beamtenherrschaft: September 2009

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

SAME 2009 - 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience

Call for Papers

SAME 2009 - 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience

Salzburg, 18th-21st November 2009 in conjunction with AmI-09

!!! SUBMISSION OF 2-4 PAGE POSITION PAPERS UNTIL THE 19th OCTOBER 2009 !!!

More information on: http://namu.cs.tut.fi/same2009/ and
http://www.ami-09.org/

* Submissions are expected to be 2-4 pages position papers according the

paper format of AmI-09: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
* Please send your submissions via email to lartur@acm.org
* More information on the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008: http://namu.cs.tut.fi/acmmm2008/same2008/index.html
* Best contributions will be compiled to a special issue following up the workshop
* Check also the Ambient Media Association (AMEA): www.ambientmediaassociation.org and
http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum/node/3

Description of the Workshop
The medium is the message! And the message was literacy, media democracy and music charts. Mostly one single distinguishable media such as TV, the Web, the radio, or books transmitted the message. No in the age of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, where information flows through a plethora of distributed interlinked media what is the message ambient media will tell us? What means semantic in this context? Which experiences will it open to us? What is content in the age of ambient media? Ambient media are embedded throughout the natural environment of the consumer in his home, in his car, in restaurants, and on his mobile device. Predominant sample services are smart wallpapers in homes, location based services, RFID based entertainment services for children, or intelligent homes. The distribution of the medium throughout the natural environment implies a paradigm change of how to think about content. Until recently, content was identified as single entities to information a video stream, audio stream, TV broadcast.
However, in the age of ambient media, the notion of content extends from the single entity thinking towards a plethora of sensor networks, smart devices, personalized services, and media embedded in the natural environment of the user. The consumer actively participates and co-designs contextual media experience One example is e.g. location based information. Initiatives as the smart Web considering location based tagging for web-pages underline
this development. This multidisciplinary workshop aims to address the challenges:

* how to select, compose, and generate ambient content?
* how to present ambient content?
* how to re-use ambient content and learning experiences?
* what are the characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technology?
* how can collaborative, participatory, or social media service better supported and extended?
* and what are ambient media in terms of story-telling, interactive, and art?

The workshop aims at a series, and at the creation of a think-tank of creative thinkers coming from technology, art, human-computer interaction, and social sciences, that are interested in glimpsing the future of semantic ambient intelligent empowered media technology. We are aiming at multidisciplinary, highly future oriented submissions that help to develop the "ambient media form" for entertainment services, such as:

* case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones)
* oral presentation of fresh and innovative ideas
* artistic installations and running system prototypes
* user-experience studies and evaluations
* technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions

Topics

The following (and related) topics are within the scope of this workshop and shall act as examples:

* Understanding of the semantics of ambient content and methods for adding intelligence to daily objects
* Mobile and stationary sensor data collection and interpretation algorithms and techniques
* Context awareness and collection and context aware composition/selection of ambient content
* Creation and maintenance of meta-information including metadata and data management
* Ambient and mobile social networks, user generated content, and co-creation of content and products
* Characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technological platforms
* Ambient content creation techniques, asset management, and programming ambient media
* Algorithms and techniques for sensor data interpretation and semantic interpretation
* Applications and services, including ambient games, art and leisure content in specific contexts
* Ambient interactive storytelling, narrations, and interactive advertising
* Personalization, user models, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and universal access
* Experience design, usability, audience research, ethnography, user studies, and interface design
* Business models, marketing studies, media economics, and " x" -commerce

The workshop aims at answering the following questions:
* What is "content" and how can it be presented in the age of "ubiquitous" and "pervasive" ?
* How to select, compose and generate ambient content?
* How to manage and re-use ambient content in specific application scenarios (e.g. e-learning)?
* What is interactivity between the single consumers and consumer groups in the ambient context?
* How can collaborative or audience participatory content be supported?
* Which methods for experience design, prototyping, and business models exist?
* How can sensor data be interpreted and intelligently mined?
* How can existing media such as TV, home entertainment, cinema extended by ambient media?

Important Dates
* position paper submission: 19th October, 2009
* notification of acceptance: 22nd October, 2009
* final papers due: 27th October, 2009
* workshop day : 21st November , 2009
* special issue articles due: December 14th , 2009

Target Audience

The target audience are researchers and practitioners in the field of ubiquitous and pervasive computation and its related areas. These include pervasive computation, emotional computation, content creation, ubiquitous computation, human-computer-interaction and usability experts, mobile industry, service creators, etc. Workshop participants shall have previous experience in this or related fields to be able to contribute on a high scientific level. The workshop participants will actively contribute to the development of semantic ambient media, due to a different method of workshop organization. Participants shall participate rather than passively contribute. The participants shall discuss and actively elaborate the topic and we plan to kick-off an international web-based informal forum for ambient media, which shall increase the effect of this workshop
tremendously.

We strongly welcome multidisciplinary contributions coming from the media technology, artistic, and human experience side. Case studies (successful and especially unsuccessful), artistic installations, technologies, media studies, and user-experience evaluations are highly welcome, which are affecting the development of ambient media as new form of media. Especially visionary contributions shaping the future of ambient media are strongly welcome.

Workshop Chairs
* Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc., FINLAND
* Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, GERMANY
* Bjorn Stockleben, Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB), GERMANY
* Juha Kaario, NOKIA, FINLAND
* Kari Laurila, NOKIA, FINLAND

Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2010)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2010),
April 26-28, 2010, Toronto, Canada (www.ciceducation.org)

The CICE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The CICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians
and professionals from Education.

The aim of CICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The CICE 2010 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers willbe published in special issues peer reviewed journals.

The topics in CICE-2009 include but are not confined to the following areas:
*Academic Advising and Counselling
*Art Education
*Adult Education
*APD/Listening and Acoustics in Education Environment
*Business Education
*Counsellor Education
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Competitive Skills
*Continuing Education
*Distance Education
*Early Childhood Education
*Educational Administration
*Educational Foundations
*Educational Psychology
*Educational Technology
*Education Policy and Leadership
*Elementary Education
*E-Learning
*E-Manufacturing
*ESL/TESL
*E-Society
*Geographical Education
*Geographic information systems
*Health Education
*Higher Education
*History
*Home Education
*Human Computer Interaction
*Human Resource Development
*Indigenous Education
*ICT Education
*Internet technologies
*Imaginative Education
*Kinesiology & Leisure Science
*K12
*Language Education
*Mathematics Education
*Mobile Applications
*Multi-Virtual Environment
*Music Education
*Pedagogy
*Physical Education (PE)
*Reading Education
*Writing Education
*Religion and Education Studies
*Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
*Rural Education
*Science Education
*Secondary Education
*Second life Educators
*Social Studies Education
*Special Education
*Student Affairs
*Teacher Education
*Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
*Ubiquitous Computing
*Virtual Reality
*Wireless applications
*Other Areas of Education

Immportant Dates:

Research Paper, Case Study, Work in Progress and Report Submission Date:
December 15, 2009
Notification of Paper, Case Study, Work in Progress and Report Submission Date:
December 28, 2009
Author(s) and Participant(s) Registration: January 15, 2010
Early Bird Attendee registration: January 15, 2010
Late Bird Attendee registration: Febuary 15, 2010
Conference Dates: April 26-28, 2010

For further information please visit CICE-2010 at www.ciceducation.org

Submission Deadline for IEEE WMUTE 2009 has been extended to October 19, 2009

(Extended Deadline: October 19) IEEE WMUTE 2009: Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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

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

Selected papers with collaborative learning elements will be recommended to submit to ijCSCL for publication"

Submission deadline: October 19, 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

International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation (IJANTTI)

The contents of the latest issue of:

International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation (IJANTTI)

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 1, Issue 3, July-September 2009
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1942-535X EISSN: 1942-5368
Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijantti
Editor-in-Chief: Arthur Tatnall, Victoria University, Australia

EDITORIAL PREFACE

JANTTI 1(3)
Arthur Tatnall, Victoria University, Australia

This third issue of the International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation (IJANTTI) contains articles dealing with actor-network theory, innovation diffusion, and technological innovation. The articles presented in this issue provide researchers a true value of using actor-network theory as a mean to understand sociotechnical phenomena and technological innovation.

To read the preface, please consult this issue of IJANTTI in your library.

PAPER ONE
Actor-Network Theory in ICT Research: A Wider Lens of Enquiry

Amany R. Elbanna, Loughborough University, UK

This article examines the properties of ANT in light of other approaches.
It argues that ANT provides a theoretical inclusion of what used to be
considered different poles and that ANT analytically includes a wide array
of actors that used to be considered of different nature and from
different levels of analysis. The study discusses how ANT properties
provide researchers concerned with studying information and communication
technology (ICT) with a non-biased lens to explore the phenomena of
concern. The author invites researchers to reflect on the theoretical and
analytical exclusion that could take place at the start of research and
how a careful application of ANT could avoid it.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=33746

PAPER TWO

Linux Kernel Developers Embracing Authors Embracing Licenses

Lars Linden, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

Carol Saunders, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

In June 2007 with the impending release of a revised version of the GNU
General Public License (GPLv3), Linux kernel developers discussed the
possibility of changing the license of the Linux kernel from being
strictly the GPLv2 to a dual-licensing arrangement of both GPLv2 and
GPLv3. The authors study a set of linux kernel mailing list (LKML)
postings to better understand the relationship among the kernel developers
and these licenses. Using Actor-Network Theory, they identify and describe
a LKML debate about licensing. This article highlights important actor
networks, their interrelationships, and a (failed) process of translation.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=33747

PAPER THREE
Crossing the Chasm or Being Crossed Out: The Case of Digital Audio Players

Thierry Rayna, London Metropolitan University, UK

Ludmila Striukova, University College London, UK

Samuel Landau, Samuel Landau, Gostai, France

This article studies the phenomenon of chasm that often exists in the
diffusion of innovation and devises a theoretical framework enabling to
explain the ability of some firms to cross this chasm while many others
remain unsuccessful. The proposition developed in this article is that the
choice of initial market segment has crucial importance as adoption in
this segment can lead to a cascade of adoption in the other segments. The
authors present three cases studies of an historical leader (Sony), a
first mover (Archos), and a newcomer (Apple) in the market for digital
audio players to illustrate this proposition.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=33748

PAPER FOUR
Higher Education in Further Education in England: An Actor-Network
Ethnography

Jonathan Tummons, University of Teesside, UK

The provision of higher education courses within further education
colleges in England poses particular questions for the researcher. This
article argues that the complexities of the relationships between colleges
where courses are run and the universities that supply these courses, can
be fruitfully explored using actor-network theory. This article provides
an actor-network account of one teacher-training course as an example of
the ways in which both people and text-based artefacts are coalesced and
coordinated, so that the course functions across institutional and spatial
boundaries.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=33749

PAPER FIVE
Exploring Multi-Organizational Interaction Issues: A Case Study of
Information Technology Transfer in the Public Sector of Malaysia

Hasmiah Kasimin, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia

Huda Ibrahim, Universiti Utara, Malaysia

In Malaysia, major information technology transfer in public sector
agencies is usually due to policy implementation. This policy-led
technology transfer involves central government directives to
implementation agencies. The technology transfer process usually not only
involves multi-organizations that consist of many public agencies and
private sector organizations but also involved many phases. Each
organization plays certain roles and contributes to the achievement of the
technology transfer objectives. Each phase serves a different purpose, and
each role during each phase has different requirements. Coordinating and
encouraging multiple organization participation in each phase is complex
and a challenge that may at least result in project delays or
technological decision-making based on non-technical considerations. In
such a case, understanding interactions between stakeholders is important
in designing activities and strategies for effective technology transfer
processes suitable to the local environment.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=33750

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For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the
International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation
(IJANTTI) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in
the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database:
<www.infosci-journals.com>.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of IJANTTI:

The mission of the International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and
Technological Innovation (IJANTTI) is to provide a forum for both general
discussion of actor-network theory (ANT), and examples of its use in
offering explanations for socio-technical phenomena, particularly those
related to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). It is over
twenty years now since Latour, Callon, and Law put together their ideas
and concepts in the first papers on ANT, but for some time ANT was
regarded by many as little more than a curiosity. In recent years however,
the ICT research community has begun to discover the power of using ANT as
an explanatory framework for many of the things in which it is interested.
Implementation and use of information and communication technologies
inevitably involves the interactions of both technology and people, and
this is the area in which ANT is particularly useful. The main goal of
this journal will be to facilitate international growth in the body of
research investigating the value of using actor-network theory as a means
of understanding socio-technical phenomena and technological innovation.

Coverage of IJANTTI:

This journal covers a range of topics related to actor-network theory
(ANT). These topics will include the development of actor-network theory
itself, as well as case studies of its use to assist in the explanation of
various socio-technical phenomena. It will also include topics relating to
technological innovation; both those using actor-network theory as an
explanatory framework and those using other approaches. Possible topics
include, but are not restricted to:

Analytical case studies of the use of ANT for investigating technological
applications in various other areas

Analytical case studies of the use of ANT to investigate the
implementation and use of information and communication technologies

Case studies, involving ANT or other analytical frameworks, of
technological innovation, and the implementation and use of information
and communication technologies

Comparison of the various different approaches to framing technological
innovation

Descriptions of ANT research methods, and the conduct of ANT research

Development, evaluations, criticisms, and triumphs of ANT

Innovation translation as an approach to explaining technological
innovation

Other approaches to the explanation of technological innovation, including
innovation diffusion, the technology acceptance model, and ecological
models of innovation

Other papers relating to examples of technological innovation

Proposals of analytical frameworks that build on, and go beyond ANT

Use of ANT in the investigation of historical examples of technological
innovation

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission
guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijantti.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:

Editor-in-Chief: Arthur Tatnall at Arthur.Tatnall@vu.edu.au

IUI 2010 Workshop on Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems

IUI 2010 Workshop on

Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems (SEMAIS)

February 7, 2010
Hong Kong, China

Submission deadline: November 15, 2009

http://www.semais.org

Motivation and goals

Semantic technologies and, in particular, ontologies as formal, shareable representations of a domain of interest play an increasingly important role also for the design and development of user interfaces and more generally interactive systems. Semantic models can serve a number of different purposes in this context. They can be used as application or interface models in model-driven design and generation of user interfaces. Semantic Models can also be applied for representing the various kinds of context information for context-aware and adaptive
systems.

In particular, they have promise to provide a technique for representing external physical context factors such as location, time or technical parameters and 'internal' context such as user interest profiles or interaction context in a consistent, generalized manner. Owing to these
properties, semantic models can also contribute to bridging gaps, e.g., between user models, context-aware interfaces and model-driven UI generation.

There is, therefore, a considerable potential for using semantic models as a basis for adaptive interactive systems. The range of potential adaptations is wide comprising, for example, context- and user-dependent recommendations, interactive assistance when performing application-specific tasks, adaptation of the application functionality, or adaptive retrieval support. Furthermore, a variety of reasoning and machine learning techniques exist, that can be employed to achieve adaptive system behavior.

Topics of interest

- Representing user models, domain knowledge and interaction context by means of semantic models
- Cognitively or neurally founded reasoning techniques such as activation spreading for semantic user models
- Context-aware interaction based on semantic models
- Adaptation strategies and techniques based on semantic models for e.g. recommender systems, adaptive retrieval, collaboration support systems and others
- Generating explanations or visualizations to increase user confidence and support traceability
- Scalability of semantic model-based interactive systems.
- Semantic model-driven UI development
- Generation and evolution of semantic models for interactive systems
- Evaluation approaches for adaptive interaction

Objectives of the Workshop

The workshop generally aims at sharing experiences and identifying a set of shared research issues that need to be addressed in future research. Specifically, we intend to identify and structure approaches and techniques for ontology-based interaction and adaptation with the aim of developing a conceptual framework, to identify the potential for building and sharing ontologies for adaptive UIs and, possibly, to start an initiative for developing them.

Submission guidelines

Prospective participants should submit a 2-page position paper describing their interests and work in the topic of the workshop and first comments concerning a list of research issues we will compile and publish on the workshop website prior to the deadline. We will select participants based on the abstract's quality and their response to the list of issues; the diversity of their backgrounds, aiming at an interdisciplinary group. A list of issues to be discussed at the
workshop will be distributed through the workshop Website. The selected presenters will be asked to provide an extended 5-page position paper one month before the workshop. These position papers will be circulated in advance for participants to get an understanding of the mutual views and to provide a starting point for the discussion.

Please send your submissions to submissions@semais.org

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: November 15, 2009
Notification of acceptance: December 14, 2009
Revised, formatted document due: January 7, 2010
Workshop date: February 7, 2010

Plan for dissemination

The results of the workshop will be available on the workshop website and will be presented as an interactive poster during the IUI conference. We will also consider an edited publication depending on the workshop results.

Organizers

Alan Dix (Lancaster University, GB)
Tim Hussein (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Stephan Lukosch (Delft University of Technology, NL)
Juergen Ziegler (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Workshop Homepage: http://www.semais.org

Monday, September 28, 2009

MOBILWARE 2010 - Call for Papers

MOBILWARE 2010

3rd International ICST Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications
30 June - 2 July 2010 - Chicago, USA

mobilware.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPONSORS

Sponsored by ICST
Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET

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SCOPE

The advances in wireless communication technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices have enabled the realization of intelligent environments for people to communicate with each other, interact with information-processing devices, and receive a wide range of mobile wireless services through various types of networks and systems everywhere, any time. A key enabler of this pervasive and ubiquitous connectivity environment is the advancement of software technology in various communication sectors, ranging from communication middleware and operating systems to networking protocols and applications.

The 2010 edition of MOBILWARE will be the first time to move out of Europe. We plan to further diversify the representation of key organizers and expand the community of industrial and academic researchers fruitfully exchanging novel ideas and operational experiences in the field. MOBILWARE 2010 is dedicated to addressing emerging topics and challenges in various mobile wireless software-related areas. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of middleware, operating systems, and applications for computing and communications in mobile wireless systems. It aims to provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers, engineers, and standards developers to present their latest research activities, techniques, and experiences in the area of software technology for mobile wireless systems.

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TOPICS

Original and unpublished research achievements in various aspects of middleware/operating systems/applications for mobile computing and networking are solicited. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Integration of heterogeneous wired and wireless networks
QoS awareness, adaptation, and fault-tolerance of mobile services
Opportunistic and delay-tolerant mobile and wireless networking
Location-aware and context-aware networking and computing
Energy-efficient applications and services
Mobility and handoff management
Location and tracking supports and services
Mobility-aware service discovery, management, and delivery
Agent technologies for mobile systems and services
Human-computer interface and portable 3D graphics for mobile devices
Novel applications and communication protocols for wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, and home networks
Modeling, simulation, and performance evaluation of mobile wireless systems and services
Trustworthiness, security, and privacy of mobile and wireless systems

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PUBLICATION

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by TPC members and invited reviewers. All accepted papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST) series and included in major article indexing services. Extended versions of selected best papers from MOBILWARE 2010 will be published in a dedicated special issue of the Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal.

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SUBMISSION

All papers and workshop/tutorial proposal submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the MyReview paper submission server or the conference website at for detailed submission requirements and procedures.

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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

Proposals for workshops/tutorials are solicited. Potential organizers are requested to submit a proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch of each proponent, to the Workshop/Tutorial Chair, Jinchun Xia (jinchun.xia@sjsu.edu) by 20 December 2009. Proposal evaluation will be based on the expertise of the proponent and the relevance of the subject matter.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop/Tutorial proposal: 20 December 20 2009
Paper submission deadline: 1 February 2010
Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2010
Camera-ready deadline: 20 April 2010

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA

Technical Program Chairs
Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA
Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

For a complete list of committee and board members, please visit http://mobilware.org/committees.shtml

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RELATED CONFERENCES

To find out about other conferences in the field of future information systems, please visit http://www.icst.org/sibs/future_isystems/

PhD fellowship in Web search engines and analysis of query logs

The Department of Computer Science of Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy) is recruiting PhD students for a 3-year Doctoral Program in Computer Science starting in 2010. Applicants should have an MSc degree (or equivalent), be proficient in English, and interested in an R&D career. The best five admitted PhD students will be supported by a 3-year grant.

One of these available positions is for conducting research on the "Web search engines and analysis of query log". Interested students can refer to http://www.dsi.unive.it/~orlando/phdvenice-10-12.html for further information.

The international announcement with all the attachments can be found at http://admin.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=67003, while the complete description of the application process for international applicants can be found at http://admin.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=67811

The forms and documents concerning this applications must be received from the administrative office of the University by Tuesday, 27th October 2009

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Postdoc: large-scale scientific raster services

Jacobs University Bremen (Germany) invites applications for a full-time

Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Large Scientific Databases

Our group has a worldwide leading position in the field of large, multi-dimensional raster databases. Research focuses raster services in all aspects, such as formal modelling and query language design; architectures and optimization; applications in earth, life, & space sciences
and statistics; and standardization. With the open-source rasdaman system the group has developed the "most comprehensive array DBMS" (R. Machlin, ACM PoDS, 2007); further, the group has developed the Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC) WCPS standard and its reference implementation, petascope. NASA plans to use the WCPS raster query language as an on-board interface of their next satellite generation. For more information see http://rasdaman.jacobs-university.de .

The New York Times has dubbed Jacobs "German elite university" in 2006. Embracing 90+ nations and with 75% non German speaking students, both academic, administrative, and social campus life is all-English, so German skills are *not* a prerequisite. The region, which is situated centrally in Europe and close to the sea, offers plenty of leisure opportunities, including
outdoor activities and a vivid city nightlife. Short trips get you to neighboring countries.

A successful candidate has a PhD in some area of Computer Science or Computer Engineering, preferably in databases or Web services; a strong research and publication record; a team-oriented work style combined with leadership qualities; interest in interdisciplinary research and application challenges in scientific databases. A plus is experience in large software
systems. The candidate chosen will work closely with our international faculty and students on cross-disciplinary research in collaboration with academic, agency, and industrial partners worldwide.

The position, which comes with a competitive salary, initially is funded for 2 years; a prolongation will base itself on the project funds we acquire.

You are invited to send your application, which needs to include cover letter, resume, statement of research, and copies of academic certificates and selected publications, by email to Prof. Peter Baumann (p.baumann @ jacobs-university.de). Applicants passing initial screening will be
requested to supply two letters of reference. Review of applications begins immediately
and remains open until the position is filled.

Jacobs University is an equal opportunity employer and has been certified "Family Friendly" by Hertie Foundation.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Ph.D. and Post-Doc positions in Data Analysis and Visualization

The Container Traffic Monitoring (Contraffic) project is carried out in the framework of Community Customs Cooperation. The latest amendment to the basic legislation foresees the possibility that the Commission establish and manage a "directory of data" on the international goods supply chain including transport, based on both public and private data sources. The Commission is empowered to access and analyze such data for the purposes of operational and strategic analyses and also to make data and results available to competent MS authorities. Such data includes the movements of containers as well as their means of transport (e.g. maritime vessels). CONTRAFFIC focuses precisely on the analysis of past movements of maritime containers. Data is gathered from different sources and analysed in a way that allows the extraction of useful patterns and information that improves detection of fraud involving false declarations of origin for traded goods.

How to apply: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/jobs.php?id=8
Applications should be sent to JRC-IPSC-GRANTHOLDERS@ec.europa.eu

--------------------- Post-Doc Researcher ----------------------------

Title: Data mining and algorithm design
CALL REFERENCE NO. : IPSC/G04/20
Category : 30. Post-Doc researcher
Action : CONTRAFFIC
Application must be delivered before 25 Oct, 2009 - 23:59:59CET

The selected candidate will work as part of a team of IT specialists and data analysts and will be primarily responsible for the development of data mining applications. This includes prototyping decision making algorithms that will be used in turn to implement "flagging" facilities (identifying anomalies in data) for an operational environment.

Required profile:

The ideal candidate profile features: a PhD degree - or a min. of 5 years of research experience after the first Univ. degree â€" in data analysis, computer science, mathematics, statistics or relevant discipline; experience in algorithmic development including their IT applications, and familiarity with statistical data mining and data base applications; Hands-on software development skills in Java, Oracle database server and PL/SQL, are desirable. Good hands-on skills with Matlab will be appreciated. The successful candidate will be expected to publish methodological advances in peer-reviewed journals. Excellent written and oral English is an advantage.

Duration : 36 months
More Info: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showgrant.php?id=130

--------------------- Ph.D. Student ----------------------------

Title: Multidimensional Data Visualisation
CALL REFERENCE NO. : IPSC/G04/23
Category : 20. Ph.D Student
Action : CONTRAFFIC
Application must be delivered before 25 Oct, 2009 - 23:59:59CET

Short description of proposed PhD activity:

The selected candidate will work as part of a team of IT specialists and data analysts and will be primarily responsible for the development of advanced tools for multidimensional data Visualisation. This includes interactive visualisation of sampled or computed data that could facilitate decision making. Advanced Interactive querying and manipulation techniques should be applied and novel one developed in order to facilitate rapid display of multivariate data and give the user a better understanding of the data.

Required profile:

The ideal candidate profile features: a university degree in data analysis, computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, statistics or relevant discipline; experience in algorithmic development and familiarity with multidimensional data handling; Hands-on software development skills in Java, SPSS and Matlab will be appreciated. The successful candidate will be expected to have strong technical background in data visualisation tools, good communication skills and publish methodological advances in peer-reviewed journals. Excellent written and oral

English is an advantage.Duration : 36 months
More Info: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showgrant.php?id=137

ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009 Call for Participation

17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on

Advances in Geographic Information Systems
(ACM GIS 2009)
Call for Participation

November 4-6, 2009
Seattle, Washington, USA
http://acmgis09.cs.umn.edu

Corporate Sponsorship by
Google
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ESRI
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Microsoft

The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2009 (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009) is the seventeenth event of a series of symposia and workshops that began in 1993 with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners carrying out research and development in novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge, and fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research
in all aspects of geographic information systems. The conference provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of GIS ranging from applications, user interface considerations, and visualization down to storage management and indexing issues. This year's conference builds on last year's conference great success and on being the premier annual conference of the newly formed ACM Special
Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL). ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS
will have two invited speakers, 38 research papers, 40 poster papers, 1 industry paper, 3 Ph.D. showcases, and 11 demos.

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Invited Lectures
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* Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University
* Gur Kimchi, Microsoft Virtual Earth

Day 1: Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009:
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7:00-8:00 Breakfast and Registration

8:00-8:10 Welcome
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8:10-9:25 Paper Session 1. Title: Road Networks

>From GPS Traces to a Routable Road Map
Lili Cao (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA), John Krumm (Microsoft Research, USA)

Augmenting Cartographic Resources for Autonomous Driving
Young-Woo Seo (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Chris Urmson (Google, USA), David Wettergreen (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jin-Woo Lee (General Motors, USA)

Going Off-road: Transversal Complexity in Road Networks
David Eppstein (University of California at Irvine, USA), Michael Goodrich (University of California at Irvine, USA), Lowell Trott (University of California at Irvine, USA)

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9:25-10:25 Invited Lecture. Speaker: Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University

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10:25-10:50 Coffee Break

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10:50-12:30 Paper Session 2. Title: Social GIS

Efficient Viewpoint Assignment for Urban Texture Documentation
Houtan Shirani-Mehr (University of Southern California, USA), Farnoush Banaei-Kashani (University of Southern California, USA), Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California, USA)

TwitterStand: News in Twitter
Jagan Sankaranarayanan (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Hanan Samet (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Benjamin Teitler (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Michael Lieberman (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Jon Sperling (Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, USA)

Towards the SocioScope: an Information System for the Study of Social Dynamics through Digital Traces
Andrea Vaccari (MIT, USA), Fracesco Calabrese (MIT, USA), Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Carlo Ratti (MIT, USA)

A Case Study of Using Geographic Cues to Predict Query News Intent
Ahmed Hassan (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA), Rosie Jones (Yahoo! Labs, USA), Fernando Diaz (Yahoo! Labs, USA)

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12:30-14:00 Lunch (On your own)

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14:00-15:30 Fast Forward Preview Session

Session Chair: Jagan Sankaranarayanan (University of Maryland at College Park, USA)

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15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

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16:00-18:05 Paper Session 3. Title: GeoWeb

Manipulation of Spatial Weights Using Web Services
Sergio Rey (Arizona State University, USA), Luc Anselin (Arizona State University, USA), Myunghwa Hwang (Arizona State University, USA)

Annotating Geospatial Data Based on its Semantics
Carla Macario (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil), Sidney Sousa (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil), Claudia Bauzer Medeiros (IC-UNICAMP, Brazil)

An Agenda for the Next Generation Gazetteer: Geographic Information Contribution & Retrieval
Carsten Kebler (University of Munster, Germany), Krzysztof Janowicz (University of Munster, Germany), Mohamed Bishr (University of Munster, Germany)

Focus+Glue+Context: An Improved Fisheye Approach for Web Map Services
Daisuke Yamamoto (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan), Shotaro Ozeki (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan), Naohisa Takahashi (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)

The Global Network of Outdoor Webcams: Properties and Applications
Nathan Jacobs (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Walker Burgin (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Nick Fridrich (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Austin Abrams (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Kylia Miskell (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), Bobby Braswell (University of New Hampshire, USA), Andrew Richardson (University of New Hampshire, USA), Robert Pless (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

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18:30-19:15 ACM SIGSPATIAL Business Meeting (Open, Everyone Welcome)

19:30-23:00 Poster Reception, Demo Session, Ph.D. Showcase

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Day 2: Thursday, Nov 5, 2009
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7:00 8:00 Breakfast and Registration

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8:00 9:15 Paper Session 4. Title: Visualization

Improved Visibility Computation on Massive Grid Terrains
Jeremy Fishman (Bowdoin College, USA) Herman Haverkort (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Laura Toma (Bowdoin College, USA)

Tree detection from aerial imagery
Lin Yang (Univ of Alabama at Birmingham, USA), Xiaqing Wu (Google, USA), Emil Praun (Google, USA), Xiaoxu Ma (Google, USA)

Classification of Raster Maps for Automatic Feature Extraction
Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Southern California, USA), Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California, USA)

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9:15-10:15 Invited Lecture. Speaker: Gur Kimchi, Microsoft Virtual Earth

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10:15-10:40 Coffee Break

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10:40-12:45 Paper Session 5. Title: Modeling

Data Structures and Implementation Algorithms for 3D Spatial Data Types
Tao Chen (University of Florida, USA) Markus Schneider (University of Florida, USA)

Topological Relations from Metric Refinements
Max Egenhofer (University of Maine, USA), Matthew Dube (University of Maine)

A Multidimensional Model Representing Continuous Fields in Spatial Data Warehouses
Alejandro Vaisman (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Brazil), Esteban Zimanyi (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Contextual Encoding of Geospatial Data
Pragyana Mishra (Microsoft Corporation, USA), Nagendra Kolluru (Microsoft Corporation, USA)

Morphology Analysis of 3D Scalar Fields Based on Morse Theory and Discrete Distortion
Mohammed Mesmoudi (University of Genova, Italy), Leila De Floriani (University of Genova, Italy), Paola Magillo (University of Genova, Italy)

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12:45-14:00 Lunch (On your own)

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14:00-16:05 Paper Session 6. Title: Spatial Query Processing

Constrained Reverse Nearest Neighbor Queries on Moving Objects
Tobias Emrich (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany), Hans-Peter Kriegel (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany), Peer Kroger (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany), Matthias Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany), Andreas Zufle (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany)

In-network Query Processing in Mobile P2P Databases
Bo Xu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Fatemeh Vafaee (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

Monitoring Minimum Cost Paths in Dynamic Road Networks
Yuan Tian (Pennsylvania State Univiversity, USA), Ken C.K. Lee (Pennsylvania State Univiversity, USA), Wang-Chien Lee (Pennsylvania State Univiversity, USA)

Reducing the memory required to find a geodesic shortest path on a large mesh
Vishal Verma (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), Jack Snoeyink (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

Trees or Grids? Indexing Moving Objects in Main Memory
Darius Sidlauskas (Aalborg University, Denmark), Simonas Saltenis (Aalborg University, Denmark), Christian Winther Christiansen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Jan Maffert Johansen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Donatas Saulys (Aalborg University, Denmark)

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16:05-16:30 Coffee Break

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16:30-18:10 Paper Session 7. Title: GIS Privacy

Preventing Velocity-based Linkage Attacks in Location-Aware Applications
Gabriel Ghinita (Purdue University, USA), Maria Luisa Damiani (University of Milan, Italy), Claudio Silvestri (University of Venezia, Italy), Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)

Distortion-based Anonymity for Continuous Query in Location-Based Mobile Services
Xiao Pan (Renmin University, China), Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University, China), Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Trajectory Joins and Their Application in Privacy Preservation
Yun Chen (University of Michigan, USA), Jignesh Patel (University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA)

Assessing The Trustworthiness of Location Data Based on Provenance
Chenyun Dai (Purdue University, USA), Hyo-Sang Lim (Purdue University, USA), Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA), Yang-Sae Moon (Kangwon National University, South Korea)

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18:30-19:30 Sponsor Demo Session

19:30-23:30 Banquet

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Day 3: Friday, Nov 6, 2009
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7:00 8:00 Breakfast and Registration

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8:00-10:05 Paper Session 8. Title: Data Mining

On-Line Discovery of Flock Patterns in Spatio-Temporal Data
Marcos Vieira (University of California at Riverside, USA), Petko Bakalo (ESRI, USA), Vassilis Tsotras (University of California at Riverside, USA)

Finding Long and Similar Parts of Trajectories
Kevin Buchin (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands), Maike Buchin (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Marc Van Kreveld (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Jun Luo (Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China)

A Hybrid Evolutionary-Graph Approach for Finding Functional Network Paths
Steven Prager (University of Wyoming, USA), William Spears (Swarmotics, LLC, USA)

Efficiently Managing Large-Scale Raster Species Distribution Data in PostgreSQL
Jianting Zhang (City College of New York, USA), Michael Gertz (University of Heidelberg, Germany), Le Gruenwald (University of Oklahoma, USA)

REG2: A Regional Regression Framework for Geo-Referenced Datasets
Oner Celepcikay (University of Houston, USA), Christoph Eick (University of Houston, USA)

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10:05-10:35 Coffee Break

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10:35-12:40 Paper Session 9. Title: Traffic on Road Networks

Hidden Markov Map Matching Through Noise and Gaps
Paul Newson (Microsoft Research, USA), John Krumm (Microsoft Research, USA)

Vehicle Localization by Matching Triangulated Point Patterns
Jan-Henrik Haunert (Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany), Claus Brenner (Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany)

Map-Matching for Low-Sampling-Rate GPS Trajectories
Yin Lou (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Chengyang Zhang (University of North Texas, USA), Yu Zheng (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Wei Wang (Fudan University, China), Yan Huang (University of North Texas, USA)

Robust Traffic Merging Strategies for Sensor-Enabled Cars Using Time Geography
Ziyuan Wang (University of Melbourne, Australia), Lars Kulik (University of Melbourne, Australia), Kotagiri Ramamohanarao (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Dynamic network data exploration through semi-supervised functional embedding
Alexei Pozdnoukhov (National Centre for Geocomputation, Ireland)

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12:40-13:00 Closing Remarks and Adjournment of Conference

Special Issue on Multimedia Data Semantics

CALL FOR PAPERS
Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer)
Special Issue on Multimedia Data Semantics

This special issue invites high quality scientific contributions in multimedia semantic computing, with a focus on how to apply the semantic technologies to the acquisition, generation, transmission, storage, processing, and retrieval of large-scale multimedia information. Discussions on future challenges in multimedia information manipulation, as well as practical solutions for the design and implementation of multimedia database software systems are also encouraged.
Authors of the selected best papers of The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Data
Semantics for Multimedia Systems and Applications (IEEE-DSMSA 2009) will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for this special issue.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to practical areas that span both semantic technologies and multimedia processing & computing:
• Automatic generation of multimedia presentations
• Semantic multimedia metadata extraction
• Annotation tools and methods for multimedia semantics
• Media ontology generation/learning/reasoning
• Content-based multimedia analysis
• Social media computing
• Web-scale multimedia mining and retrieval
• Multimedia indexing, searching, and retrieving
• Multimedia streaming
• Multimedia data visualization
• Semantic-based QoS control and scheduling
• Semantic-based Internet data streaming and delivery
• Multimedia standards (e.g., MPEG-7 and XMP) and Semantic Web
• Semantics enabled multimedia applications (including annotation, browsing, storage, retrieval, and visualization)
• Semantics enabled networking and middleware for multimedia applications
• Service Infrastructure, technology, and tools for Multimedia software systems

Submission Details
Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal. Prospective contributors are invited to submit papers in A4/US letter, single column, double space format, up to 30 pages long including figures, tables and references. Manuscript submission is handled by the MTAP Online Manuscript Submission website at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/. During submission, you should select your article type as “SI: Multimedia Data Semantics”. Detailed information about the Journal, including an author guide and detailed formatting information is available at: http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042.

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: March 1st, 2010
Notification of acceptance (first decision): May 1st, 2010
Final Manuscript Due: June 1st, 2010

Guest Editors
Dr. Balakrishnan Prabhakaran
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX 75083, USA
praba@utdallas.edu

Dr. Yu Cao
Department of Computer Science
California State University, Fresno
Fresno, CA 93740, USA
yucao@csufresno.edu

Dr. Jun Gao
Department of Computer and Information
Hefei University of Technology
Hefei, Anhui, 230009, P. R. China,
gaojun@hfut.edu.cn

Dr. Raphaël Troncy
Multimedia Communications Department,
EURECOM,
Sophia Antipolis, 06904, France
raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr
http://www.springer.com/journal/11042

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Call for chapters - Blending informal and formal learning

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Proposal submission deadlines October 15, 2009
Full chapter submission deadlines January 15, 2010

Blending Informal and Formal Learning:
Technologies for Competencies Management and Knowledge Resources

A book edited by Liliane Esnault, EM LYON, France esnault@em-lyon.com

To be published by IGI Global:
http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=706

INTRODUCTION: ISSUES CONTRIBUTING TO THE RATIONALE OF THE BOOK

Informal learning is the way to develop competences-for-performance, knowledge-in- practice and self management. Organisations are more and more confronted with complex innovation challenges, new ways of managing human assets, keeping competencies at the leading edge, competing to attract and keep the best talents, produce, share, and disseminate new collective
knowledge. Individuals are now required to sustain their own development and employability, and manage flexible careers. Informal learning refers to fields of research including learning at the workplace, implicit learning, self directed learning and adult. It is related to the development, by the individuals, for their own benefit and the benefit of the community, of social and transversal competencies-in-practice: behaviour, team building, ability to better listen, communicate, cooperate and collaborate, innovative state-of-mind, self management, self direction, self evaluation, and so forth. Learning is a continuous process, embedded in almost all our activities. Non-formal or informal learning, is especially well suited when it comes either to acquiring transversal, practice-embedded competencies; non-formal or informal learning is the way we "learn when nobody knows." Such an informal learning process is social, contextualised and deeply embedded in practice.

Communities of practice are key places to understand, foster and sustain individual and collective informal learning. More and more companies and public institutions enable the implementation and "cultivation" of CoPs with a number of benefits: organisational knowledge capitalisation; enhancement of the experience and knowledge of employees in a flexible and adaptive way;
empowerment of employees as a way to increase their value for the company. Informal learning in CoPs takes place in a peer-oriented context and involves a collaborative approach.

Social software is the key technology to support social networks, and articulate individual and organisational informal learning. Social software, arising from the work on CSCW and CSCL as well as drawing on the popular success of Web 2.0 applications, is the way technology enables and
facilitates individuals and communities manage their social networks. Social software brings together services able to seamlessly support deeper collaboration, whether it be synchronous or asynchronous, on site or at distance, real or virtual; to enable community members to define their own personal environment by integrating their favourite tools inside common visual "containers." Social software are able to adapt to the needs of the individuals and organisations, according to context dependant criteria, ready to be integrated either in existing collective environments (intranets, learning platforms, web sites, etc.) or in personal environments, providing that they are compliant with the required standards.

The capabilities of social software and the compliance to standard policies and practice make them the mean par excellence to support informal learning. Collaborative participatory design is the most efficient way to successfully design and implement adaptive social software for collaborative informal learning. Participatory design has been defined as a process of negotiation
of usefulness. This is achieved through participative activities that mediate participation. In projects where most of the working activities take place at distance, because of the geographical dispersion of partners, and of the organisational scattering of competencies among partners and
countries, the distributed situation increases the difficulty of having "true" collaborative activities.

OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK
The book aims to provide a comprehensive view of the current state of research and practices regarding the development of blended forms of formal and informal learning: the learning processes involved, the organizational systems enabling and housing informal learning, the technologies supporting and facilitating the collaborative construction of knowledge resources and
competencies.

The book will gather both theoretical and practical perspectives, by including research issues; methodological approaches; practical case studies; experimentation reports; examples of developments and uses of technologies; critical evaluation of real life implementations and other
point of view related to these issues.

TARGET AUDIENCE
Building from research results and practical implementations, the book will address the concerns of both scholars and field practitioners. Based on multidisciplinary works, blending elements from educational sciences, social sciences and different fields of computer sciences, the book will be of
interests for large communities of researchers, developers and users, in companies or in institutions, who are concerned by life-long learning and the development of new generation of technology.

PhD position in Neogeography

PhD position 'Neogeography: the challenge of channeling large and ill-behaved data streams'

The University of Twente is an entrepreneurial research university, located in Enschede, the Netherlands. Organized over five faculties, the UT offers 20 educational programs ranging from applied physics, public and business administration, communication studies and diverse programs in engineering technology.

The Computer Science department of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics
and Computer Science (EEMCS) is one of the largest academic institutions in computer
science in the Netherlands. It provides courses in Technical Computer Science, Business Information Technology, and Telematics. In addition, the department contributes to computer science education within other academic programs. The research of the department, spearheaded by telematics and information technology, is part of the multidisciplinary research institute Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT). The department has about 270 permanent staff members and 1200 students.

In the Chair of Databases we have an open position for a PhD student Neogeography: the challenge of channeling large and ill-behaved data streams

Project description
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In this project, we develop XML-based data technology to support the channeling of large and ill-behaved neogeographic data streams. In neogeography, geographic information is derived from end-users, not from official bodies like mapping agencies, cadasters or other official, (para-)governmental organizations. The motivation is that multiple (neo)geographic information sources on the same phenomenon can be mutually enriching.

Content provision and feedback from large communities of end-users has great potential for sustaining a high level of data quality. The technology is meant to reach a substantial user community in the less-developed world through content provision and delivery via cell phone networks. Exploiting such neogeographic data requires a.o. the extraction of the where and when from textual descriptions. This comes with intrinsic uncertainty in space, time, but also thematically in terms of entity identification: which is the restaurant, bus stop, farm, market,
forest mentioned in this information source? The rise of sensor networks adds to the mix a badly needed verification mechanism for the real-time neogeographic data.

We strive for a proper mix of carefully integrated techniques in geoinformation handling, approaches to spatiotemporal imprecision and incompleteness, as well as data augmentation through sensors in a generic framework with which purpose-oriented end-user communities can be served appropriately.

This PhD position focuses on spatiotemporal data technology in XML databases and theory and support technology for storage, manipulation and reasoning with spatiotemporal and thematic uncertainty. The work is to be validated through testbed use cases, such as the H20 project with google.org (water consumers in Zanzibar), AGCommons project with the Gates Foundation (smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa), and other projects with large user communities.

What we ask
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We are looking for a candidate with a MSc. degree in computer science, databases, geoinformatics, software engineering, mathematics (with a computer science specialization), or an equivalent degree. The work involves both theory (logic and statistics) and practice (implementation of the technology and experimental evaluation). The candidate must provide good communication skills, in writing as well as oral. Your main task will be to do research, but you will be given opportunities to acquire some teaching experience. The selected candidate will be embedded in a joint research project with ITC, Enschede, and will closely collaborate with
a PhD candidate from that institute.

What we offer
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We offer a full-time PhD position in a dynamic and international environment. The duration of the contracts is four years. The gross salary will range from EUR 2.042,00 in the first year to EUR 2.612,00 per month in the fourth year.

Additionally, the University of Twente provides excellent facilities for professional and personal development. In addition, we offer a holiday allowance (amounts to 8%) and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3% (which is approximately an extra month of salary) and a number of additional benefits. The labor agreements are in accordance with the CAO-NU for Dutch universities.

Information and application
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See also http://db.ewi.utwente.nl/vacancies/neogeography.doc Information can be obtained from Dr.ir. Maurice van Keulen, email: m.vankeulen@utwente.nl.

If you can meet the above mentioned requirements, you are invited to send your
application letter together with:
- curriculum vitae
- a list of publications
- a list of courses you have followed (with grades)
- the names and addresses of two referees
*before October 10, 2009* by email or on paper to our secretary:

email: db_secr@ewi.utwente.nl,
Faculty of EEMCS, University of Twente, Zilverling 3047,
P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands,
Phone: +31 53 489 3690.

Please refer to the vacancy number 09/189.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

PhD positions in Open Source Research

The Open Source Research group at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg is seeking to hire recent graduates or experienced software developers to start doctoral studies immediately. We have several open positions.

The main research topic are open source software engineering processes, practices, and tools. Examples of application domains of interest are software forges (tools), business applications, medical technology, mobile devices, and social software. Broader software engineering topics with a tie-in to open source are also of interest. Research work will typically require a combination of analytical and empirical work combined with software development work. The university supports the creation of startups from prior doctoral research work.

A prerequisite to starting Ph.D. studies in Germany are a German Diplom or an M.S. degree from an accreddited university, typically in a technical field. Prior industry experience, or experience with open source projects and/or agile methods is a plus.

Salary is competitive and the tri-city area of Nuernberg/Fuerth/Erlangen is one of Germany’s most beautiful and historic areas. Total population is about one million inhabitants. You can live in the quaint and family-oriented college town of Erlangen or in cosmopolitan Nuernberg with its world-famous christmas market or in historic Fuerth. See Wikipedia for more details.

For more information, please see the department’s home page at http://www.cs.fau.de, the open source research group’s home page at http://osr.cs.fau.de, or the blog of Dirk Riehle at http://dirkriehle.com.

To apply, please send an email with your interests and a C.V. to the group’s leader, Prof. Dr. Dirk Riehle, at dirk.riehle@cs.fau.de. Informal inquires are welcome too as well as declarations of interest to start a Ph.D. studies at a later point in time.

If would like to stay up-to-date on the group’s activities (open positions, major research results, etc.), please subscribe to the low-traffic announcements-only mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/osr-announce.

International Workshop on User Data Interoperability in the Social Web (UDISW 2010)

In conjunction with the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2010)
Hong Kong, China
February 7 - 10, 2010
http://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/UDISW2010/

OVERVIEW
Nowadays, people leave their marks at a multitude of applications distributed across the Web: They share their bookmarks in Delicious, fill in profiles at social networking services such as Facebook and Orkut, browse and buy products on Amazon, search with Google and Yahoo and interact with diverse other sites for information and services. This distributed and heterogeneous corpus of user data is a valuable source of information for systems that aim for personalization and user adaptation.

With the advent of Web 2.0, standards such as OpenID, RSS and OAuth, as well as mashup tools like Yahoo pipes or Semantic Web pipes, interlinking of different services has become easier. However, limited interoperability still prevents applications to exchange, reuse, and integrate their user models for personalization across application and domain boundaries. Research carried out in the field of Semantic Web supports applications to provide extensibility, flexibility, interoperability and reusability. Further, the Linked Data initiative and the Data Portability project focus on pragmatic approaches that help applications to share and connect data.

Nevertheless, using the Web as a homogeneous knowledge infrastructure, which serves as input for cross-application and cross-domain user modeling, is still an unsolved vision, because syntactic and semantic heterogeneity of the fragmented and distributed user data which might be unstructured can hardly be handled by application developers. In addition, requirements concerning privacy, scrutability and trust complicate the intermixing of user data from different sources.

This workshop aims to bring together academic and industrial researchers and practitioners in the fields of Intelligent User Interfaces, Interaction Systems, Social Media, Semantic Web, User Modeling, and Personalization in order to discuss theoretical and practical knowledge, open research issues, applications, and experiences for common benefit.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop will tackle challenges posed by user modeling beyond application boundaries, including, but not limited to, the following themes:

* Aggregation and integration of distributed user data and profiles
* Smart mashup interfaces
* Techniques for visualizing distributed user data
* User interfaces enabling maintenance of distributed user profiles
* Inter-system scrutability of user profiles
* Semantic methods for exchanging user profiles
* Intertwining social networking services
* Studies assessing the use of external/public user data for personalization
* Applications demonstrating intermixing of user profiles from different sources

PAPER SUBMISSION
All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two independent referees. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. All submission must be in English. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. Research papers must be prepared in the two-column SIGCHI conference format; templates are available at:

* Microsoft Word document template (http://iuiconf.org/chi2009pubsformat.doc)
* LaTeX class file (http://iuiconf.org/chi2009_LaTeX.zip)

We welcome both full papers and short papers (e.g. experience reports, preliminary reports of work in progress, system demonstration, etc). Full papers should be between 6 and 10 pages in length, short papers should not exceed 4 pages. Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=udisw2010.

The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
* 27 November 2009 : Full & short paper submission deadline (11:59pm Hawaiian time (GMT-10))
* 12 December 2009 : Notification of acceptance
* 08 January 2010 : Final camera-ready paper due
* 07 February 2010 : UDISW 2010 workshop day

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
* Fabian Abel (L3S Research Center, Germany)
* Eelco Herder (L3S Research Center, Germany)
* Nicola Henze (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)
* Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
* Erwin Leonardi (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
* Available at http://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/UDISW2010/

For further questions please contact us at e.leonardi@tudelft.nl

Heritage 2010 - 2nd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development

HERITAGE 2010 - 2nd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development
will be held at the City of Evora, Portugal, from 22 to 26 June 2010.

Submission of Abstracts is now open until 30 November 2009.

Papers addressing the following topics are welcome:
Heritage and Governance for Development, Heritage and Education Policies, Heritage and Culture, Heritage and Economics,
Heritage and Environment, and Heritage and Society .

For further detailed information, please visit the conference Website at http://www.heritage2010.greenlines-institute.org.
For further information on the Scientific Committee, please visit http://heritage2010.greenlines-institute.org/H2010website/com_scientific.html.

Monday, September 21, 2009

The Sixth Int'l Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing - IEEE PerCom'10

The Sixth International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P¡¦10)

In conjunction with The Eighth Annual IEEE International Conference on
Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2010),
Mannheim, Germany, March 29 - April 2, 2010

http://mpclab.ce.ncu.edu.tw/mp2p2010/

***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****

Theme of the Workshop Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have received great research interests because of their broad applications such as large-scale file sharing and media streaming
services. Until now, the success of P2P paradigms has been mainly in traditional wired network environments. With the advance of modern wireless and mobile communications (e.g., WLAN, MANET, WiMAX, 3G, 3.5G, and emerging 4G), there is an increasing interest for mobile users with broadband access to participate in P2P services anywhere anytime through their mobile handheld devices.

Wireless mobile networks have special characteristics, such as highly variable connectivity, disconnection, location-dependency, energy and resource sensitivity, communication asymmetry, high bandwidth expense, and so on. All these pose research challenges that do not exist in traditional network settings. New techniques are thus required in order to leverage mobile P2P
computing for efficient and reliable applications and services.

Mobile P2P is a cross-disciplinary research involving networking, information dissemination, databases, and security. The main goal of the workshop is to gather scientists from these areas together to foster collaboration and sparkle discussion on various aspects of mobile P2P, including but not limited to, mobile users' scenarios and usage cases, overlay design, development and
deployment, mobile data dissemination, mobile database management, and location-based information services. The workshop also aims to discuss mobile P2P in various networking environments such as vehicular, cellular and/or large-scale heterogeneous networks.

Workshop Goals
==============

Mobile P2P is a cross cutting area as it crosses communications, networking, information dissemination, databases, and security. The main goal of the workshop is to gather scientists from these areas together to foster the collaboration among such interdisciplinary areas and sparkle discussion on open topics related to mobile P2P.

Workshop Scope
==============

The scope of this workshop includes but is not limited to the following topics:

- Peer-to-peer overlays for wireless and mobile networks
- Hybrid P2P service architectures for integrated fixed and mobile wide-area networks
- Large-scale mobile P2P systems
- Delay tolerant MP2P systems
- MP2P Data management (Schedule/Cache/Replica/Index/Query)
- Mobility in federated overlay architectures
- Impact of mobility on P2P information services
- P2P-based Information sensing and fusion
- Data broadcast, dissemination in MP2P
- Publish/Subscribe in MP2P
- File Sharing in MP2P
- Media Streaming in MP2P
- Resource and service discovery in MP2P
- Peer access and control in mobile environment
- Privacy in MP2P services
- MP2P messaging systems, monitoring systems, searching systems, etc.
- Location dependent MP2P services
- Novel MP2P applications & services in newly emerging network environments.

Paper Submissions
=================

All submissions must be original unpublished work written in English that is currently not under review at another venue. Papers submitted must be formatted in IEEE CS paper format.

Manuscript page limit: up to 8 pages.
Camera-ready page limit: up to 6 pages

Submission foramt information:
http://mpclab.ce.ncu.edu.tw/mp2p2010/papersubmission.php

Online submission:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mp2p2010

Note: - Workshop Proceedings will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom 2010.

- All accepted papers need to have a Full Registration to the conference (there is no workshop only registration).
- No-shows of accepted papers at the workshop will result in those papers NOT being included in the IEEE Digital Library.

Important Dates (Tentative)
===========================

- Paper Submission Due: October 21, 2009
- Notification of Acceptance : December 21, 2009
- Camera-Ready Copies Due : January 29, 2010
- MP2P Workshop date: March 29 or April 2, 2010

Organization Committee
======================

Steering Board

Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue University, USA
Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK
Maria Papadopouli, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Frank-Uwe Andersen, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Workshop Co-chairs

Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan
Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA
Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Publicity Chair

David Yates, Bentley University, USA

Programme Committee Members
============================
Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA
Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan
Antonio Si, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
John Buford, Avaya Labs, USA
Wei-Shinn Ku, Auburn University, USA
Yao-Nan Lien, National Ceng Chi University, Taiwan
Angelo Brayner, University of Fortaleza, Brazil
Jiun-Long Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ivan Lee, Southern Australia University, Australia
Max Haifei Li, Union University, USA
Mohamed F. Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Chih-Wei Yi, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Norihiro Ishikawa, NTT Docomo, Japan
Hsiao Hung-Chang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Franca Delmastro, CNR-IIT ,Pisa, Italy
Michele Amoretti, Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Guanling Lee, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Mario Kolberg, University of Sterling, UK
Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada
Ling-Jyh Chen, Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria
Anwitaman Datta, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Danny Tsang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hsing Mei, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada
Young Han Kim, University of Soongsil, Korea
Chow-Sing Lin, National Tainan University, Taiwan
Chansu Yu, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Hans-Peter Schwefel, Aalborg University, Denmark
John K. Zao, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan
Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada
Wang-Chien Lee, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France

beamtenherrschaft

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

SAME 2009 - 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience

Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2010)

Submission Deadline for IEEE WMUTE 2009 has been extended to October 19, 2009

International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation (IJANTTI)

IUI 2010 Workshop on Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems

Monday, September 28, 2009

MOBILWARE 2010 - Call for Papers

PhD fellowship in Web search engines and analysis of query logs

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Postdoc: large-scale scientific raster services

Friday, September 25, 2009

Ph.D. and Post-Doc positions in Data Analysis and Visualization

ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009 Call for Participation

Special Issue on Multimedia Data Semantics

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Call for chapters - Blending informal and formal learning

PhD position in Neogeography

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

PhD positions in Open Source Research

International Workshop on User Data Interoperability in the Social Web (UDISW 2010)

Heritage 2010 - 2nd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development

Monday, September 21, 2009

The Sixth Int'l Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing - IEEE PerCom'10

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