Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SeMuDaTe2009)

Call for Contributions

SeMuDaTe2009 || Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies
10th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community

The workshop is collocated with the 4th International Conference on
Semantic and Digital Media Technologies

2-4 December 2009
Graz, Austria

http://semudate2009.fim.uni-passau.de/

The Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SeMuDaTe2009) searches for research contributions on the mapping and integration of multimedia metadata and ontologies into databases, on multimedia query languages, on the optimization and processing of semantic queries. Moreover, we are interested how multimedia data services are conceived to ensure interoperability, how to improve security and reliability of access and storage of multimedia data and metadata.

It is the 10th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community:
http://www.multimedia-metadata.info/

Contributions

We invite the following types of contributions:

* Full papers (8-12 Pages)
* Position papers (4-8 Pages)
* Poster and Demo papers (3-4 Pages)

Submissions should be formatted according to LNCS style and submitted in PDF format. Please use the link below for your submission. The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of an international
journal.

In case of questions please contact Florian.Stegmaier@uni-passau.de.

Topics

* Multimedia metadata models and mappings to databases
* Multimedia ontology and interoperability
* Multimedia ontology to database mapping and processing
* Multimedia query optimization and processing
* Ontology query languages and multimedia
* Semantic retrieval in multimedia databases
* Database management: security, indexing, reliability, distribution, transactions
* Indexing strategies for multimedia databases
* Semantic enrichment and annotation of multimedia
* Semantic metadata management
* Uncertainty in multimedia databases
* Human-computer interfaces for multimedia database access
* Mobile multimedia database services
* Context-aware multimedia
* Semantic adaptation of multimedia
* Proactive semantic multimedia delivery & distribution services
* Self-organization in service oriented multimedia architectures
* Semantic multimedia demonstrations and applications

Important Dates
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All Papers
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September 7, 2009 - Deadline for Workshop Papers
September 28, 2009 - Notification of Acceptance for Workshop Papers
October 19, 2009 - Camera-ready Workshop Papers due

General and Local Chairs
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Harald Kosch, University Passau, Germany
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Mathias Lux, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Florian Stegmaier, Local Chair, University Passau, Germany

Workshop Technical Programme Committee
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* Anna Carreras (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Baltasar Fernández-Manjón (Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
* Bill Grosky (University of Michigan, USA)
* Christian Guetl (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
* Dominik Renzel (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
* François Bry (LMU, University of Munich, Germany)
* Giuseppe Amato (ISTI Pisa, Italy)
* Laszlo Böszörmenyi (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
* Marc Spaniol (MPI, Saarbrücken, Germany)
* Markus Strohmaier (Know Center, Graz, Austria)
* Oge Marques (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
* Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
* Richard Chbeir (Bourgogne University, France)
* Romulus Grigoras (ENSEEIHT, France)
* Savvas Chatzichristofis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
* Thierry Delot (University of Valenciennes, France)
* Timothy Shih (NTUE, Taiwan)
* Vincent Oria (NJIT, USA)
* Werner Bailer (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria)
* Yiwei Cao (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
* Lionel Brunie (INSA de Lyon, France)
* Yu Cao (California State University at Fresno, USA)

Internships at Telefonica Research in Barcelona

CALL FOR INTERNSHIPS FALL 2009

The Internet Group at Telefonica Research in Barcelona is offering internships to qualified candidates wishing to gain research experience in the area of online social networks system scalability.

Eligibility:

Applicants must be enrolled in a M.Sc. or Ph.D. program in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. Experience in systems, database replication and cloud computing is desirable. Strong development skills are required.

Duration:

The internships are available immediately and last for 3-6 months.

Application:

Inquiries and Applications should be sent to careers_research@tid.es

More information at http://research.tid.es/internet/

Complex Networks in Information & Knowledge Management - CNIKM'09: Call for Participation

The First ACM International Workshop on

Complex Networks in Information & Knowledge Management (CNIKM)
in conjunction with ACM CIKM-2009

Hong Kong, November 6, 2009

http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~dell/cnikm09/

Overview

We are in a connected age: real-world entities often interconnect with each other through explicit or implicit relationships to form a complex network, such as technological networks, social etworks, and information networks. They exhibit interesting statistical characteristics such as small-world and scale-free.

The past decade has witnessed an explosive growth of research on various complex networks. How can we analyse, manage and mine information in large-scale complex networks effectively and efficiently? This gives researchers in database, information retrieval and knowledge management great challenges as well as opportunities. In line with CIKM's tradition of promoting interdisciplinary research, this workshop aims to bring together researchers across both computer science and the emerging network science to foster discussion and exchange ideas. Although these two scientific disciplines speak quite different languages, they certainly can benefit a lot from each other by sharing their concepts, models, techniques, and tools, etc.

Important Dates

* Early registration due: September 3, 2009 (10:59 EDT(GMT-5))
* Special conference rate for blocked hotel rooms due: October 9, 2009
* Regular registration due: October 16, 2009 (23:59 EDT(GMT-5))
* Workshop date: November 6, 2009

Registration

You can find the registration information at: http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/cikm2009/registration/registration.htm Please note that the early-bird registration ends on September 3, 2009.

Those of you who need an invitation letter for visa, please refer to the CIKM website and follow the direction in the "Travel" page to request the letter.

All participants are encouraged to bring posters to the workshop to present their late breaking research results and discuss with others.

Workshop Programme

09:00 Welcome

09:00 - 10:30
Session 1: Community Detection and Information Spread
* Group CRM: a New Telecom CRM Framework from Social Network Perspective
* Community Mining on Dynamic Weighted Directed Graphs
* Variation Matters: Variation in Personal Network Size, Personality and Its Effect on Information Dissemination
* An Analysis of Information Diffusion in the Blog World

10:30 - 11:00
Common Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30
Session 2: Centrality Analysis and Link Prediction
* Fast Centrality Approximation in Modular Networks
* Potential Collaboration Discovery using Document Clustering and Community Structure Detection
* Trust Relationship Prediction Using Online Product Review Data
* Role of Weak Ties in Link Prediction of Complex Networks

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch on your own
(also time for posters, informal discussion and networking)

14:00 - 15:30
Keynote Speech
* Networks, Communities and Kronecker Products
(by Prof Jure Leskovec of Stanford University)

15:30 - 16:00
Common Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30
Session 3: P2P Networks and Recommender Systems
* Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Network for Collaborative Document Tracking
* Collaborative Filtering Using Random Neighbours in Peer-to-Peer Networks
* Hydra: A Hybrid Recommender System - [Cross-Linked Rating and Content Information]
* A Mobile Tourist Assistance and Recommendation System Based on Complex
Networks

17:30 Workshop concludes

Program Committee

- Edoardo Airoldi, Harvard University, USA
- Karsten Borgwardt, MPIs Tubingen, Germany
- Guanrong Chen, City University of Hong Kong, China
- Xueqi Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Vittoria Colizza, ISI Foundation, Italy
- Nick Craswell, Microsoft Research, USA
- Anirban Dasgupta, Yahoo! Research, USA
- Brian Davison, Lehigh University, USA
- Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands
- Tina Eliassi-Rad, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Trevor Fenner, University of London, UK
- Abraham Flaxman, UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, USA
- Brian Gallagher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, USA
- Jake Hofman, Yahoo! Research, USA
- Hawoong Jeong, KAIST, Korea
- Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- Kevin Lang, Yahoo! Research, USA
- Jan Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Jure Leskovec, Stanford University, USA
- Mark Levene, University of London, UK
- Xiaoli Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Sofus Macskassy, Fetch Technologies, USA
- Michael Mahoney, Stanford University, USA
- Tsuyoshi Murata, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- See-Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Wilfred Ng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
- Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada
- Marcel Reinders, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
- Dawei Song, The Robert Gordon University, UK
- Hanghang Tong, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Wei-Qi Yan, Queen's University Belfast, UK
- Jianhan Zhu, University College London, UK

Organizers

- Jun Wang, University College London, UK
- Shi Zhou, University College London, UK
- Dell Zhang, Birkbeck, University of London, U

Invitation to the ECTEL09 workshop on Methods & Tools for Collaborative Creativity Process

We kindly invite you to participate in the ECTEL 2009 workshop "Methods & Tools for Computer Supported Collaborative Creativity Process"

The registration process is open.

The scope of this workshop will be to exchange ideas and know-how about the various methods and tools that efficiently and effectively support the computer-based collaborative creativity process and offer informal learning opportunities. There will be only few presentations (outcome of a review process). The main emphasis will be given to plenary discussion about the maturity of the processes, the tools as well as about what is needed for supporting such processes in industrial environments.

After a peer review process, the following presentations will be made:
P1. A unified process model for creativity-technique based problem solving processes, by Florian Forster, Michele Brocco
P2. Collaborative Moderation Fostering Creativity with a Corporate Wiki, by Silviya Dencheva, Christian R. Prause, and Andreas Zimmermann
P3.Triggering creativity in online collaborative learning environments, by Francesca Pozzi, Michela Ott
P4.Real Time Synchronization for Creativity in Distributed Innovation Teams, by Dennis Kjisgaard Peitersen, Peter Dolog, Esben Staunsbjerg Pedersen, Kenneth Host Pedersen, and Yujian Lin
P5. Guidance to enhance co-creative knowledge building in innovative product design, by Marlies Bitter-Rijpkema, Simos Retalis, Rory Sie, Kees Panekeet, Petros Georgiakakis, Marjo Rutjens, Peter Sloep

Details about the workshop can be found at:
http://cosy.ted.unipi.gr/idSpace_ECTEL09/

PROLEARN Academy Newsletter 2009 - Week 35

*** News

International Journal of Computer and Network Security Posted on: Aug 25, 2009
http://www.ijcns.org The International Journal of computer and network security (IJCNS) is one of the leading international journals for publishing novel ideas, state-of-the-art research results and fundamental advances in all aspects of computer science and communication network and security. IJCNS is a monthly journal that publishes articles which contribute new theoretical results in all areas of Computer Science, Communication Network, and information Security. IJCNS invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that communicates current research on information assurance and security regarding both the theoretical and methodological aspects, as well as various applications in solving real world information security problems. Frequency of Publication: MONTHLY

Journal of Computer Science and Information Security Posted on: Aug 25, 2009
IJCSIS invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that communicates current research on information assurance and security regarding both the theoretical and methodological aspects, as well as various applications in solving real world information security problems. Submit your paper to IJCSIS Managing Editor, (ijcsiseditor@gmail.com) http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SECURITY Posted on: Aug 25, 2009
IJCSIS is a peer reviewed international journal with a key objective to provide the academic and industrial community a medium for presenting original research and applications related to Computer Science and Information Security. .

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

*** Events in the next 7 days

MUPPLE'09 Place: Nice, Date: Sep 29, 2009
2nd Workshop on Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments (MUPPLE'09)

EC-TEL 2009 Date: Sep 29, 2009 - Oct 02, 2009
Fourth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning "Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines"

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

*** PROLEARN Academy - Measure
Our auto observation tool for scientific communities contains at present 1594 projects, of which 238 are newsfeeds, 95 newsletters, 533 web sites, 74 mailinglists and 654 blogs. The number of caught entries totals 158206 for the feeds, of which 2233 were retrieved last week. For the newsletters totals 3856 entries, of which 9 were retrieved last week, for the mailinglists there are 108408 entries, of which 369 last week and for the blogs there are 245272 entries, of which 303 last week.

There is additional information about the projects in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/mediabase
We are continuously enlarging our project database.

GIScience 2010

GIScience 2010
(http://www.giscience2010.org)

Sixth International Conference on Geographic Information Science

Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-17, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

OVERVIEW:
Zurich, Switzerland will be the host city of the sixth international GIScience conference, continuing a highly successful series of biennial conferences that commenced in 2000. GIScience 2010 aims to bring together scientists from academia, industry, and government to discuss the state-of-the-art in geographic information science, and explore emerging research directions. The conference focuses on basic research findings across all sectors of the field and has two refereed submission tracks: full papers and extended abstracts. Pre-conference workshops and tutorials (Sep. 14) and the main conference (Sep. 15-17) will take place at the University of Zurich, Irchel campus, featuring state-of-the-art conference facilities within a park-like setting. The conference site is located only 20 minutes from both downtown and Zurich Airport, and is easily accessible through public transport.

TOPICS AND TRACKS:
Fundamental research findings and emerging topics across all sectors of geographic information science (GIScience) are welcomed. The conference attracts leading researchers from all cognate disciplines to reflect the interdisciplinary breadth of GIScience, including (but not limited to)
geography, cognitive science, computer science, engineering, information science, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, social science, and (geo)statistics.

Since GIScience 2010 focuses on advances in the fundamentals of geographic information science, submission of pure application papers is discouraged. To accommodate the variety of publication cultures within an interdisciplinary research community, GIScience 2010 provides two refereed
submission tracks: full papers and extended abstracts.

* Full paper track
Publication in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

Full papers, consisting of maximum 14-page manuscripts, will be thoroughly reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee. High-quality submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and published in the Springer LNCS (www.springeronline.com/lncs). Manuscripts must describe original work that has neither been previously published, nor is currently under review elsewhere. Papers must be written in English according to the GIScience-specific Springer LNCS formatting guidelines. For detailed
guidelines, see http://www.giscience2010.org/XXX.

* Extended abstracts track
Publication in separate Conference Proceedings Volume

Extended abstracts of 1500 words, describing work in progress, will be reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and, if accepted, selected for oral or poster presentation. Extended abstracts must be written in English according to the formatting
guidelines to be published on the conference web site.

WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS:
GIScience 2010 pre-conference workshops and tutorials will be held on September 14, 2010 at the University of Zurich, Irchel campus. Workshops and tutorials provide two modes of complementary fora to the main conference. Thus, we specifically encourage tutorials introducing new ideas, and workshops based around small group discussions on emerging topics that facilitate dialogue across disciplinary boundaries. One-day mini-conferences filled only with paper presentations are discouraged.

IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop and Tutorial proposals due January 7, 2010
Workshop and Tutorial notification January 29, 2010
Full papers due January 29, 2010
Full paper notification March 15, 2010
Extended abstracts due April 30, 2010
Extended abstract notification June 15, 2010

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Information Systems at NUI Galway

Centre for Innovation & Structural Change (CISC), at the National
University of Ireland, Galway

Applications are invited for a funded postdoctoral fellowship in the area of group decision support systems (GDSS) for team-based decision making in agile systems development projects. The position is available for an initial period of 24 months with possibility of extension.

Decision making at the team level can be complex, and is influenced by social, technical and organisational factors. Suboptimal presentation, dissemination and sharing of information in teams can be problematic for decision making activities. These issues can be exacerbated in agile
systems development projects, where formal documentation and processes are minimal and high levels of self-organisation and self-discipline are required. Innovative information systems can support team-based activities in this regard, and group decision support systems (GDSS) can assist with decision making, impact information dissemination, support agile team-based decision processes and activities, and facilitate optimal team decision behaviours in agile contexts. Further, information systems can impact decision quality, add strategic value to team-based decision making and influence efficacy. Specifically, the successful applicant will examine the impact of group decision support systems (GDSS) on team-based decision making in agile systems development projects. Focusing on decision processes, team decision activities, group decision behaviour and decisional guidance mechanisms, the research aims to support agile
team-based decision making and increase organisational value.

Background required:
- high awareness of the salient extant research in decision support systems (DSS) or agile development
- existing research experience in DSS or agile development
- excellent communication and writing skills
- experience of team-based activities in organisational settings
- existing publishing record in high quality Information Systems journals and conferences

Each applicant should possess a PhD qualification related to DSS, Agile Development or ICT-enabled organisational efficacy, and have a strong interest in the research description outlined above. Applicants must be highly motivated individuals with ability for independent and criticalthought, and must also be able to demonstrate the ability to work and thrive in a team environment. The successful applicant will be located in the Centre for Innovation & Structural Change (CISC, www.cisc.ie) at NUI Galway.

Salary: €40,578 - €47,699 commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Application Procedure:

Applicants should submit a covering letter, full CV and the names and addresses of at least three and not more than five referees by post or email to: Angela Sice, Development Officer, CISC, Cairnes Business School, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Email: cisc@nuigalway.ie
Tel: +353 (0)91 492817. Please cite ref. no. NUIG-059-09 in the subject
line of e-mail application and on any cover letter.

Closing date for receipt of applications is Monday, September 14th 2009.

National University of Ireland, Galway is an equal opportunities employer.

SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Uncertain Data

QUeST 2009

Call for Papers

1st SIGSPATIAL ACM GIS International Workshop on Querying and Mining Uncertain Spatio-Temporal Data
November 3, 2009, Seattle, WA, USA

http://www.dbs.ifi.lmu.de/~berneck/quest/

Querying and mining uncertain data has received a lot of attention from the research community in recent years due to the enormous increase of geographically referenced data occasioned by developments in IT, digital mapping and remote sensing. The global expansion of Geo Information Systems emphasizes the importance of developing data driven inductive approaches to geographical analysis and modeling. An important problem is that collected data often is inherently imprecise and may contain incomplete, inaccurate or outdated information. Such data arises particular in dynamic environments. Traditional querying and mining approaches are often inapplicable or may extract misleading or plain wrong information when applied to uncertain data.

Therefore, modern data management solutions coping with uncertain data are very important for numerous spatio-temporal applications such as location-based services. The incorporation of the uncertainty of spatio-temporal data increases the quality of query results. However, new problems arise, such as higher computational complexity and the need for proper representation of probabilistic query results. Thus novel querying methods are required.
Querying and mining uncertain spatio-temporal data requires joint effort from multiple research communities. The aim of this workshop is to provide a unique forum for discussing in depth the challenges, opportunities, techniques and applications on the topic of coping with uncertainty in spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal domains.

TOPICS:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following aspects:

- Models for uncertain spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal data
- Managing uncertain spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal data
- Querying uncertain spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal data
- Probabilistic spatial query processing
- Probabilistic stream processing
- Probabilistic similarity search
- Indexing uncertain data
- Mining uncertain spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal data
- Probabilistic spatio-temporal pattern mining
- Managing uncertain data from sensor networks
- Location-based service based on uncertain information
- Privacy preserving and security in spatial and spatio-temporal domains
- Traffic monitoring and prediction

SUBMISSION INSTUCTIONS:

We welcome submissions of both technical papers and vision/position papers. We have two categories of papers and presentations:

- Full research paper: up to 8 pages (20 min. talk)
- Short technical or vision paper: up to 4 pages (5-10 min. talk)

Authors are invited to submit full, original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

Papers must be electronically submitted in PDF format at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quest09

Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submissions due: September 4, 2009
Notification to the authors: September 28, 2009
Camera ready papers due: October 9, 2009
ACM GIS 2009 Conference: November 4-6, 2009
QUeST Workshop: November 3, 2009

GENERAL CHAIRS:

Matthias Renz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Peer Krüger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

WEB SITE CHAIR:

Thomas Bernecker, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Lei Chen, Hong Kong of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Reynold Cheng, The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
George Kollios, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Feifei Li, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Vebjorn Ljosa, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Hua Lu, Aalborg University, Denmark
Nikos Mamoulis, The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
Mohamed F. Mokbel, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada
Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Matthias Schubert, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Rahul Shah, Louisiana State University, LA, USA
Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Xiaokui Xiao, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Man Lung Yiu, Aalborg University, Denmark
Andreas Zäfle, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Open PhD Researcher Position at University of Vienna

Open PhD Researcher Position

The Multimedia Information Systems Group (http://www.cs.univie.ac.at/mis) at the University of Vienna / Austria is seeking an outstanding candidate to work as a PhD researcher in the upcoming Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project "MEKETRE".

MEKETRE is an interdisciplinary research project between the University of Viennaʼs Egyptology and Computer Science departments and will run from late 2009 until late 2012. The technical focus will be on making the multimedia material, collected data, and available vocabularies available as Linked Data on the Web. We will conduct research on novel solutions for further enhancing the exposed objects with semantically meaningful information (e.g., by means of annotations) and strategies for collaborative vocabulary building and evolution. Besides a strong interest in working in an interdisciplinary setting, we expect the applicantto work in the following areas:

✓ Collaborative Vocabulary Building / Vocabulary Evolution
✓ Multimedia Annotations in the context of Linked Data sources

The ideal candidate holds a MS degree in Computer Science or related field and is able to consider both theoretical and practical/implementation aspects in her/his work. Fluent English and/or German communication and excellent programming skills are fundamental requirements. Preferably the candidate has a background in one of the following fields:

✓ Linked Data and Semantic Technologies (RDF, SKOS, etc)
✓ Multimedia Computing
✓ Digital Object Repositories (Fedora)

The position starts late 2009 and is full-time (40h/week) for the duration of the project. The successful candidate will tightly work with colleagues from the Egyptology department and is expected to pursue her/his PhD work within the scope of the project. Applications will be considered starting immediately and will be accepted on a continuing basis until the position is filled. We invite interested applicants to send their resume including a pointer to their previous / current work and publications as soon as possible to sekretariat@mminf.univie.ac.at, Reference No: 396/MIS/0209. The University of Vienna is an equal opportunity employer.

Call for Participation: SemHE'09 @ ECTEL'09, Nice France, 30 Sep 2009

SemHE'09 @ ECTEL'09,

Nice, France, 30 September 2009
(http://www.semhe.org)
Registration: http://www.ectel09.org/registration.html

Please find further details below:

SEMHE '09: SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATIONS FOR LEARNING AND
TEACHING SUPPORT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

co-located with ECTEL '09: The 4th European Conference on
Technology Enhanced Learning

Nice, France, 30 September 2009 (all day)
http://www.semhe.org

SemHE is concerned with the applications of semantic web technologies in higher education. There has been much interest in this topic within the Technology Enhanced Learning, the Higher Education Support and the Web Science communities. SemHE is intended to involve a wider international audience in discussing recent developments in this area and in shaping a roadmap for future research.

SemHE is supported by the JISC funded SemTech project (http://www.semtech.ecs.soton.ac.uk/) and the ESRC/EPSRC funded ENSEMBLE project (http://www.ensemble.ac.uk/) both of which have been working on the relevance and value of semantic technologies to higher education in the UK.

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TOPICS
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Semantic Web technologies have appeared to hold the promise of efficient support in Higher Education institutions. Although issues such as ontology consensus, large-scale annotation of learning content and the underpinning pedagogy seemed to question semantic technology adoption in the early years, recent developments seem promising. The lightweight knowledge modelling (often called folksonomies) in Web 2.0 systems and the emerging linked open data movement appear to bring significant value in terms of interoperability, well-formedness of metadata, data integration, reasoning across resources, novel ways of collaboration and personalisation, which can provide better support for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.

There are opportunities and challenges in this emerging area of semantic technology adoption that this workshop wishes to address. In particular, the workshop will address the following themes:

- Semantic application for Learning Support in Higher Education
- Collaborative learning and critical thinking enabled by semantic applications
- Semantic application using linked data in repositories inside and across institutions
- Interoperability among Universities based on Semantic Web standards
- Ontologies and reasoning to support pedagogical models
- Transition from soft semantics and lightweight knowledge modelling to machine processable, hard semantics
- University workflows using Semantic Web applications and standards

SemHE invites original papers and demonstration proposals in the above areas.

PROGRAMME

AM
- Keynote speech: "Semantic technologies and challenges in education" (Speaker TBC)
- Thanassis Tiropanis. A linked data field for semantic applications in HE (SemTech)
- Michael Tscholl, Frances Tracy and Patrick Carmichael. Case Methods, Pedagogical Innovation and Semantic Technologies
- Patrick Carmichael and Agustina Martinez Garcia. Semantic Technologies to Support Teaching and Learning with Cases: Challenges and Opportunities

PM
- Minh Tan Vu and Angela Goh. i-OntoLearning: Ontological support for rich learning
- Nadeem Shabir and Chris Clarke. Using Linked Data as a basis for a Learning Resource Recommendation System
- Alexandra Poulovassilis and Peter Wood. Flexible Querying of Lifelong Learner Metadata
- Panel session: "A roadmap for semantic technologies in HE". Chair: Hugh C Davis. Panel: Kathy Kikis-Papadakis, Alex Poulovassilis (additional panel members TBC)


POSTERS
- SemTech Project
- ENSEMBLE Project
- Axel Tenschert and Alexey Cheptsov. Effective Ontology Matching in High-Performance Computing Environments

PROCEEDINGS

The conference proceedings will be published by the University of Southampton and will be made available via the EPrints service.

SPECIAL ISSUE

The best papers will be invited to resubmit a journal paper version for a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, which is scheduled for publication in 2010.

WORKSHOP ORGANISERS

Thanassis Tiropanis, ECS-LSL, University of Southampton
Hugh Davis, ECS-LSL, University of Southampton
Patrick Carmichael, CARET, University of Cambridge

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Colin Allison, University of St. Andrews
Stefano Cerri, Universitè Montpellier II
Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University
Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Dena Haritos Tsamitis, INI-CyLab, Carnegie Mellon
Kathy Kikis-Papadakis, IACM, FORTH
Milos Kravcik, Open Universiteit Nederland
George Magoulas, Birkbeck College, London Knowledge Lab
Dave Millard, University of Southampton
Uma Patel, City University London
Alexandra Poulovassilis, Birkbeck College, London Knowledge Lab
Lutz Schubert, High Performance Computing Centre Stuttgart (HLRS)
Marcus Specht, Centre for Learning Sciences and Technology OUNL
Sofia Tsekeridou, Athens Information Technology
Vincent Wade, Trinity College Dublin
Su White, University of Southampton
Mark Weal, University of Southampton
Stefan Wesner, High Performance Computing Centre Stuttgart (HLRS)
Yeliz Yesilada, University of Manchester

CNIKM'09: Early Registration ends August 27, 2009

Early Registration ends August 27, 2009 (23:59 EDT(GMT-5)).

CNIKM'09: Call for Participation

The First ACM International Workshop on
Complex Networks in Information & Knowledge Management (CNIKM)
in conjunction with ACM CIKM-2009

Hong Kong, November 6, 2009

http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~dell/cnikm09/

Overview

We are in a connected age: real-world entities often interconnect with each other through explicit or implicit relationships to form a complex network, such as technological networks, social networks, and information networks. They exhibit interesting statistical characteristics such as small-world and scale-free.

The past decade has witnessed an explosive growth of research on various complex networks. How can we analyse, manage and mine information in large-scale complex networks effectively and efficiently? This gives researchers in database, information retrieval and knowledge management great challenges as well as opportunities. In line with CIKM's tradition of promoting interdisciplinary research, this workshop aims to bring together researchers across both computer science and the emerging network science to foster discussion and exchange ideas. Although these two scientific disciplines speak quite different languages, they certainly can benefit a lot from each other by sharing their concepts, models, techniques, and tools, etc.

Important Dates

* Early registration due: August 27, 2009 (23:59 EDT(GMT-5))
* Special conference rate for blocked hotel rooms due: October 9, 2009
* Regular registration due: October 16, 2009 (23:59 EDT(GMT-5))
* Workshop date: November 6, 2009

Registration

You can find the registration information at: http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/cikm2009/registration/registration.htm Please note that the early-bird registration ends on August 27, 2009.

Those of you who need an invitation letter for visa, please refer to the CIKM website and follow the direction in the "Travel" page to request the letter.

All participants are encouraged to bring posters to the workshop to present their late breaking research results and discuss with others. Workshop Programme

09:00 Welcome

09:00 - 10:30
Session 1: Community Detection and Information Spread
* Group CRM: a New Telecom CRM Framework from Social Network Perspective
* Community Mining on Dynamic Weighted Directed Graphs
* Variation Matters: Variation in Personal Network Size, Personality and Its Effect on Information Dissemination
* An Analysis of Information Diffusion in the Blog World

10:30 - 11:00
Common Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30
Session 2: Centrality Analysis and Link Prediction
* Fast Centrality Approximation in Modular Networks
* Potential Collaboration Discovery using Document Clustering and Community Structure Detection
* Trust Relationship Prediction Using Online Product Review Data
* Role of Weak Ties in Link Prediction of Complex Networks

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch on your own
(also time for posters, informal discussion and networking)

14:00 - 15:30
Keynote Speech
* Networks, Communities and Kronecker Products
(by Prof Jure Leskovec of Stanford University)

15:30 - 16:00
Common Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30
Session 3: P2P Networks and Recommender Systems
* Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Network for Collaborative Document Tracking
* Collaborative Filtering Using Random Neighbours in Peer-to-Peer Networks
* Hydra: A Hybrid Recommender System - [Cross-Linked Rating and Content Information]
* A Mobile Tourist Assistance and Recommendation System Based on Complex Networks

17:30 Workshop concludes

Program Committee

- Edoardo Airoldi, Harvard University, USA
- Karsten Borgwardt, MPIs Tubingen, Germany
- Guanrong Chen, City University of Hong Kong, China
- Xueqi Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Vittoria Colizza, ISI Foundation, Italy
- Nick Craswell, Microsoft Research, USA
- Anirban Dasgupta, Yahoo! Research, USA
- Brian Davison, Lehigh University, USA
- Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands
- Tina Eliassi-Rad, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Trevor Fenner, University of London, UK
- Abraham Flaxman, UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, USA
- Brian Gallagher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, USA
- Jake Hofman, Yahoo! Research, USA
- Hawoong Jeong, KAIST, Korea
- Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- Kevin Lang, Yahoo! Research, USA
- Jan Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Jure Leskovec, Stanford University, USA
- Mark Levene, University of London, UK
- Xiaoli Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Sofus Macskassy, Fetch Technologies, USA
- Michael Mahoney, Stanford University, USA
- Tsuyoshi Murata, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- See-Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Wilfred Ng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
- Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada
- Marcel Reinders, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
- Dawei Song, The Robert Gordon University, UK
- Hanghang Tong, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Wei-Qi Yan, Queen's University Belfast, UK
- Jianhan Zhu, University College London, UK

Organizers

- Jun Wang, University College London, UK
- Shi Zhou, University College London, UK
- Dell Zhang, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

PhD Studentship on Evaluation of Semantic Web Search

PhD Research Studentship on Evaluation of Semantic Web Search Technologies

Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield

Closing date is 7.09.2009

Required start date: October 2009 or soon thereafter

Length: three years, subject to satisfactory progress

Stipend: £13,290 per annum

More details: The studentship provides payment of tuition fees at the UK/EU rate

Please note the studentship is reserved to UK and European candidates only!

Non-EU candidates can be considered only if they are currently resident in Europe and have lived there for more than 3 years on a non-student visa!

Semantic technologies are at the heart of the future Web providing ways to express knowledge and data so that it can be properly exploited. The successful candidate will study for a PhD as part of a 3-year EU-funded project entitled "Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale (SEALS)" http://www.seals-project.eu/. The goal of the SEALS project is to provide an independent, open, scalable, extensible and sustainable infrastructure (the SEALS Platform) that allows the remote evaluation of semantic technologies thereby providing an objective comparison of the different existing semantic technologies. This will allow researchers and users to effectively compare the available technologies, helping them to select appropriate technologies and advancing the state of the art through continuous evaluation.

The PhD topic will be in the area of semantic search tool evaluation. As part of a team, the student will investigate new metrics for assessing the interoperability, scalability, usability, etc. of state of the art tools developed by the international semantic web community. The student will also be involved in the organisation and running of two public, worldwide evaluation campaigns which will be used to create semantic technology roadmaps identifying sets of efficient and compatible tools for developing large-scale semantic applications.

More information about the project is available at: http://www.seals-project.eu/

The successful candidate will study within the Organisations, Information and Knowledge (OAK) Group which is part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. More information about the OAK group is available at: http://oak.dcs.shef.ac.uk/

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION

Candidates should hold at a first or upper second honours degree or masters degree in Computer Science or a related discipline. The candidate should have excellent computer programming skills (including Java); analytic, presentational, communication and effective interpersonal skills; ability to work effectively within the research team, and a proven capacity to work to and meet deadlines. Knowledge of and experience in semantic web technologies are definitely a plus.

HOW TO APPLY: please send an email to Prof. Fabio Ciravegna (f.ciravegna@dcs.shef.ac.uk) AND Dr. Stuart Wrigley (s.wrigley@dcs.shef.ac.uk) declaring your intention to be considered for the position attaching the following documents:

• un updated Curriculum Vitae

• a cover letter explaining why you are the right person for the position

The closing date is 7.09.2009

INFORMAL ENQUIRIES

Informal enquiries may be directed to Prof. Fabio Ciravegna (f.ciravegna@dcs.shef.ac.uk) AND Dr. Stuart Wrigley (s.wrigley@dcs.shef.ac.uk).

Several PhD student positions at Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany

PhD Student positions

Saarland University (Saarbruecken, Germany)
MMCI - Cluster of Excellence

There are currently several PhD student positions available within the cluster of excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" (MMCI), hosted at the Saarland University, in Saarbruecken, Germany.

Positions are available in the following research groups:

-"Efficient Search in Semistructured Data Spaces"
(headed by Dr.-Ing. Ralf Schenkel, http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~schenkel/)

-"Querying, Indexing and Discovery in Dynamic Data"
(headed by Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Michel, http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~smichel/)

Requirements:

- Completed degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or similar, with outstanding performance (Diploma, Master, or equivalent)
- Substantial background in mathematics and familiarity with at least one of: database technology, information retrieval, efficient algorithms
- Substantial experience with implementation work in C++ or Java
- Personal initiative, creativity and ability to effectively work in a team
- Good level of written and spoken English (German language skills are not required)

Applicants with experience in one or more of the following topics are preferred:

-Distributed algorithms
-Data streams
-Search in high dimensional data
-Algorithms on modern hardware (multicores, GPUs, solid state disks)
-Knowledge extraction and integration

The positions are immediately available, but we are prepared also to wait for as long as it takes for the right candidates.

Applications should be sent through email to smichel@mmci.uni-saarland.de and schenkel@mmci.uni-saarland.de, including an application letter, a curriculum vitae,
a detailed list of completed courses in computer science and mathematics, a complete set of academic certificates, a list of two people willing to write reference letters for the candidate, and the diploma/master thesis (all as pdf documents). Applications from non-native English speakers should also include copies of their GRE, TOEFL, CPE or similar scores if available.

The positions are fully funded with the standard" salary TVoD 13 (German: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarifvertrag_f%C3%BCr_den_%C3%B6ffentlichen_Dienst)
which is in the beginning approximately 3000 Euro before taxes and around 1700 Euro net per month.
Given the relatively inexpensive living conditions in Saarbruecken (e.g., 350 EURO per month
for a decent 60-70m^2 apartment, basic rental charge), 1700 EURO net per month allows for a comfortable life.

About the M2CI Cluster of Excellence (http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de/):

The Excellence Initiative spearheaded by the German federal and state governments
aims to allow more worldclass research in Germany in the coming years. To this end funding of 1.9 billion Euros is being made available nationwide up to the year 2011. These funds should contribute to enhancing the international competitiveness of German universities.

The cluster is strongly connected to the Computer Science Department of the Saarland University, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the
Max-Planck Institute for Software Systems, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics.

Goals:
Daily interpersonal communication is based on a wide range of different modalities. Our first goal is to enable natural multimodal interaction with information systems anytime and anywhere, exploiting the wealth of modalities present in everyday human-to-human interaction. The systems must be aware of each user's environment and situation, must react to speech, text, and gestures, and must respond with speech, text, video, virtual 3D environments and virtual characters.
Our second goal is to enhance the ability of computer systems to acquire, process, and present different modes of data in an efficient and robust way. We aim for systems that can analyze and interpret multimodal information even when it is large, distributed, noisy and possibly incomplete; that can organize the obtained knowledge for powerful querying. We refer to this type of computing as multimodal computing. (text taken from http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de/)

About Saarbruecken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saarbr%C3%BCcken, http://www.saarbruecken.de/en/home):

Saarbruecken is a mid-sized town located in the heart of Europe, with good connections to Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, and Paris. It combines inexpensive living with a lively "savoir vivre" culture.

I-KNOW 09 - Final Call for Participation

Final Call for Participation

I-KNOW 2009
International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies
2-4 September 2009
Graz, Austria
http://www.i-know.at

** More than 350 participants have already registered. Please note that online registration will end on 28 August. **

I-KNOW '09 will be held concurrently with I-SEMANTICS '09 - International Conference on Semantic Systems.

The program includes about 90 scientific presentations from all over the world. A German-speaking industry track offers about 30 industry presentations and an exhibition. The presentations cover, but are not limited to the following topics...

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

For more detailed information please visit the conference website at http://www.i-know.at

Four internationally renowned experts will give keynote presentations.

* Paolo Traverso, FBK, Italy
* Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
* Peter Kropsch, Austrian Press Agency, Austria
* Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Data integration positions at University of Leipzig

Data integration positions at University of Leipzig

The new WDI lab at the University of Leipzig offers

several research & development positions on web data integration

for two years starting in January 2010.

The WDI lab (see http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/en/wdi-lab ) is a new innovation lab on Web Data Integration. It is led by Prof. Erhard Rahm and associated with the database research group at the University of Leipzig, Germany. The lab is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

The mission of the WDI lab is the development of market-ready solutions for powerful web data integration utilizing previous research results. A main goal is to significantly simplify the development of high-volume and high-quality data integration applications. The research and development tasks are mainly performed by ten full-time employees cooperating within
three working groups at the WDI lab as well as with members of the database group.

These research/development positions are now open for applications and focus on the
following topics:

* mashup-based data integration
* schema/ontology mapping
* object matching (entity resolution).

Applicants should have
- a quality university degree (MSc. or Ph.D.) in computer science or information systems
- strong development skills for large web and database applications
- strong interest in research on web data integration or research experience in the area
- team-oriented working style
- excellent English skills (knowledge of German is beneficial but not required).

Experienced applicants with project management skills (e.g. post-docs) may be eligible for leading one of the working groups.The salary amounts to German TV-L E13/E14, which is roughly 40.000 to 50.000 Euro gross income per year.

Please submit your application by Sep. 15, 2009, and include the usual documents
as well as a list of references, preferably by email, to

Professor Dr. Erhard Rahm
Dept. of Computer Science
Univ. of Leipzig
Johannisgasse 26
04103 Leipzig
Germany

http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/en/wdi-lab
EMail: rahm@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Special Issue on Bridging the Gap - Data Mining and Social Network Analysis, Semantic Web & Web 2.0

Second Call for Papers

Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics

***** Special Issue on "Bridging the Gap" *****
Data Mining and Social Network Analysis
for integrating Semantic Web and Web 2.0

http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/events/jws_special_issue_2010

Abstract submission: 21 September 2009
Submission deadline: 1 October 2009
Reviews due: 1 December 2009
Notification: 15 December 2009
Final version submitted: 15 January 2010
Publication: April 2010

Focus of the Special Issue
The last years have seen increasing collaboration of researchers from the Semantic Web, Web 2.0, social network analysis and machine learning communities. Applications that use these research results are achieving economic success. Data now become available that allow researchers to analyze the use, acceptance and evolution of their ideas.

Highly popular user-centered applications such as Blogs, social tagging systems, and Wikis have come to be known as "Web 2.0". A major reason for their immediate success is the high ease of use of new Web 2.0 services. These sites do not only provide data but also generate an abundance of weakly structured metadata. A good example is tagging. Here, users add keywords from an uncontrolled vocabulary, called tags, to a resource. Such metadata are easy to produce, but lack any kind of formal grounding, as used in the Semantic Web.

The Semantic Web can complement the bottom-up effort of the Web 2.0 community in a top-down manner. Its central point is a stronger knowledge representation based on some kind of ontology with a fixed vocabulary and typed relations. Such a structure is typically something users have in mind when they provide their information in Web 2.0 systems. However, for further use, this structure is hidden in the data and needs to be extracted. Techniques to analyze network structures or weak knowledge representations as can be found in the Web 2.0 have a long tradition in different other disciplines, like social network analysis, machine learning and data mining. These kinds of automatic mechanisms are necessary to extract the hidden information and to reveal the structure in a way that the end user can benefit from it. Using established methods to represent knowledge gained from unstructured data will also be beneficial for the Web 2.0 in that it provides Web 2.0 users with enhanced Semantic Web features to structure their data.

For this special issue, we invite contributions which show how synergies between Semantic Web and Web 2.0 techniques can be successfully used. Since both communities work on network-like data structures, analysis methods from different fields of research could form a link between those communities. Techniques can be - but are not limited to - social network analysis, graph analysis, machine learning and data mining methods.

Topics of interest
Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:

* ontology learning from Web 2.0 data
* instance extraction from Web 2.0 systems
* analysis of Blogs
* discovering social structures and communities
* predicting trends and user behaviour
* analysis of dynamic networks
* using content of the Web for modelling
* discovering misuse and fraud
* network analysis of social resource sharing systems
* analysis of folksonomies and other Web 2.0 data structures
* analysis of Web 2.0 applications and their data
* deriving profiles from usage
* personalized delivery of news and journals
* Semantic Web personalization
* Semantic Web technologies for recommender systems
* ubiquitous data mining in Web (2.0) environment
* applications

In accordance with the focus of the journal, the relatedness of your submission to the Semantic Web will be an important evaluation criterion.

Submission Details
Submissions should describe original contributions and should not have been published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions based on conference papers should be extended and include a reference to the corresponding proceedings. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Final decisions on accepted papers will be approved by an editor in chief.

Manuscripts should be prepared for publication in accordance with instructions given in the "Guide for Authors":

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/671322/authorinstructions

The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's Web-based EES system, cf. http://ees.elsevier.com/jws/default.asp

Guest Editors
* Bettina Berendt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Bettina.Berendt@cs.kuleuven.be
* Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, hotho@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
* Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, stumme@cs.uni-kassel.de

Job opening - Research position at DOCOMO Euro-Labs

SENIOR RESEARCH POSITION (MULTIMEDIA DATABASES, METADATA & PROCESSING) AT

DOCOMO EURO-LABS:

DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH (DOCOMO EURO-LABS) belongs to the Japanese premier mobile communication operator, NTT DOCOMO. The European research subsidiary in Munich is researching on future telecommunication systems and platforms with the support of highly motivated and qualified researchers from different technical domains within a multicultural working environment.

The Smart and Secure Services Research Group at DOCOMO Euro-Labs is working on service enablers for the next generation of mobile networks and applications. To realize our vision of contextual intelligence in mobile services and for the future of greatly personalized communication, we're looking for a highly technical and hands-on computer scientist to further
expand our team.

Applicants should meet the following requirements:

* Very high technical competence and strong academic record.
* Solid, relevant hands-on technical experience, and a record of individual technical achievement.
* Ability to achieve challenging goals in a fast paced R&D environment.
* Substantial experience in at least one of the following fields: Multimedia databases, Multimedia processing, Multimedia metadata extraction, software development using Multimedia techniques.
* Strong understanding of Multimedia standards (e.g., MPEG-7, XMP) and Semantic Web
* Experience with Multimedia content representation, summarization and visualization for mobile devices.
* Interest in Interaction design (HCI) and user modeling in mobile multimedia settings.
* Knowledge of core concepts in the area of Context Awareness, Tangible UIs and Pervasive Computing.
* Excellent English language skills orally and in writing.
* MSc in Computer Science preferred; Ph.D. a plus.

How to apply:

For detailed information and how to apply go to
http://www.docomoeurolabs.de/hr/s3_researcher.html
Closing date 30 September 2009.

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr. Matthias Wagner
(wagner@docomolab-euro.com, Tel: +49 (0)89 56824 228).

6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile & Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2010)

6^th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile & Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2010)

Mobile Social Media for Learning and Education
in Formal and Informal Settings

April 12-16, 2010 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

hosted by National Central University (Taiwan)

http://wmute2010.cl.ncu.edu.tw/

(IEEE Computer Society Sponsorship solicited)

General Conference Chairs:

Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University, Taiwan

Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece

Program Chairs:

Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Roy Pea, Stanford University, USA

Chen-Chung Liu, National Central University, Taiwan

Call for Papers

Based on shared research interests between the two communities, IEEE WMUTE (International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education) and IEEE DIGITEL (International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning) conference 2010 will be jointly held in Kaohsiung Taiwan. Participants of both conferences will be able to interact and exchange ideas which we hope can stimulate more exciting ideas for future research.

The convergence of global adoption of smart phones integrating hi-quality media capture devices and trends in social networking, participatory media and cyber infrastructure provide remarkable opportunities for making mobile social media integral to distributed learning environments. Social networking and user-generated media like YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and Flickr are moving beyond the stationary PC onto mobile devices like iPhone and low-price netbook computers. Social applications are also becoming a new communication and networking method in sectors such as business, entertainment and education. We expect to see mobile social media, incorporating video, photos, social networking and communication capabilities to be one of the major new applications for the mobile web, and we welcome contributions that help advance visions, technologies, research and theories to better support learning and educational purposes.

Arguably the impact of mobile social media will be universal, augmenting with distributed social media tools the face-to-face social interactions that now enable learning and teaching interactions. Learners may tap social networks and recommendations for learning in pursuit of their interests over informal and formal settings. Students could learn from a broader universe of user-generated content, beyond "prescribed" content provided by teachers or textbooks. The mobile social network can potentially foster richer parent-child interactions for learning, and enable different parent roles supporting education, and more vibrant and productive interactions between learning at school, home and neighborhood. In classroom settings, mobile devices can enrich interactivity and inter-operability of digital expression and potentially provide supervision and decision support for teachers. The well-documented powers of informal learning in workplaces can be served well with social mobile media. Therefore, WMUTE 2010 hopes to initiate a new line of research and practice that highlights both social and technological innovation in order to support and amalgamate contemporary social learning theories. This theme-based conference will expose the results of current research efforts in this field as well as identify future challenges and research priorities. The scope of WMUTE 2010 will cover but not be limited to:

* Mobile social media

* User experiences in mobile social media creation and collaboration

* Specific roles for video in mobile learning and working

* Theories and applications for modeling collaboration in mobile environments

* Emerging mobile video development platforms and user interfaces

* Context-aware learning environments and mobile social media applications

* Open educational resources for WMUTE

* Mobile video story-telling and communities

* Human-computer interaction aspects of technology-enriched classrooms

* Mobile and ubiquitous computing support for collaborative learning

* Mobile Web 2.0 applications for learning and teaching

* Learning scenarios with wireless sensor networks

* Small-screen interface design

* Mobile collaborative learning systems

* Implementation of learning models exploiting one-to-one technology

* New devices for learning and instruction

* Game-based learning with ubiquitous and one-to-one technologies

* Adaptive and adaptable learning environments using mobile and ubiquitous devices

* Agent support for ubiquitous learning and one-to-one classroom settings

* Architectures and infrastructures for one-to-one classroom settings

* Methods of interaction analysis in mobile and ubiquitous learning scenarios

* Evaluation and evaluation methodologies for WMUTE

Submission deadline: September 26^th, 2009, for all submissions

Submissions types:

Full papers: 8 pages
Short papers: 5 pages
Posters: 3 pages
Workshop proposals: 2 pages

Panel Proposals: 2 pages

Tutorial proposals: 2 pages

A Web 2.0 Personal Learning Environment for Classical Chinese Poetry (ICWL 2009 Presentation)

This is our presentation about our personal learning environment for Classical Chinese Poetry from the ICWL 2009 conference. Yiwei did the show and she did a great job.

A Web 2.0 Personal Learning Environment for Classical Chinese Poetry

View more documents from Ralf Klamma.

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (ACM TMIS) (new forthcoming journal)

Welcome to ACM TMIS! First Issue in 2010!

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (ACM TMIS) is a scholarly journal, issued quarterly, that publishes the highest quality papers about the design, development, assessment, and management of information technology and systems within organizations. We are actively soliciting papers from the international MIS research community. The inaugural issue of the ACM TMIS is planned for 2010.

In addition to traditional management and behavioral MIS research, ACM TMIS strongly encourages submissions of high-quality system and design science research, as well as submissions in emerging MIS multidisciplinary research topics that may span several traditional academic disciplines.

à To submit a manuscript, please follow the instructions and provided on the journal website at http://tmis.acm.org [the website will become operational shortly]

à Contact the Editor-in-Chief for more information at hchen@eller.arizona.edu

Charter and Scope

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (ACM TMIS) is a scholarly journal that publishes the highest quality papers about the design, development, assessment, and management of information technology and systems within organizations. ACM TMIS will publish quarterly, both in print and online. The journal welcomes innovative, high-impact papers on a full range of MIS and information technology (IT) related research areas, including, but not limited to: system analysis and design, IT innovations and project management, web-based information systems and applications, data and web mining, social computing and social media analytics, services computing and process management, knowledge management, green information systems, global information systems and e-business, information systems security and privacy, human-computer interactions, human behavior and organizational studies, social and cultural aspects of information systems, economics and information systems, and emerging information systems applications in health, government, and other organizations. Design science and system-oriented papers are especially welcome.

ACM TMIS encourages submissions that meet the following requirements:

• Management information systems relevance: Submissions need to be relevant to the design, development, assessment, and management of information technology and systems within organizations. Innovative applications in businesses and other enterprises (e.g., governments, healthcare organizations, etc.) are welcome. Research needs to demonstrate its organizational and managerial relevance.
• Scientific rigor and contribution: Submissions need to demonstrate academic rigor and contribution to the discipline. Papers need to provide comprehensive literature reviews, analysis, and critique of the relevant field of study. Research questions and hypotheses need to be clearly stated and research design and methodology well articulated. Research testbeds, experiments, and evaluation metrics need to be carefully designed and executed. Managerial and organizational relevance of the research also needs to be presented.
• Societal relevance and impact: We encourage submissions that are relevant and high-impact, especially for the benefit of businesses, organizations, society, and the world.
• Innovation and novelty: Submissions need to demonstrate novelty in applications, designs, methodologies, algorithms, or theories. Research needs to be carefully compared with the best previously reported methods or approaches.
• Design science and system relevance: We encourage design science and system-oriented papers that report the design, development, and assessment of innovative emerging information systems of relevance to different types of organizations.

Emerging, relevant, high-impact IT research is often time critical. The ACM TMIS Editorial Board is committed to providing a professional and timely editorial process, as supported by the Manuscript Central review system. We strive to provide the initial editorial decision for a submission within 4 months, from the day a paper is submitted electronically to the day the initial decision is sent to the author. ACM TMIS AEs will also regard a submission to have been withdrawn if its required revision is not submitted within 3 months of the revision (first round or second round) notification. The second-round review will be returned within 2 months by the AEs. A submission will only go through at most two rounds of review. In principle, a successful ACM TMIS submission can reach a final, full-accepted decision in 12 months or less, from the day of the initial submission.

Notable Quotes

Dr. Jamie Callan (Professor, CMU; ACM Transactions on Information Systems EIC): “The TOIS Editorial Board supports the proposed new journal… The TOIS Editorial Board sees the need for the new journal, supports its formation, and wishes you great success.”

Dr. Wendy L. Currie (Professor, University of Warwick, UK): “I think it is a timely opportunity to introduce a new journal.”

Dr. Joey George (Professor, Florida State University): “I am very supportive of your efforts to develop another first-rate journal, and doing so through ACM is a great way to do it.”

Dr. Matthias Jarke (Professor, RWTH Aachen, Germany): “I am very happy to hear about this and proud to be part of it.”

Dr. John King (Professor and Vice Provost, University of Michigan): “ACM-TMIS should aspire to attain the status of a top IS journal quickly.”

Dr. Stuart Madnick (Professor, MIT; ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality EIC): “I am glad to offer our support from the ACM Journal on Data and Information Quality (JDIQ) to your proposed ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (ACM TMIS).”

Dr. Jay Nunamaker (Professor, University of Arizona): “The journal, ACM TMIS, has the potential to be the leading journal in the field with the balance of technology, behavior and management within five years. This is the right time to add a top tier journal to the field of MIS.”

Dr. Leon Zhao (Professor, City University of Hong Kong): “Kudos to you and Jay for pulling this great project off successfully. This is a splendid event for the MIS field.”

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief, Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA

Associate Editors:

• Wendy Currie, University of Warwick, UK
• Alan Dennis, Indiana University, USA
• Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Joey George, Florida State University, USA
• Helmut Krcmar, Technische Universität München, Germany
• Ting-Peng Liang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
• Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA
• H. Raghav Rao, SUNY at Buffalo, USA
• Ramesh Sharda, Oklahoma State University, USA
• Michael Jeng-Ping Shaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Olivia Sheng, University of Utah, USA
• Alexander Tuzhilin, New York University, USA
• Joey Valacich, Washington State University, USA
• Douglas Vogel, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
• Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Daniel Zeng, University of Arizona, USA
• Leon Zhao, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Advisory Board

• Jay F. Nunamaker, University of Arizona (Chair)
• Andrew Whinston, University of Texas at Austin
• Stuart Madnick, MIT
• John L. King, University of Michigan
• Steve Miller, Singapore Management University

Sent on behalf ACM TMIS.