Deadline Extension - The 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'14)

The 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
New paper submission deadline: 9 December 2013
Note count-down clock! 

http://delab.csd.auth.gr/caise2014/important_dates.php  

Call for Papers

Information Systems Engineering in Times of Crisis
http://delab.csd.auth.gr/caise2014/

Real-time information systems and overly complex financial products have been blamed as causes of recent financial crises. The IS Engineering community is treating such phenomena as challenges, to be addressed through research and improved practices. In particular, our community has begun to address the role of information systems in predicting, preventing, and reacting to crises of many different kinds: data-centric financial and fiscal dependency analysis of the globalized financial systems, resilience of critical infrastructures by information management, reaction to natural disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, etc. Due to the very nature of crises as unexpected events with broad and vast impact, IS Engineering challenges traditional wisdom and methodologies, as well as interactions between research and practice including stakeholders such as crisis victims.
CAiSE '14 will, as always, act as a forum of discussion that brings together researchers and practitioners in the field of IS Engineering. It will be the place to share mature research, ground-breaking ideas, and experience reports in our discipline.
CAiSE welcomes all submissions that fall in the domain of information systems engineering. This year, the conference extends a special welcome to papers that address the role of IS engineering in crisis situations. Four kinds of contributions are accepted: technical papers, empirical evaluation papers, reports of experience, and exploratory papers. The CAiSE topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Methods, techniques and tools for IS engineering
•    Innovation and creativity in IS engineering
•    Enterprise architecture and enterprise modelling
•    Requirements engineering
•    Business process modeling, analysis and management
•    Requirements, models, and software reuse
•    Adaptation, evolution and flexibility issues
•    Domain engineering
•    IS in networked & virtual organizations
•    Method engineering
•    Knowledge, information, and data quality
•    Languages and models
•    Mining, monitoring and predicting
•    Variability and configuration
•    Matching, compliance and alignment issues
•    Conceptual design and modelling
•    Security
•    Service science

Innovative platforms, architectures and technologies for IS
•    Service-oriented architecture
•    Model-driven architecture
•    Component based development
•    Agent architecture
•    Distributed, mobile, and open architecture
•    Innovative database technology
•    Semantic web
•    IS and ubiquitous technologies
•    Adaptive and context-aware IS

Domain specific IS engineering:
•    Crisis Management
•    eGovernment
•    Enterprise applications (ERP, COTS)
•    Data warehouses and business intelligence
•    Workflow systems
•    Knowledge management systems
•    Content management systems

Important dates
•    Paper submission deadline: 9 December 2013
•    Tutorial submission deadline: 13 December 2013
•    Notification of acceptance: 17 February 2014
•    Conference, Workshops & Related Events: 16-20 June 2014

Author Guidelines
Types of contributions. We invite four types of original and scientific papers:
Formal and/or technical papers describe original solutions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of IS engineering. A technical paper should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and the potential - or, even better, the evaluated - benefits of the contribution.
Empirical evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, formal analyses, mathematical proofs, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and practices in industry also falls into this category. The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as well as its causal or logical properties must be clearly stated. The research method must be sound and appropriate.
Experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial practice. The focus is on 'what' and on lessons learned, not on an in-depth analysis of 'why'. The practice must be clearly described and its context must be given. Readers should be able to draw conclusions for their own practice.
Exploratory Papers can describe completely new research positions or approaches, in order to face to a generic situation arising because of new ICT tools or new kinds of activities or new IS challenges. They must describe precisely the situation and demonstrate how current methods, tools, ways of reasoning, or meta-models are inadequate. They must rigorously present their approach and demonstrate its pertinence and correctness to addressing the identified situation.
Submission Conditions. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding 15 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. The type of paper (technical/empirical evaluation/experience/exploratory paper) should be indicated in the submission.
Publication. Accepted papers will be presented at CAiSE'14 and published in the conference proceedings, which is published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors elected best papers from the conference will be invited to submit an expanded version for publication in the journal, Information Systems.

Venue
Thessaloniki is the second largest city of Greece, with a population of 1.000.000 people. Apart from its landmark, the White Tower, the city boasts important historical sites, museums and cultural activities. It is also known as a cosmopolitan and commercial center, with exceptional nightlife in its famous Ladadika quarter. The music scene in the city is vibrant and diverse and includes nightclubs, dance halls, discos, cafes and music bars, jazz clubs and more, along with a wealth of live performances, both musical and theatrical. In addition to important Byzantine and Archaeological museums within the city, travellers can visit the Archaeological site of Vergina (the capital of ancient Macedonia). This is the venue of Phillip's tomb (the father of Alexander the Great), a site full of remarkable treasures of art and culture. Also within a short distance (45 minutes by car) one can visit mount Olympus (the mountain of the ancient Gods) where "Dion" the holy city of ancient Macedonia is located. For these and many other reasons, Thessaloniki is the cultural capital of northern Greece! CAISE'2014 will be hosted at the MET Hotel (http://www.themethotel.gr), located very close to the historic center of Thessaloniki, 17 km from "Macedonia" airport. A block of rooms has been reserved for the conference registrants.

Organising Committee
Steering Committee
•    Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
•    Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica València, Spain
•    John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Advisory Committee
•    Arne Sølvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
•    Janis Bubenko Jr, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
•    Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1, France
General Chairs
•    Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1, France
•    Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
•    Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London, UK
Program Board Chair
•    Eric Dubois, Public Research Center H. Tudor, Luxembourg
Program Chairs
•    Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
•    John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy
•    Christoph Quix, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Tutorial and Panel Chairs
•    Jaelson Castro, University of Pernambuco, Brasil
•    Dimitri Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Workshops Chairs
•    Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
•    Mike Papazoglou, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
•    Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Forum Chairs
•    Selmin Nurcan, University of Paris 1, France
•    Elias Pimenidis, University of East London, UK
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
•    Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica València, Spain
•    Yannis Vassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Organizing Committee Chairs
•    Anastasios Gounaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
•    Apostolos Papadopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Publicity Chairs
•    Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece
•    Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
•    Eric Yu, University of Totonto, Canada
•    Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brasil
•    Naoufel Kraiem, Université de Manouba, Tunisia

Web and Social Media Master
•    Ioannis Karydis, Ionian University, Greece

See website for full details.

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WWW 2014 Workshop - 4th Joint Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2014)

 

1st CALL FOR PAPERS

The 4th Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2014)

Workshop to be held at the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW

2014) in Seoul, Korea

http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/webquality2014/

IMPORTANT DATES

==============================
Jan 7, 2014: Paper submission deadline
Feb 4, 2014: Notification of acceptance
Feb 12, 2014: Camera ready copy deadline April 7, 2014: Workshop date
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OBJECTIVES

The Web and social media are growing both in size and complexity, as well as
playing an increasing role in our lives. Finding relevant, timely and
trustworthy content in a sea of seemingly irrelevant chatter remains a
challenging research issue. On one hand, this workshop deals with the more
blatant and malicious attempts that deteriorate web quality such as spam,
plagiarism, or various forms of abuse and ways to prevent them or neutralize
their impact on users' experience. On the other hand, it will also provide a
venue for exchanging ideas on quantifying and modeling issues of content
quality, credibility and author reputation.

The objective of the workshop is to provide the research communities working
on web quality topics with a survey of current problems and potential solutions.
It presents an opportunity for close interaction between researchers and
practitioners who may be focused on isolated sub-areas. We also want to
gather crucial feedback for the academic community from participants
representing major industry players on how web content quality research can
contribute to practice.

TOPICS

Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Assessing the credibility of content and people on the web and social media
* Measuring quality of web content
* Uncovering distorted and biased content
* Modeling author identity, trust, and reputation
* Role of groups and communities
* Multimedia content credibility

Fighting spam, abuse, and plagiarism on the Web and social media
* Reducing web spam
* Reducing abuses of electronic messaging systems
* Detecting abuses in internet advertising
* Uncovering plagiarism and multiple-identity issues
* Promoting cooperative behavior in social networks
* Security issues with online communication

Other topics are listed on the workshop website.

We invite two kinds of submissions: (i) full papers and (ii) short papers.
Full papers are limited to 8 pages, while short papers are limited to 4 pages.
Papers should be written in English, formatted according to the ACM style
guide http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
and submitted via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webquality2014
The accepted papers will appear in ACM Digital Library.

ORGANIZERS

Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University)
Carlos Castillo (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
James Caverlee (Texas A&M University)
Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

see the website

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WWW 2014 Workshop - The 4th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2014)

The 4th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2014) at WWW 2014

http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/microposts2014

7 April 2014, Seoul, Republic of Korea


THEME
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Making Sense of Microposts: Big things come in small packages

Microposts, such as Twitter status updates, Instagram likes and photos and Foursquare checkins, form a notable part of published web content. Smart phones, after overtaking sales of personal computers in 2012, now play a significant role in enabling ubiquitous communication, and have contributed to the steep increase in publication of Microposts, via native mobile apps and mobile-specific web sites. The increase in Micropost publication is evident across Twitter, where 500 million posts are now published every day, up from 175 million in 2012. Facebook sees 30 billion pieces of content shared on it every month. Such statistics reflect the growing production and consumption of data by users and the widespread sharing of information through social networks. The utility of Microposts is such that we are now providing up-to-date information about a range of topics formed in disparate contexts, providing information about emerging events, online presence, emergency response and c!
rowd movement. Being able to make sense of Microposts therefore impacts on the ability to act upon information quickly and effectively, and aids the understanding of evolving user behaviour, events and public perception and opinion about their worlds.

The central objective of the #Microposts workshop is to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to discuss and debate current efforts toward analysing and understanding Microposts. We define a Micropost as information published on the Web that is small in size (e.g. a Tweet, Facebook share, Instagram like) and that requires minimal effort to publish. Although individual Microposts are small, collectively they provide a rich source of current information about a range of topics across all walks of life. Gleaning information from such content effectively requires a degree of understanding of what is being discussed and, with very large amounts, semi- to fully automated analytical and extraction approaches.
The workshop aims to provide a forum to enable discussion and hence, improve understanding of social and cultural phenomena that influence the publication and reuse of Microposts; and to discuss applications of Micropost data in a variety of contexts, including emergency response, crowd and event tracking, public opinion and sentiment analysis. Enabling the understanding and application of Micropost content requires analytical techniques and tools that function at scale and that can handle the high rate at which Microposts are published. The workshop invites submissions that deal with publication rate and scale, and approaches that facilitate understanding of Microposts through their semantics and where available, contextual information.

Microposts are both a technical and a social phenomenon, and the nature of the challenge related to their treatment is therefore multi-disciplinary. We continue to promote a multidisciplinary workshop, as achieved in the past three in the series, by also encouraging social scientists and other non-Computer Science researchers to submit work that looks at the theories behind Micropost usage and communication through this medium. The workshop also encourages demonstration of practical application of the results of analysis of Micropost data, both within the research community and in everyday, real-world scenarios. We encourage submissions using this and last year’s challenge data for contributions to the main track.



TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The workshop will focus on topics including, but not exclusive to, the three areas below:

Data mining from Microposts
-Emergent semantics
-Opinion mining, sentiment and sentic analysis -Network analysis and community detection -Influence detection and social contagion modelling -Prediction approaches -Linking Microposts into the Web of Data -Semantic entity disambiguation

Social & Web Science Studies
-Collective awareness
-Education & citizen empowerment, data journalism -Civil action, media & politics -Political and polemical aspects of Microposts -Ethics, legal and privacy issues -Psychological profiles and psychological aspects of Micropost-based interactions -Cultural and regional differences in access and use

Applications
-Collective intelligence, including user profiling, personalisation & recommendation -Business analytics & market intelligence -Event & topic detection and tendency tracking -Microposts as second screen to TV -Geo-localized, Micropost-based services -Public consensus & citizen participation -Security, emergency response & health -Linking social and physical signals, in, e.g., crowd tracking




ENTITY EXTRACTION & DISAMBIGUATION CHALLENGE
----------------------------

#Microposts2014 will host an 'Entity Extraction & Disambiguation Challenge', where participants must label Microposts in a given dataset with the entities referenced and their semantic web URIs. Existing entity extraction and disambiguation tools are intended for use over news corpora and similar document-based corpora with relatively long length. The aim of the challenge is to foster research into novel, more accurate entity extraction and disambiguation for (much shorter) Micropost data. Detailed information on how to enter the challenge will be provided in a separate call for challenge submissions as well as on the workshop website.



WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
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A keynote address from an invited speaker will open the day. This will be followed by paper presentations. We will hold a poster and demo session to trigger further, in-depth interaction between workshop participants. The last set of presentations will be brief overviews of selected submissions to the Entity Extraction & Disambiguation Challenge The workshop will close with the presentation of awards for the best paper and the highest ranking challenge submission.


SUBMISSIONS
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* Full papers: 8 pages ACM SIG format
* Short and position papers: 4 pages ACM SIG format
* Demos & Posters: 2 pages ACM SIG format
* Challenge extended abstracts: 5 pages Springer LNCS format

Main track submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), and should include author names and affiliations, and 3-5 keywords.
Further detail for challenge submissions will be provided in a separate call.

Submission is via the EasyChair Conference System, at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microposts2014. Where a submission includes additional material submission this should be made as a single, unencrypted zip file that includes a plain text file listing its contents.

Each submission will receive, in addition to a meta-review, at least 2 peer reviews, with full papers at least 3 peer reviews.

The workshop proceedings will be published through the ACM Digital Library.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission deadline: ***7 Jan 2014***
Paper Notification: 4 Feb 2014
Camera-ready (hard) deadline (short & long papers): 12 Feb 2014

(all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time)

Workshop program issued: 15 Mar 2014
Main track proceedings to be published by ACM
Workshop - 7 April 2014 (Registration open to all)



CONTACT
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E-mail: microposts2014@easychair.org
Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_180472611974910
Facebook Public Event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/116134955169543
Twitter hashtag: #microposts2014
W3C Microposts Community Group: http://www.w3.org/community/microposts


ORGANISERS
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Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University, UK
Milan Stankovic, Université Paris-Sorbonne & Sépage, France
Aba-Sah Dadzie, University of Birmingham, UK



CHALLENGE EVALUATION COMMITTEE:
--------------------------------

Challenge Chairs:
A. Elizabeth Cano, Aston University, UK
Giuseppe Rizzo, Università degli studi di Torino, Italy

Dataset Chair:
Andrea Varga, The University of Sheffield, UK

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ACIS Annual Report 2012-2013

Please find the report of the Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS) group at RWTH Aachen University. It covers our activities from October 2012 to September 2013.

Advanced Community Information Systems Group (ACIS) Annual Report 2013 from Ralf Klamma

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ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2014)

ACM International 

Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 

Glasgow, UK,

1st - 4th April 2014  

http://www.icmr2014.org/

Important dates

***** DECEMBER 2, 2013 – Paper Submission, Full and Short *****

* December 14, 2013 – Doc Symposium
* December 14, 2013 – PhD Showcase
* December 15, 2013 - Tutorial Proposals
* January 13, 2014 - Demonstrations

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The Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR)
offers a great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval
ideas among researchers, practitioners and other potential users of
multimedia retrieval systems. ICMR 2014 is seeking original high quality
submissions addressing innovative research in the broad field of multimedia
retrieval. We wish to highlight significant contributions addressing the
main problem of search and retrieval but also the related and equally
important issues of multimedia content management, user interaction, and
community-based management. The conference will be held in Glasgow during
1-5 April 2014.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Content- and context-based indexing, search and retrieval of images and video
* Multimedia content search and browsing on the Web
* Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio, image, video and 3D data
* Multimedia content analysis and understanding
* Semantic retrieval of visual content
* Learning and relevance feedback in media retrieval
* Query models, paradigms, and languages for multimedia retrieval
* Multimodal media search
* Human perception based multimedia retrieval
* Studies of information-seeking behavior among image/video users
* Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for image/video retrieval
* HCI issues in multimedia retrieval
* Evaluation of multimedia retrieval systems
* High performance multimedia indexing algorithms
* Community-based multimedia content management
* Applications of Multimedia Retrieval: Medicine, Multimodal Lifelogs, Satellite Imagery, etc.
* Image/video summarization and visualization

Based on the Chinese Computing Federation Conference Ranking (2013):
ACM ICMR is the #1 Multimedia Retrieval conference in the world and
the#4 conference in the category of multimedia and graphics.

All papers should be prepared and submitted according to the following
guidelines.

Paper format
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Full papers must not exceed 8 pages in total. Papers must be formatted
according to ACM guidelines and must be in PDF format. Papers exceeding the
limits will be rejected without review.

Submissions
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Submitted papers must describe unpublished original work, emphasizing
completed or advanced research and a parallel submission to other venues
should be clearly indicated to the program committee.
Submissions are double-blind and will be reviewed by at least three program
committee members.

Double-blind Review
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The ICMR uses a double-blind review process for regular paper selection.
Authors should not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and
reviewers should not know the name(s) of the authors.
Please prepare your paper in a way that preserves anonymity of the authors.

* Do not put your name(s) under the title.
* Avoid using phrases such as "our previous work" when referring to earlier
publications by the authors.
* Remove information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgments
(e.g., co-workers and grant IDs).
* Check supplemental material (e.g., titles in the video clips, or
supplementary documents) for information that may identify the authors
identity.
* Avoid providing links to websites that identify the authors.

Conference organization
=======================

General Chairs
Joemon Jose (University of Glasgow, UK)
Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Cambridge, UK)

TPC Chairs
Mohan Kankanhalli (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Stefan Rueger (The Open University, UK)
R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts, USA)

Industry and Practitioners Day
Rong Yan (Facebook, USA)
Johan Oomen (Sound and Vision, Netherlands)
Alejandro Jaimes (Yahoo! Labs, Spain)

Special session Chairs
Rainer Lienhart (University of Augsburg, Germany)
James Wang (Penn State University, USA)
Jingdong Wang (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

Workshop Chairs
Benoit Huet (EURECOM, France)
Chong-Wah Ngo (City University HK)
Vincent Oria (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

Demonstrations Chairs
Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ichiro Ide (Nagoya University, Japan)

Tutorials
Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Manjunath B. S. (University of California, USA)
Thierry Urruty (Département XLIM-SIC, France)

Doctoral Symposium
Xuelong Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Stephane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

Panels Chairs
Shin'ichi Satoh (Japanese National Institute, Japan)
John Smith (IBM, USA)

PhD student showcase
Jialie Shen (Singapore Management University, Singapore )
Ioannis Patras (Queen Margaret University London, UK)

Brave New Ideas
Nicu Sebe (University of Trento, Italy)
Alexander Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Proceedings Chairs
Robert Villa (University of Sheffield, UK)
Frank Hopfgartner (Technical University Berlin, Germany)

Publicity Chairs
Joao Magalhaes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Jun Wang (University College London, UK)

Sponsorship Chairs
Noel O'Connor (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yiannis (Ioannis) Kompatsiaris (ITI, Greece)

Local Organizing Committee
Martin Halvey (University of Caledonian, UK)
Philip McParlane (University of Glasgow, UK)

Website
Philip McParlane (University of Glasgow, UK)

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Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) DATA CHALLENGE 2014

 

LAK DATA CHALLENGE 2014

http://lak.linkededucation.org

collocated with Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2014

The LAK Dataset (http://lak.linkededucation.org/) provides access to
structured metadata from research publications in the field of learning
analytics. Beyond merely publishing the data, we are actively
encouraging its innovative use and exploitation as part of a public LAK
Data Challenge sponsored by the European Project LinkedUp
(http://linkedup-project.eu<http://linkedup-project.eu/>), co-located with the Learning Analytics &
Knowledge Conference 2014 conference in Indianapolis, Indiana (US) in
March 2014.


IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

- 20th January, 2014: submission deadline
- 3rd February, 2014: notification deadline
- 24-28 March, 2014: LAK2014 Conference.


CHALLENGE OBJECTIVE
-------------------
What do analytics on learning analytics tell us? How can we make sense
of this emerging fieldís historical roots, current state, and future
trends, based on how its members report and debate their research?
Challenge submissions should exploit the LAK Dataset for a meaningful
purpose. This may include submissions which cover one or more of the
following, non-exclusive list of topics:

- Analysis & assessment of the emerging LAK community in terms of
topics, people, citations or connections with other fields
- Innovative applications to explore, navigate and visualise the dataset
(and/or its correlation with other datasets)
- Usage of the dataset as part of recommender systems
- Analysis of the evolution of the LAK discipline
- Improvement and enrichment of the LAK Dataset


SUBMISSION FORMAT
-----------------
Each submission should be accompanied by a 2-4 page paper (ACM format,
see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) that
contains at least:

- an abstract of the submission
- motivation: which purposes does your system or dataset serve?
- description of your dataset (e.g. if the LAK data is combined with
other datasets), system or demo
- a link to your dataset and/or system or demo

Please use the EasyChair submission form
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lakdatachallenge2014) for
all submissions.


EVALUATION
----------
There will be a light review by members of the challenge committee to
pre-select submissions for presentation. During the LAK conference and
based on the presentations, the challenge winner(s) will be identified
based on votes by the audience and the committee.


PUBLICATION, PRESENTATION & AWARDS
----------------------------------
Accepted submissions will be published in online proceedings and
presented during an interactive LAK Data workshop collocated with the
LAK 2014 conference in Indianapolis, Indiana (US). The three best papers
of each workshop will be invited to a Special Issue in the Journal for
Learning Analytics. In addition, there will be awards for the winning
submissions with very cool prizes (further details to be announced)!


CHALLENGE COMMITTEE
-------------------

- Mathieu D'Aquin (The Open University, United Kingdom)
- Stefan Dietze (L3S Research Center, Germany)
- Hendrik Drachsler (Open Universiteit Nederland, Netherlands)
- Eelco Herder (L3S Research Center, Germany)
- Davide Taibi (Institute for Educational Technologies CNR, Italy)


CONTACT
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lakdatachallenge2014@easychair.org<mailto:lakdatachallenge2014@easychair.org>

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The 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM '14)

ASONAM '14

The 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference

on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining

Beijing China August 17-20, 2014

Home Page: www.asonam2014.org

Call for Papers

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network
Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) provides a premier interdisciplinary
forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from all social
networking analysis and mining related fields for presentation of
original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of
innovative, practical development experiences. ASONAM 2014 seeks to
address important challenging problems with a specific focus on the
emerging trends and industry needs associated with social networking
analysis and mining. The conference solicits experimental and
theoretical findings along with their real-world applications.

General areas of interest to ASONAM 2014 include the design, analysis
and implementation of social networking theory, systems and
applications from information science, mathematics, communications,
business administration, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied
linguistics, biology and medicine. More specialized topics within
ASONAM include, but are not limited to:

* Agent based social simulation and computational models
* Anomaly detection in social network evolution
* Application of social network analysis and mining
* Community discovery and analysis in large scale online/offline social networks
* Connection between biological similarities and social network formulation
* Contextual social network analysis and mining
* Crime network analysis
* Crowd sourcing
* Cyber anthropology
* Dark Web
* Data models for social networks and social media
* Data protection inside communities
* Economical impact of social network discovery
* Evolution of communities/patterns on the Web and in large organizations
* Impact of social networks on recommendations systems
* Incorporating social information in query processing and query optimization
* Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
* Influence of cultural aspects on the formation of communities
* Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis
* Misbehavior detection in communities
* Migration between communities
* Multi-actor/multiple-relationship networks
* Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis
* Open source intelligence
* Pattern presentation for end-users and experts
* Personalization for search and for social interaction
* Political impact of social network discovery
* Privacy, security and civil liberty issues
* Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and
establishment of social relations
* Scalability of social networking/search algorithms
* Social and cultural anthropology
* Social geography
* Social psychology of information diffusion
* Spatial/knowledge networks
* Statistical modeling of large networks
* Trust networks and evolution of trust
* Visual representation of dynamic social networks

Key Dates
*********

Full paper submission deadline: April 9, 2014
Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2014
Camera-ready papers due: June 24, 2014
Conference events: August 17-20, 2014

Paper Submissions
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Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining
to the above topics are solicited. The papers will reviewed by a
minimum of two subject experts. Full paper manuscripts must be in
English with a maximum length of 8 pages using the IEEE CPS two-column
template. Papers should be submitted to the Conference Web site:
https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2014/asonam14/cbc_index.php. IEEE will
retain the copyright for accepted papers and the IEEE copyright form
found at
http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/copyrightmai
n.html
will therefore have to be completed. Papers will be accepted for the
conference based on the reviewers comments on their originality,
timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. If
the paper is accepted, the paper will appear in the proceedings of the
conference if one author presents the paper at the conference and at
least one author register as a full conference participant.

Publications
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Accepted and presented papers will be included in the ASONAM 2014
Conference Proceedings and forwarded for inclusion in IEEE Computer
Society Digital Library (CSDL), IEEE Xplore and the ACM Digital
Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for EI indexing
through INSPEC by the IEEE.

ASONAM 2014 Organizing Committee
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Honorary Chair:
Binxing Fang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Conference Chairs:
Yan Jia, National University of Defence Technology, China
Jon Rokne, University of Calgary, Canada

Program Committee Chairs:
Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA and Hefei University of Technology, China
Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Steering Committee Chair:
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada

Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Daniel Zeng, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Arizona
Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China

Workshops Chairs:
Bettina Berendt, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
Wolfgan Nejdl, Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany

Tutorial Chairs:
V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA
Meng Wang, Hefei University of Technology, China
Carson Leung, Manitoba University, Canada

Panels Chairs:
Alvin Chin, Nokia Research, China
Jing Xu, Peking University, China
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Tsukuba University, Japan

Demos Chairs:
Tansel Ozyer, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
Wei Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia

Publicity Chairs:
Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas, USA
Panagiotis Karampelas, Hellenic American University, Greece
Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea

Publication Chairs:
Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Min-Yuh Day, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Registration Chair
QIngshun Meng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Finance Chair
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Lu Xu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Web Chair:
Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China

Further Information:
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asonam2014@gmail.com

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