(SNAA 2013)

co–located with the 2013 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013)

http://www.zsi.pwr.wroc.pl/SNAA2013/

The SNAA 2013 workshop is devoted to analysis of social structures and what is more important to identify the areas where social network analysis can be applied and provide the knowledge that is not accessible for other types of analysis. Additionally, applications of social network analysis can be investigated either from static or dynamic perspective.

We seek for business and industrial applications of social network analysis that help to solve real-world problems. The area of social network analysis and its applications bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields and the main goal of this workshop is to provide them the opportunity to share their visions, research achievements and solutions as well as to establish worldwide cooperative research and development. At the same time, we want to provide a platform for discussing research topics underlying the concepts of social network analysis and its applications by inviting members of different communities that share this common interest of investigating social networks. As the area of social networks is a highly cross-disciplinary one, we aim to foster and develop sustainable collaborations between Computer Science and Informatics, Sociology, Cognitive Science and Psychology, Geographic and Environmental Science, Biology, and Health and Social Sciences. This will give the opportunity to push further the discussion upon the potential of social networks and their applications across these communities.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The scope of the 3rd Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Applications (SNAA 2013) includes, but is not limited to the following application areas of social network analysis:

• Social media
• Business / e-business / e-commerce
• Customer relationship management
• Customer behavioural analysis
• Recommender systems – Collaborative filtering and personalization
• Information / opinion / knowledge spread and modelling
• Medical applications, e.g. diseases spread
• Social networks in health and social care
• Educational applications / e-learning
• Collaborative Information Retrieval
• Crime detection and investigation
• Organisational structure evaluation
• Collaborative environments, including wikis
• Sharing systems
• Virtual worlds and online multiplayer games
• Systems for e-society, including e-government
• User analysis in web-based systems
• Real–world case studies from the area of social network analysis
• Applications of spatio-temporal, textual, dynamic and multi-layer models

IMPORTANT DATES

• April 8, 2013 – Abstract submission deadline
• April 15, 2013 – Full paper submission deadline
• May 20, 2013 - Notification of acceptance
• May 31, 2013 - Camera-ready paper due
• June 10, 2013 - Presenting author registration due
• August 25-28, 2013 – Conference

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.

Prof. Symanski is working in the field of network science, with emphasis on social, wireless and sensor networks, to analysis and design of distributed and parallel algorithms, simulation of networks and biological/ecological phenomena.

His current research projects focus on dynamical processes on networks, hidden groups in social networks, sensor network protocols and algorithms, and large–scale parallel and distributed computing and simulation.

He is currently Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Social Cognitive Network Academic Research Center, part of NS CTA, funded by the ARL, and Director of the Network Science and Technology Center (NeST).



PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics are solicited.

Full paper submission deadline is April 15, 2013. These papers will follow an academic review process. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 8 pages (using the IEEE two-column template - http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html).

Submissions to SNAA 2013 should be anonymized: please remove author names and every other information that could reveal your identity from your submission. Papers that have not been properly anonymized will be rejected without review.

At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the paper

Please submit your paper by using the on-line submission system via: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snaa2013

SPECIAL ISSUE

The extended versions of selected papers presented during the SNAA 2013 workshop will be published in the special issue of the prestigious journal selected from the Journal Citation Report (with impact factor).

BEST PAPER AWARD

The Best Paper Award will be given for the paper judged to make the most significant contribution to SNAA 2013. The judges may make their assessment based on the papers contained in the proceedings, not on the oral or poster presentation of the papers. However, for a paper to gain this award one of the authors must have attended the conference and presented the paper.

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
• Piotr Brodka, Institute of Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Address: Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, 50--370 Wroclaw, Poland
Email: piotr.brodka@pwr.wroc.pl

• Katarzyna Musial, School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Department of Informatics, King's College London, United Kingdom
Address: Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS London, United Kingdom
Email: katarzyna.musial@kcl.ac.uk

• Matteo Magnani, Data Intensive Systems, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
Address: 34 Abogade, 8200 Aarhus-N, Denmark
Email: magnanim@cs.au.dk

ORGANIZIONG COMMITTEES

• Fei Gao, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Email: fei.1.gao@kcl.ac.uk

• Radoslaw Michalski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Email: radoslaw.michalski@pwr.wroc.pl

• Stanislaw Saganowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Email: stanislaw.saganowski@pwr.wroc.pl

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Special Theme on Learning Analytics in the Bulletin of TCLT

Call For Articles – BULLETIN OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON LEARNING TECHNOLOGY (ISSN 2306-0212) http://www.ieeetclt.org/content/bulletin
publication of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning Technology (TCLT)

* Special Theme: Learning Analytics
* Deadline for submission: March 30, 2013.


The Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Learning Technology (former
Learning Technology Newsletter) aims at publishing and disseminating current
research about new and emerging learning technologies as well as their
design, usage, application, and evaluation in different contexts of
technology enhanced learning.

The special theme of this issue will focus on learning analytics, including
(but not limited to) research on theory and practical uses of learning
analytics; learning analytics algorithms and tools as well as their
evaluations; concepts and applications of learning analytics in formal,
informal and non-formal educational settings; the visualization of results
from learning analytics for students and teachers; the design,
implementation and evaluations of learning analytics techniques; and case
studies and exploratory studies on how to use learning analytics to
facilitated learning and teaching.

Articles that are not in the area of the special theme are most welcome as
well and will be published in the regular article section. The Bulletin of
the Technical Committee on Learning Technology invites short articles, case
studies, and project reports for the April issue. This issue will be
published in Volume 15, Issue 2 (April, 2013).


** The bulletin is of non-refereed nature though the articles will be
selected and edited by the Editors. **


Submission procedure:

1. Authors have to follow the IEEE author guidelines when preparing their
articles (please see http://www.ieeetclt.org/content/authors-guidelines for
further information)

2. The articles in the bulletin are limited to 4 pages. Over-length articles
will not be published.

3. The manuscripts should be either in Word or RTF format. Any figures used
in the contributions would be required separately in a graphic format (gif
or jpeg). The figures should also be embedded in the text at appropriate
places.

4. Please send the manuscripts by email to karagian@uth.gr and
sabineg@athabascau.ca (Subject: Bulletin of TCLT Submission).

5. In the email, please state clearly that the manuscript is original
material that has not been published, and is not being considered for
publication elsewhere.

For further information please see http://www.ieeetclt.org/content/bulletin.

Best regards,
Sabine Graf
Charalampos Karagiannidis
(Editors of the Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Learning Technology)

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