Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning IMCL 2010 - First Call for Papers

5th International Conference on
Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning

IMCL2010

Sousse University, Tunisia
7-8 July 2010

In Conjunction with The 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced
Learning Technologies
July 5-7, 2010
Sousse, Tunisia
www.ask4research.info/icalt/2010/others/

The world is witnessing a revolution in mobile and computing technologies which will transform all handheld devices into small computers with multimedia, web browsing and gaming capabilities, and desktop work environments with office software, in addition to the usual telephony on mobile networks and the Internet. The 5th International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, IMCL2010, which will be hosted by Sousse University, Tunisia, comes as a response to this challenge in the Middle East. The conference is part of an international initiative to promote technology-enhanced learning and online engineering world-wide. The initiative includes a series of conferences such as the International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning, ICL, Villach, Austria, the International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Blended Learning, ICBL, Florianopolis, Brazil and the International Symposium on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, REV. All of these conferences are organized under the umbrella of the International Association of Online Engineering and are supported by the online journals: the International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning and the International Journal for Online Engineering. The IMCL2010 conference will cover all aspects of mobile learning, mobile business, mobile government, mobile society as well as the emergence of mobile technologies, services, implementation and implications for education, business, governments and society.

Important Dates
Submission of Full Paper 20 March 2010
Submission of Short Paper 20 March 2010
Notification of Acceptance 20 April 2010
Author Registration Deadline 15 May 2010
Camera-Ready Papers 15 May 2010
IMCL2010 Conference 7-8 July 2010

Keynote Speakers
1- Giorgio Da Bormida, Director of International Association of Mobile Learning.
2- Paul Lefrere, University of Tampere, Finland

Conference Chairs
Ahmed Noureddine Helal, President, Sousse University, Tunisia

Michael Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria

International Advisory Committee Chair
Rob Reilly, MIT Media Lab, USA

International Program Committee Chairs
Abdouli Touhami, Sousse University, Tunisia

A. Y. Al-Zoubi, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan

Supporting Journals
Authors of accepted IMCL2008 papers will be invited to submit selected papers for publication in one of the following reputed international journals:
1 International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technology,
2 International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation,
3 IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine (MEEM),
4 Journal of Educational Technology and Society,
5 International Journal of Engineering Education,
6 Advances in Human-Computer Interaction,
7 International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning,
8 International Journal for Online Engineering,
9 International Journal of Computing and Information Sciences.

6th workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction (ADMI-10) joint with AAMAS2010

Call For Papers

The Sixth International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction
(ADMI-10)
MAY 10-14, 2010 Toronto, Canada
http://admi10.agentmining.org/

Held in conjunction with
The Ninth International Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2010)
http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/

Important dates:
* Electronic submission of full papers: February 2, 2010
* Notification of paper acceptance: March 2, 2010
* Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: March 15, 2010
* AAMAS-2010 workshop: May 10-11, 2010

History: The International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction (ADMI-10) consolidates several efforts in promoting the interaction and integration between multi-agent systems and data mining data warehousing. ADMI-10 is a consolidation and re-allocation of the ADMI workshop series initated in 2006 and the AIS-ADM workshop series started in 2005.

Scope: The ADMI workshop series provides a premier forum for sharing research and engineering results, as well as potential challenges and prospects encountered in the coupling
crossing autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, data mining and knowledge discovery, data wareshousing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and intelligent systems.
The workshop welcomes theoretical work and applied disseminations aiming to:
* exploit agent-enriched data mining and machine learning, and demonstrate how agent technology can contribute to critical data mining and machine learning problems in theory and practice;
* improve data mining-driven agents and systems, and show how data mining and machine learning can strengthen agent intelligence and intelligent systems in research and practical applications;
* explore the integration of agents and data mining towards a super-intelligent system
and intelligent information processing;
* identify challenges and directions for future research and development in agent mining, through
the synergy and interaction amongst relevant fields; and
* report workable applications and case studies of agent mining.

Topics: Contributions on the following and other related topics are solicited:
* Challenges and prospects in agent mining
* Theoretical foundation for agent mining
* Agent-driven data analysis, knowledge discovery and machine learning
* Data mining-driven agents and multi-agent systems and intelligent systems
* Performance evaluation and validation in agent mining
* Emerging agent mining applications and lessons learned

Post-workshop publication:
* The ADMI-10 Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of LNCS/LNAI series.
* Special Issues on Agent Mining, Journal of AAMAS (to be confirmed).

General Co-Chair:
* Gerhard Weiss University of Maastricht, Netherlands
* Philip S Yu University of Illinois at Chicago USA

Co-Chairs:
* Longbing Cao University of Technology Sydney, Australia
* Ana Bazzan Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Instituto de Informatica, Brasil
* Pericles A. Mitkas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
* Vladimir Gorodetsky Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.

Supported by
Agent-Mining Interaction and Integration Special Interest Group (AMII-SIG) http://www.agentmining.org

Contact: Yuming Ou
Tel. +61-2-9514-4477, Fax. +61-2-9514-1807, Email: admi09@it.uts.edu.au

The 11th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS'2010) in conjunction with CAISE'2010

BPMDS 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 11th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS'2010)

7-8 June, Hammamet, Tunisia

Papers submission deadline: February, 18th, 2010
http://lams.epfl.ch/conference/bpmds10/

BACKGROUND AND AIMS:

A business process (BP) is a complex phenomenon that can be viewed/analyzed/designed/criticized from different perspectives. A perspective is a particular view on a process that can be characterized by who is viewing the process, and what one chooses to see/not to see. For example, an external observer that watches process instances as they happen in real life, and a process developer designing a device for controlling these instances will have two different sets of perspectives. For example, an external observer viewing operations (activities) completed in the frame of a business process gets a workflow perspective on the process. A developer designing a device for controlling the flow of activities will refer to the “same” perspective as to control-flow perspective. Another example of a perspective: an external observer viewing how objects that are processed in the frame of a process are transferred between different units (agents) can call this view a logistical perspective on the process.

Various modeling languages and notations differ by which and whose perspective they take on a business process. In theory as well as in practice, the workflow/control-flow perspective, also well known as activity-driven, was dominant for a long time. For highly structured processes, the focus on activity-driven perspective satisfied the needs of BPM practice. However, as the BP domain expanded to the less structured flexible processes in flexible environments, the one-sidedness of the modeling techniques and systems based on the dominant perspective became apparent. An attempt to fix the problem by adding many additional components to the activity-driven view has not proven to be a proper solution. As a case with BPMN shows, it creates a highly complicated notation that a normal participant of a business process can generally not understand. BP theory and practice require the ability to engage with business processes in multiple perspectives in the same way as a scene can be photographed from different angles, providing differentiated views on the same scene.

The main theme of this year workshop is discussion of various non-dominant perspectives on business processes and their integration. Some of the perspectives that are discussed in the literature are listed at the end of this call for papers. However, we do not consider the list as closed, any proposal for new perspectives are welcome.

In summary, the workshop will be devoted to the following three questions:

- Non-dominant perspectives/sets of perspectives on business processes

- Finding out which perspectives are most appropriate to particular practical and/or theoretical business process modeling, development and support (BPMDS) tasks; finding BPMDS tasks/problems that can be accomplished/solved when using a particular perspective

- Connecting several perspectives (including a dominant one) together. Each perspective can be considered as a projection of the business process in a particular dimension and a set of perspectives can be considered as a way of organizing a multi-dimensional space. Therefore, connecting several perspectives can provide a multi-dimensional representation of the business process. Creating and visualizing such a model as well as converting one set of perspectives (e.g. the external observer’s) into another set (e.g. developer) is also of interest for discussion in the BPMDS’2010 workshop.



ABOUT THE WORKSHOP :

The BPMDS series has produced 10 workshops from 1998 to 2009. Eight of these workshops, including the last seven (BPMDS’03 – BPMDS’09) were held in conjunction with CAiSE conferences. The topics addressed by the BPMDS workshops are focused on IT support for business processes. This is one of the keystones of Information Systems theory. We strongly believe that any major conference in the area of Information Systems needs to address such topics independently of the current fashion. The continued interest in these topics on behalf of the IS community is reflected by the success of the last BPMDS workshops and the recent emergence of new conferences devoted to the theme.

The aim of a workshop is discussions, rather than presentations. Besides research papers, the workshop encourages visionary and practical papers. Position papers that raise relevant questions, or describe successful or unsuccessful practice, or describe experience are all welcome. Submissions are selected based on the relevance to the workshop theme, and potential to facilitate interesting discussions (beside of being clearly written).

The goals, format, and history of BPMDS can be found on the web site: http://www.ibissoft.se/bpmds.html



TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION :

During the workshop, the following more specific topics will be addressed:

1. Examples of non-dominant perspectives that are of interest for discussion [see a non exhaustive list of other perspectives at the end of the call for paper]:

• Goal perspective

• State perspective

• Context perspective

• Resource/agent perspective

2. Examples of Business Process Modeling, Development and Support activities for which the suitable perspective(s) should be found:

• Resource management

• Finding metrics for process quality management

• Aligning processes with their context

3. Examples of methods for integrating/connecting different perspectives/sets of perspectives

• Connecting perspectives via artifacts (products of the modeling activities)

• Verifying/validating the coherence of the whole

• Maintaining the coherence through business change

Besides the above, we would like to discuss/listen about any experience of using non-dominant perspectives for addressing the following issues:

• Granularity, dynamic configuration, modeling by reuse

• Importance of the creation of reusable and context-aware artifacts

• Win-win situation between efficiency and flexibility in business process modeling and execution

• Trade-off situations: efficiency, adequacy, variability, …

• Real-life applications

SUBMISSIONS:

Papers submission deadline: February 18th, 2010

Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a paper related to one or more of the main topics. The paper selection will be based upon the relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its quality and potential to generate relevant discussion.

Three kinds of submissions are possible.
(1) Full research papers of up to 13 pages in LNCS format.
(2) Experience reports of up to 13 pages (see guidelines in http://processplatsen.ibissoft.se/node/72).
(3) Short position papers of up to 6 pages, devoted to research in progress or to visionary ideas or to position papers.

Please follow the LNCS format instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for all of them.

The papers should be emailed to Selmin.Nurcan@univ-paris1.fr, indicating the kind of paper submitted.



PUBLICATIONS:

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (joint with EMMSAD), to be published by Springer LNBIP.

The proceedings of BPMDS’09 are available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/u67l87/.

After the workshop, the workshop material together with a selection of the best papers will be considered for publishing in a special issue of an international journal (previous special issues: BPMDS’09 in IJISMD in progress; BPMDS’08 in SPIP in progress; BPMDS'07 in IJBPIM, vol. 4, issue 2, 2009; BPMDS'06 in IJBPIM, vol. 3, issue 1, 2008; BPMDS'05 in SPIP, vol. 12, issue 1, 2007)



IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: February 18, 2010
Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2010
Camera-ready papers due: March 20, 2010


ORGANIZERS:

Ilia Bider, IbisSoft, Sweden
Selmin Nurcan, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Roland Ukor, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK


INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARD:

Ian Alexander, Scenario Plus, UK
Ilia Bider, IbisSoft, Sweden
Gil Regev, EPFL and Itecor, Switzerland
Lars Taxén, Linköping University, Sweden


WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Wil van der Aalst – Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Sebastian Adam – Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Antonia Albani – Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Ian Alexander – Scenario Plus, UK
Ilia Bider – IbisSoft, Stockholm, Sweden
Stewart Green – University of the West of England, UK
Paul Johannesson – Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Marite Kirikova – Riga Technical University, Latvia
Peri Loucopoulos – Loughborough University, UK
Renata Mendes de Araujo – Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Jan Mendling – Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Selmin Nurcan – University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Louis-Francois Pau – Erasmus University, Netherlands
Jan Recker – Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Gil Regev – EPFL and Itecor, Switzerland
Manfred Reichert – University of Ulm, Germany
Michael Rosemann – Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Rainer Schmidt – University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany
Pnina Soffer –University of Haifa, Israel
Markus Strohmaier – University of Toronto, Canada
Lars Taxén – Linköping University, Sweden
Roland Ukor – School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
Barbara Weber – University of Insbruk, Austria
Jelena Zdravkovic – Royal University of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Postdoc Position in Very Large Social Network Analysis

Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Very Large Social Network Analysis Software Technology and Applications Competence Centre University of Tartu, Estonia

The University of Tartu is a leading research-intensive university in the Baltics. In collaboration with ten technology vendors and user organizations in the region, the University has recently established a Competence Centre on Software Technology & Applications (http://www.stacc.ee).
The mission of this centre is to conduct industry-focused research with the aim to develop leading-edge solutions in the fields of data mining and software and services engineering.

In this context, expressions of interest are sought for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in the field of very large social network analysis. The successful candidate will have a PhD in a relevant field and a promising publication track record. Applicants who are in the process of defending their PhD thesis may apply. Experience in research projects with industry and experience in supervision of junior researchers (research assistants, Masters and/or PhD students) is a plus. The successful candidate will work in a project involving Skype Technologies, which aims at developing and applying scalable techniques to analyze social networks consisting of billions of connections.

The position will be fixed-term for two years. The salary range will be competitive by international standards. The starting date is negotiable.

Practical information for expatriate researchers in Estonia can be found at: http://www.smartestonia.ee

Inquiries and expressions of interest (including research statement, CV and list of publications) should be sent by e-mail to Prof. Marlon Dumas (marlon.dumas [Št] ut.ee). Expressions of interest will be assessed starting from 15 January 2010.

Positions: Senior Researcher/Team leader & 4 Ph.D. scholarships in Semantic Web & Web Science

Web Science is a novel discipline at the intersection of several sciences targeting a better under-standing of the Web and its users and at the development of new technologies in and for the Web. The Institute for Web Science & Technologies - WeST - focuses on Web research revolving around Web retrieval and social Web, Semantic Web, Interactive Web, Multimedia Web, and Software Web. For strengthening the institute Universitaet Koblenz-Landau wants to hire a new

Senior researcher/Team leader "Semantic Web" (EGr. 14 TV-L),

for the duration of two years. An extension of the contract will be possible depending on available funds and research and leadership performance. Main Tasks involve the coordination of the
Koblenz part of the BMBF-funded project "CollabCloud" (http://www.collaborationcloud.de) as well as the scientific guidance of a group of PhD students and undergraduates related to the topic of "Semantic Web". The position is ideal for further scientific qualification by strengthening and broadening one's scientific experience, one's project leadership and project acquisition capabilities. Requirements for the position include a Ph.D. with excellent publications in relevant scientific domains, e.g. data engineering, information retrieval or artificial intelligence.

Furthermore, Universitaet Koblenz-Landau announces full graduate stipends for "Web Science":

4 Ph.D. scholarships "Web Science".

Future Ph.D. students will have an outstanding diploma or master's degree, excellent analytical capabilities, they will be curios to investigate interdisciplinary research questions and will have
demonstrated very good programming skills. The Ph.D. students may spend 3 months of their studies with a partner organization from one of the international networks of excellence in which WeST is participating. The duration of the scholarships is for two years with an extension being possible for a third year. Candidates for Ph.D. scholarships must prove their entitlement to live in Germany (e.g. by being European citizen) at the time of their application.

Universitaet Koblenz-Landau offers: A creative, active, internationally renowned research group, support for publication at international conferences, support in pursuing one's Ph.D. or habilitation, a new, technically excellent campus, as well as one of the most scenic places in Germany in close vicinity to major German hubs, such as Frankfurt and Cologne. Universitaet Koblenz-Landau is an equal-opportunity employer.

Please find further details at http://west.uni-koblenz.de or get into contact with Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab. Tel: +49 261/2872761. All email applications should be addressed to Mrs Werger only
(werger@uni-koblenz.de). Applications received before January 18, 2010, are considered with highest priority.

ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS)

ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

http://eics-conference.org

Berlin, Germany | June 21-23, 2010

OVERVIEW

EICS is the second international conference devoted to the engineering of usable and effective interactive computing systems. Systems of interest will include traditional workstation-based interactive systems, new and emerging modalities (e.g., gesture), entertaining applications
(e.g., mobile and ubiquitous games) and development methods (e.g., extreme programming).

EICS focuses on methods and techniques, and the tools that support them, for designing and developing interactive systems. It brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from the HCI, Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering,
CSCW, Ubiquitous / Pervasive Systems and Game Development communities.

EICS'2010 encompasses the EHCI (Engineering Human Computer Interaction, sponsored by IFIP 2.7/13.4), DSV-IS (International Workshop on the Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems), CADUI (International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces) and TAMODIA (International Workshop on Task Models and Diagrams).

Invited talks will be given by Axel van Lamsweerde (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium - http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~avl/) and Joëlle Coutaz (Université Joseph Fourier, France -
http://iihm.imag.fr/coutaz/).

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Submissions are invited that address some aspect of the engineering of human-computer interactive systems. Topics include but are not limited to:
* Modeling interaction and interactive systems,
* Engineering processes for interactive systems (e.g. design, implementation, prototyping and testing),
* Integrating interaction design into the software development process,
* Interactive systems specification,
* Requirements engineering for interactive systems,
* Software architectures for interactive systems,
* Dynamic generation/composition of interactive systems,
* Specifying users' activities.

TYPE OF SUBMISSIONS

Research Papers, Practice and Experience Reports, Late Breaking Results, Demonstrations, Doctoral Consortium submissions and Workshop proposals.

Accepted contributions will be published in the ACM SIGCHI proceedings of EICS
2010 as well as in the ACM Digital Library.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Full papers, practical and experience reports, tutorials and workshops:
* Submission: January 18, 2010
* Camera-ready versions due: March 28, 2010

Demonstrations, doctoral consortium and late breaking results:
* Submission: March 14, 2010
* Camera-ready versions due: April 10, 2010

Further information, including call for TUTORIALS and WORKSHOPS on the web site: http://eics-conference.org

Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in Information and Knowledge Technologies at University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science the availability of a

Lectureship / Senior Lectureship

Areas of interest include the Semantic and Future Web (including their use for Knowledge Management in large organisations), Multimedia analysis (including text extraction, speech and image analysis) and Human Computer Interaction.

This is one of several strategic academic appointments, and we are seeking a dynamic and inspiring individual who can contribute to research and teaching in our Organisations, Information and Knowledge (OAK) research group.

The group has current funds of over £3m coming from the EU (including the coordination of a large Integrated Project and the participation in two other large IPs and a large STREP), Industry (recent funders are Rolls-Royce plc, Kodak and Lycos Europe) and UK Research Councils (EPSRC, ERC, JISC, AHRC, TSB). The group is led by Professor Fabio Ciravegna and has around 20 post-doctoral researchers and PhD students.

The Department has an international reputation for the quality of its research and teaching excellence. The OAK research group focus on research and innovation in Information and Knowledge Technologies. Areas of interest include the Semantic and Future Web, their use for Knowledge Management in large organisations, Multimedia analysis (including text extraction, speech and image analysis) and Human Computer Interaction.

Informal enquiries about this post should be addressed to the Head of Department, Professor John Derrick, jd@dcs.shef.ac.uk, phone +44 114 222 1849, or the head of the OAK research group, Professor Fabio Ciravegna, fabio@dcs.shef.ac.uk .

Closing date for applications: 19th February 2010

Job reference number: UOS000512

Further details and process of application are given at:

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/academic.html

Call: Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks @ NetSci2010

We are pleased to invite you to

Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks –
a Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci 2010

taking place at BarabásiLab – Center for Complex Network Research,
Northeastern University in Boston, MA, on Monday, May 10, 2010.

Abstract:
By means of keynotes, contributed talks and interdisciplinary discussion we will explore and identify important issues surrounding the convergence of arts, humanities and complex networks. On the one hand we will concentrate on network structure and dynamics in areas ranging from art history and archeology to music, film and image science. In the same time we are interested in the development and critique of network visualizations from medieval manuscripts to the latest tools, such as Cytoscape and Processing. Our dual focus is based on the opinion that the study of networks and the study of visualizations of these networks complement each other, much in the same way as archeology cannot live without self-reflective art history – studying the represented always presupposes the study of representation. Bringing together network scientists and specialists from the arts and humanities we strive for a better understanding of networks and their visualizations, resulting in better images of networks, and a better use of these images. Running parallel to the NetSci2010 conference, the symposium will also provide a unique opportunity to mingle with leading researchers and practitioners of complex network science, potentially sparking fruitful collaborations.


Confirmed keynote speakers include:
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg (IBM Visual Communication Lab, Boston): http://www.research.ibm.com/visual
Ward Shelley (New York artist): http://www.wardshelley.com


Contributions:
In addition to the keynotes we are looking for ten 15 minute contributions in order to cover a large territory around arts, humanities and complex networks.

Abstracts should not exceed 200-300 words. Applications should include one relevant URL and your most awesome figure. Please send a one page PDF not exceeding 500kb to: artshumanities@netsci2010.net

Selected original papers will be published in the Leonardo Journal, MIT Press.
Proceedings will be published online.


Important dates:
The deadline for applications is January 22, 2010.
Decisions for acceptance will be sent out by February 7.


Possible subjects include:
* Multi-modal networks of features and meta-data in art, film, music and literature;
* Citation and transmission of motifs (Mnemosyne);
* Emergence and Evolution of canon in art, music, literature and film;
* Evolution of communities of practice in art and science;
* History of network visualization (genealogies, trees, matrices);
* Art history of taxonomy and evolutionary models (like Darwin's corals vs. Wallace's trees);
* Networks in architecture (from the Ekistics movement to modern traffic planning);
* Cultural exchange and trade networks (from the Neolithic to modern supply chains);
* Contemporary art and network science;
* Network structure in cultural heritage, film and music databases;…


Attendance:
Attending our symposium will be free of charge. As space is limited, we require registration. Registration will open here on January 22, 2010.

NetSci 2010 attendees can register directly now. For the NetSci 2010 registration fee and deadline please see http://www.netsci2010.net.


Organizers:
The symposium is organized by Maximilian Schich (Art Historian at BarabásiLab), and co-chaired by Roger Malina (Executive Editor at Leonardo journal) and Isabel Meirelles (Associate Professor at Dept. of Art + Design, Northeastern University).

The symposium is a satellite to NetSci 2010 and counts with the support of the BarabásiLab – CCNR and Dept. of Art + Design, both at Northeastern University in Boston, and Leonardo/ISAST.


Links:
Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks: http://artshumanities.netsci2010.net
BarabásiLab: http://www.barabasilab.com
Dept. Art+Design: http://www.art.neu.edu
Leonardo: http://www.leonardo.info
NetSci2010: http://www.netsci2010.net


Contact:
artshumanities@netsci2010.net

ACM CHI 2010 Workshop on Context-Adaptive Interaction for Collaborative Work (CAICOLL 2010)

ACM CHI 2010 Workshop on
Context-Adaptive Interaction for Collaborative Work (CAICOLL 2010)

April 10, 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA

Submission deadline: January 6, 2010
http://www.caicoll.org

WORKSHOP GOALS

This workshop addresses facilitation of collaborative work by context-adaptive techniques. Context-based adaptation can support users in a variety of ways, e.g., by offering the tools most appropriate for a certain type of collaboration, by providing templates for artifacts to be produced, or by filtering content relevant for a joint activity. While adaptive (single) user interfaces have been an area of research for considerable time adaptation for collaboration is far less investigated.

The notion of context in collaborative work raises a variety of interesting research issues. So far, attempts to structure and classify the multi-faceted concept of context have been mainly directed at individual, rather than cooperative usage scenarios. The importance of common ground, e.g., for electronically mediated communication has been pointed out repeatedly, but theoretical concepts have hardly been translated into explicit models or concrete adaptation mechanisms. We also see a major challenge in integrating 'exogenous' physical context such as location, time or device used with 'endogenous' context factors such as the users' roles, topical interests, experience profiles or used collaboration tools. For this purpose, integrated, coherent representations of these context aspects will be needed, making them explicit and exploitable by adaptation mechanisms. Ontology-based context models promise to provide coherent representations but are still in their initial stages. Other important issues are how to combine individual contexts into shared collaborative contexts, and how to combine folksonomy-based bottom-up approaches with the benefits of standardization that ontologies traditionally provide. Finally, it is largely unresolved how to define effective and acceptable adaptations for groups. While there has been a considerable amount of research into supporting co-located or remote meetings, more general issues of supporting collaboration by adaptations are still open.

The workshop aims at identifying and structuring context factors for collaborative work, trying to elaborate a generalized notion of context including physical and tool-related aspects, common ground related to content and process of the collaboration, and other factors. We will also discuss strategies and methods for making these context aspects explicit by representing them through suitable models, e.g., by ontological models of cooperative context. These models will serve as input for discussions on how to manage and use such context in real-world scenarios. These activities will serve laying the groundwork for an initiative to build a shared context ontology for this area.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

An initial list of research issues discussed at the workshop comprises the following questions:
- How can the multi-faceted concept of context be structured and classified for cooperative situations?
- What are methods for integrating 'endogenous' physical context with 'endogenous' context factors such as the users' roles, activities, topical interests or experience profiles?
- How to combine individual contexts into group contexts?
- What are suitable models and techniques for representing context for the purpose of adapting cooperation support systems? Is there a perspective for a shared context ontology for cooperative work?
- What are effective and acceptable adaptations at the interaction, tool or content level we can implement in systems used for collaboration?

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Context plays an increasingly important role to adapt systems to users' needs and to make access to large information spaces more efficient. Yet, in the area of collaborative work the potential of context-based adaptation of IT systems has so far not been investigated and exploited to a sufficient extent. There is a lack of methods that take into account the manifold aspects of context such as physical, activity-based, thematic or social context in an integrated fashion.

The workshop aims at identifying and structuring context factors for collaboration, trying to elaborate a generalized notion of context for this field. We will discuss strategies and methods for making these context factors explicit by representing them through suitable models, e.g., by ontological models of cooperative context. A potential outcome is to provide the groundwork for an initiative to build a shared context ontology for cooperative work. A further goal is to collect and analyze methods for managing and using context in real-world scenarios, including combinations of folksonomy- and ontology-based approaches.

Persons interested in participating should submit a 2-page proposal describing their background with respect to the workshop theme, their proposed contribution and an initial reaction to a number of research issues published at the workshop website (http://caicoll.org). Proposals should be sent by e-mail to submission@caicol.org. Upon acceptance, participants will be asked to provide an extended position paper of 5 pages four weeks prior to the workshop which will be distributed to participants. Workshop results will be summarized on the website. Depending on the submissions received we plan to publish the workshop results to a wider audience, e.g. as a special journal issue.

SUBMISSIONS

Proposals should be sent by e-mail to submission@caicoll.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: January 6, 2010
Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2010
Revised, formatted document due: March 10, 2010
Workshop date: April 10, 2010

ORGANIZERS

Juergen Ziegler (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Stephan Lukosch (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Joerg M. Haake (FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany)
Volkmar Pipek (University of Siegen, Germany)

WORKSHOP HOMEPAGE

http://www.caicoll.org

ECIS 2011 Call for Proposals for Conference Tracks

The 19th European Conference on Information Systems ECIS 2011 - ICT and Sustainable Service Development

Call for Proposals for Conference Tracks

In 2011 the European Conference on Information Systems will be held in Helsinki, Finland, hosted by Aalto University School of Economics (formerly known as Helsinki School of Economics, HSE). As in previous years, the conference will be organised around conference tracks, focusing on both established and emergent areas of IS research.

If you aspire to be a track chair for ECIS 2011, this call is for you. We are inviting you to propose a conference track and to submit it to ecis2011@hse.fi. Each proposal will be evaluated by the Research and Research in Progress chairs in conjunction with the programme and conference chairs. Decisions will be based on the overall merit of the proposal, the diversity of the track team and the fit with the conference theme.

Your responsibilities as a track chair will be to:

1) promote the track and take sufficient measures to ensure an adequate number of submissions
2) organise a peer review cycle for the papers submitted to your track (assisted by a set of Associate Editors)
3) propose to the program committee the papers that will eventually be accepted for inclusion into the conference program
4) liaise with the research chairs on all other matters that concern ECIS 2011

Track proposals should provide a motivation for the track, a brief overview of the area, sample topics, types of contributions welcomed, and an assessment of overall appeal to conference attendees. Specifically, track proposals should include:

1) A title for the conference track
2) Names, e-mail and mailing addresses, affiliations, phone and fax numbers of the two to three track co-chairs. Please designate one of the co-chairs as the primary contact person.
3) A short description of the track and its focus: define the proposed area of research, discuss the topics the track will address, and how they fit into the conference theme.
4) A discussion on how these topics have recently been covered in other conferences and publications, and to substantiate that ECIS 2011 will be an appropriate and timely forum for the topics.
5) A discussion on what types of contributions are sought for: full research papers, research in progress, and/or teaching cases.
6) A list of tentative Associate Editors for the proposed track (around three or four). Please provide names and affiliations, and the extent to which they may already have committed themselves to serve as AEs for your track.
7) Your track record (if any) in organising tracks, or in other, related areas of responsibility in the IS community.

When putting together your track team (that is, chairs and AEs), please be aware that the Research and Research in Progress chairs will look favourably on diversity in gender, experience, and geographical background. It is therefore worthwhile to emphasise the diversity of the track team in your proposal.

Track proposals should be e-mailed to ecis2011@hse.fi as soon as possible, but no later than that 1 February 2010. Please note that in order to ensure interesting and sufficiently extensive range of tracks, the ECIS2011 Programme Committee might approach you with a suggestion to modify your track proposal; or in case there are proposal for same or similar topics, the committee might ask you to consider joining forces with another proposing group.

Notifications of acceptance or rejection of proposed tracks will be sent out in early March 2010.

On behalf of ECIS 2011 organizers,
Matti Rossi
Professor of Information Systems Science
Helsinki School of Economics
P.O. Box 1210, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
phone: +358-50-3835503
skype: motrossi
Messenger: Matti_Rossi@msn.com

web site: www.ecis2011.fi

Fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2010)

(Preliminary) Call for Paper

EC-TEL 2010
Fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice
[http://www.ectel2010.org]

28 September - 1 October 2010 in Barcelona, Spain

The last decade has seen significant investment in terms of effort and resources (time, people, money) in innovating education and training. The time has come to make the bold step from small scale innovation research and -development to larger scale implementation and evaluation. The time has come to show the world (government, industry, general population) that we have matured to the stage that sustainable learning and learning practices – both in schools and in industry – can be achieved based upon our work.

What not long ago was seen and experienced as a novel technology (Internet and WWW) has become for much of the populace mundane and commonplace (Web 2.0 and social software). What not long ago was expensive and exotic (computers and broadband computer networks) is now inexpensive and ordinary (netbooks and omnipresent wireless). And what in the past was proprietary and inaccessible (information and learning materials) is now generic and open (open educational resources). The TEL community is faced by new research questions related to large
scale deployment of technology enhanced learning, support of individual learning environments through mashup and social software, new approaches in TEL certification, etc.. Furthermore, for new approaches are required for TEL design, implementation, and use to improve the understanding and communication of educational needs among all stakeholders, ranging from researchers, learners, tutors, educational organizations, companies, TEL industry, and policy makers.

ECTEL 2010 will bring together technological developments, learning models, and implementations of new and innovative approaches to training and education. The conference will explore how the synergy of multiple disciplines, ranging from Computer Science, Education, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Social Science, can provide new, more effective and more especially more sustainable, technology-enhanced learning solutions to learning problems. The conference welcomes researchers and developers from European and Non-European countries and industries to present recent advancements from technologies, applications, and learning models in all areas of technology enhanced learning.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
From both research and experience perspective the following topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:

Technological underpinning
* Large scale sharing and interoperability
* Technologies for personalisation and adaptation
* Context-aware systems
* Social computing and web 2.0
* Semantic web and web 3.0
* Mobile technologies
* Intelligent games
* Network infrastructures and architectures for TEL
* Sensors and sensor networks
* Roomware and ubiquitous computing
* Data mining and information retrieval
* Natural language processing and latent semantic analysis
* eLearning specifications and standards

Pedagogical underpinning
* Problem- and project-based learning / Inquiry based learning
* Computer supported collaborative learning
* Collaborative knowledge building
* Game-based and simulation-based learning
* Story-telling and reflection-based learning
* Instructional design and Design approaches
* Communities of learners & Communities of practice
* Teaching techniques and strategies for online learning
* Learner motivation and engagement
* Evaluation methods for TEL

Individual, social & organisational learning processes
* Cognitive mechanisms in knowledge acquisition and construction
* Self-regulated and Self-directed learning
* Social processes in teams and communities
* Social awareness
* Knowledge management and organisational learning
* Sustainability & TEL business models and cases
* Business-learning models

Learning contexts and domains
* Applications of TEL in various domains
* Formal education: initial (K-12, higher education), post-initial
(continuing education)
* Workplace learning in small, medium and large companies
* Aggregated learning at the workplace Distance and online learning
* Lifelong learning (cradle to grave)
* Vocational training
* Informal learning
* Non-formal learning
* Ubiquitous learning

TEL in developing countries
* ICT Inclusion for learning
* Digital divide and learning
* Generation divide and learning
* Education policies
* Rural learning

TEL, functional diversity and users with special needs
* Accessible learning for all
* Visual, hearing and physical impairments
* Psycho-pedagogic support for users
* Educational guidance for tutors
* Adapted learning flow, content and monitoring process
* Standards about accessibility and learning

IMPORTANT DATES (PROVISIONAL)
Paper submission: 11 April 2010
Paper acceptance: 31 May 2010
Camera-ready final papers: 30 June 2010
Workshop proposals: 11 April 2010
Workshop acceptance: 11 May 2010
Workshops: 28/29 September 2010
Conference 30 September /1 October 2010

SUBMISSION FORMATS (use of supplied template is mandatory)
All papers will be reviewed through a non-blind review process. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Proceeding publishing is currently under negotiation with the Springer publisher within their "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series which is ranked in the ISI Web of Knowledge. Please follow the Spinger guidelines at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

* Full Papers (max. 16 pages)
* Short Papers and Posters (max. 6 pages)
* Poster and Demos (max. 2-4 pages)
* Meetings: contact the local organisation chair

WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
EC-TEL 2010 offers the opportunity to host several workshops. Parties interested to organize a workshop are asked to submit a proposal of max. 4 pages outlining the theme of the workshop, workshop format, expected participants and domains addressed, dissemination activities, programme committee, and organizational requirements. Proposals should be submitted to the workshop chair by 11 April to: Daniel Burgos Solans daniel.burgos@atosresearch.eu

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
- General chair: Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
- Programme chairs: Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany and Paul A. Kirschner, Open Universiteit Nederlands
- Workshop chair: Daniel Burgos, TELSpain, ATOS Origin, Spain
- Poster and Demonstration chairs: Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz, Austria
- Industrial session chair: Ignacio Canela, TELSpain/Int. University of La Rioja, Spain
- Local organization chair: Marta Enrech, TELSpain/Open University of Catalonia, Spain
- Doctoral Consortium chairs: Katherine Maillet, INT, France, and Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany

Special Issue Advances in Authoring of Adaptive Web-based Systems JUCS Journal

As a follow up to the A3H (Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia) workshop, we will edit an special issue ("Advances in Authoring of Adaptive Web-based Systems") in the JUCS (http://www.jucs.org/) journal (indexed by ISI Web of Science) with a few invited extended versions of the best papers of last year´s A3H@ECTEL´09 workshop and A3H@AH'08 workshop, and an Open Call.

Maximum number of allowed pages is 20. Formatting instructions can be found at:
http://www.jucs.org/jucs_info/submissions

The submission deadline is: 1st March 2010
Notifications of first review round: 1st of April 2010

Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia has been long considered as secondary to adaptive
hypermedia delivery. However, authoring is not trivial at all. There exist some approaches to help authors to build adaptive-hypermedia-based systems, yet there is a strong need for high-level approaches, formalisms and tools that support and facilitate the description of reusable adaptive websites. However, a shift in interest occurred (fuelled in part by the A3H workshop series), as it became clearer that the implementation-oriented approach would forever keep adaptive hypermedia away from the 'layman' author. The creator of adaptive hypermedia cannot be expected to know all facets of this process, but can be reasonably trusted to be an expert in one of them. It is therefore necessary to research and establish the components of an
adaptive hypermedia system from an authoring perspective, catering for the different author
personas that are required. This type of research has proven to lead to a modular view on the adaptive hypermedia.

Therefore, important issues to discuss are, among others:
* How can frameworks and advanced tools facilitate and contribute to automate authoring?
* How can visual, e.g. drag and drop environments make authoring easier?
* How can verification be made possible in authoring environments? To what extent can it be automated?
* How and to what extent can Semantic Web standards be applied in the authoring process?
* How can Web 2.0 concepts and methodology be used in authoring?
* How does grouping of authors or assignment of authoring roles influence the authoring process, and are there ways to optimize this?

Please submit your papers to:
Guest editors: Alexandra I. Cristea and Rosa M. Carro
acristea@dcs.warwick.ac.uk and rosa.carro@uam.es

EMC-10 The 5th International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing (EMC-10)

The 5th International Conference onEmbedded and Multimedia Computing (EMC-10)

http://www.ftrg.org/emc2010

Cebu, Philippines, August 11-13, 2010 Published
by IEEE

***Joint Conference: HumanCom-10***
The 3rd International Conference on
Human-centric Computing (HumanCom-10)
http://www.ftrg.org/humancom2010

The 5th International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing (EMC-10) will be held in Cebu, Philippines on August 11-13, 2010.

EMC-10 will be the most comprehensive conference focused on the various aspects of advances in Embedded and Multimedia (EM) Computing.

EMC-10 will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of EM. In addition, the conference will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in EM.

In addition, the conference will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in human-centric computing. Furthermore, we expect that the conference and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject.

The EMC-10 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing, previously held as EM-Com 2009 (Korea, Dec. 2009), UMC-08 (Australia, Oct. 2008), ESO-08 (China, Dec. 2008), UMS-08 (Korea, April, 2008), UMS-07(Singapore, Jan. 2007), ESO-07(Taiwan, Dec. 2007), ESO-06(Korea, Aug. 2006).

Topics

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

* Track 1. Embedded Systems and Software
Dr. Zili Shao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

* Track 2. Cyber-Physical Systems
Zonghua Gu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

* Track 3. Embedded System Applications
Gwo Giun Lee, National Cheng Kung Unversity, Taiwan

* Track 4. Real-time systems
TBA

* Track 5. Multimedia Computing
Alberto del Bimb! o, Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica , Italy

* Track 6. Int eractive Multimedia & Intelligent Services
Henry Duh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

* Track 7. Distributed Multimedia Systemss
Nabil Sarhan, Wayne State University, USA

* Track 8. Multimedia Software Engineering
Vladimir Hahanov, Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine

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Committee
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==Honorary Chair==
Jaime Caro, CSP President, University of the Philippines-Dilliman, Philippines

==Steering Chair==
Jong Hyuk Park, Seoul National University of Technology, Korea

==General Chairs==
Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada
Javier A Barria, Imperial College, UK
Tei-wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

==Program Chairs==
Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA
Soo-Kyun Kim, PaiChai University, Korea

==Workshop Chairs==
Ibrahim Kamel, University of Sharjah, UAE
Min Chen, Seoul National University, Ko! rea

==Steering committee==
Edwin Sha, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Sethuraman Panchanathan, Arizona State University, USA
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Jorg Henkel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Morris Chang, Iowa State University, USA

==Local Arrangement Chairs==
Rafael Saldana, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Gregg Victor Gabison, The University of San Jose, Philippines
Henry N. Adorna, University of the Philippines, Philippines

==Publicity Committee==
Ben A. Abderazek, Univ. of Aizu, Japan
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Lei Shu, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Senol Zafer Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey
Zili Shao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Deok-Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea

==Finance & Registration Chair==
Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, ! Korea

==Program Committee==
http://www.ftrg.org/emc2010/committee1.php

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Important Dates
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Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2010
Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2010
Camera Ready Due: April 15, 2010
Conference Dates: August 11-13, 2010

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Submission Guidelines
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Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least three members of the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Press (IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing group) and will be included in the IEEE Xplorer. Authors should submit full paper with 8 pages, regular paper with 6 pages, and short paper with 4 pages in length by using online systems for review.

And some papers selected will be included in some international journals with high quality (pending).

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in EMC-10, after further revisions, wi! ll be published in the special issues of the following international journals (TBA):
. The Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) - Springer (SCI)
. International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) - Inderscience
. Journal of Internet Technology (JIT) - MOE (SCIE)

All submissions must be made electronically (http://www.editorialsystem.net/emc2010)

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Contact Information
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If you have any question about the CFPs and papers submission,
please email to Prof. Soo-Kyun Kim (kimsk@psu.ac.kr).

4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media ICWSM 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
http://www.icwsm.org
May 23-26, 2010

George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is a unique forum that brings together researchers from the disciplines in computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. The broad goal of ICWSM is to increase understanding of social media in all its incarnations. Submissions describing research that blends social science and technology are especially encouraged.

The 2010 meeting will be held in Washington D.C. In addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, tutorials and invited presentations, ICWSM 2010 will include a session of invited talks from prominent social scientists that are studying social media, and a set of talks from leaders of government projects who are experimenting with social media platforms for various purposes, e.g. to increase transparency and better engage the citizenry.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper Submission: January 8, 2010
- Poster/Demo Submission: January 8, 2010
- Paper Acceptance: March 3, 2010
- Poster/Demo Acceptance: March 3, 2010
- Workshop Submission: March 1, 2010
- Camera Ready Copies: March 12, 2010

SPEAKERS

Keynote Speakers:

- Robert E. Kraut, Carnegie Mellon Universirty,
"Designing Online Communities from Theory"

- Michael Kearns, Computer and Information Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania,
"Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks"

Speakers in Special Sessions:

- Nicole Ellison, Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State Univ.
- James Pennebaker, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Texas, Austin
- S. Craig Watkins, Dept. of Radio, TV and Film, Univ. of Texas, Austin

- Don Burke, CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, Intellipedia
- Haym Hirsh, National Science Foundation IIS Division Director
- Macon Phillips, U.S. White House, Head of New Media

Tutorial Speakers will include:

- Jake Hofman, Yahoo! Research,
"Large-scale social media analytics with Hadoop"

- Cindy Chung and James Pennebaker, Univ. Texas,
"Using LIWC to uncover social psychology in social media"

TECHNICAL AREAS

More specifically, ICWSM welcomes submissions from researchers in a number of disciplines:

- Computational Linguistics/NLP
- Text Mining/Data Mining/Machine Learning
- Psychology
- Sociology (including Social Network Analysis)
- Anthropology, Communications, Media Studies
- Visualization
- HCI
- Graph theory, concrete analysis and simulation of graphical models

Submissions are welcome that study a broad array of types social data, including:

- Weblogs, including comments
- Social Networking Sites
- Microblogs
- Wikis (wikipedia)
- Forums, usenet
- Community media sites: youtube, flickr

Technical topics of interest include:

- Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media
- Analyzing the relationship between social media and mainstream media
- Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media
- Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors
- Ranking/relevance of blogs; web page ranking based on blogs
- Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery; collaborative filtering
- Trust; reputation; recommendation systems
- Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization
- Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction
- Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification
- Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting; measuring predictability of phenomena based on social media
- New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Author registration:

Authors must register at the ICWSM-10 web-based technical paper submission site (http://icwsm10.confmaster.net). The software will assign a password, which will enable the author to log on to submit an abstract and paper. In order to avoid a rush at the last minute, authors are encouraged to register as soon as possible, and well in advance of the January 8, 2010 submission deadline.

Abstract and paper submission:

Electronic abstract and paper submission through the ICWSM-10 paper submission site (http://icwsm10.confmaster.net) is required on or (preferably) before January 8. We cannot accept submissions by e-mail or fax.

Papers must be in high resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. Papers should be at most 8 pages, including references (technical paper), or 4 pages (poster or demo description), and formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style (see the author instructions page). Please note that these formatting instructions are for final, accepted papers; no additional pages can be purchased at the review stage. In addition, the copyright slug may be omitted in the initial submission phase.

Authors will receive confirmation of receipt of their abstracts or papers, including an ID number, shortly after submission. AAAI will contact authors again only if problems are encountered
with papers. Inquiries regarding lost papers must be made no later than January 15, 2010.

Submissions to other conferences or journals:

ICWSM-10 will *not* accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. This restriction does not apply to submissions for workshops and other venues with a limited audience.

Registration:

All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author must register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy submission. The registered author must attend the conference to present the paper in person.

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers and abstracts will be allocated up to 8 (eight) pages in the conference proceedings. Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to AAAI.

DATA CHALLENGE

ICWSM-10 is hosting its traditional data challenge featuring freely-available datasets and a half-day workshop at the end of the conference. Data for 2010 includes last year's blog collection
from Spinn3r.com, multiple derived datasets including a searchable Lucene index, and an annotated blog sentiment dataset (mentions, coreference, meronymy and sentiment targeting) from J.D. Power and Associates described by Kessler and Nicolov at ICWSM-09. We are especially interested in mashups of multiple datasets. Details on datasets and solicited topics may be found on the data challenge website, http://www.icwsm.org/2010/data.shtml. Papers for the data challenge workshop are due March 1st, 2010 and should follow the ICWSM main conference formatting guidelines for technical papers (8 pages max in the specified format).

ORGANIZERS

General Chair:
Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley School of Information

Program Chairs:
William Cohen, CMU Computer Science
Samuel Gosling, U Texas Dept of Psychology

Data challenge chairs:
Ian Soboroff, NIST
Akshay Java, Microsoft

Tutorials Chair:
Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs

Publicity Chair:
Nicolas Nicolov, J.D.Power and Associates/McGraw-Hill

Sponsorship Chair:
Matthew Hurst, Microsoft

Senior Program Committee Members:

- Lada Adamic, Univ. of Michigan
- Eugene Agichtein, Emory Univ.
- danah boyd, Microsoft Research
- Claire Cardie, Cornell Univ.
- Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
- Cindy Chung, Univ. of Texas at Austin
- Scott Counts, Microsoft Research
- Chris Diehl, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
- Nicole Ellison, Dept of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State University
- Tim Finin, UMBC
- Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research
- Lise Getoor, Univ. of Maryland
- Kristina Lerman, ISI-USC
- Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
- Winter Mason, Yahoo! Research
- Gilad Mishne, Yahoo! Labs
- Kate Neiderhoffer, Dachis Corporation
- Bo Pang, Yahoo! Research
- Marc Smith, Telligent Systems

CONTACT

For more info: icwsm10@aaai.org