Fourth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning - 2nd Announcement and Call for Participation

2nd Announcement and Call for Participation

EC-TEL 2009
www.ectel09.org
September 29th - October 2nd, 2009
Nice, 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 15th 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).
• Please also provide information about the planned review process and programme committee, about the kinds of submissions you expect from participants (abstracts, short papers, full papers, ...), and about potential plans for publishing of proceedings. These aspects will be taken into account in reviewing your workshop proposals.


Submission format:
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Workshops: 4 pages

Important Workshops dates:
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Workshop proposals: April 1st, 2009
Workshop acceptance: May 1st, 2009
Workshop contribution acceptance notification: July 1st, 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 and Ph.D. students outside their home institution, enhancing feedback from their supervisors.

Important Doctoral Consortium dates:
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Proposals: June 10th , 2009
Acceptance notification: June 30th, 2009
Final paper submission: August 31st, 2009
Doctoral Consortium: September 29th or 30th, 2009

Programme Chairs

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)

Programme Committee
Heidrun Allert, Austria
Katrin Allmendinger, Germany
Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sanchez, Ireland
Nicolas Balacheff, France
Bert Bredeweg, The Netherlands
Peter Brusilovsky, USA
Lorenzo Cantoni, Switzerland
Alexandra Cristea, UK
Paul de Bra, The Netherlands
Carlos Delgado Kloos, Spain
Pierre Dillenbroug; Switzerland
Yannis Dimitriadis, Spain
Peter Dolog, Denmark
Benedict du Boulay, UK
Eric Duval, Belgium
Dieter Euler, Switzerland
Christine Ferraris, France
Frank Fischer, Germany
Dragan Gasevic, Canada
Denis Gillet, Switzerland
Monique Grandbastien, France
Jorg Haake, Germany
Paivi Hakkinen, Finland
Andreas Harrer, Germany
Christoph Held, Germany
Knut Hinkelmann, Switzerland
Ulrich Hoppe, Germany
Patrick Jermann, Switzerland
Nikos Karacapilidis, Greece
Michael D. Kickmeier-Rust, Austria
Barbara Kieslinger, Austria
David Kirsh, USA
Ralf Klamma, Germany
Tomaz Klobucar, Slovenia
Rob Koper, The Netherlands
Nicole Kraemer, Germany
Milos Kravcik, The Netherlands
Effie Law, Switzerland
Martin Lea, UK
Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria
Andreas Lingnau, Germany
Chee-Kit Looi, Singapore
Rose Luckin, UK
George Magoulas, UK
Katherine Maillet, France
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan
Paola Monachesi, The Netherlands
Wolfgang Nejdl, Germany
Roger Nkambou, Canada
Jan Pawlowski, Finland
Marcela Porta, France
Uwe Riss, Germany
Nikol Rummel, Germany
Tammy Schellens, Belgium
Daniel Schneider, Switzerland
Judith Schoonenboom, The Netherlands
Peter Scott, UK
Mike Sharples, UK
Peter Sloep, The Netherlands
Pierre Tchounikine, France
Vincent Wade, Ireland
Armin Weinberger, The Netherlands
Katrin Wodzicki, Germany
Martin Wolpers, Belgium
Volker Zimmermann, Germany

PROLEARN Academy Newsletter 2009 - Week 14

*** News

[iJET] New Issue Published
Posted on: Mar 29, 2009


Extended CFC: Leaning Management Systems
Posted on: Mar 29, 2009


There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/News


*** New Call For Papers

Call for Articles: Learning Technology Newsletter
Call-Art: Publication, Paper submission deadline: Apr 17, 2009
Issue on Mobile Learning

CFP AIED 2009 Workshop
Call-Art: Workshop, Paper submission deadline: Apr 16, 2009
Enabling creative learning design - how HCI, User Modelling and Human Factors help

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/cfps


*** New job offers

University of Trento, Italy: JAVA Developer for OKKAM Large-scale Research Project

The University of Trento is seeking applications for a position of an experienced Java developer in the context of the European Large-scale Integrated Project OKKAM.

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/jobs


*** PROLEARN Academy - Measure

Our auto observation tool for scientific communities contains at present 1527 projects, of which 235 are newsfeeds, 95 newsletters, 488 web sites, 68 mailinglists and 641 blogs. The number of caught entries totals 119358 for the feeds, of which 4850 were retrieved last week. For the newsletters totals 3533 entries, of which 16 were retrieved last week, for the mailinglists there are 100106 entries, of which 501 last week and for the blogs there are 224563 entries, of which 750 last week.

There is additional information about the projects in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/mediabase

We are continuously enlarging our project database.

The 3rd International Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis (SNAKDD 2009)

The 3rd International Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis (SNAKDD 2009)

SNAKDD 2009
(http://www.snakdd.com)
June 28, 2009,
Paris France

At the 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2009)
CALL FOR PAPERS

Important Dates
o Apr 28 , 2009: Electronic submission of full papers
o May 15, 2009: Author notification
o May 29, 2009: Submission of Camera-ready papers
o June 28, 2009: Workshop in Paris, France Workshop

Description
Social networks research has come a long way since the notable "six-degree separation" experiment. In recent years, social network research has advanced significantly, thanks to the prevalence of the online social websites and the availability of a variety of offline large-scale social network systems such as collaboration networks. These social network systems are usually characterized by the complex network structures and rich accompanying contextual information. Researchers are increasingly interested in addressing a wide range of challenges residing in these disparate social network systems, including identifying common static topological properties and dynamic properties during the formation and evolution of these social networks, and how contextual information can help in analyzing the pertaining social networks. These issues have important implications on community discovery, anomaly detection, trend prediction! and can enhance applications in multiple domains such as information retrieval, recommendation systems, security and so on. The third SNA-KDD '2009 aims to bring together practitioners and researchers with a specific focus on the emerging trends and industry needs associated with the traditional Web, the social Web, and other forms of social networking systems. Both theoretical and experimental submissions are encouraged. The interesting topics include (1) data mining advances on the discovery and analysis of communities, on personalization for solitary activities (like search) and social activities (like discovery of potential friends), on the analysis of user behavior in open fora (like conventional sites, blogs and fora) and in commercial platforms (like e-auctions) and on the associated security and privacy-preservation challenges; (2) social network modeling, scalable, customizable social network infrastructure construction, dynamic growth and evolution patterns identification and discovery using machine learning approaches or multi-agent based simulation. .

Workshop Topics
The third SNA-KDD '2009 solicits contributions on social network analysis and graph mining, including the emerging applications of the Web as a social medium. Papers should elaborate on data mining methods, issues associated to data preparation and pattern interpretation, both for conventional data (usage logs, query logs, document collections) and for multimedia data (pictures and their annotations, multi-channel usage data). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online and offline social networks Personalization for search and for social interaction Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations Data protection inside communities Misbehavior detection in communities Web mining algorithms for clickstreams, documents and search streams Preparing data for web mining Pattern presentation for end-users and experts Evolution of patterns in the Web Evolution of communities in the Web Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks, trend prediction Contextual social network analysis Temporal analysis on social networks topologies Search algorithms on social networks Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis Application of social network analysis Anomaly detection in social network evolution

Paper Submission
The workshop proceedings are distributed to the SIGKDD'09 attendees who register for the workshop. Note that registration for the workshop is free to the conference attendees.

Organizers :
• Lee Giles Pennsylvania State University
• Prasenjit Mitra Pennsylvania State University
• Igor Perisic LinkedIn
• John Yen Pennsylvania State University
• Haizheng Zhang Microsoft


Contact: Haizheng Zhang (zhang.haizheng @ microsoft.com) Prasenjit Mitra (pmitra @ ist.psu.edu )

Knowledge Discovery in Web 2.0 Environments

Call for Papers – KDWeb2 2009

The 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Web 2.0 Environments
(http://www.aicit.org/ncm/workshops.html#ws4)

Seoul, Korea, August 25-27, 2009

In conjunction with the 5th International Joint Conference on INC, IMS and IDC (NCM 2009 - http://www.aicit.org/ncm)

Web 2.0 encapsulates the idea of the proliferation of inter-connectivity and inter-activity of web-delivered contents. The Web 2.0 technologies aim to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of distributed data over the Web. Hosted services include social-networking sites, message forums, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. As people use Web 2.0 technologies more and more in their daily lives it will eventually start to take a form that represents real world human functions. This encompasses digital data being applied to real places and thus triggering real social interactions. Knowledge discovery provides a solid and robust framework for unravelling this every-increasing Web data.

This workshop aims to bring researchers and practitioners from all areas of data mining and knowledge discovery from Web 2.0 environments to discuss issues, challenges, approaches, and solutions. It covers all aspects of knowledge discovery from Web 2.0 environments including algorithmic development, applications, visualization, theoretical frameworks, and fundamental issues.

The following topics of the workshop are suggested but not limited to:
• Knowledge Discovery Framework for Web 2.0
• Visualization
• Mining Social Networks
• Geospatial Data Mining
• Text Data Mining
• Social Structure Discovery
• Blog mining
• Web Map Mining
• Link and Graph Mining
• Text Mining
• Frontier Technologies in Web 2.0
• Web 2.0 Mining Applications

*Important Dates*
Submission Deadline: May 8, 2009
Authors Notification: May 31, 2009

*Paper Submission Instructions*
Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: 8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format, (DOC or PDF), including figures and references, using 10pt font, and with each page numbered. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html .

Please submit your paper by email to joanne.lee@jcu.edu.au

*Proceedings*
All papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the proceedings of NCM 2009, to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, which will also be included in the IEEE Digital Library. In addition, extended versions of selected papers are going to be invited in a special issue in Journal of Convergence Information Technology (JCIT).

*Contact*
Dr. Kyungmi (Joanne) Lee
E-mail: Joanne.Lee@jcu.edu.au

Postal Address:
School of Business (IT), James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia

Mashups for Learning

Sandra has done this very unusual call for papers for her session at ICL. When do we see the call for papers movie?

Business Process Management and Social Software (BPMS2)

BPMS2 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Second International Workshop on
Business Process Management and Social Software (BPMS2)

in conjunction with BPM 2009
September 7th, 2009, Ulm, Germany

Papers submission deadline: May 7th, 2009
http://crinfo.univ-paris1.fr/users/nurcan/BPMS2_2009/

Organizers:
Selmin Nurcan – University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt – Aalen University , Germany


SCOPE:

Social software is a new paradigm that is spreading quickly in society, organizations and economics. It supports social interaction and social production. Social interaction is the interaction of non-predetermined individuals. Social production is the creation of artefacts, by combining the input from independent contributors without predetermining the way to do this. Users are supported in creating new contacts, presenting themselves and collaborating with other users. As a result, content, knowledge and software is not created by a hierarchy of experts, but by combining a multitude of contributions of independent authors/actors. Examples for such a social production are wikis, blogs, social bookmarking and tagging, etc.

Social software follows a more egalitarian and meritocratic approach compared to traditional approaches where the role of the software user is determined by the enterprise senior management and its representatives. Thus, trust and reputation play a crucial role in the use of social software instead of authority granted by the top management.

The paradigm of social software and social production has created a multitude of success stories such as wikipedia.org and the development of the Linux operating system. Therefore, more and more enterprises see social software and social production as a means for further improvement of their business processes and business models. For example, they integrate their customers into product development by using blogs to capture ideas for new products and features. Thus, business processes have to be adapted to new communication patterns between customers and the enterprise: for example, the communication with the customer is increasingly a bi-directional communication with the customer and among the customers. Social software also offers new possibilities to enhance business processes by improving the exchange of knowledge and information, to speed up decisions, etc.

Up to now, the interaction of social software and the underlying paradigm of social production with business processes have not been investigated in depth. Therefore, the objective of the workshop is to explore how social software and social production interact with business process management, how business process management has to change to comply with social production, and how business processes may profit from social techniques.


TOPICS OF INTEREST:

1. New opportunities provided by social software for BPM
- How can business processes fit to business models based on the paradigm of social production?
- Which new possibilities for the design of business processes are created by social software?
- How are trust and reputation established in business processes using social software?
- Are there business processes which require sociality, especially when they are not well defined
(as production workflows) but collaborative or ad hoc?
- How does social production influence the design of business processes?
- What is the impact on conceptual models for those categories of business processes which are not well-defined
or that we do not wish to freeze using classical business process enactment systems for instance?

2. Engineering next generation of business processes: BPM 2.0 ?
- Do we need new BPM methods and/or paradigms to cope with social software?
- Is there an influence of social production and social software on BPM methods themselves?
- Are there any similarities or relationships with process mining techniques and also with workflow control and role patterns?
- Which phases of the BPM lifecycle (Design, Deployment, Performance, and Evaluation) are affected the most by social software?
- How can BPM profit from using social software?
- Which types of social software can be used in which phases of the BPM lifecycle?

3. Business process implementation support by social software
- Which kinds of social software can be used to implement business processes?
- Which categories of business processes can profit from social software?
- How does social software interact with WFMS or other business process support systems?
- How can we use Wikis, Blogs etc. to support business processes?
- What new kinds of business knowledge representation are offered by social production?


SUBMISSION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted. Length of full papers must not exceed 12 pages (There is no possibility to buy additional pages). Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages.
Papers should be submitted in the new LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0). Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool report).

Papers (preferably in PDF format) should be emailed to Rainer.Schmidt@htw-aalen.de.

The paper selection will be based upon the relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its quality and potential to generate relevant discussion. All the workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-proceeding volume (to be sent around 4 months after the workshop) in their Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.



EXPECTED RESULTS:

All papers will be published on workshop wiki before the workshop, so that everybody can learn about the problems that are important for other participants.
A blog will be used to encourage and support discussions.
The workshop will consist of long and short paper presentations, brainstorming sessions and discussions.
The workshop report will be created collaboratively using a wiki.
A special issue over all workshops will be published in a journal (decision in progress).



IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: May 7, 2009
Author notification: June 2, 2009
Camera-ready: June 17, 2009


PROGRAM COMMITTEE :

Ilia Bider - IbisSoft, Sweden
Jan Bosch - Intuit, Mountain View, California, USA
Tad Hogg - HP Information Dynamics Laboratory, Palo Alto, USA
Ralf Klamma - Informatik 5, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Dragan Gasevic - School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, Canada
Werner Geyer - IBM T.J. Watson Research, Collaborative User Experience Group, Cambridge, USA
Gustaf Neumann - Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria
Selmin Nurcan - University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Anne Persson - School of Humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde, Sweden
Gil Regev - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Itecor, Switzerland
Michael Rosemann - Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Nick Russell - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Rainer Schmidt - Aalen University, Aalen, Germany
Miguel-Ángel Sicilia - University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
Pnina Soffer - Department Of Management Information Systems, University of Haifa, Israel

2nd Workshop Digital Social Networks

Call for Papers – Deadline April 26th, 2009

2nd Workshop Digital Social Networks

One Day Workshop at the annual meeting of the
German Society for Computer Science (GI)
Sept. 28th – Oct. 2nd, 2009, Lübeck

Date of the Workshop: to be announced
Coordinator: Clemens Cap (University of Rostock)

Due to the good acceptance of the 1st Workshop Digital Social Networks (annual meeting of the GI in 2008) there was the idea to continue this event. This is the call for papers of the 2nd Workshop. Besides this event there is a workshop planned on Schloss Dagstuhl in January 2011.

Social relations and the resulting social networks are an important basis for social and technological development. With the technologies and concepts of Web 2.0, new digital forms of support become available for a participatory development of social networks. Social Software as new form of cooperation systems enables new modes of collaboration inside and outside of an enterprise. The economic success of portals such as XING / OpenBC, LinkedIn, Friendster, Orkut, StudiVZ or Facebook illustrates the demand for such solutions as well as the difficulty of a proper economic evaluation. From the point of view of the user, questions of privacy, data protection and identity theft are getting more important. Users of several systems want interoperability and data exchange. Besides purely technological questions also topics of media presence in open and semi open forums and sociological phenomena are becoming relevant. With ubiquitous access to human communication acts on these platforms new possibilities for analyzing social networks become possible – up to the prognosis of social trends.

The workshop on digital social networks will analyze these issues from theoretical and practical points of view. Contributions are solicited on these topics:

• Methods for analyzing digital social networks and social interaction
• Social networking services and social software
• Trust, reputation, authentic contents and social control in digital networks
• Applications, services and APIs on social portals
• Search engines for people, trend analysis and prognosis on social portals
• Special graph properties in social networks
• Technical modeling of social structures
• Business cases and economic evaluation of digital social networks
• Legal and social aspects of online communities
• Social networks and games
• Technical questions in digital social networks
• Security, privacy, identity protection and media usage in social portals
• Interoperability, data exchange and data synchronization in social portals
• Personalization and adaptation to user preference
• Case studies, if they exhibit unique features

1 January 24th - 29th, 2010, Dagstuhl Seminar 10041, for more information please contact Prof. Cap

The contributions shall be up to 15 pages in length and present in German or
English language original, unpublished research results. The papers will be published in a
proceedings volume Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) of the annual meeting of the GI.
Reports on practical experiences are welcome if they exhibit new or special features, also
interdisciplinary contributions are solicited. The goal is a good mixture of theoretical and
practical research, each of which will be presented in a half-day session. All contributions are
refereed anonymously by at least three members of the program committee. As in 2008 we
assume an acceptance rate of 40% - 60%. More information about submission, formatting
style and templates can be found on the website http://www.informatik2009.de
Acceptance Criteria: The criteria for acceptance are especially originality, novelty,
innovation, selection and presentation of the ideas. The program committee also intends to
select one or two keynotes by renowned specialists.

As in last year we will again have a Future Network Best Paper Award sponsored by http://www.future-network.at/

The Workshop addresses researcher and practitioners in the young field of digital social networks. In addition to pure computer scientists, also computer scientists with an interest in interdisciplinary research are invited. Especially the areas of sociology, media sciences and organizational psychology promise interesting and stimulating discussions.

Contact Program: Clemens Cap clemens.cap@uni-rostock.de

Organization: Martin Garbe martin.garbe@uni-rostock.de

Web Page: http://www.digitale-soziale-netze.de

Deadlines Paper Submission April 26th, 2009
Notice to Authors May 25th, 2009
Final Version July 1st, 2009
Submission on https://www.itm.uni-luebeck.de/conftool-gi09/

Program Committee
Chair: Clemens Cap (University of Rostock)
Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web School Vienna)
Oliver Bohl (Accenture, Munich and University of Kassel )
Stefan Bornholdt (University of Bremen)
Francois Bry (University of Munich)
Thomas Burg (Mindmeister)
Ingo Dahm (Microsoft)
Nicola Döring (TU Ilmenau)
Kai Fischbach (University of Cologne)
Tony Fricko (IBM)
Peter Gloor (MIT Sloan School)
Georg Groh (Technical University of Munich)
Norbert Gronau (Potsdam)
Bettina Hainschink (Future Network)
Michael Koch (University of the Armed Forces, Munich)
Tobias Kollmann (University of Düsseldorf)
Friedrich Krotz (University of Erfurt)
Stefan Mintert (Linkwerk.com, Hamburg)
Thomas Mandl (University of Hildesheim)
Ritchie Pettauer (CEO p*n*c )
Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen)
Helmut Schauer (Universität of Zurich)
Martin Warnke (University of Lüneburg)

Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management

CALL FOR PAPERS

Third International Conference on
Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management

Vienna, Austria, November 25-27, 2009

http://ksem2009.dke.univie.ac.at/

KSEM aims to be a scientific conference for research on knowledge science, engineering and management, attracting high quality, state-of-the-art research from all over the world. The conference endeavors to bring together researchers, developers, and academic and industry leaders, active and interested in KSEM-related research areas and their practices. The conference is specifically focused on becoming the premier forum for prototype and deployed knowledge engineering and knowledge-based systems. The conference offers an exceptional opportunity for presenting original work, technological adavances, practical problems and concerns of the research community. KSEM2009 to be held in Vienna is the third in this series, following two successful events in Guilin, China (KSEM'2006) and in Melbourne, Australia (KSEM'2007). As its predecessor conferences KSEM'2009 aims to be an interdisciplinary event, providing a meeting ground for researchers in the broad areas of knowledge science, knowledge engineering, and knowledge management. KSEM'2009 proposes to be a forum for people to share their views, to exchange ideas, to develop new insights and to report state of the art research results. You are invited to submit papers that are original and not yet published. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:


• Knowledge Science
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Logics of knowledge;
- Formal analysis of knowledge;
- Knowledge complexity and knoweldge metrics
- Reasoning about knowledge in the presence of inconsistency, incompleteness, context-dependency
- Commonsense knowledge and uncertainty in knowledge
- Cognitive foundations of knowledge
- Knowledge in complex systems and multi-agent systems
- Formal ontology
• Knowledge Engineering
- Knowledge extraction
- Knowledge integration
- Knowledge-based software engineering
- Knowledge-based systems in life sciences
- Conceptual modelling in knowledge-based systems
- Semantic database systems and semantic Web
- Content engineering and ontological engineering
- Implementation issues in KBS
• Knowledge Management
- Knowledge creation and acquisition
- Knowledge verification and validation
- Knowledge dissemination
- Knowledge management systems
- Organizational ontology
- Data mining and knowledge discovery
- Organizational memory
- Organizational learning
- Knowledge management strategies and practices
- Knowledge management applications
Papers on the synergism of knowledge science, knowledge engineering and knowledge management are especially welcomed.

Conference Co-Chairs
A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Ruqian Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Programme Co-Chairs
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Zhi Jin, Peking University, China

Steering Committee
David Bell, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Jérome Lang, University Paul Sabatier, France
Yoshiteru Nakamori, JAIST, Japan
Jorg Siekmann, DFKI, Germany
Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Zongtuo Wang, Dalian Science and Technology University, China
Kwok Kee Wei, City University of Hong Kong, China
Robert Woitsch, BOC Asset Management GmbH, Austria
Mingsheng Ying, Tsinghua University, China
Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney

Programme Committee
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, University of Toulouse, France
Philippe Besnard, IRIT-CNRS, France
Cungen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea
John Debenham, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (requested)
Jim Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Xiaotie Deng, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Andreas Dengel, DFKI, Germany (requested)
Kevin C. Desouza, University of Washington, USA
Juan-Manuel Dodero, University of Cadiz, Spain
Brian Donnellan, National University of Ireland, Galway
Martin Dzbor, Open University, UK
Joaquim Filipe, Setubal School of Technology, Portugal
Aldo Gangemi, CNR-ISTC, Italy
Ulrich Geske, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft FIRST, Germany
Lluis Godo, Spanish Council for Scientific Research CSIC, Spain
Jiwen Guan, University of Ulster, UK
Yoshinori Hara, Kyoto University, Japan
Remko W. Helms, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Melanie Hilario, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Achim Hoffmann, University of New South Wales, Australia
Jun Hong, Queen´s University Belfast, UK
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anthony Hunter, University College London, United Kingdom
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Manfred Jeusfeld, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Byeong-Ho Kang, University of Tasmania, Tasmania
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
John Kidd, Aston Business School, United Kingdom
Jerome Lang, CNRS/University Paul Sabatier, France
Weiru Liu, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
James L. Lu, Emory University, USA
Roland Maier, Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Austria
Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Simone Marinai, University of Florence, Italy
Pierre Marquis, University of Artois, France
John-Jules Charles Meyer, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Michele Missikoff, CNR, Italy
Takeshi Morita, Keio University, Japan
John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy
Patricia Ordonez de Pablos, University of Oviedo, Spain
Ewa Orlowska, Institute of Telecommunications, Poland
Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales, Australia
Sven-Volker Rehm, WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
Peter Reimann, University of Sydney, Australia
Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland
Ulrich Remus, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Bodo Rieger, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Gerold Riempp, International University Schloss Reichartshausen, Germany
Martin Schröder, Hilti Corporation, Switzerland
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
Kaile Su, Peking University, China
Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, USA
Abel Usoro, University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom
Hui Wang, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Ju Wang, Guang Xi Normal University Guilin, China
Kewen Wang, Griffith University Brisbane, Australia
Zhongtuo Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China
Herbert Weber, ISST Fraunhofer, Germany
Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Robert Woitsch, BOC Asset Management, Austria
Takahira Yamaghuci, Keio University, Japan
Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada
Qingtian Zeng, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China
Mingyi Zhang, Guizhou Academy of Sciences, China
Chunxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Shichao Zhang, Guangxi Normal University, China
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China
Meiyun Zuo, Renmin University of China, China

Publication

Prosective participants are requested to electronically submit full papers of their work (12 pages). In accordance with the previous conferences the organisers of KSEM’2009 aim to publish the conference proceedings with Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series


Important dates

Paper Due: June 30, 2009
Author Notification: August 15, 2009
Early Registration Due: August 30, 2009
Camera-ready Due: August 30, 2009
Conference Dates: November 25-27, 2009

XMPP ready for LAS - Application Server

Holger has finished his implementation of the XMPP Connector for our Lightweight Application Server (LAS). We are now able to connect distributed LAS Servers with each other and gateway to other application servers via XMPP.

XMPP - Introduction And LAS Implementation (Presentation)

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Social Knowledge: Using Social Media to Know What You Know

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Proposals Submission Deadline: 5/31/2009
Full Chapters Due: 7/31/2009

Social Knowledge:
Using Social Media to Know What You Know

A book edited by John P. Girard, Minot State University, USA JoAnn L. Girard, Sagology, USA

Introduction
For the past two decades, executives have struggled to develop effective ways of sharing what their organizations know. Organizational leaders are now seeking ways to share knowledge with both internal and external stakeholders driven by concerns such as downsizing, the impending retirement of baby boomers, terrorism, and a host of other organizational challenges. Despite the best efforts of many innovative leaders, few organizations have achieved the desired level of knowledge sharing. This is certainly not due to a lack of energy, enthusiasm, or excitement on the part of managers, but rather the result of immature, complicated, and expensive tools, techniques, and technologies. Equally, a culture based on a need-to-know rather than one based on a need-to-share prevented the transparency necessary to achieve organizational knowledge goals.

Today we are seeing some very promising results from third-generation knowledge projects, which focus on connecting people and facilitating collaboration. Many organizations are now reaping the benefits of using social media such as wikis for collaboration and social networking tools for connecting people. These emerging tools and techniques provide flexible, agile, and intuitive solutions for connecting people with people and facilitating coordination, communication, and collaboration.

Almost certainly, there will be some debate about the exact meaning of this term Social Knowledge – the following definition is provided to begin the debate:

Social Knowledge is the use of social media to create, transfer, and preserve organizational knowledge – past, present, and future – with a view to achieving the organizational vision.

The Overall Objective of the Book
In the fields of management, information studies, information systems, psychology etc., there exists a need for an edited collection of articles in the area of social knowledge. The book aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks, latest empirical research findings, and practitioners’ best practices in the area. The book will be multidisciplinary in nature and will consider a wide range of topics, each of which is related to social knowledge. It is written for professionals who want to improve their understanding of the strategic role of social knowledge in business, government, or non-profit sectors.

The Target Audience
Professionals and researchers working in the field of knowledge management in various disciplines, e.g. library, information and communication sciences, administrative sciences and management, education, adult education, sociology, computer science, information technology. Moreover, the book will provide insights and support executives concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge, information and organizational development in different types of work communities and environments.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Social knowledge models
Defining social knowledge
Cross-generational social knowledge techniques
Measuring social knowledge success
Technology to support social knowledge
Organizational cultural considerations
Future Technologies
Generational differences
Future value of social knowledge
Barriers to social knowledge
Multinational, multilingual considerations
Best practices in social knowledge
Social knowledge preservation techniques
Historical perspectives of social knowledge
Real-world case studies

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 31, 2009, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 15, 2009 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 31, 2009. All submitted chapters will undergo a double-blind peer review after which authors will receive feedback on their submissions by October 15, 2009. Final chapters are expected by December 31, 2009. The book is scheduled to be published in 2011 by IGI Global, www.igi-global.com, publisher of the IGI Publishing (formerly Idea Group Publishing), Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) imprints.

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:

John P. Girard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management
Minot State University
Minot, ND 58707
Telephone: 701-858-3194
E-mail: john@johngirard.net

JoAnn Girard
Managaing Director
Sagology
Minot, ND 58703
E-mail: joann@sagology.com

Grace Hopper - Pioneer of Computer Science

This is for the Ada Lovelace day. A woman in computer science I admire is Grace Hopper. Here is a short paragraph from wikipedia.org describing her contributions to computer science.

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Naval officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator, and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. Because of the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace".

I have chosen Grace Hopper because she is still inspiring young women to computer science today. There is still the Grace Hopper Conference (in 2009 it took place in Tucson, AZ) and there are the Grace Hopper Scholarships. With FLOW-MATIC she developed the first programming language which used common language terms to describe data and functions. This became later the basis for the heavily used programming language COBOL.

A Multimedia Service with MPEG-7 Metadata and Context Semantics

Mathias Lux and Christian Timmerer already blogged about the 9th Workshop on Multimedia Metadata taking place in Toulouse, France on March 19-20, 2009 co-located with CORESA. Below are the slides for our presentation. 

A Multimedia Service with MPEG-7 Metadata and Context Semantics

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Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Multimedia Metadata (WMM'09) available online

The Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Multimedia Metadata are available as CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Multimedia Metadata (WMM'09), 
Toulouse, France, March 19-20, 2009.
Romulus Grigoras, Vincent Charvillat, Ralf Klamma, and Harald Kosch
ONLINE: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-441
ARCHIVE: ftp://SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE/pub/publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-441.zip

The goal of CEUR-WS.org is promoting information exchange within the academic community. Editor is my colleague Martin Jeusfeld from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. The service is part of the activities under the umbrella of SunSITE Central Europe where it is my pleasure to be the editor-in-chief.

PROLEARN Academy Newsletter 2009 - Week 12

*** News

Call for Papers: London International Conference on Education (LICE-2009)
Posted on: Mar 16, 2009
London International Conference on Education (LICE-2009), November 9-12, 2009, London, UK (www.liceducation.org) The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.

Second Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals: ICITST. The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section
Posted on: Mar 14, 2009
The ICITST is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution. The ICITST aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. The objectives of the ICITST are to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem in secured Internet transactions and the importance of information technology evolution to secured transactions.

Join the ROLE Community Outreach Program now!
Posted on: Mar 13, 2009
Join the ROLE Community Outreach Program now! Visit us at LinkedIn Group ROLE and become a member of our community (http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1590487).

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/News


*** New Call For Papers

Call for Papers: London International Conference on Education (LICE-2009)
Call-Art: Conference, Paper submission deadline: Jul 15, 2009
London International Conference on Education (LICE-2009), November 9-12, 2009, London, UK (www.liceducation.org) The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.

Second Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals: ICITST. The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section
Call-Art: Conference, Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2009
The 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2009) is co-sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Section. The ICITST is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution. The ICITST aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. The objectives of the ICITST are to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem in secured Internet transactions and the importance of information technology evolution to secured transactions. The ICITST-2009 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICITST papers are indexed by DBLP.

IEEE transaction on Learning Technologies : Special Issue on the Many Faces of Remote Labs
Call-Art: Publication, Paper submission deadline: Mar 31, 2009
TELECOM Saint-Etienne and the Carinthia University of Applied Science are organizing a special issue in the "IEEE transactions on Learning Technologies" International Journal. The issue is focused on Remote Laboratories, and is entitled "The Many Faces of Remote Laboratories in Engineering Education". The Call for Papers can be retrieved from http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_transactions/transactions/tlt/content/cfp/cfp_tlt_remotelabs.pdf. Please feel free to distribute it to interested colleagues and students. The Web site of the IEEE trans. on Learning Technologies is http://www.computer.org/tlt (and the associated Manuscript Central is located at : https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tlt-cs).

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/cfps

*** PROLEARN Academy - Measure

Our auto observation tool for scientific communities contains at present 1527 projects, of which 235 are newsfeeds, 95 newsletters, 488 web sites, 68 mailinglists and 641 blogs. The number of caught entries totals 115841 for the feeds, of which 4947 were retrieved last week. For the newsletters totals 3496 entries, of which 15 were retrieved last week, for the mailinglists there are 98997 entries, of which 400 last week and for the blogs there are 217617 entries, of which 452 last week.

There is additional information about the projects in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/mediabase

Challenges in Geospatial Data Harmonisation

CALL FOR PAPERS

Challenges in Geospatial Data Harmonisation
Pre-Conference Workshop at AGILE 2009

June 02, 2009
Hanover, Germany
http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu/events/agile2009.html

European Spatial Data Infrastructures (ESDI) integrate the diversity of geospatial data available for a multitude of European organisations. The implementation of SDI in the context of initiatives like INSPIRE, GMES and SEIS, requires that the organisations document, publish and harmonise their geospatial data and support users in accessing this information in a suitable way.

Data harmonisation is about creating the possibility to combine data from heterogeneous sources into integrated, consistent and unambiguous information products, in a way that is of no concern to the end-user.
This poses many different research challenges for facilitating the harmonisation of geospatial data and metadata by automating the necessary steps as far as possible.

This workshop will bring together researchers from different communities to investigate current strategies and discuss future research collaborations in the wider context of data harmonisation. Further, the idea of the workshop is to learn about ongoing activities in research projects that provide successful test cases for enabling geospatial data harmonisation.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Research in harmonisation processing for e.g. resolution,
generalisation, edge matching, multiple representation, schema
translation
* Conceptual Schema Translation
o Specification of the mapping process
o Formal language for the specification
* Quality
o Specification of quality evaluation processes for harmonisation
o Metrics for quality evaluation of mapping processes
o Investigating the impact of processing on the quality of data
* How to enable semantic interoperability?
o Approaches with formal semantics, collaborative approaches,
approaches from machine learning, ...
o How to measure and express thematic accuracy?
* Handling gridded data (multidimensional grids) or dynamic data
(e.g. mathematical models for forecasts)
o Harmonisation issues
o Harmonisation processes
* Automatic set up of data harmonisation process
o Identification of existing heterogeneities such as semantic,
geometric, resolution or others
o Methods to automatically assign a specific harmonisation
process to a detected heterogeneity
o How to handle specification and execution of workflows for
web services to construct complex transformation services?

PAPER SUBMISSION
We invite submissions of short papers (1000 - 2000 words). We are looking for innovative research ideas as well as experiences with applications and technologies. We especially encourage young researcher and PhD students to submit their work. All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be invited for presentation at the workshop.
Selected paper will be invited for an extended submission for a Special Issue of the IJSDIR.

Please send your submission by e-mail to submission@esdi-humboldt.eu <mailto:submission@esdi-humboldt.eu>.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission: 17 April 2009
Notification of acceptance: 01 May 2009
Workshop: 02 June 2008

ORGANISATION
Eva Klien, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research
Sisi Zlatanova, Delft University of Technology
Christine Giger, ETH Zürich Astrid Fichtinger, Technische Universität München

ICWL 2009 Workshop Virtual Worlds for academic, organizational, and life-long learning

1st CALL FOR PAPERS

First Workshop on
Virtual Worlds for academic, organizational, and life-long learning
(ViWo Workshop 2009)

Aachen, Germany, August 19-21, 2009
http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/ViWo/ViWo2009Workshop

In conjunction with
8th International Conference on Web-Based Learning (ICWL 2009)

This CfP is also available as PDF: http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/ViWo2009Workshop/ViWo2009-CfP.pdf


This workshop will take place during the ICWL 2009 in Aachen, Germany (August 19-21) as a special program item. The Workshop ViWo 2009 provides an interdisciplinary forum for international scientists and practitioners to discuss various aspects of learning and training in virtual worlds. The 8th International Conference on International Conference on Web-based Learning, ICWL 2009, will be jointly organized by Hong Kong Web Society, RWTH Aachen University, and Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science. ICWL is an annual international conference on web-based learning.

Background

Our society of the 21st century makes great demands on its members caused by rapid developing and ever-changing political, social, economical and technological situations. Consequently, it is expected that members of the society keep pace with these mutable situations, adapt their skills and expertise. 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 less formal schooling in the agrarian society to remedial repetitive learning in the industrialization age to learning with an understanding in today’s knowledge society. Based on that, different modern educational strategies have been developed which includes aspects such as self-directed learning, collaborative learning, experiential-based learning and actively participating. Educational approaches have also been influenced by technology but have also increasingly applied technology over the last decades, such as motion pictures, radio, television, computers and other emerging information and communication technologies (ICT).

Last year’s hype surrounding the virtual world “Second Life” has also generated significant interest in the education community. Although virtual worlds have been an active research topic for a long time, technology was not ready for complex application scenarios since recent years. New interesting and powerful platforms and tools, such as Second Life, Active Worlds, Multiverse, Open Croquet, OpenSim and Sun’s 3D Wonderland, have been emerged applicable to complement or even replace other knowledge transfer and learning settings. Modern virtual worlds are seen from an optimistic viewpoint as a disruptive and transformative technology. However, it still remains unclear to some extent where the real benefits and limitations of using virtual worlds as knowledge transfer and learning environments are when compared to more traditional methods. In order to avoid the same pitfalls of past e-learning solutions by just applying traditional learning approaches to a new technology, this special track is indented to offer a multidisciplinary platform which brings together international researchers from different organizations in order to share their experience with this technology.

Topics

We invite submissions of papers in the categories research, development, evaluation and best practices that deal with virtual worlds for academic, organizational, and life-long learning issues including, but not limited to:


• Technological approaches, their limitations and how to overcome them
• Virtual worlds and mobile learning
• Virtual learning space design and architecture
• Modern learning settings
• Didactic and cognitive aspects
• New learning and teaching activities
• Interaction and behavior patterns
• Distance and blended learning
• Organizational learning, vocational training and certification
• Academic learning, assessment and feedback
• Collaborative and social learning
• Mixed Virtual world and classroom learning
• Virtual Laboratories and experiments
• Knowledge Transfer and Collaboration
• Artificial Intelligence Approaches
• Usability and Human-Computer-Interaction

Important Dates

• April 30, 2009: Submission of the full papers (6 Pages)
• Juni 15, 2009: Notification of acceptance
• July 15, 2009: Registration
• July 15, 2009: Camera ready version (6 Pages)
• August 19-21 2009: ICWL 2009 Conference


Submission Procedure

File Types: Windows Word or PDF
Language: English (British or US)
Style Guides & Template: IMCL Template http://209.61.205.141/form/IMCL2009%20Template.doc
• Replace Header with ”Conference ICWL 2009 August 19-21, 2009, Aachen, Germany”
• Replace Footer with “ViWo Workshop 2009 http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/ViWo/ViWo2009Workshop”
Paper Submission System: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=viwo2009workshop

In case of problems or questions concerning the submission of papers, please contact the track chairs at ViWo2009@iicm.edu.
Notification of Acceptance and Publishing

Accepted papers will be published as electronic proceedings within the ViWo Website. At least one author has to register until July 15th, 2009 after the notification of acceptance to be included into the conference program. Authors fee is applicable only once per paper!
Some authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper for publication in a special issue in J.UCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science, http://www.jucs.org/.


ViWo 2009 Chair

Christian Gütl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Frank Kappe, Graz University of Technology, Austria

ViWo 2009 Organization team

Alexander Nussbaumer, University of Graz, Austria
Mohammad Smadi, Graz University of Technology, Austria

ViWo Program Committee

• Dietrich Albert, University of Graz, Austria
• Michael E. Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria
• Vanessa Chang, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
• Samir A. El-Seoud, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan
• Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
• Judson Harward, MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, USA
• Sven Havemann, Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Mitja Jermol, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Larry Johnson, New Media Consortium, USA
• Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
• Stephanie Linek, Universität Graz, Austria
• Phillip D. Long, University of Queensland, Australia
• Michelle Lucey-Roper, Federatoin of American Scientists, USA
• Ignazio Passero, University of Salerno, Italy
• Lalita Rajasingham, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Peter Reimann, University of Sydney Australia
• Torsten Reiners, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Diane Salter, University of Hong Kong, China
• Sandra Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria
• Marc Spaniol, Max-Planck-Institut, Germany


Further Information:

• Information about ICWL 2009: http://www.hkws.org/events/icwl2009/
• Tourist Information: http://www.aachen.de/EN/index.html

Deadline Extension for I-KNOW 2009 until April 6, 2009

Due to multiple requests from our scientific community we decided to extend the paper submission deadline for the I-KNOW conference to ** 6 April 2009 **.

The topics of I-KNOW '09 will cover most relevant aspects of knowledge management and knowledge technologies, including but not limited to:

* Basics and Theories
* Knowledge Work Support
* Semantic Technologies
* Knowledge Services
* Knowledge Relationship Discovery
* Knowledge Visualization
* Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management
* Knowledge Management and Web 2.0

The I-KNOW '09 Call for Paper can be found here: http://i-know.tugraz.at/scientific_part/call_for_papers

We are looking forward to your original contribution to I-KNOW '09.

Final Call for Participation - 9th Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community

WMM 2009: Call for Participation

9th Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community with a special focus on context-aware mobile multimedia services Toulouse, March 19-20 http://coresa2009.enseeiht.fr/#workshops

organized jointly with CORESA.
http://coresa2009.enseeiht.fr

The program spans over 2 days (March 19 and 20) and leaves plenty of room for discussions and interactions. The final program is available online at:
http://coresa2009.enseeiht.fr/programmeWMM2009final.pdf

Some highlights:
* our invited speaker will be Timo Ojala with the talk "Case studies on context-aware mobile multimedia services"
* St. Pateux and Ch. Timerrer will moderate the discussion "MPEG standards: where are we today ?"
* Visit and banquet dinner at Fondation Bemberg (http://www.fondation-bemberg.fr/)

Registration is open via our conference management tool (ConfTool) https://wwwsecu.irit.fr/m3r09-adm

For those that wish to spend some time visiting around:
http://www.grandsites.midipyrenees.fr/

IEEE Workshop Agency in Media Networks - Deadline Extension until March 16, 2009

IEEE Workshop Agency in Media Networks - Deadline Extension until March 16, 2009

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Study Guides Academic Work workshop agency

Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments

Another colleague of mine, I really love to work with in ROLE again, is Fridolin Wild. Here is Fridolin presentation about mashing-up personal learning environments at the TenCompetence Winter School in Innsbruck, Austria, 2009. Together with Felix Mödritscher, he is leading WP 7 about learning communities. Questions here are how can communities localize personal learning environments (PLE) in their practices. Like any other modern medium PLE are over-adressing. The adress space of a PLE equals the number of all learners. Only in the practices of a learning community a PLE can be useful. So, WP 6 is studying activities of learners in communities and how to find localization strategies for PLE.

Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments

View more presentations from miloskravcik. (tags: mash-up winterschool)

Join the ROLE Community Outreach Program now! Visit us at LinkedIn Group ROLE and become a member of our community (http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1590487).

ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environments) implements an extensive community outreach programme to involve as many researcher, developer and user communities as possible world-wide. ROLE strives to stimulate these communities to open up closed learning environments by providing respective learning services, we understand the programme as a cornerstone of the project. It is therefore deeply anchored in the proposed R & D process.

We use Web 2.0 means like the LinkedIn group to facilitate the communication and collaboration among the diverse communities.

In ROLE we target decentralized ways of learning, more suited to a Web 2.0 point of view, in which each learner can select her own learning tools, choose her own learning tasks and explore different learning practices. ROLE facilitates large communities which will be studied from a joint personal learning and Web 2.0 point of view.

The overwhelming complexity of solutions to every imaginable combination requires us to ask the ROLE communities for help and support in designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating upcoming ROLE solutions.

Please forward this message to people who may be interested in Personal Learning Environments.

The Role project is supported by the European Commission, in the theme ICT-2007 digital dibraries and technology-enhanced learning, as alarge-scale integrating project (IP), under the 7th framework programme, grant agreement no.: 231396.

Collaborative Survival through Open Research and Asynchronous Public Service

I'm so glad and honored to work again with Ambjörn Naeve in a joint project like we do now in ROLE. Here is Ambjörns keynote talk he gave at the 1st World SUmmit on the Knowledge Society in Athens, Greece, September 24, 2008. Remember, the Greece riots started only a couple of weeks later in early December.

Join the ROLE Community Outreach Program now! Visit us at LinkedIn Group ROLE and become a member of our community (http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1590487).

ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environments) implements an extensive community outreach programme to involve as many researcher, developer and user communities as possible world-wide. ROLE strives to stimulate these communities to open up closed learning environments by providing respective learning services, we understand the programme as a cornerstone of the project. It is therefore deeply anchored in the proposed R & D process.

We use Web 2.0 means like the LinkedIn group to facilitate the communication and collaboration among the diverse communities.

In ROLE we target decentralized ways of learning, more suited to a Web 2.0 point of view, in which each learner can select her own learning tools, choose her own learning tasks and explore different learning practices. ROLE facilitates large communities which will be studied from a joint personal learning and Web 2.0 point of view.

The overwhelming complexity of solutions to every imaginable combination requires us to ask the ROLE communities for help and support in designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating upcoming ROLE solutions.

Please forward this message to people who may be interested in Personal Learning Environments.

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Deadline Extension for Special Issue Interactive Learning Environments "Towards eLearning 2.0 University"

DEADLINE EXTENSION: New Deadline 23.03.2009

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue Interactive Learning Environments
"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 NEW: 23.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://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