Upcoming Special Issue on e-Learning

CALL FOR PAPERS

Upcoming Special Issue on e-Learning

International Journal of Global Management Studies (IJGMS)
Print ISSN: 1945-3876
Online ISSN: 1945-3884
http://www.IJGMS.org

SCOPE OF PUBLICATION

With the increasing impact of technology in everyday life, the IJGMS special issue publication will critically focus on the role of technology in enhancing learning and education and discuss some of the latest innovative methods of managing virtual classrooms and learning. The coverage will include, but not limited to the following topics:

. e-Portfolio
. e-Learning Planning, Strategies & ROI
. e-Faculty Hiring, Development & Training
. Social, cultural, legal and political issues in
. e-Learning
. e-Learning Standards
. e-Leadership
. e-Assessment & e-Evaluation
. e-Learning Information Systems
. e-Learning Information Portals
. e-Learning Tools & Technologies
. Virtual Learners' Communities
. e-Learning Solutions
. Principles of Virtual Learning systems
. e-Learning Effectiveness & Impacts
. Providing and Attaining Excellence in e-Learning
. e-Learning Management Systems
. Security and data protection issues in e-Learning
. Educational Technologies
. Instructional Design
. Flexible Delivery Systems
. QA for e-Learning
. Virtual Learning Environment & Workplace
. Learners' Support & Services
. Learning Objects

IJGMS is supported by the Association of Global Management Studies (www.association-gms.org). It is a multidisciplinary international association committed to the development of theoretical and practice knowledge pertaining to the global issues in all management related
fields, and advances the dissemination of knowledge through its activities. IJGMS is listed in all four directories of Cabells (www.cabells.com), and its content available via EBSCO Publishing.

For author guidelines please visit the following link: http://www.association-gms.org/Journals/Information_authors.html

Please submit your research paper to editor@ijgms.org. Papers will be double-blind peer, and acceptance decisions will be based on the standards described in the information for authors with a quick turnaround from reviewers.

Submission deadline: December 15, 2009
IJGMS Journal notification: Rolling acceptance
Final version due: January 15, 2010

Dr. John R. St.Clair, III
Associate Editor
Special Issue on eLearning, Int'l Journal of Global Management Studies
Director of Distance & Blended Learning
University of Mary Washington
Office: Stafford Campus, North Bldg. B256
121 University Blvd.
Fredericksburg, VA 22406
jstclair@umw.edu

Dr. Mukesh Srivastava
Editor-in-Chief
Int'l Journal of Global Management Studies
Associate professor of CIS
University of Mary Washington
Office: Stafford Campus, North Bldg. B213
121 University Blvd.
Fredericksburg, VA 22406
msrivast@umw.edu
editor@ijgms.org

[1] www.ijgms.org
[2] www.ijgmsq.org
[3] www.association-gms.org

Annual Report Academic Year 2008-2009 - Information Systems - RWTH Aachen University

This is our annual report. Please download and distribute.


RWTH Aachen University - Information Systems - Annual Report Academic Year 2008-2009

CFP: The 2010 International Conference on Advanced in Social Network Analysis and Data Mining (ASNOAM 2010)

ASONAM 2010 - CALL FOR PAPERS

(A printable typeset version of a more extensive CfP can be found at
<http://asonam2010.hau.gr/>.)

The 2010 International Conference on Advanced in Social Network Analysis and
Data Mining.

http://asonam2010.hau.gr/

Following the great success of ASONAM09 in Athens (20-22 July 2009), ASONAM2010 will be held in Odense, Denmark, August 9-11, 2010, and the proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (pending final approval).

ASONAM will provide an interdisciplinary venue for practitioners and researchers from a variety of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) fields to promote collaborations and exchange of ideas and practices with a specific focus on emerging trends.

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publications Service. Selected best papers will be invited for submission to special issues of journals and books (see the website for further details).

Submissions of papers are solicited all areas of SNAM including, but not limited to:

- Anomaly detection in social network evolution
- Application of social network analysis
- Application of social network mining
- Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online social networks
- Communities discovery and analysis in large scale offline social networks
- Connection between biological similarities and social network formulation
- Contextual social network analysis
- Contextual social network mining
- Crime data mining and network analysis
- Cyber anthropology
- Dark Web
- Data protection inside communities
- Detection of communities by document analysis
- Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
- Economical impact of social network discovery
- Evolution of patterns in the Web
- Evolution of communities in the Web
- Evolution of communities in organizations
- Geography of social networks
- Impact of social networks on recommendations systems
- Information acquisition and establishment of social relations
- Influence of cultural aspects on the formation of communities
- Knowledge networks
- Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis
- Misbehavior detection in communities
- Migration between communities
- 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
- Preparing data for Web mining
- Political impact of social network discovery
- Privacy, security and civil liberty issues
- Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations
- Recommendation networks
- Scalability of social networks
- Scalability of Search algorithms on social networks
- Social and cultural anthropology
- Social geography
- Social psychology of information diffusion
- Temporal analysis on social networks topologies
- Visual representation of dynamic social networks
- Web mining algorithms
- Web communities

Important dates

* November 1, 2009 Paper submission process opens
* December 1, 2009 Workshop/special session proposal
* February 28, 2010 Full paper submission deadline
* May 1, 2010 Notification of acceptance
* May 20, 2010 Camera-ready papers due
* May 20, 2010 Presenting author registration due
* August 9-11, 2010 Conference

Please visit the conference website http://asonam2010.hau.gr/ for paper format guidelines, submission instructions and further information.

Senior Research Fellows in Complex Networks

This is from the website of the CABDyN Complexity Centre in Oxford.

Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks

CABDyN Complexity Centre,
Grade 8
(£36,532 - £43,622 with discretionary range to £47,666)

Fixed term post for two years

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks who will join the research team based at the CABDyN Complexity Centre at the University of Oxford. The full further particulars for the post are available here.

The advertised post is funded through one of the Centre’s new projects:

‘SATURN – Self-organising Adaptive Technology Underlying Resilient Networks’ is co-funded by the UK Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Since the project involves collaboration with both academic and industrial partners, the postholder should anticipate making regular UK based research visits as well as regular project meetings.

The successful candidate will be working with and analysing the large-scale empirical datasets used in the project, using their working knowledge of large-scale engineered networks and liaising with engineers from the project’s industrial partners about the project’s work on engineering based systems. S/He will develop novel metrics to characterise network resilience, transport and dynamics in large technological systems, and dynamic processes on complex networks. S/He will be expected to then integrate specific research findings with the work of all project partners and co-author articles for publication in leading peer-reviewed journals in different disciplines, presenting research results at international workshops and conferences. S/He will be expected to oversee the day to day management of the project and contribute to the training and development needs of graduate students.

Selection criteria
Candidates will be expected to have a PhD in an appropriate discipline (e.g physical, mathematical, engineering or computer sciences) with postdoctoral training in complex systems and networks, with a track record of serious interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement. An appropriate track record of high-quality peer-reviewed publications on complex systems and networks, good programming skills and demonstrated practical experience of managing and working with large-scale empirical data sets will be essential. Candidates will be expected to have experience of giving research seminars on complex systems and networks to an inter-disciplinary audience and the ability to contribute to the organisation of seminar, workshops and conferences. In addition, candidates will be expected to have demonstrated practical experience of managing and working with large-scale engineered systems either through training or research or both. Familiarity with Artificial Intelligence applications and processes and/or Cloud Computing is desirable. Track record of successful grant writing is also desirable

The Senior Research Fellow will be based at the Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP, under the direction of Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas (Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Saïd Business School). The post is funded for two years, ideally commencing 1st February 2010, or as soon as possible thereafter.

If no suitable applicant is forthcoming an appointment on the scale £28,839 – £35,469 with discretionary range to £38,757 (with an appropriate adjustment of duties) may be considered.
Applicants who would need a work visa if appointed to the post are asked to note that under the UK’s new point’s based migration system they will need to demonstrate that they have sufficient points.
To apply send a detailed covering letter indicating how you fulfil the requirements of the post together with a detailed curriculum vitae and the names and complete contact details (including email addresses if possible) of two referees, to vacancies@sbs.ox.ac.uk or to the HR Department at the Saïd Business School, Egrove Park, Kennington, Oxford OX1 5NY.
This is an international recruitment round. Please note that letters of application in the UK have to be much more detailed than in some other countries. Applicants are encouraged to address in detail most, if not all, of the points outlined in the selection criteria in their covering letter.
The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon (GMT) on Wednesday 2 December 2009. It is expected that interviews will be held in the week commencing 4 January 2010.

Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks

CABDyN Complexity Centre
Grade 8 (£36,532 - £43,622 with discretionary range to £47,666)
Fixed term post for two and a half years

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks who will join the research team based at the CABDyN Complexity Centre at the University of Oxford. The full further particulars for the post are available here.

The advertised post is funded through one of the Centre’s new projects:

‘ICTeCollective Project – Harnessing ICT-enabled Collective Social Behaviour’ is funded under the European Commission’s Framework 7, Future of Emerging Technologies Open Scheme. Since the project involves a European collaboration with partner institutions in Finland, Italy, Hungary and Poland, the postholder should anticipate making at least 2 European research visits per annum.

The successful candidate will be working with and analysing the large-scale empirical datasets used in this project, developing novel metrics to characterise network dynamics in large social systems, and dynamic processes on complex networks. S/He will be expected to develop agent-based or stochastic models for the adoption of innovations in online social networks that can be compared with empirical data and to contribute to the development of new models of social influence processes. S/He will be expected to then integrate specific research findings with the work of all project partners and co-author articles for publication in leading peer-reviewed journals in different disciplines, presenting research results at international workshops and conferences. S/He will be expected to oversee the day to day management of the project and contribute to the training and development needs of graduate students.

Selection criteria
Candidates will be expected to have a PhD in an appropriate discipline (e.g physical, mathematical, engineering, computer or analytic social sciences) with postdoctoral training in complex systems and networks, with a track record of serious interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement. An appropriate track record of high-quality peer-reviewed publications on complex systems and networks, good programming skills and demonstrated practical experience of managing and working with large-scale empirical data sets will be essential. Candidates will be expected to have experience of giving research seminars on complex systems and networks to an inter-disciplinary audience and the ability to contribute to the organisation of seminar, workshops and conferences. Track record of successful grant writing is desirable.

The Senior Research Fellow will be based at the Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP, under the direction of Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas (Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Saïd Business School). The post is funded for two and a half years, ideally commencing 1st April 2010, or as soon as possible thereafter.

If no suitable applicant is forthcoming an appointment on the scale £28,839 – £35,469 with discretionary range to £38,757 (with an appropriate adjustment of duties) may be considered.
Applicants who would need a work visa if appointed to the post are asked to note that under the UK’s new point’s based migration system they will need to demonstrate that they have sufficient points.
To apply send a detailed covering letter indicating how you fulfil the requirements of the post together with a detailed curriculum vitae and the names and complete contact details (including email addresses if possible) of two referees, to vacancies@sbs.ox.ac.uk or to the HR Department at the Saïd Business School, Egrove Park, Kennington, Oxford OX1 5NY.
This is an international recruitment round. Please note that letters of application in the U.K. have to be much more detailed than in some other countries. Applicants are encouraged to address in detail most, if not all, of the points outlined in the selection criteria in their covering letter.
The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon (GMT) on Wednesday 2 December 2009. It is expected that interviews will be held in the week commencing 4 January 2010.

We would be pleased to discuss individual fellowship applications regarding interdisciplinary research on complex systems and networks, especially if they are directly related to current interests of one or more CABDyN members. In the first instance please contact info.cabdyn@sbs.ox.ac.uk

The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media 2010)

We have now finished a first preliminary Call for Papers for the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing (U-Media 2010) in Jinhua, China. It is my pleasure to be one of the programme chairs.

The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing (U-Media 2010)

Positions in personalized recommender systems for epidemic events at AAU

Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University in Denmark offers several vacancies at different levels: PhD Fellow, research assistant or post doc expected to start on January 1 2010 or as soon as possible after with a deadline for applications on November 30 2009

The vacancies are available within Intelligent Web and Information Systems group (IWIS, http://iwis.cs.aau.dk).

The funding is available within FP7 projects KIWI, idSpace and MEco.

Your research will focus on topics in the following areas:

- advanced personalized information retrieval and recommender systems techniques based on social activities such as tagging
- web engineering in the system area of information retrieval, event detection, recommender systems and social web portals
- with focus on application domain in medical and epidemic events identification from social media

Interested candidates should have following competencies:
- excellent master or PhD degree in computer science preferably in information retrieval, recommender systems, database management with focus on web, web engineering or related areas
- advanced programming skills and experiences from web portals development and integration preferably in technologies related to JAVA
- fluent in English (speaking and writing)
- good social and collaboration skills
- knowledge in medical domain especially with relevance to epidemic events is an advantage
- experiences in collaborative research projects is an advantage

Your main duties will be to perform research and programming within the IWIS group and the associated projects as well as help with daily tasks in the group. IWIS group is a young, dynamic, and international research group. Currently active research areas of the group are influenced by world wide web research and includes:

* infrastructures for intelligent information systems on the web
* web personalization strategies and algorithms
* engineering adaptive web

PhD fellow and research assistant positions are intended for candidates who would like to pursue a PhD degree. Post Doc position is intended for candidates who would like to further develop and deepen their research profile as well as help with management tasks. You will be given an opportunity to develop your teaching skills as well.

Your salary will depend on position and ranges between approximately 24 000 DKK and 30000 DKK before taxes per month (1EUR is approximately 7.5 DKK). Aalborg is a regional center of a very beautiful area with nice beaches and nature.

Further information on how to apply can be found at the following web site:

PhD Fellow: http://stillinger.aau.dk/vis.php?nr=4895

Research Assistant and PostDoc: http://stillinger.aau.dk/vis.php?nr=4894

Please note that you have to apply by normal post and identify propoerly which position you are applying for:

PhD Fellow: 562/06-16-29204

Research Assistant: V29013

PostDoc: P29017

Please send your application no later than November 30 2009.

As described at above mentioned web site, we will expect within your application usual documents such as cv, copies of your degree certificates, list of publications (if any), transcripts of your university study results, master thesis extended abstract as well as motivation letter containing suggestions how to approach the above mentioned area in the project.

For further inquires please contact Associate Professor Peter Dolog: dolog@cs.aau.dk

IEEE First International Workshop on Social Networks

IEEE First International Workshop on Social Networks

Cape Town, South Africa, May 27, 2010
in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Communications

Social networks treating relationship as connections to form networks become an emerging technology in Internet and mobile computing/communications, as the foundation of popular personalized but anonymous applications/services of networking and communication infrastructure. However, there are tremendous knowledge and technology challenges, which are open to research community to facilitate state-of-the-art systems and networks of user attraction. This workshop will focus on but not limited to the following potential subjects of
interests:

* Social network behaviors, dynamics, modeling, and analysis
* Representation, measurement, modeling of relationship
* Social network topology, complex network theory, random graph, and relationship to statistical mechanics or biology
* Web connections and grid/cloud computing
* Belief and message propagation, search technology over Internet
* Trusted networking, security, privacy, and digital right management over social networking
* Cognitive modeling, machine learning, game theory, computational intelligence, applied in social networks
* Applications and services to Internet, multimedia networks, e-commerce, and mobile-commerce

The manuscripts must be originally written in English, and no more than 6 two-column pages following IEEE format in PDF. Please visit www.comm.ntu.edu.tw/socialnet and submit your paper through EDAS with the following schedule:

Submission Deadline: November 20, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: January 20, 2010
Camera-Ready Due: February 20, 2010

Accepted papers will be published at the IEEE Xplore. Further questions can be addressed to social.net@santos.ee.ntu.edu.tw

TPC Members:

Masaki Aida (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
Ulrik Brandes (U. of Konstanz)
Klaus David (Universität Kassel)
Mads Haahr (Trinity College Dublin)
Symeon Papavassiliou (Nat'l Technical U. of Athens)
Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
Kazumi Saito (University of Shizuoka)
Knud Skouby (Aalborg University)
Yan Sun (University of Rhode Islands)
Stephen Wicker (Cornell University)
Ja-Lin Wu (National Taiwan University)
Vicky Zhao (University of Alberta)

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Kwang-Cheng Chen (National Taiwan University)
Naohisa Ohta (Keio University)

Workshop Secretary:

Phone Lin (National Taiwan University)

AGILE'2010 Call For Papers: Reminder

13th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science: “Geospatial Thinking”

11-14 May 2010

Guimarães, Portugal

http://agile2010.dsi.uminho.pt

****** Call for Papers

On behalf of the AGILE council, we invite you to participate at the 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, scheduled to take place in Guimarães, Portugal.

The program will offer parallel paper presentation sessions, keynote sessions, poster sessions and pre-conference workshops to share your ideas, explore on-going research, future developments, including state-of-the-art applications, and to network with the professionals from academia, industry, and government who are interested in promoting GI teaching and research activities among GI laboratories at the European level.

Potential contributors are invited to submit:

- Full-paper submission (maximum 6000-word manuscript) of original and unpublished fundamental scientific research. High-quality scientific submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Geoinformation and Cartography.

- Short paper submission (2000 to 3000-word manuscript) of original and unpublished research work. High-quality scientific and strategic (industrial and governmental) submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and published in the AGILE proceedings volume (with ISSN). Papers must be written in English according to the submission template and formatting guidelines.

- Poster submission (500 to 1000-word manuscript) of original scientific and strategic research work. High-quality submissions will be accepted for poster presentations at the conference and provide the exceptional opportunity to stimulate scientific discussions and exchange novel ideas.

Papers must be written in English according to the submission template and formatting guidelines.

Authors’ instructions are available at http://agile2010.dsi.uminho.pt. All submissions must be sent electronically via the on-line conference manager.

****** Conference Topics

Contributions are invited on all topics within the fields of geoinformation, geomatics and geocomputation, including (but not limited to):

- Perception and Representation of Geographic Phenomena

- Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for Geographic Information Systems

- Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Modelling and Reasoning

- Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Analysis

- Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Visualisation

- Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

- Spatial Semantics and Spatiotemporal Ontologies

- Semantic Web and GIS

- Web Services, Geospatial Systems and Real-time Applications

- Location Based Services and Mobile GI Applications

- Geospatial Decision Support Systems

- Public Participation GIS and Participatory uses of Geospatial Information Systems and Technologies

- Volunteered Geographic Information

- GIScience Education and Training

- Demographic and Socioeconomic Modelling

- Environmental/Ecological and Urban/Regional Modelling

- Health and Medical Informatics

- Natural Resources Management and Monitoring

- Disaster and Risk Management

- Geosensor Networks

****** Important Deadlines

- Full paper submission: November 6th 2009

- Pre-conference workshop proposal: November 13th 2009

- Notification of workshop acceptance: December 15th 2009

- Notification of full paper acceptance: December 21st 2009

- Camera-ready full paper copies due: January 15th 2010

- Short paper and poster submissions: January 29th 2010

- Notification of short paper and poster acceptance: March 5th 2010

- Camera-ready short paper copies due: March 29th 2010

- Early registration: March 31st 2010

Call for Papers: The 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2010)

CALL FOR PAPERS


The 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies

ICALT2010

Sousse, Tunisia

July 5-7, 2010

http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2010/


Deadline: January 15th, 2010

ICALT is an annual international conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning organized by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology. After its kick-off as IWALT in Palmerston North, New Zealand (2000), ICALT has been held in New Zealand (2000), Madisson, USA (2001), Kazan, Russia (2002), Athens, Greece (2003), Joensuu, Finland (2004), Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2005), Kerkrade, The Netherlands (2006), Niigata, Japan (2007), Santander, Spain (2008), Riga, Latvia (2009). The 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT2010) will be held in Sousse, Tunisia, a city with rich culture and a long-standing tradition in computer-based learning. The technical program will feature keynote addresses, workshops, tutorials, in addition to presentations of refereed papers.

Selected Papers will be considered for publication to

* Educational Technology and Society Journal [http://www.ifets.com], ISSN 1436-4522 [included in SSCI, Impact Factor: 0.904/2008 - Thomson Scientific 2008 Journal Citations Report]

* IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies [http://www.computer.org/portal/site/transactions/menuitem.eda2ca84d8d67764cfe79d108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=transactions_level1&path=transactions/tlt/content&file=index.xml&xsl=article.xsl&] (TLT), IEEE [a joint publication of the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Education Society], ISSN 1939-1382


TOPICS OF INTERESTS

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Learning Systems Platforms and Architectures
* Rethinking Pedagogy in Technology-enhanced Learning
* Adaptive and Personalized Technology-enhanced Learning
* Intelligent Educational Systems
* Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
* Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies for Learning
* Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments for Learning
* Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning
* Web 2.0 and Social Computing for Learning and Knowledge Sharing
* Semantic Web and Ontologies for Learning Systems
* Affective and Pervasive Computing for Learning
* Human-Centered Web Science and its Applications to Technology-enhanced Learning
* Virtual Worlds for Academic, Organizational, and Life-Long Learning
* e-Assessment and new Assessment Theories and Methodologies
* Data Mining and Web Mining in Education
* Knowledge and Competencies Management
* Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
* Advanced Learning Technologies for Disabled and Non-Disabled People
* Technology-enhanced Science Education
* International Alliance for Open Source, Open Standards, and federated repositories
* School of the Future and Future Classrooms
* E-learning in the Workplace


IMPORTANT DATES

* January 15, 2010: Submissions all types (Full, Short Papers and Posters)
* February 19, 2010: Authors' Notification on the review process results
* March 15, 2010: Author's Registration Deadline
* April 12, 2010: Final Camera-Ready Manuscript and IEEE Copyright Form submission
* April 30, 2010: Advance Registration
* July 5-7, 2010: ICALT2010 Conference


SUBMISSIONS

We invite the submission of original papers reporting high quality new academic or innovative industrial research in the area of Advanced Learning Technologies. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by three reviewers. Abstracts or incomplete papers are not included to the review process.

The anticipated types of submissions are:
* Full paper: 5 pages
* Short paper: 3 pages
* Posters: 2 pages
* Doctoral consortium papers: 2 pages (first author must be a PhD student)

Please submit your manuscript using the ASK-Conference System at:
http://www.ask4research.info/conference/upload.php
If you have any problems with the above web submission form, you can send the manuscript by email to icalt-operations@iti.gr (subject: ICALT2010 Submission).

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Organized by
University of Tunis, Tunisia
Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology
Hellas

Sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology

Conference Proceedings are published by
IEEE Computer Society Press


CONFERENCE FEES POLICY

Author's Registration* (until March 15th)

IEEE Member 300 Euro
IEEE Non-Member 375 Euro
IEEE Member -
Student
IEEE Non-Member -
Student
IEEE Life/Retired -
Member

Non-Authors Advance Registration (until April 30th)

IEEE Member 320 Euro
IEEE Non-Member 400 Euro
IEEE Member 175 Euro
Student
IEEE Non-Member 225 Euro
Student
IEEE Life/Retired 175 Euro
Member

Non-Authors Late Registration (after April 30th)

IEEE Member 450 Euro
IEEE Non-Member 570 Euro
IEEE Member 245 Euro
Student
IEEE Non-Member 310 Euro
Student
IEEE Life/Retired 245 Euro
Member

* At least one author for each accepted paper is required to register as ICALT 2010 Author at flat authors' rate 300 € (IEEE Member) or 375 € (IEEE Non-Member). In cases where the same person plans to present 2
or more papers (Full, Short, Poster or Workshop) in the conference, it is still required that for each paper a single different registration is made (Registration 1:1 Policy). For Doctoral consortium papers to be published in the proceedings and presented in ICALT, the PhD Student who proposed the paper should register as a Student Author at IEEE (175 €) or non-IEEE Rates (245 €)

The conference fees include full entry to all events (Keynotes/ Invited Speeches, Workshops, Papers Presentations, Poster/Demos Sessions and Panels), Welcome Reception and Conference Banquet, Coffee Breaks and Luncheons, as well as one copy of the ICALT 2010 Proceedings (in CD-ROM).

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

General Chairs
* Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunisia, Tunisia
* Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece

Program Chairs
* Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada
* J. Michael Spector, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

Doctoral Consortium Chairs
* Sabine Graf, National Central University, Taiwan
* Charalampos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
* Oscar Martinez Bonastre, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain

Tutorial Chair
* Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Workshop and Panels Chair
* Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Local Chair
* Prof. Rafik Brahem, University of Tunisia, Tunisia

Finance Chair
* Panagiotis Zervas, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

Program Committee (not yet complete)
Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Eshaa M. Alkhalifa, University of Bahrain, Bahrain
Colin Allison, University of St-Andrews, United Kingdom
Mohamed Ally, Athabasca University, Canada
Arif Altun, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Eralp Altun, Ege University, Turkey
Rachid Anane, Coventry University, United Kingdom
Albert Angehrn, INSEAD CALT Fontainebleau, France
Luis E. Anido-Rifon, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Reuven Aviv, The Open University of Israel, Israel
Werner Beuschel, University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, Germany
Bani Bhattacharya, Centre for Educational Technology - Indian Institute of Technology, India
MJ Bishop, Lehigh University College of Education, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University, USA
Josep Blat, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Patrick Blumschein, University of Freiburg, Germany
Rosa Maria Bottino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Genova, Italy
Oscar Martinez Bonastre, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain
Christos Bouras, University Patras and CTI, Greece
Francis Brouns, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Mark Brown, Massey University, New Zealand
Martha Burkle, CISCO e-Learning, USA
Manuel Castro, UNED, Spain
Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan
Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada
Ni Chang, Indiana University, USA
Yam-San Chee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Gwo-Dong Chen, National Central University, Taiwan
Irene Ya-Ling Chen, Ching Yun University, Taiwan
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Sherry Y. Chen, National Central University, Taiwan
Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway
Ikseon Choi, University of Georgia, USA
Christophe Choquet, Universiti du Maine, France
Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, UK
Vassilis Dagdilelis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Isabel Fernandez De Castro, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
Stavros N. Demetriadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Michael Derntl, University of Vienna, Austria
Giuliana Dettori, Institute for Educational Technology, Italy
Paloma Diaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, EU
Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA
Angelique Dimitracopoulou, University of the Aegean, Greece
Yannis A. Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
Monica Divitini, Norwegian Universtity of Science and Technology, Norway
Juan Manuel Dodero, Universidad de Cadiz, Spain
Ian Douglas, Florida State University, USA
Jon Dron, Athabasca University, Canada
Mark Dutchuk, Vancouver Island University, Canada
Jan Elen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Jon Elorriaga, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Yoram Eshet, Open University, Israel
Sanaz Fallahkhair, University of Brighton, UK
Carla Falsetti, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Baltasar Fernandez Manjon, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Paola Forcheri, IMA-CNR, Italy
Sarfo K. Frederick, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
Mike Freeman, Camber Corporation, USA
Domingo J. Gallego, UNED, Spain
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
Demetrius Georgiou, Demokritus University of Thrace, Greece
Carlo Giovannella, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Tiong Goh, Vicrotia University of Wellington, New Zealand
Vladimir A. Goodkovsky, Independent Consultant, Virginia, USA
Sabine Graf, National Central University, Taiwan
Monique Grandbastien, Universite Henri Poincare, France
Dai Griffiths, The Institute for Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton, UK
Maria Grigoriadou, University of Athens, Greece
Yasemin Gulbahar, Baskent University, Turkey
Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Friedrich Hesse, Knowledge Media Research Centre, Germany
Tsukasa Hirashima, Hiroshima University, Japan
Pete Holt, Athabascau University, Canada
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Yi-chuan Jane Hsieh, Ching Yun University, Taiwan
Ray Yueh-Min Huang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Hans Hummel, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Gwo-Jen Hwang, National University of Taiwan, Taiwan
Wu Yuin Hwang, National Central University, Taiwan
Dirk Ifenthaler, University or Freiburg, Germany
Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Russell Johnson, Massey University, New Zealand
Mike Joy, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Charalambos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Keiso Katsura, Senri Kinran University, Japan
Ian Kennedy, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
ChanMin Kim, Florida State University, USA
MinKyu Kim, Florida State University, USA
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Rody Klein, Paris 8 University, France
Carlos Delgado Kloos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Gerald Knezek, University of North Texas, USA
Sandhya Kode, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India
Ah-Choo Koo, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Rob Koper, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Maria Kordaki, Computer Institute of Technology, Greece
Ari Korhonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Tiffany Koszalka, Syracuse University, USA
K. Robert Lai, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Aparna Lalingkar, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India
Monica Landoni, University of Lugano, Swiss
Chien Ching Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapure
Chien Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Luigi Lella, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Davinia Hernandez-Leo, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Steve Leung, Athabasca University, Canada
Stefano Levialdi, Universita di Roma, Italy
Oscar Lin, Athabasca University, Canada
Andreas Lingnau, Knowledge Media Research Center, UK
Tzu-Chien Liu, National Central University, Taiwan
Martin Llamas, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
Barbara Lockee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
John Loewen, Vancouver Island University, Canada
Jacques Lonchamp, University of Nancy, France
Flavio Manganello, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Alke Martens, University of Rostock, Germany
Trey Martindale, University of Memphis, Tennessee
Jonathan McKeown, Florida State University, USA
Veijo Meisalo, University of Helsinki, Finland
Anastasios Mikropoulos, University of Ioannina, Greece
Marcelo Milrad, Vaxjo University, Sweden
Punya Mishra, Michigan State University, USA
Boris Misnevs, Transport and Communication Institute, Latvia
Roberto Moriyon, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Constantinos Mourlas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Jari Multisilta, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Sahana Murthy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Indian
Kandan Muthusamy, IBM India, India
Jehad Najjar, Synergetics NV, Belgium
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan
Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Manuel Ortega Cantero, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Spain
Kyparisia Papanikolaou, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Greece
Foteini Paraskeva, University of Piraeus, Greece
Iraklis Paraskakis, South East European Research Centre, Greece
Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Panagiotis Pintelas, University of Patras, Greece
Sarantos Psycharis, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Greece
Srinivasa Ramani, IIITB, Bangalore, India
Lloyd Reiber, University of Georgia, USA
Symeon Retalis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Marco Ronchetti, University di Trento, Italy
Devshri Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Demetrios G Sampson, University of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece
Ulrik Schroeder, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Ali Fawaz Shareef, Center for Open Learning, Maldives
Ji Shen, University of Georgia, USA
Valerie Shute, Florida State University, USA
Katherine Sinitsa, Intl Res. and Trng Ctr of Info. Tech. and Systems, Kiev, Ukraine
Peter Sloep, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Amy Soller, USA
Marcus Specht, Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
J. Michael Spector, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Krassen Stefanov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria
Christian M. Stracke, University of Duisburg-Essen
Jarkko Suhonen, University of Joensuu, Finland
Erkki Sutinen, University of Joensuu, Finland
Qing Tan, Athabasca University, Canada
Carmen Taran, Managing Partner at Rexi Media, UK
Pierre Tchounikine, Universiti du Maine, France
Chin-Chung Tsai, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Setsuo Tsuruta, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Maomi Ueno, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Wouter van Joolingen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Michael Verhaart, Eastern Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Barbara Wasson, University of Bergen, Norway
Dunwei Wen, Athabasca University, Canada
Jie Chi Yang, National Central University, Taiwan
Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan
Hsiu-Ping Yueh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Larisa Zaitseva, Riga Technical University, Latvia

Second Call for Abstracts - TELDAP International Conference 2010, 2-4 March 2010, Taipei, Taiwan

TELDAP International Conference 2010

2-4 March 2010, Taipei, Taiwan

http://collab.teldap.tw/teldap2010/

It is a pleasure to announce that the TELDAP International Conference 2010 will be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan from Tuesday March 2 until Thursday March 4, 2010.

The Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP) International Conference 2010 will be held at the Building for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan from Tuesday March 2 until Thursday March 4 2010. The conference is organized by International Collaboration and Promotion of Taiwan e-Learning & Digital Archives Program.

This conference provides an international forum for researchers throughout the world to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, latest research results and future development suggestions. The Conference covers topics such as the progress status of TELDAP's results, in-depth application of TELDAP content, new applications and technologies based on digitized contents and e-Learning, etc. By exchanging their experiences on how to develop digitization technology and applications, this Conference would provide the Digital Archive community with invaluable insights for future collaboration.

On behalf of the Program Committee, we are pleased to invite submissions for presentation on the following topics.

Call for Abstracts

Date: 23 Oct. - 30 Nov. 2009

Online Submission at: http://collab.teldap.tw/teldap2010/onlineabstractsubmission.html

Topics of Interest Include

l Biosphere & Nature

How can digitized assets change the way we perceive our planet? What applications can be built so that we can improve natural resource management with the digital archive? The digitization of natural history collections has greatly aided in the research workflow of fundamental systematics, as well as provides an overview of the species composition of the past. By comparing that with geo-referenced observations in the present, scientists can study the human impact on biodiversity. When further evaluated with environmental factors, we start to gain insights into the bio-complexity in this age of extreme climate change. Invited speakers in this session will demonstrate several exciting practices showing how scientists utilize digitization methods on observation data to model and to hypothesize the possible decision support for sustainable development and biodiversity conservation in the future.

l Lives & Culture

Taiwan is an island country which is composed of various ethnic groups. The different life styles and habits of those groups have shaped a historical culture which is rich, unique, and full of diversity. Through Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP), the Life and Culture Thematic Group of Taiwan Digital Archives Expansion Project attempts to reserve the beauty of this characteristic Taiwan culture, such as researching of the excavated relics and digitalizing the collections of the materials, documentary information, diaries, photos, traditional folklores and cultural skills of Aboriginal, Minan, Hakka, migrants from Mainland China and other minorities. In order to share, spread the results of digitalization in archeology and anthropology in Taiwan, by exchanging the digital archives techniques and experienced practices of many programs, TELDAP International Conference 2010, would help the research, promotion and sustainable management of digitalization worldwide. Researchers of digital archive organizations in archeology and cultures, or technicians of related fields are welcome to summit your papers.

l Archives & Databases

The proposed panel aims to foster interoperability and collaboration between institutions, groups, and individuals creating and using archives and databases. The aim is to further cooperation and discussion of all matters related to better integration of the digital archives. Such matters include (but not limited to) standards for interchange of data and metadata, best practices, sample implementations and coordination of identifier definition, catalog mapping, emerging technologies, and so forth. To achieve this goal, select groups and individuals will be invited to participate in the discussions in the TELDAP panel. The proposed panel will focus on bringing together speakers from different fields to commemorate previous achievements and lay the foundations for future developments in various studies. It is our hope that the panel will revitalize cooperation between various archives and projects in these fields as well as between those projects funded by NDAP. The panel will also accommodate and benefit scholars and innovators in the field of Digital Learning.

l Arts & Illustrations

In the past few years, the members of The Art and Illustrations Thematic Group of Taiwan Digital Archives Expansion Project have done fruitful work in digital archives. The digitalized outcome contains both 2D and 3D visual art works, such as painting, calligraphy, rubbing, seal cutting, jade craft, ceramic, glove puppet, musical instrument, sculpture, Peking operas, Kunqu and fabrics. These precious original art works were once only presented to the public with their aesthetic effects by actually being exhibited in the museums; but now with the digital techniques and internet access, 'Art' has become much more accessible to the general public.

With the purposes of sharing and exchanging the digital archiving techniques and experiences, as well as promoting art work digitalizing techniques, we would like to invite those who are specialized in digitalization techniques or painting and craft conservation to gather together by holding the 'TELDAP International Conference 2010'.

We invite submission of full papers particularly in the following topics:

-Collaboration between digitalization technique and methods for art history study

-Color management

-Quality assurance and efficient digitization workflows

-3D Image capture technology

-2D, calligraphy and scroll image capture technology

l Maps & Architectures

With the geographical features and historical background, the charm of cultural and natural landscape in Taiwan flourishes in different forms. Map and Architecture Thematic Group, one of six thematic groups in "Taiwan Digital Archives Expansion Project", has precious collection on symbolic features in Taiwanese architecture and geographical information. With techniques such as photographing, scanning, 3D modeling, LIDAR, and Virtual Reality, different forms and features in the specific time and space make possible to be recorded and preserved. For the 2010 TELDAP International Conference, we would like to invite you to share the work we have achieved as well as to discuss and explore the further possibility for digital technologies with special use on recording map and architecture.

We invite submission of full papers particularly respond to the following main themes:

-Knowledge development of Taiwan architecture in association with living space

-Knowledge in architecture integrated by digital content

-Discussion on the further study of digital content

-Study on the presentation of space and time in GIS

-Study on the linkage between the usage and promotion of the digital content database to its users

l Languages & Multimedia

Abstract submissions are cordially invited for peer review on recent advances in the following topics related to Language and Multimedia.

-Journalism & (New) media: digital archives, digital contents and application

-Sign/Spoken languages corpora: theory, practice and application

l e-Learning

Topics for submission include but are not limited to:

-Technology Enhanced Science Learning

-Digital Technology Enhanced Learning & Society

-Classroom, Ubiquitous and Mobile Technologies Enhanced Learning

-Technology Enhanced Language Learning

-Testing and Assessment

-Innovative Design of Learning Software

Call for Full-Paper Submissions

We highly encourage the 2010 speakers (both invited and accepted CFP submission) to submit the full-papers of their presentations for publication. The papers should be only submitted in English and will be published in the Conference Proceedings afterwards. The maximum page length for full paper is 10 pages. Clear instructions about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be announced on the conference website.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 November 2009

Notification of Acceptance: 30 December 2009

Full Paper Submission Deadline: 20 February 2010

Thank you very much for your attention and we look forward to seeing you in March 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan.

For more information please contact

Conference Secretariat
Ms. Annie Lin, Ms. Molly Wu and Ms. Cindy Chen
Tel: +886-2-2789-8310~8311
Fax: +886-2-2783-7653
Email: teldap-collab@twgrid.org
Address: No.128, Sec2, Academia Rd, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan

Special Issue of IEEE Trans. on Learning Technologies on Game-Based Learning

all For Papers

Game-Based Learning

Special Issue of IEEE Trans. on Learning Technologies

Guest Editors: Timothy Shih, Kurt Squrie, and Rynson Lau

Aims

Edutainment and serious games introduce a new important direction to practical technologies such as multimedia communications, human-computer interaction, and ubiquitous computing. This exciting outcome also points out the educational potential using computer games. Several commercially successful games, although not intentionally designed for, have interesting learning, socializing, and interaction strategies embedded in the games. These fundamental and intrinsic learning aspects of successful games must be investigated. How to explore pedagogical principles for serious games, to design and implement systems for Game-Based Learning (GBL), and to assess the achievement of student learning are essential focuses of the special issue..

Topics

In this special issue, we call for original papers that describe the design, implementation, evaluation and experimental study of practical Game-Based Learning systems. Areas of interests include, but are not limited to:

· Game Based Collaborative Learning

· Assessment of Learning Performance in GBL

· Authoring Tools for GBL

· Game Engine Development and Customization to GBL

· Artificial Intelligent for GBL

· On-Line and Mobile Game Technologies

· Location-Aware Games and Ubiquitous Technologies

· Multimodality Interactions in GBL

· Evaluation and User Experiences of GBL Systems

· Social Impacts of GBL

· Educational Game Design

Submission

Original papers for submission should be formatted and submitted according to the author guidelines. Papers with earlier results published in conferences are required to make substantial changes in contributions, elaboroations and/or experimental results. Recommendation of submission from top conferences related to GBL are also welcomed. Updated information of this call can be found at: www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~rynson/tlt/tlt-cfp.html.

Schedule

Deadline for paper submission: December 1, 2009
Completion of first review: March 1, 2010
Revision due: May 1, 2010
Final decision notification: June 1, 2010
Publication materials due: August 1, 2010
Publication date: December 2010 issue (tentative)

Guest Editors

Timothy Shih
Department of Computer Science
NTUE

Taiwan
Email: timothykshih@gmail.com

Kurt Squrie
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
University of Wisconsin-Madison
U.S.A.
Email: kdsquire@education.wisc.edu

Rynson W.H. Lau
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Email: Rynson.Lau@cityu.edu.hk

International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2010)

First Call for Papers

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2010)

July 19-23, 2010 • Singapore

With around 1000 submissions and 500 participants each year, the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. It serves as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities.

Prospective authors are invited to submit a 6-page full paper according to the guidelines available from the conference website at http://www.icme2010.org/. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Speech, audio, image, graphics, video, text processing
• Signal processing for media integration
• Virtual reality and 3-D imaging
• Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction
• Multimedia communications and networking
• Multimedia security and content protection
• Multimedia databases and digital libraries
• Multimedia computing systems and applications
• Multimedia analysis and social media
• Hardware and software for multimedia systems
• Multimedia standards and related issues
• Multimedia quality assessment

ICME 2010 aims to have the top 15% papers accepted for oral presentation and additional 15% papers accepted for poster presentation. Several awards sponsored by industry and institutions will be given out. Best papers will be presented in a single-track session to all participants. Accepted papers should be presented; otherwise, they will not be included in the IEEE Xplore Library.

A number of Workshops will be organized by the sponsoring societies. To further foster new emerging topics, ICME 2010 also welcomes researchers, developers and practitioners to organize regular Workshops. Interested organizers please contact the Workshop Chairs for further details. Proposals for Special Sessions, Tutorials, Demos, and Exhibitions are also encouraged. Please visit the ICME 2010 website for submission details.

Regular Paper Abstract Submission:	December 18, 2009
Regular Paper Submission:	December 31, 2009
Notification of Regular Paper Acceptance:	March 15, 2010
Camera-Ready Paper Due:	April 15, 2010
Special Session Proposal Due:	December 5, 2009
Workshop Proposal Due:	December 31, 2009
Tutorial Proposal Due:	January 31, 2010