The programme for the CWeb2.0 Workshop in Solothurn, Switzerland on March 26, 2009 is released finally. Unfortunately, it is in German, but the whole event is dedicated to the German speaking knowledge management community. If you are interested, you will meet many great people and learn about knowledge management. It was a great pleasure for me to serve on the programme committee.
Donnerstag, 26.03.2009:
09:30-10:00
zeb/space: Business Web für die Klienten eines Beratungsunternehmens
Joachim Paul Hasebrook (Invited Talk)
10:00-10:30
Web 2.0 in Unternehmen - Eine Fallstudien-Analyse
Gisela Granitzer, Klaus Tochtermann
10:30-11:00
Corporate Wikis: A Comparative Analysis of Structures and Dynamics
Klaus Stein, Steffen Blaschke
11:30-12:00
Solution Development 2.0 - Provision and Roll-out of Solution Packages with Social Networking
Johannes Müller, Yannick Bietenholz, Michel Griga, José Martin Gallardo, Thomas Niessen, Peter Stiphout
12:00-12:30
Collaborative Process Development using Semantic MediaWiki
Frank Dengler, Steffen Lamparter, Mark Hefke and Andreas Abecker
12:30-13:00
Die Instrumentalisierung von Web 2.0-Technologien in betrieblichen Aus- und Weiterbildungsprozessen
Susanne Schmidt (Short Paper)
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
List of Accepted Paper for WMM'09
The list of accepted papers for the 9th Workshop on Multimedia Metadata (WMM'09) is available. Seems to be an interesting workshop in Toulouse. Looking forward to seeing all my colleagues there. Romulus and Vincent did a great job, indeed.
The Multimedia Metadata Community has already organized a series of 8 successful workshops in the past taking place in Aachen, Berlin, Graz and Klagenfurt.
The Multimedia Metadata Community welcomes and encourages submissions from outside the core community to broaden aspects and extend the active and successful community and network with new members.
The 9th meeting will be organized in Toulouse as a special session of the 13th French Multimedia Conference on Compression and Representation of Audiovisual Signals (CORESA 2009). Both events will share joint panels and sessions bringing researchers and industry experts to fruitful discussions. On March 18th afternoon, an industrial session including LBS demos of the Toulouse Open platform (www.navigation-satellites-toulouse.com) will bootstrap the academic program.
The WMM'09 workshop is organized by the Institute of Research in Informatics (IRIT) of the University of Toulouse (www.irit.fr). The WMM'09 chairs are Romulus Grigoras (romulus.grigoras AT enseeiht.fr) and Vincent Charvillat (vincent.charvillat AT enseeiht.fr).
- Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems - Reviewing and Benchmarking
Kosch, Harald - What Algorithms for Urban Routing on Mobile Devices?
Gräbener, Tristram; Berro, Alain; Duthen, Yves - A Multimedia Service with MPEG-7 Metadata and Context Semantics
Cao, Yiwei; Klamma, Ralf; Khodaei, Maziar - Delivery Context Descriptions – A Comparison and Mapping Model
Timmerer, Christian; Jabornig, Johannes; Hellwagner, Hermann - A Standards-Based Generic Approach for Complex Multimedia Management
Carreras, Anna; Tous, Ruben; Delgado, Jaime; Cordara, Giovanni; Francini, Gianluca; Gibellino, Diego - Authoring Interactive Mobile Services Using MPEG-7 and MPEG-4 LASeR
Hofmann, Albert; Kriechbaum, Andreas; Bailer, Werner - A Novel Tool for Quick Video Summarization using Keyframe Extraction Techniques
Lux, Mathias; Schoeffmann, Klaus; Marques, Oge; Boeszoermenyi, Laszlo - Towards the use of multimedia contents to represent events in vehicular ad hoc networks
Cenerario, Nicolas; Delot, Thierry; Ilarri, Sergio - A User Study on Rich Media Mobile Guide Applications
Choudary, Omar; Baccot, Benoit; Grigoras, Romulus; Charvillat, Vincent
The Multimedia Metadata Community has already organized a series of 8 successful workshops in the past taking place in Aachen, Berlin, Graz and Klagenfurt.
The Multimedia Metadata Community welcomes and encourages submissions from outside the core community to broaden aspects and extend the active and successful community and network with new members.
The 9th meeting will be organized in Toulouse as a special session of the 13th French Multimedia Conference on Compression and Representation of Audiovisual Signals (CORESA 2009). Both events will share joint panels and sessions bringing researchers and industry experts to fruitful discussions. On March 18th afternoon, an industrial session including LBS demos of the Toulouse Open platform (www.navigation-satellites-toulouse.com) will bootstrap the academic program.
The WMM'09 workshop is organized by the Institute of Research in Informatics (IRIT) of the University of Toulouse (www.irit.fr). The WMM'09 chairs are Romulus Grigoras (romulus.grigoras AT enseeiht.fr) and Vincent Charvillat (vincent.charvillat AT enseeiht.fr).
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Community Visualization Service for the ICWL Series
Thanks to Pham and Martin we could realize a visualization service for the ICWL series. On the actual conference website you can visualize all locations of the conference so far, statistics about community development and the co-authorship graphs for the conference series.
Tell me if you like it! Perhaps you want to add it to your conference website, too.
Monday, January 26, 2009
PROLEARN Academy Newsletter 2009 - Week 5
*** Events in the next 7 days
*** New Call For Papers
EDEN 2009 Annual Conference in Gdansk
*** PROLEARN Academy - Measure
Our auto observation tool for scientific communities contains at present 1501 projects, of which 235 are newsfeeds, 95 newsletters, 462 web sites, 68 mailinglists and 641 blogs. The number of caught entries totals 102326 for the feeds, of which 4662 were retrieved last week. For the newsletters totals 3375 entries, of which 14 were retrieved last week, for the mailinglists there are 95496 entries, of which 494 last week and for the blogs there are 203256 entries, of which 118 last week.
International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
Date: Jan 24, 2009 - Jan 30, 2009
Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East
Date: Jan 26, 2009 - Jan 29, 2009
2nd Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East 2009: Inspire, Innovate, Initiate & Impact
Place: Dubai, Date: Jan 26, 2009 - Jan 29, 2009
e-TQM College is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East 2009: Inspire, Innovate, Initiate & Impact and invites all those engaged with the implementation of excellence in e-learning to share their experiences and practices by submitting research papers, case studies, view points and reviews.
e-TQM College is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East 2009: Inspire, Innovate, Initiate & Impact and invites all those engaged with the implementation of excellence in e-learning to share their experiences and practices by submitting research papers, case studies, view points and reviews.
Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) Conference and Exposition
Date: Jan 28, 2009 - Jan 31, 2009
LLinE Conference
Date: Jan 29, 2009 - Jan 31, 2009
Lifelong Learning as a Right? European Perspectives
Lifelong Learning as a Right? European Perspectives
Technology, Knowledge and Society
Date: Jan 30, 2009 - Feb 01, 2009
Learning Technologies 2009
Date: Jan 30, 2009 - Jan 31, 2009
There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events *** New Call For Papers
EDEN 2009 Annual Conference in Gdansk
Call-Art: Conference, Paper submission deadline: Jan 31, 2009
INNOVATION IN LEARNING COMMUNITIES
INNOVATION IN LEARNING COMMUNITIES
CFP: International Workshop on Technology for Education (T4E'09)
Call-Art: Workshop, Paper submission deadline: May 07, 2009
International Workshop on Technology for Education (T4E '09) August 4-6, 2009, Bangalore, India http://www.iiitb.ac.in/t4e
International Workshop on Technology for Education (T4E '09) August 4-6, 2009, Bangalore, India http://www.iiitb.ac.in/t4e
CfP: ICALT 2009 Doctoral Consortium
Call-Art: Conference, Paper submission deadline: Feb 16, 2009
The 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
The 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
E-Infrastructures and Technologies for Lifelong Learning
Call-Art: Publication, Paper submission deadline: Feb 28, 2009
Invitation to submit chapter proposal
Invitation to submit chapter proposal
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS: ?TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: APPROACHES AND APPLICATIONS?
Call-Art: Publication, Paper submission deadline: Mar 31, 2009
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Call for Papers: International Conference on Hybrid Learning 2009
Call-Art: Conference, Paper submission deadline: Mar 15, 2009
International Conference on Hybrid Learning
International Conference on Hybrid Learning
PC member IC-EDUCA 2009: 1st International
Call-Art: Conference, Paper submission deadline: Feb 15, 2009
Conference on REFORMING EDUCATION: THE EDUCATION OF THE 21ST CENTURY ? A BOLD RESPONSE TO THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CRISIS
Conference on REFORMING EDUCATION: THE EDUCATION OF THE 21ST CENTURY ? A BOLD RESPONSE TO THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CRISIS
2nd CFP: Hypertext 2009
Call-Art: Conference, Paper submission deadline: Feb 02, 2009
Hypertext 2009, The Twentieth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
Hypertext 2009, The Twentieth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
Call-Art: , Paper submission deadline: Jan 26, 2009
There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/cfps *** PROLEARN Academy - Measure
Our auto observation tool for scientific communities contains at present 1501 projects, of which 235 are newsfeeds, 95 newsletters, 462 web sites, 68 mailinglists and 641 blogs. The number of caught entries totals 102326 for the feeds, of which 4662 were retrieved last week. For the newsletters totals 3375 entries, of which 14 were retrieved last week, for the mailinglists there are 95496 entries, of which 494 last week and for the blogs there are 203256 entries, of which 118 last week.
There is additional information about the projects in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/mediabase
We are continuously enlarging our project database.
CUELC Newletter 5 - January 2009 released
The Seed Salon: Is society turning inward? Albert-László Barabási + James Fowler
The following is from Seed Magazine. Fascinating stuff. Barabási is giving the keynote on COMPLEX'09, Shanghai, China, February 23-25. We will present our paper "You never walk alone: Recommending Academic Events Based on Social Network Analysis" at the same conference. Before watching the video you have to watch the "sponsored message" :-(
Albert-László Barabási + James Fowler
Barabási mathematically describes networks in the World Wide Web, the internet, the human body, and society at large. Fowler seeks to identify the social and biological links that define us as humans. In this video Salon, Barabási and Fowler discuss contagion and the Obama campaign, debate the natural selection of robustness, and ask: Is society turning inward?
Read the transcript first published in Seed 20, February 2009.
Extended Deadline: NetSciCom 2009
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
NetSciCom 2009
First IEEE International Workshop on Network Science
For Communication Networks
April 24, 2009 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
http://netscicom2009.asu.edu/
In conjunction with IEEE Infocom 2009
NetSciCom 2009
First IEEE International Workshop on Network Science
For Communication Networks
April 24, 2009 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
http://netscicom2009.asu.edu/
In conjunction with IEEE Infocom 2009
SCOPE:
Network Science is a newly emerging discipline with applications in a variety of domains, such as, Communication Networks, Power Grid Networks, Transportation Networks, Social Networks, Biological Networks and Economics. Designing complex communication networks of the future needs a deep understanding of the interplay between the physical-, the
communication- and the social networks involved. An understanding of such interdependency can only be achieved by closer interaction between Network Scientists, Communication Network Designers, and Social and Behavioral Scientists. The goal of this workshop is to a provide a forum where this diverse group of researchers can meet and exchange ideas that will lead to deeper insights into the design of robust, efficient and complex communication networks of the future.
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
The topics of this workshop lie at the intersection of Network Science and Communication Network Design - including Topology Design and Analysis, Traffic Modeling, Traffic Routing, Social Media Analysis:
blogs and friendship networks, Bio-inspired networks, Internet scale measurement and analysis of online communities, Social network analysis with mobile phone data, Interdependency between power grid, communication and transportation networks.
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PAPER SUBMISSION:
Papers should contain original material, i.e., that has not been previously published or currently submitted elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE Communications Society author guidelines. All submissions will be handled electronically. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE INFOCOM
2009 workshop proceedings and will be available through IEEE Xplore.
For paper formatting instructions, please check
http://www.ieee-infocom.org/paper-layout.htm
Prospective authors should submit their papers through EDAS. EDAS is now accepting NetSciCom2009 submissions at
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7339&
or by follwoing the respective links through the workshop webpage.
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IMPORTANT DATES:
Workshop date: April 24, 2009
***EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 15, 2009***
Notification of acceptance: March 22, 2009 Camera-ready version submission deadline: April 5, 2009
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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Arun Sen, Arizona State U.
Andrea Richa, Arizona State U.
Katia Obraczka, UC Santa Cruz
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
J. Altmann, Int. Univ. Germany
M. Boguna, Univ. of Barcelona, Spain
R. Bonneau, AFOSR
J. M. Coyle, ARO
J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, UCSC
G. Konjevod, ASU
D. Krioukov, CAIDA, UC San Diego
M. Latapy, CNRS, France
C. Magnien, CNRS, France
R. Mateus, UFMG, Brazil
M. Mitzenmacher, Harvard Univ.
C. Qiao, Univ. Buffalo (SUNY)
K. Ramchandran, U.C. Berkeley
H. Sadjadpour, UCSC
C. Scheideler, T.U. Munich
E. Silva, UFRJ, Brazil
B. Ulman, ARO
P. Varaiya, U.C. Berkeley
J. Walrand, U.C. Berkeley
G. Xue, ASU
E. Zegura, Georgia Tech
T. Znati, NSF
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
ECTEL 2009 - Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines
EC-TEL 2009
www.ectel09.org
September 29th - October 2nd, 2009
Cannes, France
Fourth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
"Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines"
Deadline for Papers: April 20th, 2009
www.ectel09.org
September 29th - October 2nd, 2009
Cannes, France
Fourth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
"Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines"
Deadline for Papers: April 20th, 2009
Currently, the face of learning is changing substantially. Formal learning is surrounded by informal learning opportunities, classroom learning is complemented by workplace learning, and even the frontiers between teaching and learning are disappearing as people are learning collaboratively and engaging in knowledge communities. These developments are driven by technological advancements: large scale knowledge repositories provide learners with content and support them in an individualized and adaptive way; semantic technologies provide contextualized and task-specific information; the Web 2.0 enables people to actively take part in knowledge communication and knowledge construction. These new tools and technical means need psychological and pedagogical models of learning which take into account the vast diversity of situations where learning takes place, as well as the specific needs of individuals, tutors and organisations. ECTEL 2009 aims to bring together new technological developments and learning models. 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 sustainable, technology-enhanced learning solutions. The conference welcomes researchers 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.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Novel technologies for learning:
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Large scale sharing and interoperability
Network infrastructures (peer to peer, ad-hoc networks, GRID)
Semantic web and web 2.0
Web services architectures
Sensors and sensor networks
Mobile technologies
Roomware and ubiquitous computing
Data mining and social networks
Intelligent games
User-adaptive systems and personalisation
Natural language processing
Pedagogical issues for TEL:
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Learning communities & communities of practise
Problem- and project-based learning; inquiry based learning
Collaborative knowledge building
Scripting
Game-based learning
Instructional design
Evaluation methods for TEL
Learner motivation and engagement
Individual, social & organisational learning processes:
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Cognitive mechanisms in knowledge construction
Social processes
Knowledge management and organisational learning
Sustainability & TEL business models
Learning contexts and domains:
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Formal education
Small, medium and large companies
Distance learning
Vocational training
Informal learning
Workplace learning
Learning domains, e.g. science, language, music, geography, history
From kindergarten to elderly people
TEL in developing countries
TEL for disabled persons
CALL FOR PAPERS
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 sustainable, technology-enhanced learning solutions. It welcomes researchers 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. We invite all researchers across the different fields of TEL to contribute to the scientific landscape of technology enhanced learning. Contributions may address the design of innovative environments, computational models and architectures, results of empirical studies on socio-cognitive processes, field studies regarding the use of technologies in context, etc.
All eLearning documentation bringing together new technological developments and learning models are welcome.
SUBMISSIONS
All submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity by three reviewers. Proceedings will be published by Springer.
Submission formats:
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* Full Papers (between 10 and 15 pages)
* Posters (between 4 and 6 pages)
Important dates:
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* Abstract submission: April 13th 2009 (pre-submission
* Papers and posters due: Monday 20th April (Date will not be extended)
* Acceptance notification: June 1st, 2009
* Camera Ready: June 15th, 2009
* Conference: October 1st and 2nd, 2009
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
Besides the main technical program EC-TEL will host workshops on topics related to the conference theme. Workshops promote scientific exchange amongst researchers interested in a particular topic and act as a meeting point for the community. The workshops should provide the opportunity to present and discuss ongoing work and new ideas in the diverse fields of research related to Technology Enhanced Learning. Of particular interest are workshop proposals with an interdisciplinary standpoint, proposals focusing on a specific technology of general interest, or bringing together a sub-community.
General Information and Criteria
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* Co-located workshops cover topics falling in the general scope of the EC-TEL conference (refer to http://www.ectel09.org/).
* They are clearly focused.
* There is potentially a significant community interested in the workshop's topic.
* Workshop duration can be half a day or a full day.
* We advise having more than one organizer and no more than four, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic.
* Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences. We welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions
Therefore, the workshop proposals should include how this is going to be fulfilled (i.e. methods for eliciting opinions and ideas to be used, organization of presentations and discussions, how non presenting participants are involved and so on)
* Programme committee, review process, kinds of submissions expected : (abstracts, short papers, full papers, ...) and planned publishing/proceeding will be taken into account as well.
Submission format:
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Workshops: 4 pages
Important Workshops dates:
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Workshop proposals: March 30th, 2009
Workshop acceptance: April 13th, 2009
Acceptance notification: June 1st, 2009
Camera Ready papers: June 15th, 2009
Workshops: September 29th and 30th, 2009
CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS
EC-TEL is the leading European conference on theory in Technology Enhanced learning, attracting an increasing number of participants from various communities and sectors. In addition to papers and posters EC-TEL 2009 is seeking demonstrations of novel TEL applications in various sectors, as well as innovative enabling technologies and deployment infrastructures relevant to the main conference topics of interest. The demonstrations track complements the paper, workshop, and poster tracks providing hands-on access to real-world, proven-and-tested applications.
Submissions to the demonstrations track must be in the form of a textual description of the demonstration to be given at the conference.
Important demonstrations dates:
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* Proposals: June 1st, 2009
* Acceptance notification: June 21st, 2009
* Conference: October 1st and 2nd, 2009
CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM:
The EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium brings together Ph.D. students working on topics related to Technology Enhanced Learning. The Doctoral Consortium will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in an interdisciplinary and international atmosphere. The Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors and researchers in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning who will participate actively and contribute to the discussions. The Doctoral Consortium is co-located with and will take place immediately before the EC-TEL 2009 conference. The working language for the Doctoral Consortium will be English. We welcome submissions on all major topics, to those of relevance for EC-TEL 2009. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the EC-TEL Programme Committee. Papers selected will be published in proceedings and authors will present their work in front of other students and senior researchers during the Doctoral Consortium workshop. Each accepted paper will be assigned to at least two scientific advisors who will provide extended feedback on the research. The goal of the symposium is to provide a unique opportunity for Ph.D. students to expose their work to an international group of academics andPh.D. students outside their home institution, enhancing feedback from their supervisors.
Important Doctoral Consortium dates:
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* Proposals: June 1st, 2009
* Acceptance notification: June 30th, 2009
* Final paper submission: August 31st, 2009
* Doctoral Consortium: September 29th or 30th, 2009
COMMITTEES
General Chair:
Marcus Specht (Centre for Learning Sciences and Technology @ OUNL, The Netherlands)
Programme Chairs:
Ulrike Cress (Knowledge Media Resarch Center, Germany),
Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Local Organization Chair:
Katherine Maillet (Institut Telecom, Telecom & Management Sudparis, France)
Publicity Chair:
Marcela Morales (Institut Telecom, Telecom & Management Sudparis, France)
Workshop Chairs:
Nikol Rummel (University of Freiburg, Germany),
Peter Dolog (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Industrial Session Chair:
Volker Zimmermann (IMC, Germany)
Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Frank Fischer (LMU University of Munich, Germany),
Stefanie Lindstaedt (Know Center, Austria)
Demonstration Chairs:
Alexandra Cristea (University of Warwick, United Kingdom),
Nikos Karacapilidis (Univeristy of Patras, Greece)
Knowledge Technology in Learning Support
KES2009 Invited Session
"Knowledge Technology in Learning Support"
http://www.watanabe.ss.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp/others/KES2009-IS07/
September 28-30, 2009, Santiago, Chile
Conference site: http://kes2009.kesinternational.org/
"Knowledge Technology in Learning Support"
http://www.watanabe.ss.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp/others/KES2009-IS07/
September 28-30, 2009, Santiago, Chile
Conference site: http://kes2009.kesinternational.org/
*** Aim and Scope ***
The education/learning activity is typical activity for our human to acquire knowledge directly, exchange it interactively, represent it conceptually and refine it for more useful content. The computer-supported education/learning functions or systems have been investigated to encourage such knowledge handling activities successfully or construct such knowledge management environments intelligently. Some systems focus on the content composition; some do on operational and communicative functions between learners and system managers or among learners. It is important to support our knowledge cycle smartly, which consists of acquisition, refinement, reproduction and presentation, but it is not always easy to design and implement such functionality or environment. Of course, we must investigate what form can the knowledge be represented in computer-supported functionality/environment so as to keep the understandable intention between learners and computers. Also, it may be necessary to study the functionality/environment with respect to the transition between tacit and explicit knowledge and the knowledge situation is defined with 4 kinds of transitions, proposed by I.Nonaka. Our session aims to discuss current and interesting resources concerning to the learning support issues in knowledge society.
*** Keywords ***
Collaborative learning and intelligent learning, Collective knowledge and personal knowledge, Creative learning strategy, Knowledge discovery, Learning in knowledge society, Creativity support mechanism, Knowledge activity support,
etc.
*** Important Dates ***
Submission deaeline: March 11, 2009
Acceptance notification: April 1, 2009
Final version deadline: April 22, 2009
*** Session Chairs ***
Toyohide Watanabe, Dr. Eng.
Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Japan
Tomoko Kojiri, Dr. Eng.
Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Japan
Tel:+81-52-789-5144
Fax:+81-52-789-3808
kojiri@nagoya-u.jp
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Swiss Experiment - From Wireless Sensor Networks to E-Science
On Monday, January 26, 2009, Prof. Karl Aberer from EPFL, Switzerland will give a Distinguished UMIC Lecture in the Super-C Ford Lecture Hall at RWTH Aachen University with the title "Swiss Experiment - >From Wireless Sensor Networks to E-Science"
Abstract:
The emergence of novel sensing devices and wireless sensor network technologies provides a whole new opportunity for global environmental studies and environment-related decision making. The Swiss Experiment is a newly initiated multidisciplinary project aimed at building a large scale platform, to support field investigations of environmental processes, which is based on new sensor and data management technology. In this talk we will first give an overview of the environmental problems being addressed in the Swiss Experiment and identify opportunities of supporting environmental scientists by recent advances in communications and information systems. We will discuss in particular our approach to support data and information management throughout experimental campaigns. This includes support for distributed data stream management based on Global Sensor Networks, for data warehousing and analysis, for map-based visualizations based on SensorMap and for information sharing using a WIKI-based and semantics- enabled platform. We will demonstrate our initial results and identify some future challenges towards developing a truly comprehensive information management support for environmental sciences.
Biographical sketch:
Karl Aberer is a Professor for Distributed Information Systems at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, and director of the Swiss National Centre for Mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS). His research interests are on decentralization and self-organization in information systems with applications in peer-to-peer search, overlay networks, trust management and mobile and sensor networks. Before joining EPFL in 2000 he was leading the research division of open adaptive information systems at the Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI) of GMD in Germany, which he joined in 1992. There his work concentrated on XML data management and cross-organizational workflows. He studied mathematics at ETH Zürich where he also completed his Ph.D. in theoretical computer science in 1991. From 1991 to 1992 he was postdoctoral fellow at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at the University of California, Berkeley. He is member of several journal editorial boards, including VLDB Journal, and conference steering committees. Recently he served as PC co-chair of ICDE 2005, MDM 2006 and ISWC 2007.
Older Computer Science / UMIC Colloquium Announcements:
Abstract:
The emergence of novel sensing devices and wireless sensor network technologies provides a whole new opportunity for global environmental studies and environment-related decision making. The Swiss Experiment is a newly initiated multidisciplinary project aimed at building a large scale platform, to support field investigations of environmental processes, which is based on new sensor and data management technology. In this talk we will first give an overview of the environmental problems being addressed in the Swiss Experiment and identify opportunities of supporting environmental scientists by recent advances in communications and information systems. We will discuss in particular our approach to support data and information management throughout experimental campaigns. This includes support for distributed data stream management based on Global Sensor Networks, for data warehousing and analysis, for map-based visualizations based on SensorMap and for information sharing using a WIKI-based and semantics- enabled platform. We will demonstrate our initial results and identify some future challenges towards developing a truly comprehensive information management support for environmental sciences.
Biographical sketch:
Karl Aberer is a Professor for Distributed Information Systems at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, and director of the Swiss National Centre for Mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS). His research interests are on decentralization and self-organization in information systems with applications in peer-to-peer search, overlay networks, trust management and mobile and sensor networks. Before joining EPFL in 2000 he was leading the research division of open adaptive information systems at the Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI) of GMD in Germany, which he joined in 1992. There his work concentrated on XML data management and cross-organizational workflows. He studied mathematics at ETH Zürich where he also completed his Ph.D. in theoretical computer science in 1991. From 1991 to 1992 he was postdoctoral fellow at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at the University of California, Berkeley. He is member of several journal editorial boards, including VLDB Journal, and conference steering committees. Recently he served as PC co-chair of ICDE 2005, MDM 2006 and ISWC 2007.
Older Computer Science / UMIC Colloquium Announcements:
- Cognitive radio: An information-theoretic perspective for resource allocation (October 24, 2008)
- Amplifiers/Transmitters Design for Software Defined Radio (SDR) Applications (October 21, 2008)
- Multi-Meshed Tree Algorithms in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (October 24, 2008)
- Dependability for high-tech systems: an industry-as-laboratory approach (May 13, 2008)
- The five-minute rule twenty years later, and how flash memory changes the rules(May 8, 2008)
- Mobile Mapping for Conservation and Management of Heritage Places (April 22, 2008)
- NVIDIA CUDA Software and GPU Parallel Computing Architecture (April 11, 2008)
- Automatic computation of loop invariants (April 10, 2008)
- Supporting User-Generated, Location-Aware Mobile Services (February, 26, 2008)
- Real World 802.11 WLANs: from Theory to (unexpected!) practice (February 18, 2008)
- From Data to Knowledge: A Lesson in Network Modeling (January 28, 2008)
- Adaptive Mobile Multimedia Streaming (January 17, 2008)
- Watching Football with the Eyes of Experts (December 20, 2007)
Virtual Worlds and 3-D Web
Journal of Database Management (JDM) Special Issue on
Virtual Worlds and 3-D Web
Journal of Database Management (JDM)
Editor-in-Chief: Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
www.igi-global.com/jdm
Deadline: 2 February 2009 (new and firm deadline)
Virtual Worlds and 3-D Web
Journal of Database Management (JDM)
Editor-in-Chief: Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
www.igi-global.com/jdm
Deadline: 2 February 2009 (new and firm deadline)
Special Issue Editors
Blake Ives, University of Houston
Brian Mennecke, Iowa State University
Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Shu Schiller, Wright State University
Keng Siau, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVE), Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), and other 3-D virtual environments have begun to attract the attention of scholars, practitioners, and the public at large. Although many of these environments originated as games or social networks, numerous scholars have recognized that virtual worlds and 3-D web have the
potential to revolutionize how individuals work, play, and use the web, how groups and teams interact, collaborate, socialize, and conduct their work, how businesses market and sell products, goods, and services, and how societal and governmental boundaries and institutions are stretched
and redefined. The popularity of games such as World of Warcraft, social networks such as Second Life, and children’s games such as Webkinz has demonstrated that these environments have appeal, and experience thus far has shown that these environments present both opportunities and challenges for individuals, businesses, governments, and societies.
This special issue has the goal of fostering research to examine this important phenomenon by offering scholars the opportunity to publish and disseminate empirical, theoretical, or conceptual papers addressing the importance and impact of virtual worlds and 3-D web. We are open to the
use of a variety of research methodologies to understand phenomena relating to Virtual Worlds and the 3-D web.
Topics relevant to this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Studies and models of individual perceptions¸ acceptance, and use of virtual worlds and the 3-D web
* Studies and models of group, team, and social interaction in virtual environments
* Studies and models of organizational applications for virtual worlds and the 3-D web
* Studies and models of inter-organizational uses of virtual worlds
* The application of business models, strategic frameworks, and/or competitive models to understand economic and business development in virtual worlds
* Studies and models examining the adoption, development, and evolution of virtual worlds and the 3-D web
* Examinations of the educational, business, legal, economic, societal, and jurisdictional impact of virtual worlds
Important Dates:
New Submission Deadline: 2 February 2009
Initial screening by Guest Editors: 16 February 2009
First round of review: 6 April 2009
Second round of review: 6 July 2009
Final Decision: 10 August 2009
Submission Procedure:
All manuscripts will be subject to high standards of peer review at JDM. Manuscripts should follow the JDM guidelines for submission. Details regarding the submission format are available at http://www.igi-pub.com/jdm
Please email your submission as an attachment to Dr. Brian Mennecke at mennecke@iastate.edu
Monday, January 19, 2009
Towards eLearning 2.0 University (Update)
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Interactive Learning Environments
Towards eLearning 2.0 University
Towards eLearning 2.0 University
RATIONALE
Although Web 2.0 approaches have not been designed specifically for educational purposes, their integration into educational practice is perceived as beneficial for the next generation of eLearning contexts. The main argument in support of this claim is that eLearning 2.0, as this integration is called, will help to conceptualize eLearning from the learner’s perspective rather than from the institutional perspective, placing the learner in the centre of a more social, personal and flexible learning process.
eLearning 2.0, therefore, marks a shift away from the previous generation of eLearning, in which learners were consumers, towards a new generation in which learners are producers, in charge of their own learning process. This requires not only a technological shift, deploying Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs, RSS, etc., but also, and more importantly, a conceptual change in which social learning, relying on social software, is key.
This special issue is dedicated to the question of how traditional and distance universities deal and should deal with eLearning 2.0 approaches. This includes a wide spectrum of topics: from current practices to theoretical foundations.
TOPICS
Areas for inclusion in this special issue comprise those related to eLearning 2.0 in general and, particularly, in the context of traditional and distance universities. Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
* Theoretical foundations of eLearning 2.0
* Pedagogical and didactical implications of eLearning 2.0
* Instructional design implications
* Empirical evaluations
* Assessment
* Supporting services (learners, faculty, etc.)
* Professional development and eLearning 2.0
* Collaborative learning
* Peer-to-peer support
* Mash-ups
* Authoring content for eLearning 2.0
* e-Portfolio and social profiles
* Non-formal and informal learning
* Virtual learning environments
* Learning communities
* Knowledge management
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Terry Anderson Athabasca University, Canada
Albert Angehrn INSEAD, France
Francis Brouns Open University of The Netherlands
Carlos Castaño University of the Basque Country, Spain
Peter Dolog Aalborg University, Denmark
Jon Dron Athabasca University, Canada
David Griffiths University of Bolton, UK
Ralf Klamma RWTH Aachen, Germany
Paola Monachesi Utrecht University, The Netherlands
María José Rodríguez Conde University of Salamanca, Spain
German Ruipérez Spanish National Open University (UNED), Spain
Sandra Schaffert Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H, Austria
Judith Schoonenboom University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Riina Vuorikari European Schoolnet, Belgium
Scott Wilson University of Bolton, UK
TIME & PLANNING
* Deadline for paper submission: 04.March.2009
* Feedback from reviewers: 04.May.2009
* Revised manuscripts: 04.June.2009
* Acceptance notification: 13.July.2009
* Camera-ready submissions:01.September.2009
* Expected publication date: Early 2010
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Instructions for authors can be accessed via the journal homepage: http://www.informaworld.com/ile
Manuscripts should be e-mailed as PDF file to the corresponding guest editors.
GUEST EDITORS
Dr. Adriana J. Berlanga
Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC)
http://www.celstec.org
Open University of The Netherlands
adriana.berlanga[at]ou.nl
Dr. Francisco J. García Peñalvo
Computer science department
Vice-rector of Technology Innovation
University of Salamanca
fgarcia[at]usal.es
Prof. Dr. Peter B. Sloep
Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC)
Open University of The Netherlands
peter.sloep[at]ou.nl
PROLEARN Academy Newsletter 2009 - Week 4
*** Events in the next 7 days
*** New Call For Papers
JCAL special issue on Adaptive technologies and methods in e/m-Learning and Internet-based education
*** PROLEARN Academy - Measure
Our auto observation tool for scientific communities contains at present 1501 projects, of which 235 are newsfeeds, 95 newsletters, 462 web sites, 68 mailinglists and 641 blogs. The number of caught entries totals 100606 for the feeds, of which 5168 were retrieved last week. For the newsletters totals 3361 entries, of which 16 were retrieved last week, for the mailinglists there are 95016 entries, of which 477 last week and for the blogs there are 203133 entries, of which 814 last week.
Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN)
Date: Jan 18, 2009 - Jan 22, 2009
iLearning Paris Forum 2009
Date: Jan 19, 2009 - Jan 20, 2009
EDCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) 2009
Date: Jan 20, 2009 - Jan 22, 2009
Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACSW 2009)
Date: Jan 20, 2009 - Jan 23, 2009
Information Online
Date: Jan 20, 2009 - Jan 22, 2009
Florida Educational Technology Conference
Date: Jan 21, 2009 - Jan 24, 2009
Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting
Date: Jan 21, 2009 - Jan 24, 2009
Technology, Reading and Learning Difficulties Conference
Date: Jan 22, 2009 - Jan 24, 2009
International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
Date: Jan 24, 2009 - Jan 30, 2009
Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East
Date: Jan 26, 2009 - Jan 29, 2009
2nd Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East 2009: Inspire, Innovate, Initiate & Impact
Place: Dubai, Date: Jan 26, 2009 - Jan 29, 2009
e-TQM College is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East 2009: Inspire, Innovate, Initiate & Impact and invites all those engaged with the implementation of excellence in e-learning to share their experiences and practices by submitting research papers, case studies, view points and reviews.
There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events e-TQM College is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East 2009: Inspire, Innovate, Initiate & Impact and invites all those engaged with the implementation of excellence in e-learning to share their experiences and practices by submitting research papers, case studies, view points and reviews.
*** New Call For Papers
JCAL special issue on Adaptive technologies and methods in e/m-Learning and Internet-based education
Call-Art: Publication, Paper submission deadline: Apr 26, 2009
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL) Special Issue on Adaptive technologies and methods in e/m-Learning and Internet-based education
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL) Special Issue on Adaptive technologies and methods in e/m-Learning and Internet-based education
The 2nd International Workshop on Interactive Digital Entertainment Technologies (IDET 2009)
Call-Art: Workshop, Paper submission deadline: Feb 17, 2009
28 ? 30 September, 2009, University of Aizu, Japan
28 ? 30 September, 2009, University of Aizu, Japan
Special Track on E-Learning Ecosystems, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies
Call-Art: Conference, Paper submission deadline: Feb 01, 2009
Call for Papers IEEE DEST 2009 1-3 June 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/cfps Call for Papers IEEE DEST 2009 1-3 June 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
*** New job offers
Research position at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria
Research position at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany in the project 'The effects of incentives on data quality in online panels' funded by the German Research Foundation to be filled with a Junior Research Fellow (0.5 salary scale 13 TV-L for 20 months).
There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/jobs
Research position at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria
Research position at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany in the project 'The effects of incentives on data quality in online panels' funded by the German Research Foundation to be filled with a Junior Research Fellow (0.5 salary scale 13 TV-L for 20 months).
*** PROLEARN Academy - Measure
Our auto observation tool for scientific communities contains at present 1501 projects, of which 235 are newsfeeds, 95 newsletters, 462 web sites, 68 mailinglists and 641 blogs. The number of caught entries totals 100606 for the feeds, of which 5168 were retrieved last week. For the newsletters totals 3361 entries, of which 16 were retrieved last week, for the mailinglists there are 95016 entries, of which 477 last week and for the blogs there are 203133 entries, of which 814 last week.
There is additional information about the projects in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/mediabase
We are continuously enlarging our project database.
Recommending Academic Events Based on SNA (Paper Preprint)
This is the preprint of our paper "Recommending Academic Events Based on SNA" for the COMPLEX'09 in Shanghai, China, February 23-24, 2009.
Recommending Academic Events Based on SNA
Recommending Academic Events Based on SNA
Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities
TRIDENTCOM 2009
The 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities
April 6-8, 2009
Washington, DC, USA
http://www.tridentcom.org/
The 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities
April 6-8, 2009
Washington, DC, USA
http://www.tridentcom.org/
Sponsored by ICST. Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET, ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE Computer Society, Pan European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation.
Tridentcom 2009 is a three-day international conference bringing together researchers from across the world to present and discuss the latest in results in networking test beds and research infrastructures.
The conference consists of 12 technical sessions addressing:
- Next generation optical networks (2)
- Next generation wireless networks
- Protocol stacks and architectures
- Configurable platforms for testbeds (2)
- Testing and measurements (2)
- Mobile ad hoc networks and mesh networks
- P2P and grid systems
- NGNs, IMS, and quad play and
- Next Generation Services
In addition, Tridentcom features two interactive panels, two keynote presentations, and ten demonstrations. The keynote speech "The European FIRE Future Internet Research and Experimentation Initiative" is held by Dr. Max Lemke, Deputy Head of the Unit for New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities of Directorate General Information Society and Media of the European Commission.
Tridentcom is also the site of three focused workshops:
WEEDEV 2009: The 2nd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks
ONIT 2009: The Open NGN and IMS Testbeds Workshop
PCSI 2009: The First International Workshop on Pervasive Computing Systems and Infrastructures
The conference venue, Fairfax, Virginia USA is at the nexus of the information technology and communications industry and U.S. government agencies. The conference venue is close to Dulles and Reagan National airports, and the Metro, which provides convenient access to downtown Washington, DC. Washington, DC features many museums and other sites and is the home of the National Cherry Blossom Festival March 28-April 12, 2009.
Early bird registration ends: March 6, 2009
Registration and additional information is available at:
http://www.tridentcom.org/
E-Learning Ecosystems
Call for Papers
Special Track on E-Learning Ecosystems
3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies IEEE DEST 2009
1-3 June 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
Special Track on E-Learning Ecosystems
3rd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies IEEE DEST 2009
1-3 June 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
The main conference theme of DEST 2009 is to strengthen ICT to support different digital ecosystems, especially focusing on cyber engineering and human space computing. It is the study of triangle relationship between industries, human endeavours and advanced ICT. Get more information at http://dest2009.debii.curtin.edu.au
The special track E-Learning Ecosystems focuses in particular on approaches and application of ecosystems for knowledge transfer and learning purposes.
Track Chair
Christian Guetl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Organizational Team
Alexander Nussbaumer, Graz University, Austria
Mohammad Smadi, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Our society of the 21st century makes great demands on its members in virtually every part of their lives. It is expected that members of the society keep pace with mutable situations, adapt their skills and expertise, and collaborate and compete to provide to some extent value for the society. As a result, modern instructional design, learning goals and processes as well as appropriate learning environments must support the development of the aforementioned skills and expertises.
Consequently, educational approaches have changed dramatically over time from remedial repetitive learning to today's learning with an understanding to become more independent in the learning process, strengthen metacognitive and teamwork skills as well as link knowledge in cultural context to be prepared for lifelong learning. Educational approaches have also been influenced by technology but have also increasingly applied technology over the last decades.
This complexity of modern learning setups of the 21st century demand appropriate models and reference architectures which support (a) to communicate the conception of topical learning from different viewpoints, (b) to identify the multidisciplinary relations of research areas, (c) to assess and classify learning approaches and implementations, (d) to provide domain knowledge for research and development activities. But such modern learning settings also require flexible approaches and technological solutions. E-Learning Ecosystems can provide both: it provides the foundation for interesting models and frameworks but it also focuses on modern technology as the infrastructure for enhanced e-learning environments.
Based on the ecosystem conception and the digital business ecosystem idea, this track welcomes original and quality contributions in areas including but not limited to
- Models and framework for topical learning
- Flexible and distributed learning environments
- Learning and training in virtual organizations
- Knowledge management in educational organizations
- New adaptive e-learning approaches
- Personalized learning environments
- Semantic web based learning environments
- Web 2.0 based learning environments
- Collaborative and group learning
- Trust building in distributed learning environments
Important Dates
Full Paper Submissions: 1 February 2009
Paper Acceptance Notifications: 1 March 2009
Final 'Camera Ready' Papers Due: 15 April 2009
Workshops: 31 May 2009
Conference: 1-3 June 2009
Furhter Information, Paper Template and Paper Submission:
http://dest2009.debii.curtin.edu.au/
Friday, January 16, 2009
9th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies
Call for Papers
I-KNOW' 09
9th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies
I-KNOW' 09
9th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies
Important Dates:
- Paper Submission Deadline: 9 March 2009
- Notification of Acceptance: April 2009
- Submission of Camera-Ready Paper: May 2009
- I-KNOW '09 Conference: 2-4 September 2009
Introduction
- Notification of Acceptance: April 2009
- Submission of Camera-Ready Paper: May 2009
- I-KNOW '09 Conference: 2-4 September 2009
Introduction
I-KNOW '09 will be held concurrently with the I-SEMANTICS' 09 - International Conference on Semantic Systems. I-KNOW reflects the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management and knowledge technologies and aims at bridging the gaps between the various communities and their technology fields. Now in its ninth year, I-KNOW has a tradition of bringing together Europe´s leading researchers and practitioners involved in knowledge management. Attracting more than 500 attendees, I-KNOW is the premier conference on knowledge management and knowledge technologies in Europe.
I-KNOW provides a perfect opportunity to stay abreast of the latest developments in these fields. The novelty and quality of the accepted contributions are ensured by a high-level program committee featuring international experts on a broad range of knowledge management topics.
I-KNOW provides a perfect opportunity to stay abreast of the latest developments in these fields. The novelty and quality of the accepted contributions are ensured by a high-level program committee featuring international experts on a broad range of knowledge management topics.
Submissions and Conference Proceedings
I-KNOW ‘09 invites the submission of original contributions from academic, public and industrial/commercial sectors. The conference focus is on application-oriented research with emphasis on information technologies for knowledge management and new management tools and methods. We welcome papers which present methods, tools, technologies best practices, and case studies.
All accepted papers of I-KNOW '09 will appear in the printed conference proceedings. Selected papers will also be invited for an extension to be published as journal publication in J.UCS.
Conference topics include (but are not limited to):
Basics and Theories
- Methods for Knowledge Management
- Models for Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Management Systems and Applications
Knowledge Work Support
- Knowledge Services and Mash-Ups
- User Context Detection and Attention Metadata
- Creation and Maintenance of User Profiles
- Task Management and Task Mining
- Community and Collaboration Services
- Social Network Analysis
- Informal Learning at the Workplace
- Personal Information Management
- Tags, Folksonomies, and Ontologies
- Knowledge Representation and Modelling Methods
Knowledge Services
- SOA
- Web Services
- Orchestration of Semantic Services
- Quality of Service in Semantic Services
- Service Chain Analysis
Knowledge Relationship Discovery
- Cross-Media Search and Retrieval
- Ontology Lifecycle Algorithm and Methods
- Graph Mining and Statistical Relational Learning
- Text and Knowledge Mining
- Semantic Interoperability
- Salability Aspects and Parallel Algorithms in Knowledge Relationship Discovery
- Evolution and Alignment of Knowledge Structures
- Semantic Integration of distributed Knowledge Repositories
Knowledge Visualization
- Visualisation of search results, text and multimedia corpora
- Visualisation of knowledge, concepts, relationships and information structures
- Visualisation of temporal and spatial data
- Human computer interfaces for knowledge and information visualisation
- Visual Analytics for Knowledge Relationship Discovery
Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management
- Emergent Technologies for Knowledge Management
- Agile Approaches to Knowledge Management
- Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management
- Distributed Software Architectures for Knowledge Management Systems
Knowledge Management and Web 2.0
- Web 2.0-facilitated Knowledge Management
- Web 2.0 for Knowledge Transfer, Sharing and Diffusion
- Web 2.0 for Collaboration Support
- Case Studies and Best Practises
- Empirical Studies
- User Experience Studies
Conference Chairs
Klaus Tochtermann, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria
Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Program Chairs
Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria
Michael Granitzer, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria
Horst Bischof, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Werner Haas, Joanneum Research, Austria
Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Austria
Michael Granitzer, Know-Center and Graz University of Technology, Austria
Horst Bischof, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Werner Haas, Joanneum Research, Austria
Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Austria
Preliminary Program Commitee
Raffaele De Amicis, Fondazione Graphitech, Italy
Jean-Yves Blaise, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France
Remo Burkhard, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France
Giuseppe Conti, Fondazione Graphitech, Italy
Ulrike Cress, Knowledge Media Research Institute Tübingen, Germany
Andreas Dengel, DFKI, Germany
Mario Döller, University of Passau, Germany
Heinz Dreher, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Erik Duval, University of Leuven, Belgium
Martin Eppler, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Joaquim Filipe, School of Technology of Setubal, Portugal
Tom Heath, Talis, UK
Barbara Kieslinger, Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Austria
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
Rob Koper, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, UNIMAS University, Malaysien
Franz Lehner, University of Passau, Germany
Sheng-Tun Li, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Dickson Lukose, MIMOS, Malaysia
Mathias Lux, Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, Germany
Ronald Maier, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Kathrine Maillet, Institut Telecom SudParis, France
Robert Meersman, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Ambjörn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S, Germany
Tomas Pitner, Masaryk University of Brno, Czek Republic
Wolfgang Prinz, RWTH Aachen and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Martin Potthast, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Uwe Riss, SAP Research, Germany
Marc Rittberger, DIPF - German Institute for International Educational Research, Germany
Ramon Sabater, University of Murcia, Spain
Kurt Schneider, University of Hannover, Germany
Ursula Schneider, University of Graz, Austria
Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRST), Italy
Marc Spaniol, Germany
Benno Stein, Bauhaus University Weimar
Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Jim Thomas, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, USA
Robert Tolksdorf, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Ivan Tomek, Acadia University, Canada
Sofia Tsekeridou, Athens IT Excellence Center, Greece
Eric Tsui, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Bodo Urban, Frauhofer IGD, Germany
Wibke Weber, Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart, Germany
Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Yunwen Ye, Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan
Volker Zimmermann, imc AG, Germany
Jean-Yves Blaise, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France
Remo Burkhard, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France
Giuseppe Conti, Fondazione Graphitech, Italy
Ulrike Cress, Knowledge Media Research Institute Tübingen, Germany
Andreas Dengel, DFKI, Germany
Mario Döller, University of Passau, Germany
Heinz Dreher, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Erik Duval, University of Leuven, Belgium
Martin Eppler, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Joaquim Filipe, School of Technology of Setubal, Portugal
Tom Heath, Talis, UK
Barbara Kieslinger, Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Austria
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
Rob Koper, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, UNIMAS University, Malaysien
Franz Lehner, University of Passau, Germany
Sheng-Tun Li, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Dickson Lukose, MIMOS, Malaysia
Mathias Lux, Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, Germany
Ronald Maier, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Kathrine Maillet, Institut Telecom SudParis, France
Robert Meersman, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Ambjörn Naeve, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S, Germany
Tomas Pitner, Masaryk University of Brno, Czek Republic
Wolfgang Prinz, RWTH Aachen and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Martin Potthast, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Uwe Riss, SAP Research, Germany
Marc Rittberger, DIPF - German Institute for International Educational Research, Germany
Ramon Sabater, University of Murcia, Spain
Kurt Schneider, University of Hannover, Germany
Ursula Schneider, University of Graz, Austria
Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRST), Italy
Marc Spaniol, Germany
Benno Stein, Bauhaus University Weimar
Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Jim Thomas, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, USA
Robert Tolksdorf, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Ivan Tomek, Acadia University, Canada
Sofia Tsekeridou, Athens IT Excellence Center, Greece
Eric Tsui, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Bodo Urban, Frauhofer IGD, Germany
Wibke Weber, Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart, Germany
Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Yunwen Ye, Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan
Volker Zimmermann, imc AG, Germany
Plagiarism and Authorship Analysis
(((This is from my colleague Benno Stein. Hope to see you in Graz again, Benno.)))
The vast number of electronic texts available in Internet media (e.g., newspaper articles, blogs, online forum messages, email messages) necessitates automated processing of information. However, it also increases opportunities for infringement of intellectual property rights. One important question is whether a text by a specific author includes another author's ideas, language, or writing without proper acknowledgment of the original source. Plagiarism analysis is a general term for a variety of automated methods for identifying plagiarism and related infringements. In connection with text documents, we distinguish between corpus-based and intrinsic analysis: the former compares suspicious documents against a set of potential original documents, the latter identifies potentially plagiarized passages by analyzing the suspicious document with respect to changes in writing style. Such passages can then be used as a starting point for a Web search or for human inspection. In addition, writing style can also be exploited by authorship analysis tools to extract meta-data for a textual document. Thus, by analyzing the stylistic choices of an author, it is possible to estimate the author's sex, age, educational level etc. Moreover, given that we have examples of the writing style of a set of candidate authors, we can identify the most likely author of a new text or verify whether this text is written by a specific author. Apart from the traditional usage of this technology in the analysis of literary works, such information is crucial for forensic applications where part of the evidence is electronic text.
This special issue solicits state-of-the-art methods, tools, and applications in the area of Plagiarism and Authorship Analysis. The following list gives examples from the outlined field for which contributions are welcome (but not limited to):
- Plagiarism detection in general, in Web communities and social networks
- Cross-language plagiarism
- Identifying near-duplicate and versioned documents
- Technology for high-similarity retrieval such as fingerprinting and
similarity hashing
- Models for authorship identification and verification
- Writing style analysis and author profiling
- NLP- and knowledge-based retrieval models to capture personal traits
and sentiment
- Web forensics, community fraud, and new Web infringements
- Test corpora, performance measures, and evaluation methods
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Submissions will be reviewed according to the standards of the LRE journal. Papers should not have been submitted or published elsewhere but may be extended or refined versions of conference papers with significant new, original material.
Prospective authors are advised to inform the guest editors about their intention to submit a paper as soon as possible.
All questions about submissions should be directed to lre@webis.de
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July 1, 2009 Notification to authors
August 31, 2009 Final version of accepted papers
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Efstathios Stamatatos
University of the Aegean, Greece
Benno Stein
Weimar University, Germany
Moshe Koppel
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Contact: lre@webis.de
CALL FOR PAPERS Language Resources and Evaluation Journal Special Issue on Plagiarism and Authorship Analysis Guest Editors: Efstathios Stamatatos, Benno Stein, and Moshe Koppel
The vast number of electronic texts available in Internet media (e.g., newspaper articles, blogs, online forum messages, email messages) necessitates automated processing of information. However, it also increases opportunities for infringement of intellectual property rights. One important question is whether a text by a specific author includes another author's ideas, language, or writing without proper acknowledgment of the original source. Plagiarism analysis is a general term for a variety of automated methods for identifying plagiarism and related infringements. In connection with text documents, we distinguish between corpus-based and intrinsic analysis: the former compares suspicious documents against a set of potential original documents, the latter identifies potentially plagiarized passages by analyzing the suspicious document with respect to changes in writing style. Such passages can then be used as a starting point for a Web search or for human inspection. In addition, writing style can also be exploited by authorship analysis tools to extract meta-data for a textual document. Thus, by analyzing the stylistic choices of an author, it is possible to estimate the author's sex, age, educational level etc. Moreover, given that we have examples of the writing style of a set of candidate authors, we can identify the most likely author of a new text or verify whether this text is written by a specific author. Apart from the traditional usage of this technology in the analysis of literary works, such information is crucial for forensic applications where part of the evidence is electronic text.
This special issue solicits state-of-the-art methods, tools, and applications in the area of Plagiarism and Authorship Analysis. The following list gives examples from the outlined field for which contributions are welcome (but not limited to):
- Plagiarism detection in general, in Web communities and social networks
- Cross-language plagiarism
- Identifying near-duplicate and versioned documents
- Technology for high-similarity retrieval such as fingerprinting and
similarity hashing
- Models for authorship identification and verification
- Writing style analysis and author profiling
- NLP- and knowledge-based retrieval models to capture personal traits
and sentiment
- Web forensics, community fraud, and new Web infringements
- Test corpora, performance measures, and evaluation methods
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Prospective authors should submit their paper according to the directions on the LRE Web site following the content and formatting guidelines available at
http://www.springer.com/journal/10579/
Submissions will be reviewed according to the standards of the LRE journal. Papers should not have been submitted or published elsewhere but may be extended or refined versions of conference papers with significant new, original material.
Prospective authors are advised to inform the guest editors about their intention to submit a paper as soon as possible.
All questions about submissions should be directed to lre@webis.de
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April 30, 2009 Submission of articles
July 1, 2009 Notification to authors
August 31, 2009 Final version of accepted papers
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Efstathios Stamatatos
University of the Aegean, Greece
Benno Stein
Weimar University, Germany
Moshe Koppel
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Contact: lre@webis.de
Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
ACM MEDES 2009
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The International ACM Conference on
Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2009)
Technically sponsored by both
ACM SIGAPP and ACM SIGAPP.fr Chapter
with the cooperation of IFIP WG 2.6
http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes
October 27-30, 2009
Lyon - France
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The International ACM Conference on
Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2009)
Technically sponsored by both
ACM SIGAPP and ACM SIGAPP.fr Chapter
with the cooperation of IFIP WG 2.6
http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes
October 27-30, 2009
Lyon - France
The MEDES 2009 (The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems) will be held in Lyon, France from 27th Octobor to 30th Octobor, 2009. MEDES 2009 aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end.
Proposals for workshops are invited for consideration in MEDES 2009.
The purpose of these workshops is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conferences themselves. As such, they also offer a good opportunity for young researchers to present their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community. The format of each workshop is to be determined by the organizers, but it is expected that they contain ample time for general discussion. The preference is for one-day workshops, but other schedules will also be considered.
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit workshop proposals to the MEDES 2008 Workshop co-chair, Yinghua Ma (ma-yinghua@sjtu.edu.cn), NO LATER THAN April First, 2009. Submission can be made in Postscript, PDF, or ASCII with "CSTST08 Workshop Submission" in the subject header.
Proposals must be about 2--5 pages long and include:
* Name of workshop;
* Summary;
* Topics;
* Organizers (attach short CVs, limit of 2 pages each);
* The expected number of attendees and the planned length of the workshop.
* The names of potential participants, such as program committee members.
* Expected submission and acceptance rate (workshops only);
* Type (academic and/or industrial) and number of expected participants;
* Significance in relation to topics of the main conference and details
of previous workshops.
Workshop proposals are reviewed based on the quality of the proposal, its relation to the main conference topics, and the likelihood to attract enough participants. Notification of acceptance will be made by May First, 2009.
Topics of MEDES 2009(not limited to):
- Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure
- Web Technologies
- Social Networks
- Data & Knowledge Management Systems
- Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Ontology Management
- Services systems and Engineering
- E-Services , E-Learning, E-Humanities and E-Government
- Emergent Intelligence
- Game Theory
- Networks and Protocols
- Security & Privacy
- Standardization and Extensible Languages
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Business Intelligence
- B2B, B2C, B2A, E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing and E-Procurement
- Digital Library
- Open Source
Any further information needed for preparing a workshop proposal can be obtained by sending email to the workshops co-chairs.
Important Dates
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- Proposal for Workshops and Tutorials: April 1st, 2009
- Notification of Workshop & Tutorial Acceptance: May 1st , 2009
- Workshops Dates: October 27-30, 2009
Proceedings of all MEDES'09 workshops are to be published as a single volume to be distributed at the conference. All the workshop papers should be limited to 6 pages in ACM format. Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in one of the following reviewed journals.
- International Journal on Subject-Centric Computing (IJSCC)
- Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI)
Workshops Chairs
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Yinghua Ma, University of Jiaotong, China (ma-yinghua at sjtu.edu.cn)
William I. Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA (wgrosky@umich.edu)
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